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We present forecast errors on a wide range of cosmological parameters obtained from a photometric cluster catalogue of a future wide-field Euclid-like survey. We focus in particular on the total neutrino mass as constrained by a combination…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-16 Carmelita Carbone , Cosimo Fedeli , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

Weak gravitational lensing (WL) causes distortions of galaxy images and probes massive structures on large scales, allowing us to understand the late-time evolution of the Universe. One way to extract the cosmological information from WL is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Chieh-An Lin

Voids represent a unique environment for the study of galaxy evolution, as the lower density environment is expected to result in shorter merger histories and slower evolution of galaxies. This provides an ideal opportunity to test theories…

We use properties of void populations identified in $N$-body simulations to forecast the ability of upcoming galaxy surveys to differentiate models of f(R) gravity from \lcdm~cosmology. We analyze multiple simulation realizations, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul Zivick , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Baojiu Li , Tsz Yan Lam

We present a theoretical framework for calculating the volume filling fraction of galactic outflows in cosmic voids by integrating analytical models for the halo mass function (HMF), the halo occupation fraction, the stellar mass-halo mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-05 Yue Pan , Romain Teyssier , Ulrich P. Steinwandel , Alice Pisani

Following up on previous studies, we here complete a full analysis of the void size distributions of the Cosmic Void Catalog (CVC) based on three different simulation and mock catalogs; dark matter, haloes and galaxies. Based on this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Esra Russell , Jean-Renaud Pycke

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu

We apply the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test to the stacked voids identified using the large-scale structure galaxy catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This galaxy catalog is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey…

We apply the Velocity Distribution Function (VDF) to a sample of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)-selected clusters, and we report preliminary cosmological constraints in the $\sigma_8$-$\Omega_m$ cosmological parameter space. The VDF is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Michelle Ntampaka , Ken Rines , Hy Trac

In this work, we study two scenarios of the Universe filled by a perfect fluid following the traditional dark energy and a viscous fluid as dark matter. In this sense, we explore the simplest case for the viscosity in the Eckart formalism,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 L. Herrera-Zamorano , A. Hernández-Almada , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia

Galaxy bias, the unknown relationship between the clustering of galaxies and the underlying dark matter density field is a major hurdle for cosmological inference from large-scale structure. While traditional analyses focus on the absolute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Nico Hamaus , Benjamin D. Wandelt , P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Michael S. Warren

We investigate the cosmological constraints that can be expected from measurement of the cross-correlation of galaxies with cosmic voids identified in the Euclid spectroscopic survey, which will include spectroscopic information for tens of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 S. Radinović , S. Nadathur , H. -A. Winther , W. J. Percival , A. Woodfinden , E. Massara , E. Paillas , S. Contarini , N. Hamaus , A. Kovacs , A. Pisani , G. Verza , M. Aubert , A. Amara , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , M. Castellano , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , R. Cledassou , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , L. Corcione , F. Courbin , A. Da Silva , M. Douspis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , P. Fosalba , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Kümmel , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , T. Kitching , H. Kurki-Suonio , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Mei , M. Melchior , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , S. -M. Niemi , J. W. Nightingale , T. Nutma , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , C. Surace , P. Tallada-Crespí , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , V. Scottez

The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) is the next-generation Stage~IV survey telescope. It can simultaneously perform multi-band imaging and slitless spectroscopic wide- and deep-field surveys in ten years and an ultra-deep field (UDF)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yan Gong , Haitao Miao , Xingchen Zhou , Qi Xiong , Yingxiao Song , Yuer Jiang , Minglin Wang , Junhui Yan , Beichen Wu , Furen Deng , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Yipeng Jing , Xiaohu Yang , Hu Zhan

In the present work we focus on future experiments using cluster abundance observations to constraint the Dark Energy equation of state parameter, w. To obtain tight constraints from this kind of experiment, a reliable sample of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-22 M. Soares-Santos , R. R. de Carvalho , F. La Barbera , P. A. A. Lopes , J. Annis

We perform a statistical study focused on void environments. We examine galaxy density profiles around voids in the SDSS, finding a correlation between void--centric distance to the shell of maximum density and void radius when a maximum in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 L. Ceccarelli , D. Paz , M. Lares , N. Padilla , D. García Lambas

Banhatti (2009) set down the procedure to derive cosmological number density n(z) from the differential distribution p(x) of the fractional luminosity volume relative to the maximum volume, x \equiv V/Vm (0 \leq x \leq 1), using a small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-03 Dilip G Banhatti

Galaxy redshift surveys are designed to map cosmic structures in three dimensions for large-scale structure studies. Nevertheless, limitations due to sampling and the survey window are unavoidable and degrade the cosmological constraints.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-01 N. Estrada , B. R. Granett , L. Guzzo

We produce the most comprehensive public void catalog to date using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 main sample out to redshift z=0.2 and the luminous red galaxy sample out to z=0.44. Using a modified version of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , David H. Weinberg

We present measurements of the anisotropic cross-correlation of galaxies and cosmic voids in data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample (MGS), Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and extended BOSS (eBOSS) luminous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Alex Woodfinden , Seshadri Nadathur , Will J. Percival , Slađana Radinović , Elena Massara , Hans A. Winther

We investigate the structural, photometric, and dynamical evolution of cosmic voids and their galaxy populations from $z=2.09$ to the present, focusing on void size as a key evolutionary parameter. Using void catalogs from four Millennium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Saeed Tavasoli