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Most statistical inference from cosmic large-scale structure relies on two-point statistics, i.e.\ on the galaxy-galaxy correlation function (2PCF) or the power spectrum. These statistics capture the full information encoded in the Fourier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-09 Kamran Ali , Danail Obreschkow , Cullan Howlett , Camille Bonvin , Claudio Llinares , Felipe Oliveira Franco , Chris Power

Free-streaming of cosmic neutrinos affects the distribution and growth of cosmic structures on small scales. This enables the sum of neutrino masses $M_\nu$ to be constrained from clustering studies. We investigate the possibility of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Andrea Labate , Massimo Guidi , Michele Moresco , Alfonso Veropalumbo

The next generation of galaxy surveys will provide highly accurate measurements of the large-scale structure of the Universe, allowing for more stringent tests of gravity on cosmological scales. Higher order statistics are a valuable tool…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Alejandro Aviles , Gustavo Niz

The two point correlation function (2PCF) is a powerful statistical tool to measure galaxy clustering. Although 2PCF has also been used to study the clustering of stars on parsec and sub-parsec scales, its physical implication is not clear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Yike Zhang , Wenting Wang , Jiaxin Han , Xiaohu Yang , Vicente Rodriguez-Gomez , Carles G. Palau , Zhenlin Tan

We study galaxy clustering using halo models, where gravitational clustering is described in terms of dark matter halos. At small scales, clustering statistics are dominated by halo density profiles, whereas at large scales, correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth , Lam Hui , Bhuvnesh Jain

We introduce a two-particle correlation function (2PCF) for the Milky Way, constructed to probe spatial correlations in the orthogonal directions of the stellar disk in the Galactic cylindrical coordinates of $R$, $\phi$, and $z$. We use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-16 Austin Hinkel , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny

We present an optimised multipole algorithm for computing the three-point correlation function (3PCF), tailored for application to large-scale cosmological datasets. The algorithm builds on a $in\, situ$ interpretation of correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenjie Ju , Longlong Feng , Zhiqi Huang , Xin Sun , Weishan Zhu

In this paper, we use large $\pppm$ N-body simulations to study the three-point correlation function $\zeta$ of clusters in two theoretical models. The first model (LCDM) is a low-density flat model of $\Omega_0=0.3$, $\Lambda_0=0.7$ and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. P. Jing , G. Boerner , R. Valdarnini

The nature of dark energy and the complete theory of gravity are two central questions currently facing cosmology. A vital tool for addressing them is the 3-point correlation function (3PCF), which probes deviations from a spatially random…

Third-order statistics provide information beyond two-point measures, but extracting this information requires accurate and consistent modelling. We measure and detect the three-point correlation function and third-order aperture-mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Casper Vedder , Thomas Bakx , Nora Elisa Chisari , Henk Hoekstra , Matthieu Schaller

We present an algorithm enabling computation of the anisotropic redshift-space galaxy 3-point correlation function (3PCF) scaling as $N^2$, with $N$ the number of galaxies. Our previous work showed how to compute the isotropic 3PCF with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Zachary Slepian , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The field of cosmology is entering an epoch of unparalleled wealth of observational data thanks to galaxy surveys such as DESI, Euclid, and Roman. Therefore, it is essential to have a firm theoretical basis that allows the effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 William Ortolá Leonard , Zachary Slepian , Jiamin Hou

We present the holographic predictions for cosmological 3-point correlators, involving both scalar and tensor modes, for a universe which started in a non-geometric holographic phase. Holographic formulae relate the cosmological 3-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-11 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

The three-point correlation function (3PCF) of the spin-2 fields, the cosmic shear and cosmic microwave background polarization fields, is a statistical measure of non-Gaussian signals. At each vertex of a triangle, the shear field has two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahiro Takada , Bhuvnesh Jain

Previous work on three-point statistics of cosmic shear has mainly concentrated on the convergence, or on aperture measures of the shear. However, as has become clear recently for the two-point statistics of cosmic shear, the basic quantity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Schneider , Marco Lombardi

In astronomy and cosmology, significant effort is devoted to characterizing and understanding spatial cross-correlations between points - e.g. galaxy positions, high energy neutrino arrival directions, X-ray and AGN sources, and continuous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Arka Banerjee , Tom Abel

Building accurate and flexible galaxy-halo connection models is crucial in modeling galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. Recent studies have found that halo concentration by itself cannot capture the full galaxy assembly bias effect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sihan Yuan , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Hong Guo

Measuring the distribution of mass on galaxy cluster scales is a crucial test of the Lambda CDM model, providing constraints on the nature of dark matter. Recent work investigating mass distributions of individual galaxy clusters using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Corless , L. King

We present the GeneRalized ANd Differentiable Halo Occupation Distribution (GRAND-HOD) routine that generalizes the standard 5 parameter halo occupation distribution model (HOD) with various halo-scale physics and assembly bias. We describe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 Sihan Yuan , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Lehman H. Garrison

We study the evolution of the halo-halo correlation function and bias in four cosmological models (LCDM, OCDM, tauCDM, and SCDM) using very high-resolution N-body simulations. The high force and mass resolution allows dark matter (DM) halos…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Pedro Colin , Anatoly Klypin , Andrey Kravtsov , Alexei Khokhlov