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Baryonic feedback is a leading contaminant in studying dark matter and cosmology using cosmic shear. This has meant omitting much of the data during cosmological inference, or forward-modeling the spatial distribution of gas around dark…

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Galaxy cluster counts have historically been important for the measurement of cosmological parameters and upcoming surveys will greatly reduce the statistical errors. To exploit the potential of current and future cluster surveys,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Roi Kugel , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Victor J. Forouhar Moreno , Robert J. McGibbon

Dark matter (DM) models with a non-zero DM-baryon interaction cross section imply energy transfer between DM and baryons. We present a new method of constraining the DM-baryon interaction cross section and DM particle mass for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Eleanor Stuart , Kris Pardo

Baryonic feedback processes associated with galaxy formation directly influence the large-scale structure by redistributing gas. Recent measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and stacks of X-ray emission from optically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 William McDonald , Joop Schaye , Konrad Kuijken , John Helly , Joey Braspenning , Matthieu Schaller

The measurement of angular diameter distance to galaxy clusters, through combined Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect data with X-ray emission observations, is now a well-known probe of cosmology. Using a combination of SZ data and a map of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Asantha Cooray

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect induces a Compton-$y$ distortion in cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature maps that is sensitive to a line of sight integral of the ionized gas pressure. By correlating the positions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 S. Pandey , E. J. Baxter , J. C. Hill

The large-scale clustering of matter is impacted by baryonic physics, particularly AGN feedback. Modelling or mitigating this impact will be essential for making full use of upcoming measurements of cosmic shear and other large-scale…

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We use the small scales of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 cosmic shear measurements, which are excluded from the DES Year-3 cosmological analysis, to constrain the baryonic feedback. To model the baryonic feedback, we adopt a baryonic…

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Different models of dark matter can alter the distribution of mass in galaxy clusters in a variety of ways. However, so can uncertain astrophysical feedback mechanisms. Here we present a Machine Learning method that ''learns'' how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 David Harvey

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and supernovae can affect measurements of integrated SZ flux of halos ($Y_\mathrm{SZ}$) from CMB surveys, and cause its relation with the halo mass ($Y_\mathrm{SZ}-M$) to deviate from the…

The improving sensitivity of measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect opens a new window into the thermodynamic properties of the baryons in halos. We propose a methodology to constrain these thermodynamic properties by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Nicholas Battaglia , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan , David Spergel

Energetic feedback processes associated with accreting supermassive black holes can expel gas from massive haloes and significantly alter various measures of clustering on ~Mpc scales, potentially biasing the values of cosmological…

The impact of feedback from galaxy formation on cosmological probes is typically quantified in terms of the suppression of the matter power spectrum in hydrodynamical compared to gravity-only simulations. In this paper, we instead study how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Anik Halder , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , John Helly , Robert J. McGibbon , Willem Elbers

We present cosmological parameter measurements from the Deep Lens Survey (DLS) using galaxy-mass and galaxy-galaxy power spectra in the multipole range $\ell=250\sim2000$. We measure galaxy-galaxy power spectra from two lens bins centered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Mijin Yoon , M. James Jee , J. Anthony Tyson , Samuel Schmidt , David Wittman , Ami Choi

Upcoming weak-lensing surveys will probe the matter distribution at a few percent level on nonlinear scales ($k>1\,{\rm h\,Mpc}^{-1}$) where baryonic feedback from galaxy formation modifies the clustering of matter. Using the IllustrisTNG…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kyle Miller , Surhud More , Bhuvnesh Jain

Accurate knowledge of the effect of feedback from galaxy formation on the matter distribution is a key requirement for future weak lensing experiments. Recent studies using hydrodynamic simulations have shown that different baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Elisabetta Semboloni , Henk Hoekstra , Joop Schaye

Extracting information from the total matter power spectrum with the precision needed for upcoming cosmological surveys requires unraveling the complex effects of galaxy formation processes on the distribution of matter. We investigate the…

We develop an extension of \textit{the Halo Model} that describes analytically the corrections to the matter power spectrum due to the physics of baryons. We extend these corrections to the weak-lensing shear angular power spectrum. Within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Irshad Mohammed , Davide Martizzi , Romain Teyssier , Adam Amara

Galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing are two of the main observational probes in Stage-IV large-scale structure surveys. Unfortunately, the complicated relationship between galaxies and matter limits the exploitation of this data.…

Cosmological measurements over the next decade will enable us to shed light on the content and evolution of the Universe. Complementary measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-10 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , David Alonso , Joanna Dunkley