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General relativistic effects have long been predicted to subtly influence the observed large-scale structure of the universe. The current generation of galaxy redshift surveys have reached a size where detection of such effects is becoming…

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The apparent anisotropies of the galaxy clustering in observable redshift space provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales via the Alcock--Paczynski effect and redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Yong-Seon Song , Atsushi Taruya , Akira Oka

The recent measurement of the gravitational redshifts of galaxies in galaxy clusters by Wojtak et al. has opened a new observational window on dark matter and modified gravity. By stacking clusters this determination effectively used the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rupert A. C. Croft

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) method is a promising method that uses the redshift evolution of the anisotropic clustering in redshift space to calibrate cosmology. It extends the applicable range of AP method to substantially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Liang Xiao , Zhiqi Huang , Yi Zheng , Xin Wang , Xiaodong Li

The issue of over-predicting the galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) signal using conventional galaxy-halo connection models has become well-known as the ``Lensing is Low'' problem, which has been extensively investigated using the Baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Xiaolin Luo , Kun Xu , Yipeng Jing , Hongyu Gao , Hekun Li , Donghai Zhao , Jiaxin Han , Chengliang Wei , Yu Luo

We present the UNIT $N$-body cosmological simulations project, designed to provide precise predictions for nonlinear statistics of the galaxy distribution. We focus on characterizing statistics relevant to emission line and luminous red…

With the largest spectroscopic galaxy survey volume drawn from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we can extract cosmological constraints from the measurements of redshift and geometric distortions at quasi-linear…

We measure the small-scale clustering of the Data Release 16 extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Luminous Red Galaxy sample, corrected for fibre-collisions using Pairwise Inverse Probability weights, which give unbiased…

Large photometric surveys will image billions of galaxies, but we currently lack quick, reliable automated ways to infer their physical properties like morphology, stellar mass, and star formation rates. Simulations provide galaxy images…

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We present the first cosmological constraints from analyzing higher-order galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. We use ${\rm S{\scriptsize IM}BIG}$, a forward modeling framework for galaxy clustering analyses that employs simulation-based…

We measure the void size function (VSF) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS DR16) and perform the cosmological constraints. The BOSS DR16 galaxy sample is selected in the redshift range from $z = 0.2$ to 0.8, considering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yingxiao Song , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Haitao Miao , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen

We investigate the effects of potential sources of systematic error on the angular and photometric redshift, z_phot, distributions of a sample of redshift 0.4 < z < 0.7 massive galaxies whose selection matches that of the Baryon Oscillation…

We apply and test a field-level emulator for non-linear cosmic structure formation in a volume matching next-generation surveys. Inferring the cosmological parameters and initial conditions from which the particular galaxy distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Matthew T. Scoggins , Matthew Ho , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Drew Jamieson , Ludvig Doeser , Greg L. Bryan

We apply two compression methods to the galaxy power spectrum monopole/quadrupole and bispectrum monopole measurements from the BOSS DR12 CMASS sample. Both methods reduce the dimension of the original data-vector to the number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 Davide Gualdi , Héctor Gil-Marín , Robert L. Schuhmann , Marc Manera , Benjamin Joachimi , Ofer Lahav

We present a new, model-independent measurement of the clustering amplitude of galaxies and the growth of cosmic large-scale structures from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) 12th data release (DR12). This is achieved by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 Konstantinos Tanidis , Stefano Camera

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

We present a deep machine learning (ML)-based technique for accurately determining $\sigma_8$ and $\Omega_m$ from mock 3D galaxy surveys. The mock surveys are built from the AbacusCosmos suite of $N$-body simulations, which comprises 40…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Michelle Ntampaka , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Sihan Yuan , Lehman H. Garrison

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) with galaxy clustering is one of the most promising routes to determining the amplitude of matter clustering at low redshifts. We show that extending clustering+GGL analyses from the linear…

We present an improved framework for estimating the growth rate of large-scale structure, using measurements of the galaxy-velocity cross-correlation in configuration space. We consider standard estimators of the velocity auto-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ryan J. Turner , Chris Blake , Rossana Ruggeri

We perform the first application of the wavelet scattering transform (WST) to actual galaxy observations, through a WST analysis of the BOSS DR12 CMASS dataset. We included the effects of redshift-space anisotropy, non-trivial survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-15 Georgios Valogiannis , Cora Dvorkin