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We present an algorithm for quickly generating multiple realizations of N-body simulations to be used, for example, for cosmological parameter estimation from surveys of large-scale structure. Our algorithm uses a new method to resample the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael D. Schneider , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Istvan Szapudi

Gaussian processes provide a method for extracting cosmological information from observations without assuming a cosmological model. We carry out cosmography -- mapping the time evolution of the cosmic expansion -- in a model-independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-11 Arman Shafieloo , Alex G. Kim , Eric V. Linder

Recent calculations in loop quantum cosmology suggest that a transition from a Lorentzian to an Euclidean space-time might take place in the very early Universe. The transition point leads to a state of silence, characterized by a vanishing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-07 Jakub Mielczarek , Linda Linsefors , Aurelien Barrau

Large sets of matter density simulations are becoming increasingly important in large-scale structure cosmology. Matter power spectra emulators, such as the Euclid Emulator and CosmicEmu, are trained on simulations to correct the non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Timothy Wing Hei Yiu , Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak

We present a numerically cheap approximation to super-sample covariance (SSC) of large scale structure cosmological probes, first in the case of angular power spectra. It necessitates no new elements besides those used for the prediction of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-17 Fabien Lacasa , Julien Grain

We investigate whether a Gaussian likelihood is sufficient to obtain accurate parameter constraints from a Euclid-like combined tomographic power spectrum analysis of weak lensing, galaxy clustering and their cross-correlation. Testing its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Robin E. Upham , Michael L. Brown , Lee Whittaker

This work proposes a scalable probabilistic latent variable model based on Gaussian processes (Lawrence, 2004) in the context of multiple observation spaces. We focus on an application in astrophysics where data sets typically contain both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-28 Vidhi Lalchand , Anna-Christina Eilers

This work is a follow-up to the paper, "Numerical Relativity as a Tool for Studying the Early Universe". In this article, we determine if cosmological gravitational waves can be accurately extracted from a dynamical spacetime using an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-24 David Garrison , Christopher Ramirez

Gravitational waves (GWs) have a great potential to probe cosmology. We review early universe sources that can lead to cosmological backgrounds of GWs. We begin by presenting definitions of GWs in flat space-time and in a cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-23 Chiara Caprini , Daniel G. Figueroa

Using an optimal quadratic estimator, we measure the large-scale cross-correlation between maps of the stochastic gravitational-wave intensity, constructed from the first three LIGO-Virgo observing runs, and a suite of tomographic samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-01 David Alonso , Mehraveh Nikjoo , Arianna I. Renzini , Emilio Bellini , Pedro G. Ferreira

Accurately simulating the atmospheric turbulence behaviour is always challenging. The well-known FFT based method falls short in correctly predicting both the low and high frequency behaviours. Sub-harmonic compensation aids in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Sorabh Chhabra , Jyotirmay Paul , A. N. Ramaprakash , Avinash Surendran

Generating large-scale samples of stationary random fields is of great importance in the fields such as geomaterial modeling and uncertainty quantification. Traditional methodologies based on covariance matrix decomposition have the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-23 Bin Zhu , Jiahao Liu , Zhengshou Lai , Tao Qian

Generalization of Gaussian trial wave functions in quantum molecular dynamics models is introduced, which allows for long-range correlations characteristic for composite nuclear fragments. We demonstrate a significant improvement in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Danielewicz , D. Kiderlen

Gravitational lensing surveys have now become large and precise enough that the interpretation of the lensing signal has to take into account an increasing number of theoretical limitations and observational biases. Since the lensing signal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Joachim Harnois-Deraps , Sanaz Vafaei , Ludovic Van Waerbeke

Many applications of Gaussian random fields and Gaussian random processes are limited by the computational complexity of evaluating the probability density function, which involves inverting the relevant covariance matrix. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Theodor Bjorkmo , M. C. David Marsh

Gaussian random fields have been one of the most popular tools for analyzing spatial data. However, many geophysical and environmental processes often display non-Gaussian characteristics. In this paper, we propose a new class of spatial…

Applications · Statistics 2017-10-03 Minjie Fan , Debashis Paul , Thomas C. M. Lee , Tomoko Matsuo

It is known that in gravitational instability scenarios the nonlinear dynamics induces non-Gaussian features in cosmological density fields that can be investigated with perturbation theory. Here, I derive the expression of the joint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 F. Bernardeau

We test a method to reduce unwanted sample variance when predicting Lyman-$\alpha$ (ly$\alpha$) forest power spectra from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. Sample variance arises due to sparse sampling of modes on large scales and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-16 Lauren Anderson , Andrew Pontzen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Keir K. Rogers , Shy Genel

There is considerable interest in inflationary models with multiple inflaton fields. The inflaton field $\boldsymbol\phi$ that has been postulated to drive accelerating expansion in the very early universe has a corresponding potential $V$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Connor A. Painter , Emory F. Bunn

Length scales probed by large scale structure surveys are becoming closer to the horizon scale. Further, it has been recently understood that non-Gaussianity in the initial conditions could show up in a scale dependence of the bias of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Tobias Baldauf , Uros Seljak , Leonardo Senatore , Matias Zaldarriaga