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We examine how dark energy constraints from current observational data depend on the analysis methods used: the analysis of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), and that of galaxy clustering data. We generalize the flux-averaging analysis method of…

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Cosmic shear constrains cosmology by exploiting the apparent alignments of pairs of galaxies due to gravitational lensing by intervening mass clumps. However galaxies may become (intrinsically) aligned with each other, and with nearby mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Sarah Bridle , Lindsay King

We investigate the cosmological dependence and the constraining power of large-scale galaxy correlations, including all redshift-distortions, wide-angle, lensing and gravitational potential effects on linear scales. We analyze the…

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We present maps classifying regions of the sky according to their information gain potential as quantified by the Fisher information. These maps can guide the optimal retrieval of relevant physical information with targeted cosmological…

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The data from the Euclid mission will enable the measurement of the photometric redshifts, angular positions, and weak lensing shapes for over a billion galaxies. This large dataset will allow for cosmological analyses using the angular…

We report the first constraints on the growth rate of the universe, $f(z)\sigma_8(z)$, with intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies. We measure the galaxy density-intrinsic ellipticity cross-correlation and intrinsic ellipticity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

The rapid development of gravitational wave astronomy provides the unique opportunity of exploring the dynamics of the Universe using clustering properties of coalescing binary black hole mergers. Gravitational wave data, along with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Michele Bosi , Nicola Bellomo , Alvise Raccanelli

Cosmic shear is a powerful probe of cosmology, but it is affected by the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy shapes with the large-scale structure. Upcoming surveys like Euclid and Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Laila Linke , Susan Pyne , Benjamin Joachimi , Christos Georgiou , Kai Hoffmann , Rachel Mandelbaum , Sukhdeep Singh

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure, which depends both on the expansion rate of the Universe and our theory of gravity.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 Martin White , Yong-Seon Song , Will J. Percival

We study the characteristics of the galaxy cluster samples expected from the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite and forecast constraints on cosmological parameters describing a variety of cosmological models. The method used in this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 B. Sartoris , A. Biviano , C. Fedeli , J. G. Bartlett , S. Borgani , M. Costanzi , C. Giocoli , L. Moscardini , J. Weller , B. Ascaso , S. Bardelli , S. Maurogordato , P. T. P Viana

To reach the full potential for the next generation of weak lensing surveys, it is necessary to mitigate the contamination of intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies in the observed cosmic shear signal. The self calibration (SC) of intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Ji Yao , Eske M. Pedersen , Mustapha Ishak , Pengjie Zhang , Anish Agashe , Haojie Xu , Huanyuan Shan

Current and upcoming imaging galaxy surveys are pushing galaxy samples to higher and higher redshifts. This push will be more pronounced for lens galaxies, for which we only need to measure galaxy positions, not shapes. As a result, we will…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Dane N. Cross , Carles Sánchez

Intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies/halos observed via galaxy imaging survey, combined with redshift information, offer a novel probe of cosmology as a tracer of the tidal force field of a large-scale structure. In this paper, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Atsushi Taruya , Toshiki Kurita , Teppei Okumura

The combination of multiple cosmological probes can produce measurements of cosmological parameters much more stringent than those possible with any individual probe. We examine the combination of two highly correlated probes of late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Donnacha Kirk , Ofer Lahav , Sarah Bridle , Stephanie Jouvel , Filipe B. Abdalla , Joshua A. Frieman

In this paper, we motivate the use of galaxy clustering measurements using photometric redshift information, including a contribution from flux magnification, as a probe of cosmology. We present cosmological forecasts when clustering data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Christopher Duncan , Benjamin Joachimi , Alan Heavens , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt

Intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies are an important contaminant for cosmic shear studies, but the modelling is complicated by the dependence of the signal on the source galaxy sample. In this paper, we use the halo model formalism to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Maria Cristina Fortuna , Henk Hoekstra , Benjamin Joachimi , Harry Johnston , Nora Elisa Chisari , Christos Georgiou , Constance Mahony

We quantify the accuracy with which the cosmological parameters characterizing the energy density of matter (\Omega_m), the amplitude of the power spectrum of matter fluctuations (\sigma_8), the energy density of neutrinos (\Omega_{\nu})…

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

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies has been shown to be a significant barrier to precision cosmic shear measurements. (Zhang, 2010, ApJ, 720, 1090) proposed a self-calibration technique for the power spectrum to calculate the induced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. A. Troxel , Mustapha Ishak

We study the constraining power on primordial non-Gaussianity of future surveys of the large-scale structure of the Universe for both near-term surveys (such as the Dark Energy Survey - DES) as well as longer term projects such as Euclid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-25 Tommaso Giannantonio , Cristiano Porciani , Julien Carron , Adam Amara , Annalisa Pillepich

The intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies, a key contaminant in weak lensing analyses, arise from correlations in galaxy shapes driven by tidal interactions and galaxy formation processes. Accurate IA modeling is essential for robust…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Sneh Pandya , Yuanyuan Yang , Nicholas Van Alfen , Jonathan Blazek , Robin Walters