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We present an approach for accurate estimation of the covariance of 2-point correlation functions that requires fewer mocks than the standard mock-based covariance. This can be achieved by dividing a set of mocks into jackknife regions and…

We present a new method, called $x$-cut cosmic shear, which optimally removes sensitivity to poorly modeled scales from the two-point cosmic shear signal. We show that the $x$-cut cosmic shear covariance matrix can be computed from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Peter L. Taylor , Francis Bernardeau , Eric Huff

We use analytic covariance matrices to carry out a full-shape analysis of the galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We obtain parameter estimates that agree well with those based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 Digvijay Wadekar , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Roman Scoccimarro

Reliable extraction of cosmological information from clustering measurements of galaxy surveys requires estimation of the error covariance matrices of observables. The accuracy of covariance matrices is limited by our ability to generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 Mohammadjavad Vakili , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Yu Feng , Gustavo Yepes , Cheng Zhao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , ChangHoon Hahn

In the contemporary era of high-precision spectroscopic surveys, led by projects like DESI, there is an increasing demand for optimizing the extraction of cosmological information from clustering data. This work conducts a thorough…

We present the Mock Map Facility, a powerful tool to generate mock catalogues or images from semi-analytically post-processed snapshots of cosmological N-body simulations. The paper describes in detail an efficient technique to create such…

The estimation of cosmological constraints from observations of the large scale structure of the Universe, such as the power spectrum or the correlation function, requires the knowledge of the inverse of the associated covariance matrix,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Dante J. Paz , Ariel G. Sanchez

We present a method for fast evaluation of the covariance matrix for a two-point galaxy correlation function (2PCF) measured with the Landy-Szalay estimator. The standard way of evaluating the covariance matrix consists in running the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 E. Keihanen , V. Lindholm , P. Monaco , L. Blot , C. Carbone , K. Kiiveri , A. G. Sánchez , A. Viitanen , J. Valiviita , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , J. Carretero , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , A. Ealet , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , H. Hoekstra , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , K. Jahnke , M. Kümmel , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , T. Kitching , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , F. Marulli , R. Massey , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , B. Morin , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , E. Romelli , R. Saglia , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , C. Surace , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , S. Andreon , D. Maino , S. de la Torre

Likelihood fitting to two-point clustering statistics made from galaxy surveys usually assumes a multivariate normal distribution for the measurements, with justification based on the central limit theorem given the large number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Mike Shengbo Wang , Will J. Percival , Santiago Avila , Robert Crittenden , Davide Bianchi

Focusing on the well motivated aperture mass statistics $\Map$, we study the possibility of constraining cosmological parameters using future space based SNAP class weak lensing missions. Using completely analytical results we construct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas

We investigate, in dark matter and galaxy mocks, the effects of approximating the galaxy power spectrum-bispectrum estimated covariance as a diagonal matrix, for an analysis that aligns with the specifications of recent and upcoming galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Sergi Novell-Masot , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

We present a simple strategy to mitigate the impact of an incomplete spectroscopic redshift galaxy sample as a result of fiber assignment and survey tiling. The method has been designed for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-03 Angela Burden , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Robert N. Cahn , Martin J. White , Lado Samushia

The parity-odd four-point function provides a unique probe of fundamental symmetries and potential new physics in the large-scale structure of the Universe. We present measurements of the parity-odd four-point function using the DESI DR1…

Using 1000 ray-tracing simulations for a {\Lambda}-dominated cold dark model in Sato et al. (2009), we study the covariance matrix of cosmic shear correlation functions, which is the standard statistics used in the previous measurements.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Masanori Sato , Masahiro Takada , Takashi Hamana , Takahiko Matsubara

We implement a sample-efficient method for rapid and accurate emulation of semi-analytical galaxy formation models over a wide range of model outputs. We use ensembled deep learning algorithms to produce a fast emulator of an updated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Edward J. Elliott , Carlton M. Baugh , Cedric G. Lacey

Super sample covariance (SSC) is important when estimating covariance matrices using a set of mock catalogues for galaxy surveys. If the underlying cosmological simulations do not include the variation in background parameters appropriate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-05 Greg Schreiner , Alex Krolewski , Shahab Joudaki , Will J. Percival

We present a measurement of the non-Gaussian four-point correlation function (4PCF) from the DESI DR1 Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample. For the gravitationally induced parity-even 4PCF, we detect a signal with a significance of 14.7$\sigma$…

We present a study on the robustness of the covariance matrix estimation for galaxy clustering measurements depending on the cosmological parameters and galaxy bias. To this end, we have produced 9000 galaxy mock catalogues relying on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Falk Baumgarten , Chia-Hsun Chuang