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The two-point correlation function of the galaxy distribution is a key cosmological observable that allows us to constrain the dynamical and geometrical state of our Universe. To measure the correlation function we need to know both the…

Constraints on the validity of the hierarchical gravitational instability theory and the evolution of biasing are presented based upon measurements of higher order clustering statistics in the Deeprange Survey, a catalog of $\sim710,000$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 István Szapudi , Marc Postman , Tod R. Lauer , William Oegerle

This paper presents a comparison of the predictions for the 2 and 3-point correlation functions of density fluctuations, xi_2 and xi_3, in gravitational perturbation theory (PT) against large Cold Dark Matter (CDM) simulations. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Barriga , E. Gaztanaga

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Universe. In this Letter we present some of the initial results on…

In the era of precision cosmology, establishing the correct magnitude of statistical errors in cosmological parameters is of crucial importance. However, widely used approximations in galaxy surveys analyses can lead to parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Nicola Bellomo , José Luis Bernal , Giulio Scelfo , Alvise Raccanelli , Licia Verde

The two point angular correlation function is an excellent measure of structure in the universe. To extract from it the three dimensional power spectrum, one must invert Limber's Equation. Here we perform this inversion using a Bayesian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Enrique Gaztanaga

We present the first measurement of the angular correlation function in a $K$-selected galaxy survey, from two fields covering almost 10 square degrees. The angular correlation function at small angles is well described by a $\theta^{-0.8}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 C. M. Baugh , J. P. Gardner , C. S. Frenk , R. M. Sharples

The angular correlation is a method for measuring the distribution of structure in the Universe, through the statistical properties of the angular distribution of galaxies on the sky. We measure the angular correlation of galaxies from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Brandon Venville , David Parkinson , Natasha Hurley-Walker , Tim Galvin , Kathryn Ross

We develop an analytic model for the hierarchical correlation amplitudes S_j(R)= \bxi_j(R)/\bxi_2^{j-1}(R) of density peaks and dark matter halos in the quasi-linear regime. The statistical distribution of density peaks and dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , S. D. M. White

We study estimation of an $s$-sparse signal in the $p$-dimensional Gaussian sequence model with equicorrelated observations and derive the minimax rate. A new phenomenon emerges from correlation, namely the rate scales with respect to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Subhodh Kotekal , Chao Gao

Context. Whenever correlation functions are used for inference about cosmological parameters in the context of a Bayesian analysis, the likelihood function of correlation functions needs to be known. Usually, it is approximated as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-06 Philipp Wilking , Peter Schneider

We compare different nonlinear approximations to gravitational clustering in the weakly nonlinear regime, using as a comparative statistic the evolution of non-Gaussianity which can be characterised by a set of numbers $S_p$ describing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Dipak Munshi , Varun Sahni , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Several recent studies show that bright, intermediate and high redshift optically and radio selected QSOs are positively correlated with nearby galaxies on a range of angular scales up to a degree. Obscuration by unevenly distributed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Liliya L. R. Williams

A random packing of hard particles represents a fundamental model for granular matter. Despite its importance, analytical modeling of random packings remains difficult due to the existence of strong correlations which preclude the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-05-27 Yuliang Jin , James G. Puckett , Hernan A. Makse

We analyze the consequences of models of structure formation for higher-order ($n$-point) galaxy correlation functions in the mildly non-linear regime. Several variations of the standard $\Omega=1$ cold dark matter model with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Joshua A. Frieman , Enrique Gaztanaga

The magnification bias of large-scale structures, combined with galaxy biasing, leads to a cross-correlation of distant quasars with foreground galaxies on angular scales of the order of arc minutes and larger. The amplitude and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Brice Menard , Matthias Bartelmann

In the present paper we examine the accuracy of the quasiclassical approach on the example of small-angle electron elastic scattering. Using the quasiclassical approach, we derive the differential cross section and the Sherman function for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-11-13 P. A. Krachkov , R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein

Inflationary models predict a definite, model independent, angular dependence for the three-point correlation function of $\Delta T/T$ at large angles (greater than $\sim 1^\circ$) which we calculate. The overall amplitude is model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Toby Falk , Raghavan Rangarajan , Mark Srednicki

The clustering properties of SCUBA-selected galaxies are investigated within the framework of a unifying scheme relating the formation of QSOs and spheroids. The theoretical angular correlation function is derived for different bias…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Magliocchetti , L. Moscardini , G. de Zotti , G. L. Granato , L. Danese

It has been shown that the large--scale correlation functions of the density field (and velocity divergence field) follow a specific hierarchy in the quasilinear regime and for Gaussian initial conditions (Bernardeau 1992). The exact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bernardeau