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Baryonic effects such as AGN feedback can significantly impact the matter clustering, are harder to model from first principles, and emerge as a severe limiting factor in weak lensing cosmology. To tackle this issue, we propose a generic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Shuren Zhou , Pengjie Zhang

Peaks in two-dimensional weak lensing (WL) maps contain significant cosmological information, complementary to the WL power spectrum. This has recently been demonstrated using N-body simulations which neglect baryonic effects. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiuyuan Yang , Jan M. Kratochvil , Kevin Huffenberger , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

Understanding the scaling relation between baryonic observables and dark matter halo properties is crucial not only for studying galaxy formation and evolution, but also for deriving accurate cosmological constraints from galaxy surveys. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-09 Shun-Sheng Li , Henk Hoekstra , Konrad Kuijken , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

To fully take advantage of the data provided by large-scale structure surveys, we need to quantify the potential impact of baryonic effects, such as feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation, on cosmological observables.…

Baryonic feedback alters the matter distribution on small and intermediate scales, posing a challenge for precision cosmology. The new, component-wise baryonification (BFC) approach provides a self-consistent framework to model feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-11 Michael Kovač , Andrina Nicola , Jozef Bucko , Aurel Schneider , Robert Reischke , Sambit K. Giri , Romain Teyssier , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We examine the importance of baryonic feedback effects on the matter power spectrum on small scales, and the implications for the precise measurement of neutrino masses through gravitational weak lensing. Planned large galaxy surveys such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 Aravind Natarajan , Andrew R. Zentner , Nicholas Battaglia , Hy Trac

Cosmological constraints derived from weak lensing (WL) surveys are limited by baryonic effects, which suppress the non-linear matter power spectrum on small scales. By combining WL measurements with data from external tracers of the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Amy Wayland , David Alonso , Matteo Zennaro

A number of recent studies have found evidence for a tension between observations of large-scale structure (LSS) and the predictions of the standard model of cosmology with the cosmological parameters fit to the cosmic microwave background…

Weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background is rapidly emerging as a powerful probe of neutrinos, dark energy, and new physics. We present a fast computation of the non-linear CMB lensing power spectrum which combines non-linear…

Weak gravitational lensing depends on the integrated mass along the line of sight. Baryons contribute to the mass distribution of galaxy clusters and the resulting mass estimates from lensing analysis. We use the cosmo-OWLS suite of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-01 B. E. Lee , A. M. C. Le Brun , M. E. Haq , N. J. Deering , L. J. King , D. Applegate , I. G. McCarthy

There is currently a discrepancy in the measured value of the amplitude of matter clustering, parameterised using $\sigma_8$, inferred from galaxy weak lensing, and cosmic microwave background data, which could be an indication of new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Thomas D. Kitching , Licia Verde , Alan F. Heavens , Raul Jimenez

Future large-scale galaxy surveys have the potential to become leading probes for cosmology provided the influence of baryons on the total mass distribution is understood well enough. As hydrodynamical simulations strongly depend on details…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 Aurel Schneider , Romain Teyssier

Modern weak-lensing observations are becoming increasingly sensitive to baryonic feedback processes which are still poorly understood. So far, this challenge has been faced either by imposing scale-cuts in the data or by modelling baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Aurel Schneider , Sambit K. Giri , Stefania Amodeo , Alexandre Refregier

Measurements of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) hold the promise of yielding unique insights into cosmology at high redshift. Uncertainties due to baryonic effects associated with galaxy formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Eegene Chung , Simon Foreman , Alexander van Engelen

Baryonic effects on large-scale structure, if not accounted for, can significantly bias dark energy constraints. As the detailed physics of the baryons is not yet well-understood, correcting for baryon effects introduces additional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 David Copeland , Andy Taylor , Alex Hall

Baryonic physics has a considerable impact on the distribution of matter in our Universe on scales probed by current and future cosmological surveys, acting as a key systematic in such analyses. We seek simple symbolic parametrisations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Lukas Kammerer , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Gabriel Kronberger , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

We study weak gravitational lensing convergence maps produced from the MillenniumTNG (MTNG) simulations by direct projection of the mass distribution on the past backwards lightcone of a fiducial observer. We explore the lensing maps over a…

One of the most pernicious theoretical systematics facing upcoming gravitational lensing surveys is the uncertainty introduced by the effects of baryons on the power spectrum of the convergence field. One method that has been proposed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrew R. Zentner , Elisabetta Semboloni , Scott Dodelson , Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Andrew P. Hearin

We study the effect of baryonic processes on weak lensing (WL) observables with a suite of mock WL maps, the $\kappa$TNG, based on the cosmological hydrodynamic simulations IllustrisTNG. We quantify the baryonic effects on the WL angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-09 Ken Osato , Jia Liu , Zoltán Haiman

An accurate modelling of baryonic feedback effects is required to exploit the full potential of future weak-lensing surveys such as Euclid or LSST. In this second paper in a series of two, we combine Euclid-like mock data of the cosmic…