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astro-ph.CO2026

Mitigating galaxy systematics with gravitational wave clustering

Caterina Scarpel, Nicola Bellomo, Sarah Libanore +2

Although currently poorly constrained, cosmological ultra-large scales are expected to provide formidable tests not only of General Relativity, but also of the content of CDM an…

astro-ph.CO2026

Using SKAO to Understand the Clustering of Gravitational Wave Sources

Michele Bosi, Sarah Libanore, Nicola Bellomo +4

Coalescing Binary Black Holes (BBHs) trace the Large-Scale Structure (LSS) of the Universe, and their clustering properties can be extracted from Gravitational Wave (GW) data. Next…

astro-ph.CO2026

Interpretable Neural Marked Statistics for Cosmological Inference

Federico Semenzato, Benjamin D. Wandelt, Michele Liguori +1

Recovering cosmological information beyond the power spectrum is a central goal for upcoming cosmological surveys, since late-time non-Gaussian signal in the matter density cannot…

astro-ph.IM2026

Illuminating the Physics of Cosmic Origin and Evolution: A UK Space Frontiers 2035 White Paper

Florian Beutler, Eva-Maria Mueller, Seshadri Nadathur +61

Understanding the Universe's origins and evolution remains one of the most fundamental challenges in modern cosmology. This white paper explores three key science priorities in thi…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 7 cited

Joint 21-cm and CMB Forecasts for Constraining Self-Interacting Massive Neutrinos

Sarah Libanore, Subhajit Ghosh, Ely D. Kovetz +2

Self-interacting neutrinos provide an intriguing extension to the Standard Model, motivated by both particle physics and cosmology. Recent cosmological analyses suggest a bimodal p…

astro-ph.CO2025

Observed unequal-time power spectrum

Francesco Spezzati, Eleonora Vanzan, Alvise Raccanelli +2

The next generation of galaxy surveys will provide highly precise measurements of galaxy clustering, therefore requiring a corresponding accuracy. Current approaches, which rely on…

astro-ph.CO2025

Projecting Unequal Time Fields and Correlators of Large Scale Structure

Theodore Steele, Alvise Raccanelli, Zvonimir Vlah

Many large scale structure surveys sort their observations into redshift bins and treat every tracer as being located at the mean redshift of its bin, a treatment which we refer to…

astro-ph.CO2025

Testing the growth of cosmic structures during the Dark Ages

Elena Vanetti, Eleonora Vanzan, Nicola Bellomo +1

Hydrogen 21-cm Line Intensity Mapping offers the unique opportunity to access the Dark Ages and trace the formation and evolution of the large scale structure of the Universe prior…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

Cross-Correlating the Universe: The Gravitational Wave Background and Large-Scale Structure

Federico Semenzato, J. Andrew Casey-Clyde, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli +4

The nature of the gravitational wave background (GWB) is a key question in modern astrophysics and cosmology, with significant implications for understanding the structure and evol…

astro-ph.CO2024

3D-Radial galaxy correlation function

Francesco Spezzati, Alvise Raccanelli

Tests of cosmological models via measurements of galaxy correlations will require increasing modeling accuracy, given the high precision of measurements promised by forthcoming gal…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 14 cited

Searching for blue in the dark

Jessie de Kruijf, Eleonora Vanzan, Kimberly K. Boddy +2

The primordial power spectrum of curvature perturbations has been well-measured on large scales but remains fairly unconstrained at smaller scales, where significant deviations fro…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 10 cited

The full-sky Spherical Fourier-Bessel power spectrum in general relativity

Federico Semenzato, Daniele Bertacca, Alvise Raccanelli

We present a formalism for analyzing galaxy clustering on the lightcone with the 2-point correlation in the Spherical Fourier-Bessel (SFB) formalism, which is a natural choice to a…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Gravitational wave background from primordial black holes in globular clusters

Eleonora Vanzan, Sarah Libanore, Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi +2

Primordial black holes still represent a viable candidate for a significant fraction, if not for the totality, of dark matter. If these compact objects have masses of order tens of…

astro-ph.CO2024

Gravitational wave luminosity distance-weighted anisotropies

A. Begnoni, L. Valbusa Dall'Armi, D. Bertacca +1

Measurements of the luminosity distance of propagating gravitational waves can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe. Due to the clustering of…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Antisymmetric galaxy cross-correlations in and beyond CDM

Eleonora Vanzan, Alvise Raccanelli, Nicola Bartolo

Many different techniques to analyze galaxy clustering data and obtain cosmological constraints have been proposed, tested and used. Given the large amount of data that will be ava…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 31 cited

Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

Eleni Bagui, Sebastien Clesse, Valerio De Luca +17

In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could explain…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 13 cited

On the asymptotic connection between full- and flat-sky angular correlators

Zucheng Gao, Alvise Raccanelli, Zvonimir Vlah

We investigate the connection between the full- and flat-sky angular power spectra. First, we revisit this connection established on the geometric and physical grounds, namely that…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 8 cited

Dark ages, a window on the dark sector. Hunting for ultra-light axions

Eleonora Vanzan, Alvise Raccanelli, Nicola Bartolo

Measurements of 21cm intensity mapping (IM) during the dark ages can potentially provide us with an unprecedented window on high redshifts and small scales. One of the main advanta…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 29 cited

Signatures of primordial black holes in gravitational wave clustering

Sarah Libanore, Michele Liguori, Alvise Raccanelli

The possible existence of primordial black holes (PBHs) is an open question in modern cosmology. Among the probes to test it, gravitational waves (GW) coming from their mergers con…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 16 cited

Constraining extended cosmologies with GWLSS cross-correlations

Michele Bosi, Nicola Bellomo, Alvise Raccanelli

The rapid development of gravitational wave astronomy provides the unique opportunity of exploring the dynamics of the Universe using clustering properties of coalescing binary bla…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

The observed power spectrum & frequency-angular power spectrum

Alvise Raccanelli, Zvonimir Vlah

The two-point summary statistics is one of the most commonly used tools in the study of cosmological structure. Starting from the theoretical power spectrum defined in the 3D volum…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Power spectrum in the cave

Alvise Raccanelli, Zvonimir Vlah

Forthcoming galaxy surveys will provide measurements of galaxy clustering with an unprecedented level of precision, that will require comparably good accuracy. Current models for g…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 23 cited

The effect of outflows on CMB bounds from Primordial Black Hole accretion

Lorenzo Piga, Matteo Lucca, Nicola Bellomo +4

Should Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) exist in nature, they would inevitably accrete baryonic matter in their vicinity. In turn, the consequent emission of high-energy radiation cou…

gr-qc2022★ 317 cited

New Horizons for Fundamental Physics with LISA

K. G. Arun, Enis Belgacem, Robert Benkel +138

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) has the potential to reveal wonders about the fundamental theory of nature at play in the extreme gravity regime, where the gravitatio…