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We present constraints on the values of $\Omega_m$, $n$, $\sigma_8$, obtained from measurements of the X-ray luminosity function of galaxy clusters as compiled in EMSS, RDCS and BCS galaxy cluster samples. The values obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Del Popolo

Weak-lensing searches for galaxy clusters are plagued by low completeness and purity, severely limiting their usefulness for constraining cosmological parameters with the cluster mass function. A significant fraction of `false positives'…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. P. Dietrich , J. Hartlap

We analyse the fourth data release of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) and extract cosmological parameter constraints based on the cosmic shear peak count statistics. Peaks are identified in aperture mass maps in which the filter is…

We present the first cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using extended SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAMe). We analyse stellar mass-selected Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Constance Mahony , Sergio Contreras , Raul E. Angulo , David Alonso , Christos Georgiou , Andrej Dvornik

We use cosmography to present constraints on the kinematics of the Universe without postulating any underlying theoretical model a priori. To this end, we use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis to perform comparisons to the supernova Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-18 Alejandro Aviles , Christine Gruber , Orlando Luongo , Hernando Quevedo

We present cosmological constraints for the flat $\Lambda$CDM model, including the sum of neutrino masses, by performing a multi-probe analysis of a total of 13 tomographic auto- and cross-angular power spectra. This is achieved by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-11 Raphael Sgier , Christiane Lorenz , Alexandre Refregier , Janis Fluri , Dominik Zürcher , Federica Tarsitano

We perform a combined analysis of cosmic shear tomography, galaxy-galaxy lensing tomography, and redshift-space multipole power spectra (monopole and quadrupole) using 450 deg$^2$ of imaging data by the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) overlapping…

We constrain the matter density $\Omega_{\mathrm{m}}$ and the amplitude of density fluctuations $\sigma_8$ within the $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model with shear peak statistics and angular convergence power spectra using mass maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 D. Zürcher , J. Fluri , R. Sgier , T. Kacprzak , M. Gatti , C. Doux , L. Whiteway , A. Refregier , C. Chang , N. Jeffrey , B. Jain , P. Lemos , D. Bacon , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , M. Becker , G. Bernstein , A. Campos , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Davis , J. Derose , S. Dodelson , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferte , D. Gruen , I. Harrison , D. Huterer , M. Jarvis , P. F. Leget , N. Maccrann , J. Mccullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro Alsina , S. Pandey , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , C. Sanchez , L. F. Secco , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , B. Yin , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. Dietrich , P. Doel , K. Eckert , A. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , R. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , C. Lidman , M. Lima , M. Maia , J. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , A. Pieres , A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , M. Rodriguez Monroy , K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. Wilkinson

Minkowski Functionals (MF) are excellent tools to investigate the statistical properties of the cosmic background radiation (CMB) maps. Between their notorious advantages is the possibility to use them efficiently in patches of the CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 C. P. Novaes , A. Bernui , G. A. Marques , I. S. Ferreira

Two of the most commonly used tools to constrain the primordial non-Gaussianity are the bispectrum and the Minkowski functionals of CMB temperature anisotropies. These two measures of non-Gaussianity in principle provide distinct (though…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-26 Wenjuan Fang , Adam Becker , Dragan Huterer , Eugene A. Lim

We study the projected clustering of photometric luminous red galaxies from the DESI Legacy Survey, combining their angular power spectrum, bispectrum, and cross-correlation with maps of the CMB lensing convergence from the Planck…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Francesco Verdiani , Lea Harscouet , Matteo Zennaro , David Alonso , Boryana Hadzhiyska

We suggest a set of morphological measures that we believe can help in quantifying the shapes of two-dimensional cosmological images such as galaxies, clusters, and superclusters of galaxies. The method employs non-parametric morphological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 Nurur Rahman , Sergei F. Shandarin

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) is a sensitive probe of cosmology, as it traces the abundance of galaxy clusters and groups in the late-time Universe. Upcoming cosmic microwave background experiments such as the Simons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Alina Sabyr , J. Colin Hill , Zoltan Haiman

We explore the sensitivity of weak lensing observables to the expansion history of the universe and to the growth of cosmic structures, as well as the relative contribution of both effects to constraining cosmological parameters. We utilize…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , Zoltán Haiman , Andrea Petri , Toshiya Namikawa

Minkowski functionals provide a novel tool to characterize the large-scale galaxy distribution in the Universe. Here we give a brief tutorial on the basic features of these morphological measures and indicate their practical application for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Schmalzing , M. Kerscher , T. Buchert

The key probes of the growth of large-scale structure are its rate $f$ and amplitude $\sigma_8$. Redshift space distortions in the galaxy power spectrum allow us to measure only the combination $f\sigma_8$, which can be used to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Louis Perenon , Stéphane Ilić , Roy Maartens , Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz

We study the morphology of convergence maps by perturbatively reconstructing their Minkowski Functionals (MFs). We present a systematics study using a set of three generalised skew-spectra as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , J. D. McEwen , T. D. Kitching , F. R. Bouchet

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a blind joint analysis of three two-point correlation functions measured from the Year 3 Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC-Y3) imaging data, covering 416 deg$^2$, and the SDSS DR11 spectroscopic…