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The weak lensing power spectrum is a powerful tool to probe cosmological parameters. Additionally, lensing peak counts contain cosmological information beyond the power spectrum. Both of these statistics can be affected by the preferential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 Jia Liu , Zoltán Haiman , Lam Hui , Jan M. Kratochvil , Morgan May

This paper presents cosmological results from the final data release of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We perform full analyses of different cosmological models using the WiggleZ power spectra measured at z=0.22, 0.41, 0.60, and 0.78,…

We present constraints on the amplitude and shape of the matter power spectrum and the density of dark matter within the framework of a standard LambdaCDM model. We use a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to combine independent measurements…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Lesgourgues , M. Viel , M. G. Haehnelt , R. Massey

The combined analysis of the cosmic microwave background on large scales and Lyman-alpha forest on small scales provides a sufficiently long lever arm to obtain strong constraints on the slope and curvature of the power spectrum of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matteo Viel , Jochen Weller , Martin Haehnelt

Recent cosmological tensions have rekindled the search for models beyond $\Lambda$CDM that cause a suppression of the matter power spectrum. Due to the small scales accessible to Lyman-$\alpha$ data they are an excellent additional tool to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Deanna C. Hooper , Nils Schöneberg , Riccardo Murgia , Maria Archidiacono , Julien Lesgourgues , Matteo Viel

We analyze the SDSS Ly-alpha forest P_F(k,z) measurement to determine the linear theory power spectrum. Our analysis is based on fully hydrodynamic simulations, extended using hydro-PM simulations. We account for the effect of absorbers…

We present a method for calculating large numbers of power spectra C_l and P(k) that accelerates CMBfast by a factor around 10^3 without appreciable loss of accuracy, then apply it to constrain 11 cosmological parameters from current Cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga , Andrew J. S. Hamilton

(abridged) The flux power spectrum of the Lyman-alpha forest in quasar (QSO) absorption spectra is sensitive to a wide range of cosmological and astrophysical parameters and instrumental effects. Modelling the flux power spectrum in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matteo Viel , Martin G. Haehnelt

We present a comprehensive analysis of high resolution hydrodynamic simulations in terms of Lyman-alpha and Lyman-beta one dimensional flux power spectra ($P_{\alpha\alpha}$ and $P_{\beta\beta}$). In particular, we focus on the behaviour…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-15 Vid Iršič , Matteo Viel

Recent data from the WMAP, ACT and SPT experiments provide precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background temperature power spectrum over a wide range of angular scales. The combination of these observations is well fit by the…

We present the first detection of a correlation between the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest and cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing. For each Lyman-$\alpha$ forest in SDSS-III/BOSS DR12, we correlate the one-dimensional power spectrum with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Cyrille Doux , Emmanuel Schaan , Eric Aubourg , Ken Ganga , Khee-Gan Lee , David N. Spergel , Julien Tréguer

The WMAP team has recently highlighted the usefulness of combining the Ly-alpha forest constraints with those from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This combination is particularly powerful as a probe of the primordial shape of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Uros Seljak , Patrick McDonald , Alexey Makarov

We investigate the promise of the Ly-alpha forest for high precision cosmology in the era of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using low order N-point statistics. We show that with the existing data one can determine the amplitude, slope and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mandelbaum , P. McDonald , U. Seljak , R. Cen

Most parameter constraints obtained from cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data are based on power estimates and rely on approximate likelihood functions; computational difficulties generally preclude an exact analysis based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Douspis , J. G. Bartlett , A. Blanchard , M. Le Dour

The correlation between Lyman-alpha absorption in the spectra of quasar pairs can be used to measure the transverse distance scale at z~2, which is sensitive to the cosmological constant (Omega_Lambda) or other forms of vacuum energy. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Patrick McDonald

Upcoming photometric lensing surveys will considerably tighten constraints on the neutrino mass and the dark energy equation of state. Nevertheless it remains an open question of how to optimally extract the information and how well the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Peter L. Taylor , Thomas D. Kitching , Jason D. McEwen

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters using the power spectrum of galaxy clustering measured from the final two-degree field galaxy redshift survey (2dFGRS) and a compilation of measurements of the temperature power spectrum and…

We measure the matter power spectrum from the Lyman-alpha forest of 31 quasar spectra spanning the redshift range of 1.6-3.6. The optical depth, $\tau$, for absorption of the intergalactic medium is obtained from the flux using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Zaroubi , M. Viel , A. Nusser , M. Haehnelt , T. -S. Kim

In this paper we obtain constraints on the cosmological density parameters, \Omega_m and \Omega_b, by comparing the preliminary measurement of the QSO power spectrum from the two degree field QSO redshift survey with results from an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kazuhiro Yamamoto