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We perform cosmological N-body simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions generated from two independent fields. The dominant contribution to the perturbations comes from a purely Gaussian field, but we allow the second field to have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-25 Saroj Adhikari , Sarah Shandera , Neal Dalal

High-dimensional data sets are expected from the next generation of large-scale surveys. These data sets will carry a wealth of information about the early stages of galaxy formation and cosmic reionization. Extracting the maximum amount of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-27 Yu-Heng Lin , Sultan Hassan , Bruno Régaldo-Saint Blancard , Michael Eickenberg , Chirag Modi

The nonnegative garrote (NNG) is among the first approaches that combine variable selection and shrinkage of regression estimates. When more than the derivation of a predictor is of interest, NNG has some conceptual advantages over the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-10-28 Edwin Kipruto , Willi Sauerbrei

Primordial non-Gaussianity encodes valuable information about the physics of inflation, including the spectrum of particles and interactions. Significant improvements in our understanding of non-Gaussanity beyond Planck require information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Jérôme Gleyzes , Roland de Putter , Daniel Green , Olivier Doré

Gaussian process regression is a powerful Bayesian nonlinear regression method. Recent research has enabled the capture of many types of observations using non-Gaussian likelihoods. To deal with various tasks in spatial modeling, we benefit…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-26 Yuta Shikuri

We study the lensing convergence power spectrum and its covariance for a standard LCDM cosmology. We run 400 cosmological N-body simulations and use the outputs to perform a total of 1000 independent ray-tracing simulations. We compare the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-12 Masanori Sato , Takashi Hamana , Ryuichi Takahashi , Masahiro Takada , Naoki Yoshida , Takahiko Matsubara , Naoshi Sugiyama

The structural and dynamic properties of the dark matter halos, though an important ingredient in understanding large-scale structure formation, require more conservative particle resolution than those required by halo mass alone in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Premvijay Velmani

Upcoming galaxy surveys aim to map the Universe with unprecedented precision, depth and sky coverage. The galaxy bispectrum is a prime source of information as it allows us to probe primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), a key factor in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Samantha Rossiter , Stefano Camera , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

The primordial non-Gaussian parameter fNL has been shown to be scale-dependent in several models of inflation with a variable speed of sound. Starting from a simple ansatz for a scale-dependent amplitude of the primordial curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Emiliano Sefusatti , Michele Liguori , Amit P. S. Yadav , Mark G. Jackson , Enrico Pajer

We present an analytic model for the fully nonlinear power spectrum P and bispectrum Q of the cosmological mass density field. The model is based on physical properties of dark matter halos, with the three main model inputs being analytic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 Chung-Pei Ma , J. N. Fry

Molecular clouds show complex structures reflecting their non-linear dynamics. Many studies investigating the bridge between their morphology and physical properties have shown the value of non-Gaussian higher-order statistics in capturing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Pablo Richard , Erwan Allys , François Levrier , Antoine Gusdorf , Constant Auclair

Conservative mass limits are often imposed on the dark matter halo catalogues extracted from N-body simulations. By comparing simulations with different mass resolutions, at $z=0$ we find that even for halos resolved by 100 particles, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Joaquin Armijo , Carlton M. Baugh , Nelson D. Padilla , Peder Norberg , Christian Arnold

The abundance of collapsed objects in the universe, or halo mass function, is an important theoretical tool in studying the effects of primordially generated non-Gaussianities on the large scale structure. The non-Gaussian mass function has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Guido D'Amico , Marcello Musso , Jorge Noreña , Aseem Paranjape

We explore the potential of cross-correlating galaxies and peculiar velocities on non-linear scales to enhance cosmological constraints. Leveraging the \textsc{AbacusSummit} simulation suite and the halo occupation distribution (HOD)…

Primordial non-Gaussianity is one of the most powerful probes of the inflationary epoch. The particle spectrum relevant to inflation, including masses and spins, is encoded in the precise form of statistical correlations of the adiabatic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Eugene Chen , Daniel Green , Vincent S. H. Lee

We explore possible non-Gaussian features of primordial gravitational waves by constructing model-independent templates for nonlinearity parameters of tensor bispectrum. Our analysis is based on Effective Field Theory of inflation that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-16 Abhishek Naskar , Supratik Pal

The statistical analysis of cosmic large-scale structure is most often based on simple two-point summary statistics, like the power spectrum or the two-point correlation function of a sample of galaxies or other types of tracers. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Eniko Regos , Volker Springel , Sownak Bose , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Cesar Hernandez-Aguayo

Naive estimates of the statistics of large scale structure and weak lensing power spectrum measurements that include only Gaussian errors exaggerate their scientific impact. Non-linear evolution and finite volume effects are both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 Emmanuel Schaan , Masahiro Takada , David N. Spergel

The internal structure of dark matter haloes encodes their assembly history and offers critical insight into the nature of dark matter and structure formation. Analytical studies and high-resolution simulations have recently predicted the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Yuchan Wang , Sownak Bose , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins

The statistical translation invariance of cosmological random fields is broken by a finite survey boundary, correlating the observable Fourier modes. Standard methods for generating Gaussian fields either neglect these correlations, or are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Julien Carron , Melody Wolk , Istvan Szapudi