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The COSMOS field has been the subject of a wide range of observations, with a number of studies focusing on reconstructing the 3D dark matter density field. Typically, these studies have focused on one given method or tracer. In this paper,…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) will be a survey of bright, low redshift galaxies, which is planned to cover an area of ~14,000 sq deg in 3 passes. Each pass will cover the survey area with ~2000…

Context. Gravitational collapse theory and numerical simulations suggest that the velocity field within large-scale galaxy filaments is dominated by motions along the filaments. Aims. Our aim is to check whether observational data reveal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 Elmo Tempel , Antti Tamm

We present the first simultaneous analysis of the galaxy overdensity and peculiar velocity fields by modelling their cross-covariance. We apply our new maximum-likelihood approach to data from the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS), which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Caitlin Adams , Chris Blake

Statistics of the weak lensing of galaxies can be used to constrain cosmology if the galaxy shear can be estimated accurately. In general this requires accurate modelling of unlensed galaxy shapes and the point spread function (PSF). I…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-07 Antony Lewis

Galaxy peculiar velocities provide an integral source of cosmological information that can be harnessed to measure the growth rate of large scale structure and constrain possible extensions to General Relativity. In this work, we present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ryan J. Turner , Chris Blake , Rossana Ruggeri

We develop new methods to study the properties of galaxy redshift surveys and radial peculiar velocity surveys, both individually and combined. We derive the Fisher information matrix for redshift surveys, including redshift distortions and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel Burkey , Andy Taylor

We use automated surface photometry and pattern classification techniques to morphologically classify galaxies. The two-dimensional light distribution of a galaxy is reconstructed using Fourier series fits to azimuthal profiles computed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. C. Odewahn , S. H. Cohen , R. A. Windhorst , N. S. Philip

This paper proposes a robust, high-precision positioning methodology to address localization failures arising from complex background interference in large-scale flight navigation and the computational inefficiency inherent in conventional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jing Tao , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Shunkun Liang , Qifeng Yu

In fiber-fed galaxy redshift surveys, the finite size of the fiber plugs prevents two fibers from being placed too close to one another, limiting the ability of studying galaxy clustering on all scales. We present a new method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-07 Hong Guo , Idit Zehavi , Zheng Zheng

The accurate determination of the true redshift distributions in tomographic bins is critical for cosmological constraints from photometric surveys. The proposed redshift self-calibration method, which utilizes the photometric galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Hui Peng , Yu Yu

Context. The density split statistics in weak gravitational lensing analyses probes the correlation between regions of different (foreground) galaxy number densities and their weak lensing signal, measured by the shape distortion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Pierre Burger , Peter Schneider , Vasiliy Demchenko , Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Catherine Heymans , Hendrik Hildebrandt , Sandra Unruh

The reconstruction algorithm introduced by \cite{Eis07}, which is widely used in clustering analysis, is based on the inference of the first order Lagrangian displacement field from the Gaussian smoothed galaxy density field in redshift…

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Metacalibration is a new technique for measuring weak gravitational lensing shear that is unbiased for isolated galaxy images. In this work we test metacalibration with overlapping, or ``blended'' galaxy images. Using standard…

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We present scale-dependent measurements of the normalised growth rate of structure $f\sigma_{8}(k, z=0)$ using only the peculiar motions of galaxies. We use data from the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey velocity sample (6dFGSv) together with a…

Aiming at improving the survey efficiency of the Wide Field Survey Telescope, we have developed a basic scheduling strategy that takes into account the telescope characteristics, observing conditions, and weather conditions at the Lenghu…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-07 Yan-Peng Chen , Ji-an Jiang , Wen-Tao Luo , Xian Zhong Zheng , Min Fang , Chao Yang , Yuan-Yu Hong , Zong-Fei Lv

Robust measurements of cosmological parameters from galaxy surveys rely on our understanding of systematic effects that impact the observed galaxy density field. In this paper we present, validate, and implement the idea of adopting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mehdi Rezaie , Hee-Jong Seo , Ashley J. Ross , Razvan C. Bunescu

Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these errors are multiplicative and depend on…