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astro-ph.CO2026★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A Test of the Gravitational Force Law on Cosmological Scales Using the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Patricio A. Gallardo, Kris Pardo, Oliver H. E. Philcox +38

The mean pairwise velocity of massive halos reflects the gravitational force law on cosmic scales. We combine cosmic microwave background intensity maps from the Atacama Cosmology…

astro-ph.CO2026

A Non-parametric Method for the Inference of Halo Occupation Distributions

Jacob Kennedy, Eric Gawiser, Kartheik G. Iyer +1

The galaxy-halo connection traces processes by which galaxies form and evolve. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the relationship between galaxies and their host dar…

astro-ph.CO2026★ 1 cited

An analytic approximation to the covariance between pre- and post-reconstruction galaxy two-point statistics

M. Maus, A. Baleato Lizancos, M. White +2

We present a simple analytic approximation for the covariance between pre-reconstruction galaxy power spectrum measurements and post-reconstruction two-point correlation functions.…

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…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

The choice of Planck CMB likelihood in cosmological analyses

Hidde Jense, Marc Viña, Erminia Calabrese +1

We compare cosmological parameters from different Planck sky maps and likelihood pipelines, assessing robustness of cosmological results with respect to the choice of the latest Pl…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Dark Energy Camera All Data Everywhere cosmic shear project V: Constraints on cosmology and astrophysics from 270 million galaxies across 13,000 deg of the sky

D. Anbajagane, C. Chang, A. Drlica-Wagner +78

We present constraints on models of cosmology and astrophysics using cosmic shear data vectors from three datasets: the northern and southern Galactic cap of the Dark Energy Camera…

astro-ph.CO2025

First constraints on the local ionization topology in front of two quasars at z ~ 7.5

Timo Kist, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies +10

Thus far, Lyman- damping wings towards quasars have been used to probe the \textit{global} ionization state of the foreground intergalactic medium (IGM). A new parameterization…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 7 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Cosmological constraints from second and third-order shear statistics

R. C. H. Gomes, S. Sugiyama, B. Jain +95

We present a cosmological analysis of the third-order aperture mass statistic using Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) data. We perform a complete tomographic measurement of the th…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Impact of Galactic non-Gaussian foregrounds on CMB lensing measurements

Irene Abril-Cabezas, Frank J. Qu, Blake D. Sherwin +7

Weak gravitational lensing of the CMB has been established as a robust and powerful observable for precision cosmology. However, the impact of Galactic foregrounds, which has been…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 20 cited

Unified and consistent structure growth measurements from joint ACT, SPT and \textit{Planck} CMB lensing

Frank J. Qu, Fei Ge, W. L. Kimmy Wu +143

We present the tightest cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing constraints to date on the growth of structure by combining CMB lensing measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Te…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Maps

Sigurd Naess, Yilun Guan, Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden +163

We present Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization anisotropy at arcminute resolution over three…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 14 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: DR6 Constraints on Extended Cosmological Models

Erminia Calabrese, J. Colin Hill, Hidde T. Jense +169

We use new cosmic microwave background (CMB) primary temperature and polarization anisotropy measurements from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) Data Release 6 (DR6) to test fo…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 6 cited

Cosmology with second and third-order shear statistics for the Dark Energy Survey: Methods and simulated analysis

R. C. H. Gomes, S. Sugiyama, B. Jain +56

We present a new pipeline designed for the robust inference of cosmological parameters using both second- and third-order shear statistics. We build a theoretical model for rapid e…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 3 cited

Cosmology with One Galaxy: Auto-Encoding the Galaxy Properties Manifold

Amanda Lue, Shy Genel, Marc Huertas-Company +2

Cosmological simulations like CAMELS and IllustrisTNG characterize hundreds of thousands of galaxies using various internal properties. Previous studies have demonstrated that mach…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

A Novel Bispectrum Estimator of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect using Projected Fields

Raagini Patki, Nicholas Battaglia, J. Colin Hill

With the advent of current and future high-resolution CMB experiments, the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect has become a unique observational probe of the distribution of…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Constraining cosmology with thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich maps: Minkowski functionals, peaks, minima, and moments

Alina Sabyr, J. Colin Hill, Zoltan Haiman

The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (tSZ) is a sensitive probe of cosmology, as it traces the abundance of galaxy clusters and groups in the late-time Universe. Upcoming cosmic m…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

SPECTER: An Instrument Concept for CMB Spectral Distortion Measurements with Enhanced Sensitivity

Alina Sabyr, Carlos Sierra, J. Colin Hill +1

Deviations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) energy spectrum from a perfect blackbody uniquely probe a wide range of physics, ranging from fundamental physics in the primord…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 24 cited

The 3D Lyman- Forest Power Spectrum from eBOSS DR16

Roger de Belsunce, Oliver H. E. Philcox, Vid Irsic +3

We measure the three-dimensional power spectrum (P3D) of the transmitted flux in the Lyman-a (Ly-a) forest using the complete extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

The Simons Observatory: impact of bandpass, polarization angle and calibration uncertainties on small-scale power spectrum analysis

S. Giardiello, M. Gerbino, L. Pagano +17

We study the effects due to mismatches in passbands, polarization angles, and temperature and polarization calibrations in the context of the upcoming cosmic microwave background e…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 37 cited

Observational constraints on early dark energy

Evan McDonough, J. Colin Hill, Mikhail M. Ivanov +2

We review and update constraints on the Early Dark Energy (EDE) model from cosmological data sets, in particular Planck PR3 and PR4 cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and large…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 14 cited

Cosmology from Cross-Correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB Lensing and DES-Y3 Cosmic Shear

S. Shaikh, I. Harrison, A. van Engelen +105

Cross-correlation between weak lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and weak lensing of galaxies offers a way to place robust constraints on cosmological and astrophysi…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 30 cited

Generation of near-equipartition magnetic fields in turbulent collisionless plasmas

L. Sironi, L. Comisso, R. Golant

The mechanisms that generate "seed" magnetic fields in our Universe and that amplify them throughout cosmic time remain poorly understood. By means of fully-kinetic particle-in-cel…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

The Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT, DES, and BOSS: a Novel Hybrid Estimator

M. Mallaby-Kay, S. Amodeo, J. C. Hill +80

The kinematic and thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ and tSZ) effects probe the abundance and thermodynamics of ionized gas in galaxies and clusters. We present a new hybrid estimator…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Mitigating the impact of extragalactic foregrounds for the DR6 CMB lensing analysis

Niall MacCrann, Blake D. Sherwin, Frank J. Qu +47

We investigate the impact and mitigation of extragalactic foregrounds for the CMB lensing power spectrum analysis of Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) data release 6 (DR6) data. Tw…