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20122026
most citedTesting the theory of gravity with DESI: estimators, predictions and simulation requirements

78 citations · 452 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Model-independent parameters from DESI DR1 LRG2 with an explicitly varying power-spectrum shape

Yong-Seon Song, M. Icaza-Lizaola, Minji Oh +1

Distinguishing between dark energy and modified gravity as the origin of the accelerated expansion requires the cosmic distances and the growth of structure to be measured in a mod…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

Breaking the degeneracy of the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich cosmology in redshift space

Liang Xiao, Yi Zheng

The 'optical depth-linear growth rate' () degeneracy is a long-standing problem in the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich (kSZ) cosmology. It can be spontaneously broken in re…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 3 cited

Tomographic Alcock-Paczynski Method with Redshift Errors

Liang Xiao, Zhiqi Huang, Yi Zheng +2

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) method is a promising method that uses the redshift evolution of the anisotropic clustering in redshift space to calibrate cosmology. It exten…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 6 cited

Measuring cosmic filament spin with the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect

Yi Zheng, Yan-Chuan Cai, Weishan Zhu +3

The spin of intergalactic filaments has been predicted from simulations, and supported by tentative evidence from redshift-space filament shapes in a galaxy redshift survey: genera…

astro-ph.CO2022

Cosmological constraints from the density gradient weighted correlation function

Xiaoyuan Xiao, Yizhao Yang, Xiaolin Luo +8

The mark weighted correlation function (MCF) is a computationally efficient statistical measure which can probe clustering information beyond that of the conventional 2-po…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 24 cited

Detection of pairwise kSZ effect with DESI galaxy clusters and Planck

Ziyang Chen, Pengjie Zhang, Xiaohu Yang +1

We report a detection of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect, combining galaxy clusters in DESI imaging surveys and the Planck temperature maps. The detecti…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 12 cited

Sensitivity tests of cosmic velocity fields to massive neutrinos

Shuren Zhou, Zhenjie Liu, Qinglin Ma +8

We investigate impacts of massive neutrinos on the cosmic velocity fields, employing high-resolution cosmological -body simulations provided by the information-optimized CUBE co…

astro-ph.CO2021

Expansion series of the pairwise velocity generating function and its implications on redshift space distortion modeling

Junde Chen, Pengjie Zhang, Yi Zheng

The pairwise velocity generating function has deep connection with both the pairwise velocity probability distribution function and modeling of redshift space distortion (RSD).…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 7 cited

Toward a more stringent test of gravity with redshift space power spectrum: simultaneous probe of growth and amplitude of large-scale structure

Yong-Seon Song, Yi Zheng, Atsushi Taruya

Redshift-space distortions (RSD) offers an exciting opportunity to test the gravity on cosmological scales. In the presence of galaxy bias, however, the RSD measurement at large sc…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 78 cited

Testing the theory of gravity with DESI: estimators, predictions and simulation requirements

Shadab Alam, Christian Arnold, Alejandro Aviles +33

Shortly after its discovery, General Relativity (GR) was applied to predict the behavior of our Universe on the largest scales, and later became the foundation of modern cosmology.…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 10 cited

Using the Mark Weighted Correlation Functions to Improve the Constraints on Cosmological Parameters

Yizhao Yang, Haitao Miao, Qinglin Ma +8

We used the mark weighted correlation functions (MCFs), , to study the large scale structure of the Universe. We studied five types of MCFs with the weighting scheme , w…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 16 cited

Cosmological Information from the Small-scale Redshift Space Distortions

Motonari Tonegawa, Changbom Park, Yi Zheng +4

The redshift-space distortion (RSD) in the observed distribution of galaxies is known as a powerful probe of cosmology. Observations of large-scale RSD have given tight constraints…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 12 cited

Robustness of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich power spectrum shape as a cosmological gravity probe

Yi Zheng

We prove from the modified gravity (MG) galaxy/halo mock catalogs that the shape of the pairwise kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ) power spectrum has constraining pow…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 17 cited

Alcock-Paczynski Test with the Evolution of Redshift-Space Galaxy Clustering Anisotropy

Hyunbae Park, Changbom Park, Cristiano G. Sabiu +5

We develop an improved Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test method that uses the redshift-space two-point correlation function (2pCF) of galaxies. Cosmological constraints can be obtained by…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 8 cited

Study on the mapping of halo clustering from real space to redshift space

Yi Zheng, Yong-Seon Song, Minji Oh

The mapping of galaxy clustering from real space to redshift space introduces the anisotropic property to the measured galaxy density power spectrum in redshift space, known as the…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 26 cited

Accurate determination of halo velocity bias in simulations and its cosmological implications

Junde Chen, Pengjie Zhang, Yi Zheng +2

A long-standing issue in peculiar velocity cosmology is whether the halo/galaxy velocity bias at large scale. The resolution of this important issue must resort to high pre…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 14 cited

Hybrid modeling of redshift space distortions

Yong-Seon Song, Yi Zheng, Atsushi Taruya +1

The observed power spectrum in redshift space appears distorted due to the peculiar motion of galaxies, known as redshift-space distortions (RSD). While all the effects in RSD are…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 7 cited

Quantification of the multi-streaming effect in Redshift Space Distortion

Yi Zheng, Pengjie Zhang, Minji Oh

Both multi-streaming (random motion) and bulk motion cause the Finger-of-God (FoG) effect in redshift space distortion (RSD). We apply a direct measurement of the multi-streaming e…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 25 cited

Study on the mapping of dark matter clustering from real space to redshift space

Yi Zheng, Yong-Seon Song

The mapping of dark matter clustering from real space to redshift space introduces the anisotropic property to the measured density power spectrum in redshift space, known as the r…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 25 cited

Determination of the large scale volume weighted halo velocity bias in simulations

Yi Zheng, Pengjie Zhang, Yipeng Jing

A profound assumption in peculiar velocity cosmology is at sufficiently large scales, where is the volume weighted halo(galaxy) velocity bias with respect to the matt…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 26 cited

Sampling Artifact in Volume Weighted Velocity Measurement.--- II. Detection in simulations and comparison with theoretical modelling

Yi Zheng, Pengjie Zhang, Yipeng Jing

Measuring the volume weighted velocity power spectrum suffers from a severe systematic error, due to imperfect sampling of the velocity field from inhomogeneous distribution of dar…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 30 cited

Sampling Artifact in Volume Weighted Velocity Measurement.--- I. Theoretical Modelling

Pengjie Zhang, Yi Zheng, Yipeng Jing

Cosmology based on large scale peculiar velocity preferes volume weighted velocity statistics. However, measuring the volume weighted velocity statistics from inhomogeneously distr…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 55 cited

Peculiar Velocity Decomposition, Redshift Space Distortion and Velocity Reconstruction in Redshift Surveys. II. Dark Matter Velocity Statistics

Yi Zheng, Pengjie Zhang, Yipeng Jing +2

Massive spectroscopic redshift surveys open a promising window to accurately measure peculiar velocity at cosmological distances through redshift space distortion (RSD). In paper I…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 47 cited

Peculiar Velocity Decomposition, Redshift Space Distortion and Velocity Reconstruction in Redshift Surveys - I. The Methodology

Pengjie Zhang, Jun Pan, Yi Zheng

Massive spectroscopic surveys will measure the redshift space distortion (RSD) induced by galaxy peculiar velocity to unprecedented accuracy. We develop a new method to improve the…