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We present a joint cosmological analysis of the two-point correlation function and the aperture-mass skewness measured from the Year 3 data of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-Y3). The aperture-mass skewness is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Sunao Sugiyama , Rafael C. H. Gomes , Bhuvnesh Jain

We utilize the probability distribution function (PDF) of normalized convergence maps reconstructed from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Y1 shear catalogue, in combination with the power spectrum, to measure the matter clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Leander Thiele , Gabriela A. Marques , Jia Liu , Masato Shirasaki

Peak statistics in weak lensing maps access the non-Gaussian information contained in the large-scale distribution of matter in the Universe. They are therefore a promising complement to two-point and higher-order statistics to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Austin Peel , Chieh-An Lin , Francois Lanusse , Adrienne Leonard , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

We present a novel approach to quantifying the morphology of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy maps. As morphological descriptors, we use shape parameters known as Minkowski functionals. Using the mathematical framework provided…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jens Schmalzing , Krzysztof M. Gorski

We study the statistics of peaks in a weak lensing reconstructed mass map of the first 450 square degrees of the Kilo Degree Survey. The map is computed with aperture masses directly applied to the shear field with an NFW-like compensated…

In this study, we explore the potential of utilizing the four Minkowski functionals, which can fully describe the morphological properties of the large-scale structures, as a robust tool for investigating the modified gravity, particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-20 Aoxiang Jiang , Wei Liu , Baojiu Li , Cristian Barrera-Hinojosa , Yufei Zhang , Wenjuan Fang

We study the impact of baryonic physics on cosmological parameter estimation with weak lensing surveys. We run a set of cosmological hydrodynamics simulations with different galaxy formation models. We then perform ray-tracing simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-29 Ken Osato , Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida

The study of the angular power spectrum of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies, both in intensity and in polarisation, has led to the tightest constraints on cosmological parameters. However, this statistical quantity is not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-08 Javier Carrón Duque , Alessandro Carones , Domenico Marinucci , Marina Migliaccio , Nicola Vittorio

The presence of massive neutrinos affects structure formation, leaving imprints on large-scale structure observables such as the weak lensing field. The common lensing analyses with two-point statistics are insensitive to the large amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Gabriela A. Marques , Jia Liu , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Zoltán Haiman , Armando Bernui , Camila P. Novaes

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of structure under their free-streaming scales. The effect is most prominent on small scales where the widely-used two-point statistics can no longer capture the full information. In this work, we study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 Wei Liu , Aoxiang Jiang , Wenjuan Fang

The morphological properties of large scale structure of the Universe can be fully described by four Minkowski functionals (MFs), which provide important complementary information to other statistical observables such as the widely used…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-24 Wenjuan Fang , Baojiu Li , Gong-Bo Zhao

We derive analytical formulae for the Minkowski Functions of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and large-scale structure (LSS) from primordial non-Gaussianity. These formulae enable us to estimate a non-linear coupling parameter, f_NL,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Chiaki Hikage , Eiichiro Komatsu , Takahiko Matsubara

In the conference presentation we have reviewed the theory of non-Gaussian geometrical measures for the 3D Cosmic Web of the matter distribution in the Universe and 2D sky data, such as Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps that was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Dmitri Pogosyan , Sandrine Codis , Christophe Pichon

Minkowski functionals quantify the morphology of smooth random fields. They are widely used to probe statistical properties of cosmological fields. Analytic formulae for ensemble expectations of Minkowski functionals are well known for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-27 Pravabati Chingangbam , Fazlu Rahman

Weak lensing surveys are often summarized by constraints on the derived parameter ${S_8\equiv\sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}}$, obscuring the rich scale and redshift information encoded in the data, and limiting our ability to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Cyrille Doux , Tanvi Karwal

We investigate the information content of various cosmic shear statistics on the theory of gravity. Focusing on the Hu-Sawicki-type $f(R)$ model, we perform a set of ray-tracing simulations and measure the convergence bispectrum, peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Masato Shirasaki , Takahiro Nishimichi , Baojiu Li , Yuichi Higuchi

We present a morphological analysis of atom probe data of nanoscale microstructural features, using methods developed by the astrophysics community to describe the shape of superclusters of galaxies. We describe second-phase regions using…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-30 Daniel R Mason , Andrew J London

Using higher-order statistics to capture cosmological information from weak lensing surveys often requires a transformation of observed shear to a measurement of the convergence signal. This inverse problem is complicated by noise and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Nisha Grewal , Joe Zuntz , Tilman Tröster

We investigate the non-Gaussian signatures in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps induced by the intervening large-scale structure through weak lensing. In order to measure the deviation from the Gaussian behavior of the intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Schmalzing , Masahiro Takada , Toshifumi Futamase