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Stellar streams formed by tidal stripping of progenitors orbiting around the Milky Way are expected to be perturbed by encounters with dark matter subhalos. Recent studies have shown that they are an excellent proxy to infer properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-18 Francesco Montanari , Juan García-Bellido

Galaxies, diffuse gas, and dark matter make up the cosmic web that defines the large-scale structure of the Universe. We constrained the joint distribution of these constituents by cross-correlating galaxy samples binned by stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Raphaël Kou , James G. Bartlett

We use the physics of ellipsoidal collapse to model the probability distribution function of the smoothed dark matter density field in real and redshift space. We provide a simple approximation to the exact collapse model which shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-05 Tsz Yan Lam , Ravi K. Sheth

Degeneracies among parameters of the cosmological model are known to drastically limit the information contained in the matter distribution. In the first paper of this series, we shown that the cosmic web environments; namely the voids,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Tony Bonnaire , Joseph Kuruvilla , Nabila Aghanim , Aurélien Decelle

Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter components that cannot be directly observed. The relationship between dark matter density fields and galaxy distributions can be sensitive to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-16 Core Francisco Park , Victoria Ono , Nayantara Mudur , Yueying Ni , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro

Weak lensing of galaxies and CMB photons through the large-scale structure of the Universe is one of the most promising cosmological probes with upcoming experiments dedicated to its measurements such as Euclid/LSST and CMB Stage 4…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis , Francis Bernardeau

The evolution of probability distribution functions (PDFs) of continuous density, velocity and velocity derivatives ( deformation tensor) fields in the theory of cosmological gravitational instability are considered. We show that in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

We report the first result of weak gravitational lensing survey on a 2.1 sq deg Rc-band image taken with a wide field camera (Suprime-Cam) on the prime focus of 8.2 m Subaru Telescope. The weak lensing mass reconstruction is applied to the…

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) is quickly attracting attention as an alternative technique to probe large-scale structure and galaxy formation and evolution at high redshift. LIM one-point statistics are motivated because they provide access…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 José Luis Bernal

We provide a set of general tools for studying the alignments of dark matter halos and galaxies with respect to the large scale structure. The statistics of the positioning of these objects is represented by a Probability Distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Juan E. Betancort-Rijo , Ignacio Trujillo

The probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density is an essential characteristic of the structure of molecular clouds or the interstellar medium in general. Observations of the PDF of molecular clouds indicate a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Joerg Fischera

We present a public code to generate random fields with an arbitrary probability distribution function (PDF) and an arbitrary correlation function. The algorithm is cosmology-independent, applicable to any stationary stochastic process over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Federico Tosone , Mark C. Neyrinck , Benjamin R. Granett , Luigi Guzzo , Nicola Vittorio

We measure the matter probability distribution function (PDF) via counts in cells in a volume limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Catalog on scales from $30 h^{-1}$Mpc to $150 h^{-1}$Mpc and estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-16 Péter Pápai , István Szapudi

Most of the upcoming cosmological information will come from analyzing the clustering of the Large Scale Structures (LSS) of the universe through LSS or CMB observations. It is therefore essential to be able to understand their behavior…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Tomohiro Fujita , Valentin Mauerhofer , Leonardo Senatore , Zvonimir Vlah , Raul Angulo

One of the targets of the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a diffuse gamma-ray background from dark-matter annihilation or decay in the Galactic halo. N-body simulations and theoretical arguments suggest that the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Samuel K. Lee , Shin'ichiro Ando , Marc Kamionkowski

We present a Bayesian analysis of cosmological parameter constraints from early- and late-universe observations, focusing on the matter density parameter ($\Omega_m$) and the amplitude of matter fluctuations ($\sigma_8$) within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Manjeet Kunwar , Nabin Bhusal , Manil Khatiwada , Niraj Dhital

(abridged) We use a theoretical model to predict the clustering properties of galaxy clusters. Our technique accounts for past light-cone effects on the observed clustering and follows the non-linear evolution of the dark matter correlation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Lauro Moscardini , Sabino Matarrese , H. J. Mo

A grand challenge of the 21st century cosmology is to accurately estimate the cosmological parameters of our Universe. A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Junier Oliva , Sebastien Fromenteau , Layne C. Price , Shirley Ho , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Key non-Gaussian properties of cosmological fields can be captured by their one-point statistics, providing a complement to two-point statistical measurements from power spectra or correlation functions. Large deviation theory can robustly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-31 Aoife Boyle , Alexandre Barthelemy , Sandrine Codis , Cora Uhlemann , Oliver Friedrich

The weak gravitational lensing distortion of distant galaxy images (defined as sources) probes the projected large-scale matter distribution in the Universe. To improve quality in the 3D mass mapping using 3D-lensing, we combine the lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Simon