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Two-rung ladder: from Tip of the Red Giant Branch and geometric anchors alone
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond, Guilhem Lavaux
We infer the Hubble constant from the ~400 Extragalactic Distance Database hosts with a tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) distance, calibrated on the geometric anchors of th…
A reanalysis of the megamaser Hubble constant: from spot catalogues to peculiar velocities
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond
The Hubble tension motivates careful scrutiny of the redshift-independent distances underpinning the local distance ladder. Water megamasers afford a purely geometric distance from…
Learning the Universe with cosmological rescaling of merger trees and semi-analytic galaxy formation models
Richard Stiskalek, Lucia A. Perez, Shy Genel +3
Learning cosmology from galaxy surveys requires large suites of simulations spanning the cosmological and astrophysical parameter space, yet hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy fo…
Forward-modelling the Tolman and distance-duality tests with IllustrisTNG
Harry Desmond, Tariq Yasin, Richard Stiskalek +1
The Tolman surface-brightness test and the angular-size distance-duality test are two complementary probes of the same underlying relation between luminosity and angular-diameter d…
Learning the Universe: Constrained simulations of the Coma galaxy cluster -- I. Radial X-ray and Compton-y signatures
Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Stuart McAlpine, Richard Stiskalek +7
We present a suite of 50 high-fidelity simulations of Coma cluster analogues constructed from BORG/MANTICORE constrained initial conditions and evolved with the IllustrisTNG galaxy…
Introducing sapphire: Towards Hybrid Physics-Informed, Data-Driven Modeling of Galaxy Formation
Viraj Pandya, Greg L. Bryan, T. Lucas Makinen +18
Semi-analytic models (SAMs) have been treating galaxy populations as dynamical systems for years, but their evolution equations remain poorly constrained. We introduce…
Unleashing Guidance Without Classifiers for Human-Object Interaction Animation
Ziyin Wang, Sirui Xu, Chuan Guo +5
Generating realistic human-object interaction (HOI) animations remains challenging because it requires jointly modeling dynamic human actions and diverse object geometries. Prior d…
Forward-modelling Milky Way Cepheids: selection effects and physical priors in the Gaia-HST calibration
Richard Stiskalek, Adam Riess, Harry Desmond +2
The advent of high-precision Gaia parallaxes for Milky Way Cepheids enables per cent-level calibration of the local distance ladder and the Hubble constant . We revisit the Mi…
Revisiting the Great Attractor: The Local Group's streamline trajectory, cosmic velocity and dynamical fate
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond, Stuart McAlpine +3
We revisit the Great Attractor using the Manticore-Local suite of digital twins of the nearby Universe. The Great Attractor concept has been proposed as an answer to three distinct…
Testing cosmic anisotropy with cluster scaling relations
Tariq Yasin, Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond +2
We test claims of large-scale anisotropy in the local expansion rate using cluster scaling relations as distance indicators. Using a Bayesian forward model, we jointly fit the X-ra…
Constraining cosmological simulations with peculiar velocities: a forward-modeling approach
Aurélien Valade, Noam Libeskind, Daniel Pomarède +4
Numerical simulations are a key tool to decipher the dynamics of gravitation. Yet, they fail to spatially reproduce the Universe we observe, limiting comparison between observation…
Testing subhalo abundance matching with galaxy kinematics
Fedir Boreiko, Tariq Yasin, Harry Desmond +2
The rotation velocities of disc galaxies trace dark matter halo structure, providing direct constraints on the galaxy--halo connection. We construct a Bayesian forward model to con…
Validating Digital Twins of the Local Universe with the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Signal
Richard Stiskalek, Harry Desmond
The thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect provides a powerful probe of the thermal pressure of ionised gas in galaxy clusters and the cosmic web; constrained simulations reconstr…