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The Wiener Filter (WF) technique enables the reconstruction of density and velocity fields from observed radial peculiar velocities. This paper aims at identifying the optimal design of peculiar velocity surveys within the WF framework. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jenny G. Sorce , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottlöber

We assess a neural network (NN) method for reconstructing 3D cosmological density and velocity fields (target) from discrete and incomplete galaxy distributions (input). We employ second-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory to generate a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-02 Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Robert Lilow , Adi Nusser

A method we developed recently for the reconstruction of the initial density field in the nearby Universe is applied to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. A high-resolution N-body constrained simulation (CS) of the reconstructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang , Youcai Zhang , JingJing Shi , Y. P. Jing , Chengze Liu , Shijie Li , Xi Kang , Yang Gao

We present the reconstructed real-space density and the predicted velocity fields from the Two Mass Redshift Survey (2MRS). The 2MRS is the densest all-sky redshift survey to date and includes about 23,200 galaxies with extinction corrected…

We present a new method for constructing three-dimensional mass maps from gravitational lensing shear data. We solve the lensing inversion problem using truncation of singular values (within the context of generalized least squares…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jake VanderPlas , Andrew Connolly , Bhuvnesh Jain , Mike Jarvis

Upcoming 21-cm intensity surveys will use the hyperfine transition in emission to map out neutral hydrogen in large volumes of the universe. Unfortunately, large spatial scales are completely contaminated with spectrally smooth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Chirag Modi , Martin White , Anze Slosar , Emanuele Castorina

The linear algorithm of the Wiener filter and constrained realizations (CRs) of Gaussian random fields is extended here to perform non-linear CRs. The procedure consists of: (1) Using low resolution data to constrain a high resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Bistolas , Y. Hoffman

We utilise the method of Wiener reconstruction with spherical harmonics and Bessel functions to recover the density and velocity fields from the IRAS 1.2Jy redshift survey. The results are robust to changes in prior parameters and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthew Webster , Ofer Lahav , Karl Fisher

The gravitational coupling between large-scale perturbations and small-scale perturbations leads to anisotropic distortions of the small-scale matter distribution. The measured local small-scale power spectrum can thus be used to infer the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Hong-Ming Zhu , Tian-Xiang Mao , Ue-Li Pen

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 present percolation analyses of Wiener Reconstructions of the IRAS 1.2 Jy Redshift Survey. There are ten reconstructions of galaxy density fields in real space spanning the range $\beta= 0.1$ to $1.0$, where ${\beta}={\Omega^{0.6}}/b$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Capp Yess , Sergei F. Shandarin , Karl B. Fisher

We present a refined deep-learning-based method to reconstruct the three-dimensional dark matter density, gravitational potential, and peculiar velocity fields in the Zone of Avoidance (ZOA), a region near the galactic plane with limited…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 Alexandra Dupuy , Donghui Jeong , Sungwook E. Hong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim , Hélène M. Courtois

I present a new approach to recover the primordial density fluctuations and the cosmic web structure underlying a galaxy distribution. The method is based on sampling Gaussian fields which are compatible with a galaxy distribution and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Francisco-Shu Kitaura

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,…

Large scale density modes are difficult to measure because they are sensitive to systematic observational errors in galaxy surveys, but we can study them indirectly by observing their impact on small scale perturbations. Cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Peikai Li , Scott Dodelson , Rupert A. C. Croft

The cosmic curvature density parameter has been constrained in the present work independent of any background cosmological model. The reconstruction is performed adopting the non-parametric Gaussian Processes (GP). The constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-18 Purba Mukherjee , Narayan Banerjee

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

Initial density distribution provides a basis for understanding the complete evolution of cosmological density fluctuations. While reconstruction in our local Universe exploits the observations of galaxy surveys with large volumes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-28 Meng Zhou , Yi Mao

The peculiar velocity field of the local Universe provides direct insights into its matter distribution and the underlying theory of gravity, and is essential in cosmological analyses for modelling deviations from the Hubble flow. Numerous…

A method for the reconstruction of the primordial density fluctuation field is presented. Various previous approaches to this problem rendered {\it non-unique} solutions. Here, it is demonstrated that the initial positions of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mohayaee , U. Frisch , S. Matarrese , A. Sobolevskii