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Next-generation galaxy surveys promise unprecedented precision in testing gravity at cosmological scales. However, realising this potential requires accurately modelling the non-linear cosmic web. We address this challenge by exploring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Julieth Katherine Riveros , Paola Saavedra , Hector J. Hortua , Jorge Enrique Garcia-Farieta , Ivan Olier

Many traditional algorithms applied in gravitational-wave astronomy rely on the assumption of Gaussian noise, a condition not always met. To meet this need, this study extends a robust statistical framework, advancing previous work on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Argyro Sasli , Minas Karamanis , Nikolaos Karnesis , Michael W. Coughlin , Vuk Mandic , Uroš Seljak , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Doppler lensing, a relativistic effect resulting from the peculiar velocities of galaxies along the line of sight, provides insight into the large-scale structure of the Universe. Relativistic simulations are essential for modeling Doppler…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Mubtasim Fuad , Sonia Akter Ema , Md Rasel Hossen

Precision cosmology with gravitational wave (GW) sources requires a deeper understanding of the interplay between GW source population and cosmological parameters governing the dynamics of the Universe. With the swift increase in GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 Christos Karathanasis , Benoit Revenu , Suvodip Mukherjee , Federico Stachurski

We present a new method for generating initial conditions for numerical cosmological simulations in which massive neutrinos are treated as an extra set of N-body (collisionless) particles. It allows us to accurately follow the density field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Arka Banerjee , Devon Powell , Tom Abel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We present observational constraints on large-scale white noise (LSWN) in the cosmic density field, a phenomenon predicted to arise from non-linear mode coupling during cosmological evolution. Building on the theoretical framework of Paper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Gabriela Barenboim , Aurora Ireland , Albert Stebbins

We describe a procedure for constructing a model of a smooth data spectrum using Gaussian processes rather than the historical parametric description. This approach considers a fuller space of possible functions, is robust at increasing…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-09-19 Meghan Frate , Kyle Cranmer , Saarik Kalia , Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes , Daniel Whiteson

It is common practice in cosmology to model large-scale structure observables as lognormal random fields, and this approach has been successfully applied in the past to the matter density and weak lensing convergence fields separately. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-18 Henrique S. Xavier , Filipe B. Abdalla , Benjamin Joachimi

We simulate the formation of cosmic strings at the zeros of a complex Gaussian field with a power spectrum $P(k) \propto k^n$, specifically addressing the issue of the fraction of length in infinite strings. We make two improvements over…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Robert J. Scherrer , Alexander Vilenkin

We present a new estimation method for mapping the gravitational lensing potential from observed CMB intensity and polarization fields. Our method uses Bayesian techniques to estimate the average curvature of the potential over small local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-23 Ethan Anderes , Lloyd Knox , Alexander van Engelen

We propose an algorithm to approximate solutions of global optimization problems in Sobolev spaces that follows the spirit of Consensus-based algorithms in finite dimensions. The main ingredient are Gaussian processes. In fact, we exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Mahmoud Khatab , Claudia Totzeck

In this study, we introduce a novel analytical Gaussian Process (GP) cosmography methodology, leveraging the differentiable properties of GPs to derive key cosmological quantities analytically. Our approach combines cosmic chronometer (CC)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Bikash R. Dinda

We study structure formation in a set of cosmological simulations to uncover the scales in the initial density field that gave rise to the formation of present-day structures. Our simulations share a common primordial power spectrum (here…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-22 Till Sawala , Adrian Jenkins , Stuart McAlpine , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux , Peter H. Johansson , Carlos S. Frenk

Interpreting observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum requires interpolation between a small number of expensive simulations. We present a Gaussian process emulator modelling the 1D flux power spectrum as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Christian Pedersen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Keir K. Rogers , Patrick McDonald , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Anže Slosar

We present a systematic study of likelihood functions used for Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background (SGWB) searches. By dividing the data into many short segments, one customarily takes advantage of the Central Limit Theorem to justify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Gabriele Franciolini , Mauro Pieroni , Angelo Ricciardone , Joseph D. Romano

The initial shear field, characterized by a primordial perturbation potential, plays a crucial role in the formation of large scale structures. Hence, considerable analytic work has been based on the joint distribution of its eigenvalues,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Graziano Rossi

We present a quantum algorithm for efficiently sampling transformed Gaussian random fields on $d$-dimensional domains, based on an enhanced version of the classical moving average method. Pointwise transformations enforcing boundedness are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Matthias Deiml , Daniel Peterseim

Generative models are a promising tool to produce cosmological simulations but face significant challenges in scalability, physical consistency, and adherence to domain symmetries, limiting their utility as alternatives to $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Diana-Alexandra Onutu , Yue Zhao , Joaquin Vanschoren , Vlado Menkovski

A stochastic background of gravitational waves can be generated during a cosmological first order phase transition, at least by two distinct mechanisms: collisions of true vacuum bubbles and turbulence in the cosmic fluid. I compare these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Nicolis

In inflationary cosmology, the rapid expansion of the early universe resulted in the spontaneous production of cosmological particles from vacuum fluctuations, observable today in the cosmic microwave background anisotropies. The analogue…