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astro-ph.CO2022★ 73 cited

Bootstrapping Multi-Field Inflation: non-Gaussianities from light scalars revisited

Dong-Gang Wang, Guilherme L. Pimentel, Ana Achúcarro

Primordial non-Gaussianities from multi-field inflation are a leading target for cosmological observations, because of the possible large correlations generated between long and sh…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 17 cited

A novel model-marginalized cosmological bound on the QCD axion mass

Eleonora Di Valentino, Stefano Gariazzo, William Giarè +3

We present model-marginalized limits on mixed hot dark matter scenarios, which consider both thermal neutrinos and thermal QCD axions. A novel aspect of our analyses is the inclusi…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 139 cited

UV Luminosity Density Results at z>8 from the First JWST/NIRCam Fields: Limitations of Early Data Sets and the Need for Spectroscopy

Rychard Bouwens, Garth Illingworth, Pascal Oesch +4

We have derived luminosity functions, and set constraints on the UV luminosity and SFR density from z~17 to z~8, using the three most-studied JWST/NIRCam data sets, the SMACS0723,…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 88 cited

(Nearly) Model-Independent Constraints on the Neutral Hydrogen Fraction in the Intergalactic Medium at Using Dark Pixel Fractions in Ly and Ly Forests

Xiangyu Jin, Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan +10

Cosmic reionization was the last major phase transition of hydrogen from neutral to highly ionized in the intergalactic medium (IGM). Current observations show that the IGM is sign…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 54 cited

Magnetic fields and relativistic electrons fill entire galaxy cluster

A. Botteon, R. J. van Weeren, G. Brunetti +12

The hot plasma within merging galaxy clusters is predicted to be filled with shocks and turbulence that may convert part of their kinetic energy into relativistic electrons and mag…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 28 cited

Deep low-frequency radio observations of Abell 2256 II: The ultra-steep spectrum radio halo

K. Rajpurohit, E. Osinga, M. Brienza +17

We present the first detailed analysis of the radio halo in the merging galaxy cluster Abell 2256 using the LOFAR, uGMRT, and VLA. These observations combined with archival X-ray d…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

The Planck clusters in the LOFAR sky. III. LoTSS-DR2: Dynamic states and density fluctuations of the intracluster medium

X. Zhang, A. Simionescu, F. Gastaldello +19

The footprint of LoTSS-DR2 covers 309 PSZ2 galaxy clusters, 83 of which host a radio halo and 26 host a radio relic(s). It provides us an excellent opportunity to statistically stu…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 16 cited

Almanac: Weak Lensing power spectra and map inference on the masked sphere

A. Loureiro, L. Whiteway, E. Sellentin +3

We present a field-based signal extraction of weak lensing from noisy observations on the curved and masked sky. We test the analysis on a simulated Euclid-like survey, using a Euc…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 20 cited

EAGLE-like simulation models do not solve the entropy core problem in groups and clusters of galaxies

Edoardo Altamura, Scott T. Kay, Richard G. Bower +5

Recent high-resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run with a variety of codes systematically predict large amounts of entropy in the intra-cluster medium at low redshift…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 48 cited

Is the Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum coming back? ACT preference for and its discordance with Planck

William Giarè, Fabrizio Renzi, Olga Mena +2

The Data Release 4 of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) shows an agreement with an Harrison-Zel'dovich primordial spectrum (), introducing a tension with a…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 38 cited

KiDS-Legacy calibration: unifying shear and redshift calibration with the SKiLLS multi-band image simulations

Shun-Sheng Li, Konrad Kuijken, Henk Hoekstra +9

We present SKiLLS, a suite of multi-band image simulations for the weak lensing analysis of the complete Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS), dubbed KiDS-Legacy analysis. The resulting catal…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 33 cited

Prospects of testing late-time cosmology with weak lensing of gravitational waves and galaxy surveys

Anna Balaudo, Alice Garoffolo, Matteo Martinelli +2

We investigate the synergy of upcoming galaxy surveys and gravitational wave (GW) experiments in constraining late-time cosmology, examining the cross-correlations between the weak…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 47 cited

Return of Harrison-Zeldovich spectrum in light of recent cosmological tensions

Jun-Qian Jiang, Gen Ye, Yun-Song Piao

The spectral index of scalar perturbation is the significant initial condition set by inflation theory for our observable Universe. According to Planck results, current const…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 51 cited

KiDS-1000: Combined halo-model cosmology constraints from galaxy abundance, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing

Andrej Dvornik, Catherine Heymans, Marika Asgari +14

We present constraints on the flat CDM cosmological model through a joint analysis of galaxy abundance, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing observables with the Kilo-Deg…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 15 cited

Testing gravity with gravitational waves electromagnetic probes cross-correlations

Giulio Scelfo, Maria Berti, Alessandra Silvestri +1

In a General Relativistic framework, Gravitational Waves (GW) and Electromagnetic (EM) waves are expected to respond in the same way to the effects of matter perturbations between…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 57 cited

Galaxy clusters enveloped by vast volumes of relativistic electrons

V. Cuciti, F. de Gasperin, M. Brueggen +12

The central regions of galaxy clusters are permeated by magnetic fields and filled with relativistic electrons. When clusters merge, the magnetic fields are amplified and relativis…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

Cospatial 21 cm and metal-line absorbers in the epoch of reionization -- I : Incidence and observability

Aniket Bhagwat, Benedetta Ciardi, Erik Zackrisson +1

Overdense, metal-rich regions, shielded from stellar radiation might remain neutral throughout reionization and produce metal as well as 21 cm absorption lines. Simultaneous absorp…

astro-ph.CO2022

X-IFU/Athena view of the most distant galaxy clusters in the Universe

Florent Castellani, N. Clerc, Etienne Pointecouteau +2

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) on-board the second large ESA mission ''Athena'' will be a high spatial (5'') and spectral (2.5eV) resolution X-ray imaging spectrometer, oper…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 171 cited

JWST's PEARLS: Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results

Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen +82

We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and first results from NIRCam images of the JWST "Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science" ("PEARLS"…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 22 cited

Extending empirical constraints on the SZ-mass scaling relation to higher redshifts via HST weak lensing measurements of nine clusters from the SPT-SZ survey at

Hannah Zohren, Tim Schrabback, Sebastian Bocquet +17

We present a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) weak gravitational lensing study of nine distant and massive galaxy clusters with redshifts ($z_\mathrm{medi…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 6 cited

Dynamical cluster masses from photometric surveys

Omar Contigiani, Henk Hoekstra, Margot M. Brouwer +5

The masses of galaxy clusters can be measured using data obtained exclusively from wide photometric surveys in one of two ways: directly from the amplitude of the weak lensing sign…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 29 cited

Abell 1033: Radio halo and gently reenergized tail at 54 MHz

H. W. Edler, F. de Gasperin, G. Brunetti +7

Abell 1033 is a merging galaxy cluster of moderate mass (). It hosts a broad variety of diffuse radio sources linked to different astroph…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 9 cited

Forecasting constraints on the mean free path of ionizing photons at from the Lyman- forest flux auto-correlation function

Molly Wolfson, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies +1

Fluctuations in Lyman- (Ly) forest transmission towards high- quasars are partially sourced from spatial fluctuations in the ultraviolet background (UVB), the level of whi…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 27 cited

KiDS-1000 Cosmology: Constraints from density split statistics

Pierre A. Burger, Oliver Friedrich, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +13

Context. Weak lensing and clustering statistics beyond two-point functions can capture non-Gaussian information about the matter density field, thereby improving the constraints on…