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The next generation of weak gravitational lensing surveys has the potential to place stringent constraints on cosmological parameters. However, their analysis is limited by systematics such as the intrinsic alignments of galaxies, which…

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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…

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We quantify the cosmological constraining power of the `lensing PDF' - the one-point probability density of weak lensing convergence maps - by modelling this statistic numerically with an emulator trained on $w$CDM cosmic shear simulations.…

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$ $Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe which is used to constrain the standard cosmological model and its extensions. With the enhanced statistical precision of current and upcoming surveys, high accuracy predictions for weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Ting Tan , Dominik Zuercher , Janis Fluri , Alexandre Refregier , Federica Tarsitano , Tomasz Kacprzak

Lyman-$\alpha$(Ly$\alpha$) forest in the spectra of distant quasars encodes the information of the underlying cosmic density field at smallest scales. The modelling of the upcoming large and high-fidelity forest data using cosmological…

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We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

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The evolution of probability distribution functions (PDFs) of continuous density, velocity and velocity derivatives ( deformation tensor) fields in the theory of cosmological gravitational instability are considered. We show that in the…

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Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to directly map the dark matter in the universe and measure cosmological parameters. Current weak lensing surveys are limited by the atmospheric seeing from the ground and by the small…

The last few years have seen the development of a promising theoretical framework for statistics of the cosmic large-scale structure -- the theory of large deviations (LDT) for modelling weak-lensing one-point statistics in the mildly…

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Weak gravitational lensing is a promising tool for the study of the mass distribution in the Universe. Here we report some partial results that show how lensing maps can be used to differentiate between cosmological models. We pay special…

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We investigate the inclusion of clustering maps in a weak lensing Minkowski functional (MF) analysis of DES-like and LSST-like simulations to constrain cosmological parameters. The standard 3x2pt approach to lensing and clustering data uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-25 Nisha Grewal , Joe Zuntz , Tilman Tröster , Alexandra Amon

We analyse the low--multipole components of the weak-lensing convergence field in a FLRW universe. The low--multipole convergence field, encodes the largest-angle coherent potential gradients, essential for assessment of large-angle…

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We develop an accurate and computationally efficient emulator to model the gravitational lensing magnification probability distribution function (PDF), enabling robust cosmological inference of point sources such as supernovae and…

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We presents results of joint modeling of the probability distribution function (PDF) and the one-dimensional power spectrum (PS) of the Lya forest flux decrement. The sensitivity of these statistical measures to the shape and amplitude of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vincent Desjacques , Adi Nusser

Peak counts have been shown to be an excellent tool to extract the non-Gaussian part of the weak lensing signal. Recently, we developped a fast stochastic forward model to predict weak-lensing peak counts. Our model is able to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-16 Chieh-An Lin , Martin Kilbinger

The possibility of detecting weak lensing effects from deep wide field imaging surveys has open new means of probing the large-scale structures of the Universe and measuring cosmological parameters. In this paper we present a systematic…

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Weak gravitational lensing is one of the primary cosmological probes, providing powerful constraints on the cosmological model. As Stage IV surveys are expected to deliver data of unprecedented precision, accurate modeling of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Mattia Pantiri , Matthieu Schaller , Alessandra Silvestri , Jeger C. Broxterman , Joop Schaye

Producing thousands of simulations of the dark matter distribution in the Universe with increasing precision is a challenging but critical task to facilitate the exploitation of current and forthcoming cosmological surveys. Many inexpensive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-02 Davide Piras , Benjamin Joachimi , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The gravitational evolution of the cosmic one-point probability distribution function (PDF) has been estimated using an analytic approximation that combines gravitational perturbation theory with the Edgeworth expansion around a Gaussian…

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