Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

HOLISMOKES -- XVIII. Cosmology with strongly lensed type II supernovae: Effects of instrumental setups on $H_{0}$

J. Grupa, S. Taubenberger, S. H. Suyu +3

The upcoming Rubin Observatory and subsequent follow-up observations should improve the determination of the Hubble constant ( $H_{0}$ ) via time-delay cosmography of strongly lensed t…

A study of the large-scale formation in the environment of A3266: Infalling groups, filaments, and a premerger cold front

J. Dietl, A. Veronica, T. H. Reiprich +7

Abell 3266 (A3266) is a dynamically active galaxy cluster embedded in a dense environment of galaxy groups and clusters at similar redshift. Data from the Spektrum Roentgen Gamma (…

Euclid preparation. First investigation of the impact of cross-contamination on spectroscopic redshift measurements with pixel-level simulations

Euclid Collaboration, F. Passalacqua, S. Anselmi +299

We present a study on simulated data focused on understanding the performance of the spectroscopic redshift measurements with the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) i…

Probing the large-scale structure with 21cm-galaxy cross-bispectrum: Estimates from simulations and forecasts for upcoming cosmological surveys

Leon Noble, Suman Majumdar, Matteo Viel +7

The redshifted 21cm signal from the post-reionization epoch is highly non-Gaussian; thus, higher-order statistics, such as the bispectrum, are required to extract this non-Gaussian…

Euclid preparation. Calibrated intrinsic galaxy alignments in the Euclid Flagship simulation

Euclid Collaboration, K. Hoffmann, R. Paviot +298

Intrinsic alignments of galaxies are potentially a major contaminant of cosmological analyses of weak gravitational lensing. We construct a semi-analytic model of galaxy ellipticit…

Euclid preparation. Testing analytic models of galaxy intrinsic alignments in the Euclid Flagship simulation

Euclid Collaboration, R. Paviot, B. Joachimi +293

We model intrinsic alignments (IA) in Euclid's Flagship simulation to investigate its impact on Euclid's weak lensing signal. Our IA implementation in the Flagship simulation takes…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 9 cited

A possible challenge for Cold and Warm Dark Matter

S. Vegetti, S. D. M. White, J. P. McKean +5

Measuring the density profile and mass concentration of dark-matter haloes is a key test of the standard cold dark matter paradigm. Such objects are dark and thus challenging to ch…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The effect of baryons on the positions and velocities of satellite galaxies in the MTNG simulation

Sergio Contreras, Raul E. Angulo, Sownak Bose +5

Mock galaxy catalogues are often constructed from dark-matter-only simulations based on the galaxy-halo connection. Although modern mocks can reproduce galaxy clustering to some ex…

Constraints on the normal branch of DGP gravity from SPT galaxy clusters with DES and HST weak-lensing mass calibration and from Planck PR4 CMB anisotropies

S. M. L. Vogt, S. Bocquet, C. T. Davies +49

We present constraints on the normal branch of the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) braneworld gravity model from the abundance of massive galaxy clusters. On scales below the nDGP c…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

Magnetic Fields in the Shapley Supercluster Core with POSSUM: Challenging Model Predictions

D. Alonso-López, S. P. O'Sullivan, A. Bonafede +18

Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) Grids provide a sensitive means to trace magnetized plasma across a wide range of cosmic environments. We study the RM signal from the Shapley Supercl…

The life of central radio galaxies in clusters: AGN-ICM studies of eRASS1 clusters in the ASKAP fields

Angie Veronica, Thomas H. Reiprich, Florian Pacaud +35

The mechanical feedback from the central AGNs can be crucial for balancing the radiative cooling of the intracluster medium at the cluster centre. We aim to understand the relation…

Euclid preparation. XCII. Controlling angular systematics in the Euclid spectroscopic galaxy sample

Euclid Collaboration, P. Monaco, M. Y. Elkhashab +298

We present the strategy used to identify and mitigate potential sources of angular systematics in the \textit{Euclid} spectroscopic galaxy survey, and we quantify their impact on g…

Estimating the triaxiality of massive clusters from 2D observables in MillenniumTNG with machine learning

Ana Maria Delgado, Michelle Ntampaka, Sownak Bose +7

Properties of massive galaxy clusters, such as mass abundance and concentration, are sensitive to cosmology, making cluster statistics a powerful tool for cosmological studies. How…

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A demonstration of CMB lensing measurement from daytime data

Irene Abril-Cabezas, Frank J. Qu, Joshua Kim +30

We present a cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing power spectrum analysis using daytime data (11am-11pm UTC) gathered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) over the period…

Euclid preparation: LXXXVII. Non-Gaussianity of 2-point statistics likelihood: Precise analysis of the matter power spectrum distribution

Euclid Collaboration, J. Bel, S. Gouyou Beauchamps +281

We investigate the non-Gaussian features in the distribution of the matter power spectrum multipoles. Using the COVMOS method, we generate 100\,000 mock realisations of dark matter…

Non-Gaussian Galaxy Stochasticity and the Noise-Field Formulation

Henrique Rubira, Fabian Schmidt

We revisit the stochastic, or noise, contributions to the galaxy density field within the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale structure. Starting from the general, all-orde…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 38 cited

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Searching for giant gravitational arcs in galaxy clusters with mask region-based convolutional neural networks

Euclid Collaboration, L. Bazzanini, G. Angora +306

Strong gravitational lensing (SL) by galaxy clusters is a powerful probe of their inner mass distribution and a key test bed for cosmological models. However, the detection of SL e…

The Local Distance Network: a community consensus report on the measurement of the Hubble constant at 1% precision

H0DN Collaboration, Stefano Casertano, Gagandeep Anand +35

The direct, empirical determination of the local value of the Hubble constant (H0) has markedly advanced thanks to improved instrumentation, measurement techniques, and distance es…

Euclid preparation: The flat-sky approximation for the clustering of Euclid's photometric galaxies

Euclid Collaboration, W. L. Matthewson, R. Durrer +277

We compare the performance of the flat-sky approximation and Limber approximation for the clustering analysis of the photometric galaxy catalogue of Euclid. We study a 6 bin config…

Euclid preparation. Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE). 6: Impact of systematic uncertainties on the cosmological analysis

Euclid Collaboration, L. Blot, K. Tanidis +309

Extracting cosmological information from the Euclid galaxy survey will require modelling numerous systematic effects during the inference process. This implies varying a large numb…

Euclid preparation XCVII. Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in Euclid (CLOE). 4: Validation and performance

Euclid Collaboration, M. Martinelli, A. Pezzotta +334

The Euclid satellite will provide data on the clustering of galaxies and on the distortion of their measured shapes, which can be used to constrain and test the cosmological model.…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

Cosmology Likelihood for Observables in \Euclid (CLOE). 1. Theoretical recipe

Euclid Collaboration, V. F. Cardone, S. Joudaki +323

As the statistical precision of cosmological measurements increases, the accuracy of the theoretical description of these measurements needs to increase correspondingly in order to…

A million-solar-mass object detected at cosmological distance using gravitational imaging

D. M. Powell, J. P. McKean, S. Vegetti +3

Structure on sub-galactic scales provides important tests of galaxy formation models and the nature of dark matter. However, such objects are typically too faint to provide robust…