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Photometric redshifts are a key tool to extract as much information as possible from planned cosmic shear experiments. In this work we aim to test the performances that can be achieved with observations in the near-infrared from space and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fabio Bellagamba , Massimo Meneghetti , Lauro Moscardini , Micol Bolzonella

The ratio between the CMB lensing/galaxy counts and the galaxy shear/galaxy counts cross-correlations combines the information from different cosmological probes to infer cosmographic measurements that are less dependent on astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 José Ramón Bermejo-Climent , Mario Ballardini , Fabio Finelli , Vincenzo Fabrizio Cardone

With the launch and application of next-generation ground- and space-based telescopes, astronomy has entered the era of big data, necessitating more efficient and robust data analysis methods. Most traditional parameter estimation methods…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Zihao Wang , Tao Wang , Ke Xu , Hanwen Sun , Ruining Tian , Qi Hao

Recent observational progress has led to the establishment of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model for cosmology. This development is based on different cosmological probes that are usually combined through their likelihoods at the latest stage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Andrina Nicola , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara

We investigate how the constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters ($\Omega_{\rm m}$, $\sigma_{8}$, $A_{\rm SN1}$, $A_{\rm SN2}$) vary when exploiting information from multiple fields in cosmology. We make use of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Sambatra Andrianomena , Sultan Hassan

We investigate structures in the D1 CFHTLS deep field in order to test the method that will be applied to generate homogeneous samples of clusters and groups of galaxies in order to constrain cosmology and detailed physics of groups and…

We investigate how much the constraints on the neutrino properties can be improved by combining the CMB, the photometric and spectroscopic galaxy redshift surveys which include the CMB lensing, galaxy lensing tomography, galaxy clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Kenji Kadota

Extracting maximum cosmological information from current and upcoming large-scale structure data requires going beyond summary statistics as currently used in likelihood-based inference. Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) promises to enable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Giulio Scelfo , Satvik Mishra , Mauro Rigo , Roberto Trotta , Matteo Viel

AIMS: The separation of foreground contamination from cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations is one of the most challenging and important problem of digital signal processing in Cosmology. In literature, various techniques have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Vio , P. Andreani

The evolution of galaxy cluster counts is a powerful probe of several fundamental cosmological parameters. A number of recent studies using this probe have claimed tension with the cosmology preferred by the analysis of the Planck primary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 C. E. Caldwell , I. G. McCarthy , I. K. Baldry , C. A. Collins , J. Schaye , S. Bird

Radio weak lensing, while a highly promising complementary probe to optical weak lensing, will require incredible precision in the measurement of galaxy shape parameters. In this paper, we extend the Bayesian Inference for Radio…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 M. Rivi , M. Lochner , S. T. Balan , I. Harrison , F. B. Abdalla

We present a simple method for evaluating the nonlinear biasing function of galaxies from a redshift survey. The nonlinear biasing is characterized by the conditional mean of the galaxy density fluctuation given the underlying mass density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yair Sigad , Enzo Branchini , Avishai Dekel

In addition to the intrinsic clustering of galaxies themselves, the spatial distribution of galaxies observed in surveys is modulated by the presence of weak lensing due to matter in the foreground. This effect, known as magnification bias,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Lukas Wenzl , Shi-Fan Chen , Rachel Bean

Large-scale structure (LSS) surveys will increasingly provide stringent constraints on our cosmological models. Recently, the density-marked correlation function (MCF) has been introduced, offering an easily computable density-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 L. M. Lai , J. C. Ding , X. L. Luo , Y. Z. Yang , Z. H. Wang , K. S. Liu , G. F. Liu , X. Wang , Y. Zheng , Z. Y. Li , L. Zhang , X. D. Li

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is a powerful probe to study the early universe and various cosmological models. Weak gravitational lensing affects the CMB by changing its power spectrum, but meanwhile, it also carries information about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Chandra Shekhar Saraf

Surveys with a narrow field-of-view can play an important role in probing cosmology, but inferences from these surveys suffer from large sample variance, arising from random fluctuations around the cosmic mean. The standard method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 Peter Espenshade , Jaiyul Yoo

Various galaxy merger detection methods have been applied to diverse datasets. However, it is difficult to understand how they compare. We aim to benchmark the relative performance of machine learning (ML) merger detection methods. We…

In the era of huge astronomical surveys, machine learning offers promising solutions for the efficient estimation of galaxy properties. The traditional, `supervised' paradigm for the application of machine learning involves training a model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 A. Humphrey , P. A. C. Cunha , A. Paulino-Afonso , S. Amarantidis , R. Carvajal , J. M. Gomes , I. Matute , P. Papaderos

A fundamental assumption in cosmology is that of statistical isotropy - that the universe, on average, looks the same in every direction in the sky. Statistical isotropy has recently been tested stringently using Cosmic Microwave Background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-14 Caroline Zunckel , Dragan Huterer , Glenn D. Starkman

The main goal of this work, the second in a three-paper series, is to test the impact of a methodological improvement in measuring the magnification bias signal on a sample of submillimeter galaxies and its implications for constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Marcos M. Cueli , Joaquín González-Nuevo , Laura Bonavera , Andrea Lapi , David Crespo , José Manuel Casas