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20142026
most citedThe miniJPAS survey: a preview of the Universe in 56 colours

119 citations · 680 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Euclid preparation. The shape of halo profiles in CDM and non-standard cosmologies

Euclid Collaboration, L. Pizzuti, G. Y. Ferron +304

We study the shape of three-dimensional and projected dark-matter halo profiles extracted from cosmological -body simulations in CDM and non-standard cosmologies, using the \…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Cosmology with one galaxy? -- The ASTRID model and robustness

Nicolas Echeverri, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Chaitanya Chawak +7

Recent work has pointed out the potential existence of a tight relation between the cosmological parameter , at fixed , and the properties of individual galax…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

A universal equation to predict from halo and galaxy catalogues

Helen Shao, Natalí S. M de Santi, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +13

We discover analytic equations that can infer the value of from the positions and velocity moduli of halo and galaxy catalogues. The equations are derived by combining…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 44 cited

Robust Field-level Likelihood-free Inference with Galaxies

Natalí S. M. de Santi, Helen Shao, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +12

We train graph neural networks to perform field-level likelihood-free inference using galaxy catalogs from state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project. Our mode…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 60 cited

Euclid Preparation. XXVIII. Forecasts for ten different higher-order weak lensing statistics

Euclid Collaboration, V. Ajani, M. Baldi +211

Recent cosmic shear studies have shown that higher-order statistics (HOS) developed by independent teams now outperform standard two-point estimators in terms of statistical precis…

astro-ph.CO2022

Euclid preparation. XXVII. Covariance model validation for the 2-point correlation function of galaxy clusters

Euclid Collaboration, A. Fumagalli, A. Saro +191

Aims. We validate a semi-analytical model for the covariance of real-space 2-point correlation function of galaxy clusters. Methods. Using 1000 PINOCCHIO light cones mimicking the…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 26 cited

Euclid: Modelling massive neutrinos in cosmology -- a code comparison

J. Adamek, R. E. Angulo, C. Arnold +133

The measurement of the absolute neutrino mass scale from cosmological large-scale clustering data is one of the key science goals of the Euclid mission. Such a measurement relies o…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

Robust field-level inference with dark matter halos

Helen Shao, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo +13

We train graph neural networks on halo catalogues from Gadget N-body simulations to perform field-level likelihood-free inference of cosmological parameters. The catalogues contain…

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…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 16 cited

The lure of sirens: joint distance and velocity measurements with third generation detectors

Viviane Alfradique, Miguel Quartin, Luca Amendola +2

The next generation of detectors will detect gravitational waves from binary neutron stars at cosmological distances, for which around a thousand electromagnetic follow-ups may be…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 33 cited

Persistent homology in cosmic shear II: A tomographic analysis of DES-Y1

Sven Heydenreich, Benjamin Brück, Pierre Burger +5

We demonstrate how to use persistent homology for cosmological parameter inference in a tomographic cosmic shear survey. We obtain the first cosmological parameter constraints from…

astro-ph.CO2022

The BEHOMO project: LTB -body simulations

V. Marra, T. Castro, D. Camarena +2

Our Universe may feature large-scale inhomogeneities and anisotropies which cannot be explained by the standard model of cosmology, that is, the homogeneous and isotropic FLRW metr…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 6 cited

Satellite galaxy abundance dependency on cosmology in Magneticum simulations

Antonio Ragagnin, Alessandra Fumagalli, Tiago Castro +4

Context: Modelling satellite galaxy abundance in Galaxy Clusters (GCs) is a key element in modelling the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), which itself is a powerful tool t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 22 cited

Euclid: Effect of sample covariance on the number counts of galaxy clusters

A. Fumagalli, A. Saro, S. Borgani +93

Aims. We investigate the contribution of shot-noise and sample variance to the uncertainty of cosmological parameter constraints inferred from cluster number counts in the context…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 21 cited

Impact of baryons in cosmic shear analyses with tomographic aperture mass statistics

Nicolas Martinet, Tiago Castro, Joachim Harnois-Déraps +3

NonGaussian cosmic shear statistics based on weak-lensing aperture mass () maps can outperform the classical shear two-point correlation function (-2PCF) in terms of…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 81 cited

Cosmic Shear Cosmology Beyond 2-Point Statistics: A Combined Peak Count and Correlation Function Analysis of DES-Y1

Joachim Harnois-Déraps, Nicolas Martinet, Tiago Castro +5

We constrain cosmological parameters from a joint cosmic shear analysis of peak-counts and the two-point shear correlation functions, as measured from the Dark Energy Survey (DES-Y…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 79 cited

On the impact of baryons on the halo mass function, bias, and cluster cosmology

Tiago Castro, Stefano Borgani, Klaus Dolag +4

Luminous matter produces very energetic events, such as active galactic nuclei and supernova explosions, that significantly affect the internal regions of galaxy clusters. Although…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 119 cited

The miniJPAS survey: a preview of the Universe in 56 colours

S. Bonoli, A. Marín-Franch, J. Varela +166

The Javalambre-Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey (J-PAS) will soon start to scan thousands of square degrees of the northern extragalactic sky with a unique…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 5 cited

Testing the Reliability of Fast Methods for Weak Lensing Simulations: WL-MOKA on PINOCCHIO

Carlo Giocoli, Pierluigi Monaco, Lauro Moscardini +4

The generation of simulated convergence maps is of key importance in fully exploiting weak lensing by Large Scale Structure (LSS) from which cosmological parameters can be derived.…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 44 cited

The effect of baryons in the cosmological lensing PDFs

Tiago Castro, Miguel Quartin, Carlo Giocoli +2

Observational cosmology is passing through a unique moment of grandeur with the amount of quality data growing fast. However, in order to better take advantage of this moment, data…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 28 cited

Constraining the halo mass function with observations

Tiago Castro, Valerio Marra, Miguel Quartin

The abundances of dark matter halos in the universe are described by the halo mass function (HMF). It enters most cosmological analyses and parametrizes how the linear growth of pr…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 24 cited

Turning noise into signal: learning from the scatter in the Hubble diagram

Tiago Castro, Miguel Quartin, Sandra Benitez-Herrera

The supernova (SN) Hubble diagram residual contains valuable information on both the present matter power spectrum and its growth history. In this paper we show that this informati…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 12 cited

Constraining the growth of perturbations with lensing of supernovae

Luca Amendola, Tiago Castro, Valerio Marra +1

A recently proposed technique allows one to constrain both the background and perturbation cosmological parameters through the distribution function of supernova Ia apparent magnit…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 28 cited

First measurement of using supernova magnitudes only

Tiago Castro, Miguel Quartin

A method was recently proposed which allows the conversion of the weak-lensing effects in the supernova Hubble diagram from noise into signal. Such signal is sensitive to the growt…