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We show that the rest-frame UV statistics and global properties of galaxies at 7 <= z <= 14 are naturally reproduced within the standard {\Lambda}CDM framework when galaxy formation is modeled with UniverseMachine applied to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Francisco Prada , Peter Behroozi , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Enrique Pérez , Anatoly Klypin , Xin Wang , José Ruedas

A gravitational wave background from a first order phase transition in the early universe may be observable at millihertz gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). In this paper we introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Chloe Gowling , Mark Hindmarsh , Deanna C. Hooper , Jesús Torrado

We present the Multilevel Bregman Proximal Gradient Descent (ML BPGD) method, a novel multilevel optimization framework tailored to constrained convex problems with relative Lipschitz smoothness. Our approach extends the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

We explore the reconstruction of the gravitational lensing field of the cosmic microwave background in real space showing that very little statistical information is lost when estimators of short range on the celestial sphere are used in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Martin Bucher , Carla Sofia Carvalho , Kavilan Moodley , Mathieu Remazeilles

Future dark energy space missions such as JDEM and EUCLID are being designed to survey the galaxy population to trace the geometry of the universe and the growth of structure, which both depend on the cosmological model. To reach the goal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Jouvel , J-P. Kneib , O. Ilbert , G. Bernstein , S. Arnouts , T. Dahlen , A. Ealet , B. Milliard , H. Aussel , P. Capak , A. Koekemoer , V. Le Brun , H. McCracken , M. Salvato , N. Scoville

A new semi-analytic modelling of galaxy evolution in the IR/submm is hereafter outlined. This type of approach successfully reproduces the optical properties of galaxies. We illustrate a simple extension to the IR/submm wavelength range by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Guiderdoni , E. Hivon , F. R. Bouchet

The recently released Quaia quasar catalogue, with its broad redshift range and all-sky coverage, enables unprecedented three-dimensional reconstructions of matter across cosmic time. In this work, we apply the field-level inference…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Adam Andrews , Arthur Loureiro , Jens Jasche , Stuart McAlpine , Guilhem Lavaux , Florent Leclercq

We present a new galaxy survey simulation package, which combines the power of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling with a robust and adaptable model of galaxy evolution. The aim of this code is to aid in the characterization and study…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-25 Noah Kurinsky , Anna Sajina

Bayesian inference in the physical sciences faces a fundamental challenge: the imperative for high-fidelity physical modeling often clashes with the intrinsic limitations of stochastic sampling algorithms. Complex, high-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Bo Liang , Chang Liu , Hanlin Song , Tianyu Zhao , Minghui Du , He Wang , Haohao Gu , Sensen He , Yuxiang Xu , Wei-Liang Qian , Li-e Qiang , Peng Xu , Ziren Luo , Mingming Sun

Upcoming galaxy surveys will allow us to probe the growth of the cosmic large-scale structure with improved sensitivity compared to current missions, and will also map larger areas of the sky. This means that in addition to the increased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-31 Matteo Martinelli , Roohi Dalal , Fereshteh Majidi , Yashar Akrami , Stefano Camera , Elena Sellentin

We present a self-consistent Bayesian formalism to sample the primordial density fields compatible with a set of dark matter density tracers after cosmic evolution observed in redshift space. Previous works on density reconstruction did not…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 E. G. Patrick Bos , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Rien van de Weygaert

Extracting information from cosmic surveys is often done in a two-step process, construction of maps and then summary statistics such as two-point functions. We use simulations to demonstrate the advantages of a general Bayesian framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Alan Junzhe Zhou , Scott Dodelson

The first science image released by the JWST reveals numerous galaxies in the distant background of the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327. Some have claimed redshifts of up to $z \simeq 20$, challenging standard cosmological models for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-17 Alex Chow , Sung Kei Li , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim , Man Cheung Alex Li , James Nianias , Jake Summers , Rogier Windhorst

To probe the late evolution history of the Universe, we adopt two kinds of optimal basis systems. One of them is constructed by performing the principle component analysis (PCA) and the other is build by taking the multidimensional scaling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-08 Chao-Jun Feng , Xin-Zhou Li

Since the late 1970's, redshift surveys have been vital for progress in understanding large-scale structure in the Universe. The original CfA redshift survey collected spectra of 20-30 galaxies per clear night on a 1.5 meter telescope; over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marc Davis , Jeffrey Newman

We propose an efficient Bayesian MCMC algorithm for estimating cosmological parameters from CMB data without use of likelihood approximations. It builds on a previously developed Gibbs sampling framework that allows for exploration of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-29 Benjamin Racine , Jeffrey B. Jewell , Hans Kristian K. Eriksen , Ingunn K. Wehus

We investigated the impact of photometric redshift errors in the ongoing Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) on void identification and properties using a watershed-based method, aiming to assess the…

In this paper we reconstruct the growth and evolution of the cosmic structure of the Universe using Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms for Gaussian processes [1]. We estimate the difference between the reconstructions that are calculated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-29 Mauricio Reyes , Celia Escamilla-Rivera

The discovery of massive, high redshift galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been argued to challenge $\Lambda$CDM (cold dark matter): such systems would require extremely rare halos and baryon-to-stellar-mass conversion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Jay R. Krishnan , Kevork N. Abazajian

The gravitational lensing signal from the Cosmic Microwave Background is highly valuable to constrain the growth of the structures in the Universe in a clean and robust manner over a wide range of redshifts. One of the theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Omar Darwish , Sebastian Belkner , Louis Legrand , Julien Carron , Giulio Fabbian