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Simulation-based inference (SBI) has become an important tool in cosmology for extracting additional information from observational data using simulations. However, all cosmological simulations are approximations of the actual universe, and…

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Super-sample covariance (SSC) is the dominant source of statistical error on large scale structure (LSS) observables for both current and future galaxy surveys. In this work, we concentrate on the SSC of cluster counts, also known as sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 Fabien Lacasa , Marcos Lima , Michel Aguena

Accurate redshift calibration is required to obtain unbiased cosmological information from large-scale galaxy surveys. In a forward modelling approach, the redshift distribution n(z) of a galaxy sample is measured using a parametric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Beatrice Moser , Tomasz Kacprzak , Silvan Fischbacher , Alexandre Refregier , Dominic Grimm , Luca Tortorelli

The standard approach to inference from cosmic large-scale structure data employs summary statistics that are compared to analytic models in a Gaussian likelihood with pre-computed covariance. To overcome the idealising assumptions about…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-24 Kiyam Lin , Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Benjamin Joachimi , Stephen Feeney

Galaxy clusters are one of the most powerful probes to study extensions of General Relativity and the Standard Cosmological Model. Upcoming surveys like the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time are expected to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Markus Michael Rau , Florian Kéruzoré , Nesar Ramachandra , Lindsey Bleem

Determining the redshift distribution $n(z)$ of galaxy samples is essential for several cosmological probes including weak lensing. For imaging surveys, this is usually done using photometric redshifts estimated on an object-by-object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Claudio Bruderer , Andrina Nicola

Photometric galaxy surveys constitute a powerful cosmological probe but rely on the accurate characterization of their redshift distributions using only broadband imaging, and can be very sensitive to incomplete or biased priors used for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Alex Alarcon , Carles Sánchez , Gary M. Bernstein , Enrique Gaztañaga

With the advent of several galaxy surveys targeting star-forming galaxies, it is important to have models capable of interpreting their spatial distribution in terms of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. To address this need, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sara Ortega-Martinez , Sergio Contreras , Raul Angulo

We present the clustering of galaxy clusters as a useful addition to the common set of cosmological observables. The clustering of clusters probes the large-scale structure of the Universe, extending galaxy clustering analysis to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-03 Annalisa Mana , Tommaso Giannantonio , Jochen Weller , Ben Hoyle , Gert Huetsi , Barbara Sartoris

We investigate how observations of strong lensing can be used to infer cosmological parameters, in particular the equation of state of dark energy. We focus on the growth of the critical lines of lensing clusters with the source redshift as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-03 Britta Zieser , Matthias Bartelmann

We explore the degrees of freedom required to jointly fit projected and redshift-space clustering of galaxies selected in three bins of stellar mass from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample (SDSS MGS) using a subhalo abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Joseph DeRose , Matthew R. Becker , Risa H. Wechsler

Current constraints on models of galaxy evolution rely on morphometric catalogs extracted from multi-band photometric surveys. However, these catalogs are altered by selection effects that are difficult to model, that correlate in non…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-06 Sébastien Carassou , Valérie de Lapparent , Emmanuel Bertin , Damien Le Borgne

We present cosmology results obtained from a blind joint analysis of the abundance, projected clustering, and weak lensing of galaxy clusters measured from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) redMaPPer cluster catalog and the Hyper-Suprime…

Gradually, the $\Lambda$CDM model starts to be challenged by observational data. Upcoming cosmological surveys will increase the number of detected galaxy clusters by several orders of magnitude. Therefore, shortly, clusters will provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-25 E. Artis , J-B Melin , J. G. Bartlett , C. Murray

We present high-fidelity cosmology results from a blinded joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing ($\Delta\!\Sigma$) and projected galaxy clustering ($w_{\rm p}$) measured from the Hyper Suprime-Cam Year-1 (HSC-Y1) data and…

How much cosmological information can we reliably extract from existing and upcoming large-scale structure observations? Many summary statistics fall short in describing the non-Gaussian nature of the late-time Universe in comparison to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-15 Kai Lehman , Sven Krippendorf , Jochen Weller , Klaus Dolag

We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing measurements from BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulation method combined with a halo occupation distribution model. Our emulators are constructed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenhao Gao , Zhenjie Liu , Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Jun Zhang , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

Recent detection of high-redshift, massive clusters through Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations has opened up a new way to test cosmological models. It is known that detection of a single supermassive cluster at a very high redshift can rule…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-22 Arman Shafieloo , George F. Smoot

Cluster catalogs selected by optical properties are subject to selection biases, primarily arising from unresolved systems along the line of sight. These biases affect key observables for cluster cosmology, such as the lensing signal and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 M. Costanzi , H. Y. Wu , J. H. Esteves , S. Grandis , C. To , M. Aguena

We present a galaxy catalog simulator which turns N-body simulations with subhalos into multiband photometric mocks. The simulator assigns galaxy properties to each subhalo to reproduce the observed cluster galaxy halo occupation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jeeseon Song , Joseph J. Mohr , Wayne A. Barkhouse , Michael S. Warren , Cody Rude