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We present cosmological parameter constraints from a joint analysis of three cosmological probes: the tomographic cosmic shear signal in $\sim$450 deg$^2$ of data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), the galaxy-matter cross-correlation…

We present constraints on the Dark Scattering model through cosmic shear measurements from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-1000), using an accelerated pipeline with novel emulators produced with $\tt{CosmoPower}$. Our main emulator, for the…

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We develop an accurate and efficient Bayesian method to reconstruct the primordial power spectrum in a model-independent way, and apply it to the latest cosmic microwave background measurement from Planck mission, and the large scale…

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We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Maria Han Veiga , Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xun Huan

We propose a new model-independent reconstruction method for the matter power spectrum based on its time dependence and a combination of observations from different redshifts. The method builds on a perturbative expansion in terms of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Gen Ye , Jun-Qian Jiang , Alessandra Silvestri

Weak galaxy lensing surveys have consistently reported a lower amplitude for the matter fluctuation spectrum, as measured by the $S_8$ parameter, than expected in the $\Lambda{\rm CDM}$ cosmology favoured by $Planck$. However, the expansion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Alexandra Amon , George Efstathiou

Baryon feedback redistributes gas relative to the underlying dark matter distribution and suppresses the matter power spectrum on small scales, but the amplitude and scale dependence of this effect are uncertain. We constrain the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jared Siegel , Leah Bigwood , Alexandra Amon , Jamie McCullough , Masaya Yamamoto , Ian G. McCarthy , Matthieu Schaller , Aurel Schneider , Joop Schaye

We present a simulation-based inference (SBI) cosmological analysis of cosmic shear two-point statistics from the fourth weak gravitational lensing data release of the ESO Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). KiDS-SBI efficiently performs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Kiyam Lin , Nicolas Tessore , Benjamin Joachimi , Arthur Loureiro , Robert Reischke , Angus H. Wright

The nature of dark matter (DM) is still debated. While cold DM (CDM) is the standard paradigm, warm DM (WDM) may ease some small-scale tensions in the $\Lambda$CDM framework. Line-intensity mapping (LIM) offers a novel probe of DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Elena Marcuzzo , Cristiano Porciani , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Prachi Khatri , Matteo Viel

The upcoming generation of galaxy surveys will probe the distribution of matter in the universe with unprecedented accuracy. Measurements of the matter power spectrum at different scales and redshifts will provide stringent constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Linda Blot , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Jean-Michel Alimi , Vincent Reverdy , Yann Rasera

We perform a cosmic shear analysis of the COMBO-17 survey -- a unique dataset with shear quality R-band imaging and accurate photometric redshift estimates (dz=0.05) for ~90% of galaxies to R=24.0. We undertake a full maximum likelihood…

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Weak lensing by large-scale structure provides a direct measurement of matter fluctuations in the universe. We report a measurement of this `cosmic shear' based on 271 WFPC2 archival images from the Hubble Space Telescope Medium Deep Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 A. Refregier , J. Rhodes , E. J. Groth

This paper is the first of a series of papers constraining cosmological parameters with weak lensing peak statistics using $\sim 450~\rm deg^2$ of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS-450). We measure high signal-to-noise ratio…

We present a full forward-modeled $w$CDM analysis of the KiDS-1000 weak lensing maps using graph-convolutional neural networks (GCNN). Utilizing the $\texttt{CosmoGrid}$, a novel massive simulation suite spanning six different cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-21 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Aurel Schneider , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

The redistribution of baryonic matter in massive halos through processes like active galactic nuclei feedback and star formation leads to a suppression of the matter power spectrum on small scales. This redistribution can be measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Sebastian Grandis , Giovanni Arico' , Aurel Schneider , Laila Linke

There is a tension between measurements of the amplitude of the power spectrum of density perturbations inferred using the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and directly measured by Large-Scale Structure (LSS) on smaller scales. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Richard A. Battye , Tom Charnock , Adam Moss

We present a cosmic shear analysis with an improved redshift calibration for the fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000) using self-organising maps (SOMs). Compared to the previous analysis of the KiDS-1000 data, we expand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 J. L. van den Busch , A. H. Wright , H. Hildebrandt , M. Bilicki , M. Asgari , S. Joudaki , C. Blake , C. Heymans , A. Kannawadi , H. Y. Shan , T. Tröster

We present measurements of the two-dimensional genus of the SDSS-III BOSS catalogs to constrain cosmological parameters governing the shape of the matter power spectrum. The BOSS data are divided into twelve concentric shells over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Stephen A. Appleby , Changbom Park , Sungwook E. Hong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim

We present cosmological parameter constraints from a tomographic weak gravitational lensing analysis of ~450deg$^2$ of imaging data from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS). For a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with a prior on $H_0$ that encompasses…