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We have derived estimators for the linear growth rate of density fluctuations using the cross-correlation function of voids and haloes in redshift space, both directly and in Fourier form. In linear theory, this cross-correlation contains…

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Massive neutrinos and $f(R)$ modified gravity have degenerate observational signatures that can impact the interpretation of results in galaxy survey experiments, such as cosmological parameter estimations and gravity model tests. Because…

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The tomographic AP method is so far the best method in separating the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) signal from the redshift space distortion (RSD) effects and deriving powerful constraints on cosmological parameters using the $\lesssim40h^{-1}\…

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We present a new method for consistent, joint analysis of the pre- and post-reconstruction two-point functions of the BOSS survey. The post-reconstruction correlation function is used to accurately measure the distance-redshift relation and…

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For the first time, we develop a simulation-based model for the Minkowski functionals (MFs) of large-scale structure, which allows us to extract the full information available from the MFs (including both the Gaussian and non-Gaussian…

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We present a public catalogue of voids in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 11 LOWZ and CMASS galaxy surveys. This catalogue contains information on the location, sizes, densities, shapes and bounding surfaces…

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Data from the ongoing \textit{Euclid} survey will map out billions of galaxies in the Universe, covering more than a third of the sky. This data will provide a wealth of information about the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Vetle A. Vikenes , Cheng-Zong Ruan , David F. Mota

The void power spectrum is related to the clustering of low-density regions in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, and can be used as an effective cosmological probe to extract the information of the LSS. We generate the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Yingxiao Song , Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Guoliang Li , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Yu Luo , Wenxiang Pei , Chengliang Wei

We report a $5.3\sigma$ detection of the gravitational lensing effect of cosmic voids from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic (BOSS) Data Release 12 seen in the $Planck$ 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence map. To…

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We describe our nonlinear emulation (i.e., interpolation) framework that combines the halo occupation distribution (HOD) galaxy bias model with $N$-body simulations of nonlinear structure formation, designed to accurately predict the…

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

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…

Upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys aim to achieve an unprecedented level of precision in measuring galaxy clustering. However, accurately modeling these statistics may require theoretical templates that go beyond second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 M. Icaza-Lizaola , Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Yi Zheng

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test is a robust large-scale structure (LSS) measurement that receives little contamination from the redshift space distortion (RSD). It has placed tight cosmological constraints by using small and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Dong Li , Haitao Miao , Xin Wang , Xue Zhang , Feng Fang , Xiaolin Luo , Qing-Guo Huang , Miao Li

In this series of papers, we present a simulation-based model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies based on separate modelling of clustering in real space and velocity statistics. In the first paper, we present an emulator for the…

We present a novel simulation-based cosmological analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy redshift-space clustering. Compared to analysis methods based on perturbation theory, our simulation-based approach allows us to probe a much…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Johannes U. Lange , Andrew P. Hearin , Alexie Leauthaud , Frank C. van den Bosch , Enia Xhakaj , Hong Guo , Risa H. Wechsler , Joseph DeRose

We apply the methodology developed in \cite{Li2014,Li2015} to BOSS DR12 galaxies and derive cosmological constraints from the redshift dependence of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect. The apparent anisotropy in the distribution of observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Xiao-Dong Li , Changbom Park , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Hyunbae Park , David H. Weinberg , Donald P. Schneider , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

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…

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