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astro-ph.CO2026

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…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

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…

astro-ph.CO2024

Displacement Field Analysis via Optimal Transport: Multi-Tracer Approach to Cosmological Reconstruction

Farnik Nikakhtar, Ravi K. Sheth, Nikhil Padmanabhan +2

We demonstrate the effectiveness of one of the many multi-tracer analyses enabled by Optimal Transport (OT) reconstruction. Leveraging a semi-discrete OT algorithm, we determine th…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

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…