4 papers
Optimal Transport Reconstruction of Biased Tracers in Primordial Non-Gaussian Fields
Farnik Nikakhtar, Ravi K. Sheth, Nikhil Padmanabhan +2
Optimal transport provides an efficient method to infer the displacement of objects by mapping their initial positions to their present-day locations over cosmic time; equivalently…
Probing primordial non-Gaussianity by reconstructing the initial conditions
Xinyi Chen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Daniel J. Eisenstein
We propose to constrain the primordial (local-type) non-Gaussianity signal by first reconstructing the initial density field to remove the late time non-Gaussianities introduced by…
Analysis of an iterative reconstruction method in comparison of the standard reconstruction method
Xinyi Chen, Nikhil Padmanabhan
We present a detailed analysis of a new, iterative density reconstruction algorithm. This algorithm uses a decreasing smoothing scale to better reconstruct the density field in Lag…
Leveraging protohalos and scale-dependent bias to calibrate the BAO scale in real space
Sasha Gaines, Farnik Nikakhtar, Nikhil Padmanabhan +1
The location of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the two-point correlation function (2PCF) of matter produces a standard ruler that is useful for the measurement of…