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The peculiar velocity of a mass tracer is on average aligned with the dipole modulation of the surrounding mass density field. We present a first measurement of the correlation between radial peculiar velocities of objects in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Adi Nusser

We compare the efficiency with which 2D and 3D weak lensing mass mapping techniques are able to detect clusters of galaxies using two state-of-the-art mass reconstruction techniques: MRLens in 2D and GLIMPSE in 3D. We simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Adrienne Leonard , Francois Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck

Massive spectroscopic redshift surveys open a promising window to accurately measure peculiar velocity at cosmological distances through redshift space distortion (RSD). In paper I of this series of work we proposed to decompose peculiar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-22 Yi Zheng , Pengjie Zhang , Yipeng Jing , Weipeng Lin , Jun Pan

We develop a new method to reconstruct the cosmic density field from the distribution of dark matter haloes above a certain mass threshold. Our motivation is that well-defined samples of galaxy groups/clusters, which can be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Y. Wang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Y. C. Guo , Frank C. van den Bosch , X. H. Yang

Comparison of galaxy flows with those predicted from the local galaxy distribution ended as an active field after two analyses came to vastly different conclusions 25 years ago, but that was due to faulty data. All the old results are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Marc Davis , Adi Nusser

Redshift space distortions of the matter density power spectrum carry information on the growth rate of cosmic structure but require accurate modeling of nonlinear and velocity effects on the density field. We test and advance the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-19 Alberto Vallinotto , Eric V. Linder

Here we introduce the Delaunay Density Estimator Method. Its purpose is rendering a fully volume-covering reconstruction of a density field from a set of discrete data points sampling this field. Reconstructing density or intensity fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Schaap , R. van de Weygaert

We investigate distortions in the velocity fields of disc galaxies and their use to reveal the dynamical state of interacting galaxies at different redshift. For that purpose, we model disc galaxies in combined N-body/hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Kronberger , W. Kapferer , S. Schindler , B. L. Ziegler

We present a method to reconstruct the initial linear-regime matter density field from the late-time non-linearly evolved density field in which we channel the output of standard first-order reconstruction to a convolutional neural network…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-23 Christopher J. Shallue , Daniel J. Eisenstein

The large-scale structure is a major source of cosmological information. However, next-generation photometric galaxy surveys will only provide a distorted view of cosmic structures due to large redshift uncertainties. To address the need…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Eleni Tsaprazi , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Florent Leclercq

We present an analytic method for rapidly forecasting the accuracy of gravitational potential reconstruction possible from measurement of radial peculiar velocities of every galaxy cluster with M > M_th in solid angle \theta^2 and over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Olivier Doré , Lloyd Knox , Alan Peel

We present the galaxy group catalogue for the recently-completed 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS, Macri2019) which consists of 44572 redshifts, including 1041 new measurements for galaxies mostly located within the Zone of Avoidance. The galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 T. S. Lambert , R. C. Kraan-Korteweg , T. H. Jarrett , L. M. Macri

Observations of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect measure the density-weighted velocity field, a potentially powerful cosmological probe. This paper presents an analytical method to predict the power spectrum and two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-14 Naonori S. Sugiyama , Teppei Okumura , David N. Spergel

The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGRS) of 230,000 redshifts of nearby (z~0.1) galaxies is now complete. It has allowed the 2dFGRS team and others to estimate fundamental cosmological parameters and to study galaxy intrinsic properties.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ofer Lahav

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope Cosmology Redshift Survey (4MOST CRS) will obtain 5.4 million spectroscopic redshifts over ~5700 deg^2 to map large-scale structure and enable measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-11 Behnood Bandi , Antoine Rocher , Aurélien Verdier , Jon Loveday , Zhuo Chen , Johan Richard , Jean-Paul Kneib , Tom Shanks , Michael J. I. Brown

Scatter in distance indicators introduces two conceptually distinct systematic biases when reconstructing peculiar velocity fields from redshifts and distances. The first is distance Malmquist bias (dMB) that affects individual distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Adi Nusser

We present an iterative method to reconstruct the linear-theory initial conditions from the late-time cosmological matter density field, with the intent of improving the recovery of the cosmic distance scale from the baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 Ryuichiro Hada , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Observations of galaxy clustering are made in redshift space, which results in distortions to the underlying isotropic distribution of galaxies. These redshift-space distortions (RSD) not only degrade important features of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuchan Wang , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun

Recent extensive, multi-color deep surveys of galaxies open a possibility to get observational estimation of sizes for the largest structures in the Universe. Photometric redshift accuracy (about 0.03(1+z)) allows directly study clustering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-16 N. V. Nabokov , Yu. V. Baryshev

Key cosmological applications require the three-dimensional galaxy distribution on the entire celestial sphere. These include measuring the gravitational pull on the Local Group, estimating the large-scale bulk flow and testing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-18 Maciej Bilicki , Thomas H. Jarrett , John A. Peacock , Michelle E. Cluver , Louise Steward