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We construct accurate emulators for the projected and redshift space galaxy correlation functions and excess surface density as measured by galaxy-galaxy lensing, based on Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modeling. Using the complete…

We perform a reanalysis of the BOSS CMASS DR12 galaxy dataset using a simulation-based emulator for the Wavelet Scattering Transform (WST) coefficients. Moving beyond our previous works, which laid the foundation for the first galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-16 Georgios Valogiannis , Sihan Yuan , Cora Dvorkin

Cross-correlations of galaxy positions and galaxy shears with maps of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are sensitive to the distribution of large-scale structure in the Universe. Such cross-correlations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 C. Chang , Y. Omori , E. J. Baxter , C. Doux , A. Choi , S. Pandey , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , F. Bianchini , J. Blazek , L. E. Bleem , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , J. Cordero , T. M. Crawford , M. Crocce , C. Davis , J. DeRose , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , K. Herner , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , W. L. K. Wu , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , B. A. Benson , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. E. Carlstrom , J. Carretero , C. L. Chang , R. Chown , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , A. T. Crites , M. E. S. Pereira , T. de Haan , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. A. Dobbs , P. Doel , W. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , E. M. George , T. Giannantonio , N. W. Halverson , S. R. Hinton , G. P. Holder , D. L. Hollowood , W. L. Holzapfel , K. Honscheid , J. D. Hrubes , D. J. James , L. Knox , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , A. T. Lee , M. Lima , D. Luong-Van , M. March , J. J. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , S. S. Meyer , R. Miquel , L. Mocanu , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , T. Natoli , S. Padin , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , C. Pryke , C. L. Reichardt , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , J. E. Ruhl , E. Sanchez , K. K. Schaffer , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , E. Shirokoff , M. Smith , Z. Staniszewski , A. A. Stark , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. D. Vieira , J. Weller , R. Williamson

The mark weighted correlation function (MCF) $W(s,\mu)$ is a computationally efficient statistical measure which can probe clustering information beyond that of the conventional 2-point statistics. In this work, we extend the traditional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-13 Xiaoyuan Xiao , Yizhao Yang , Xiaolin Luo , Jiacheng Ding , Zhiqi Huang , Xin Wang , Yi Zheng , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Haitao Miao , Xiao-Dong Li

We present a sample of galaxies with the Dark Energy Survey (DES) photometry that replicates the properties of the BOSS CMASS sample. The CMASS galaxy sample has been well characterized by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) collaboration…

Magnification bias, an observational effect of gravitational lensing in the weak regime, allows testing the cosmological model through angular correlations of sources at different redshifts. This effect has been observed in various…

The length of the three-dimensional filaments observed in the fourth public data-release of the SDSS is measured using the {\em local skeleton} method. It consists in defining the set of points where the gradient of the smoothed density…

The clustering of galaxy clusters is a powerful cosmological tool, which can help to break degeneracies between parameters when combined with other cosmological observables. We aim to demonstrate its potential in constraining cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-16 Alessandra Fumagalli , Matteo Costanzi , Alexandro Saro , Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani

Model-independent measurements for the cosmic spatial curvature, which is related to the nature of cosmic space-time geometry, plays an important role in cosmology. On the basis of the Distance Sum Rule in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-07 Huan Zhou , Zheng-Xiang Li

We present a novel analysis of the redshift-space power spectrum of galaxies in the SDSS-III BOSS survey. Our methodology improves upon previous analyses by using a theoretical model based on cosmological simulations coupled with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 Marcos Pellejero Ibáñez , Raul E. Angulo , John A. Peacock

Upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing measurements and tomographic galaxy surveys are expected to provide us with high-precision data sets in the coming years, thus paving the way for fruitful cross-correlation analyses. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Priyesh Chakraborty , Shu-Fan Chen , Cora Dvorkin

Percolation analysis has long been used to quantify the connectivity of the cosmic web. Most of the previous work is based on density fields on grids. By smoothing into fields, we lose information about galaxy properties like shape or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Jiajun Zhang , Dalong Cheng , Ming-Chung Chu

We apply a new model for the spherically averaged correlation function at large pair separations to the measurement of the clustering of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) made from the SDSS by Cabre and Gaztanaga(2009). Our model takes into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ariel G. Sanchez , M. Crocce , A. Cabre , C. M. Baugh , E. Gaztanaga

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…

We present results from cross-correlating Planck CMB lensing maps with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy lensing shape catalog and BOSS galaxy catalogs. For galaxy position vs. CMB lensing cross-correlations, we measure the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Sukhdeep Singh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Joel R. Brownstein

We measure the harmonic-space auto-power spectrum of the galaxy overdensity in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) First Data Release and its cross correlation with the map of the lensing convergence of the cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 David Alonso , Emilio Bellini , Catherine Hale , Matt J. Jarvis , Dominik J. Schwarz

We explore the joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analysis from the photometric survey operated by the China Space Station Telescope (CSST), and study the strength of the cosmological constraints. We employ a high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-10 Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Hengjie Lin , Furen Deng , Ziwei Li , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Qi Guo , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Wenxiang Pei

We reanalyse the anisotropic galaxy clustering measurement from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), demonstrating that using the full shape information provides cosmological constraints that are comparable to other…

We present a new approach to measuring cosmic expansion history and growth rate of large scale structure using the anisotropic two dimensional galaxy correlation function (2DCF) measured from data; it makes use of the empirical modeling of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Yun Wang

We propose a simple way to estimate the parameter beta = Omega_m^(0.6)/b from three-dimensional galaxy surveys. Our method consists in measuring the relation between the cosmological velocity and gravity fields, and thus requires peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Stéphane Colombi , Michał Chodorowski , Romain Teyssier