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20132025
most citedThe SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

849 citations · 4.3k across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

astro-ph.CO2025★ 299 cited

The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics

Eleonora Di Valentino, Jackson Levi Said, Adam Riess +533

The standard model of cosmology has provided a good phenomenological description of a wide range of observations both at astrophysical and cosmological scales for several decades.…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Cosmology with voids from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Giovanni Verza, Giulia Degni, Alice Pisani +7

We provide an accurate forecast of the expected constraining power from the main void statistics -- the void size function and the void-galaxy cross-correlation function -- to be m…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 31 cited

A Parameter-Masked Mock Data Challenge for Beyond-Two-Point Galaxy Clustering Statistics

2pt Collaboration, Elisabeth Krause, Yosuke Kobayashi +23

The last few years have seen the emergence of a wide array of novel techniques for analyzing high-precision data from upcoming galaxy surveys, which aim to extend the statistical a…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 12 cited

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) Science White Paper

Vincenzo Mainieri, Richard I. Anderson, Jarle Brinchmann +214

The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) is proposed as a new facility dedicated to the efficient delivery of spectroscopic surveys. This white paper summarises the initial con…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 22 cited

The universal multiplicity function: counting halos and voids

Giovanni Verza, Carmelita Carbone, Alice Pisani +2

We present a novel combination of the excursion-set approach with the peak theory formalism in Lagrangian space and provide accurate predictions for halo and void statistics over a…

astro-ph.CO2023

Neutrino mass constraint from an Implicit Likelihood Analysis of BOSS voids

Leander Thiele, Elena Massara, Alice Pisani +4

Cosmic voids identified in the spatial distribution of galaxies provide complementary information to two-point statistics. In particular, constraints on the neutrino mass sum, $\su…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 24 cited

Euclid: Cosmology forecasts from the void-galaxy cross-correlation function with reconstruction

S. Radinović, S. Nadathur, H. -A. Winther +118

We investigate the cosmological constraints that can be expected from measurement of the cross-correlation of galaxies with cosmic voids identified in the Euclid spectroscopic surv…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 28 cited

DEMNUni: disentangling dark energy from massive neutrinos with the void size function

Giovanni Verza, Carmelita Carbone, Alice Pisani +1

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the Universe, are impacted by dark energy and massive neutrinos. In this work, relying on the DEMNUni suite of cosmological simulations, we…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 29 cited

The perspective of voids on rising cosmology tensions

Sofia Contarini, Alice Pisani, Nico Hamaus +3

We investigate the main tensions within the current standard model of cosmology from the perspective of the main statistics of cosmic voids, using the final BOSS DR12 data set. For…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 11 cited

Machine-learning cosmology from void properties

Bonny Y. Wang, Alice Pisani, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +1

Cosmic voids are the largest and most underdense structures in the Universe. Their properties have been shown to encode precious information about the laws and constituents of the…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 53 cited

Cosmological constraints from the BOSS DR12 void size function

Sofia Contarini, Alice Pisani, Nico Hamaus +3

We present the first cosmological constraints derived from the analysis of the void size function. This work relies on the final BOSS DR12 data set, a large spectroscopic galaxy ca…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 34 cited

Euclid: Forecasts from the void-lensing cross-correlation

M. Bonici, C. Carbone, S. Davini +129

The Euclid space telescope will survey a large dataset of cosmic voids traced by dense samples of galaxies. In this work we estimate its expected performance when exploiting angula…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 58 cited

Euclid: Cosmological forecasts from the void size function

S. Contarini, G. Verza, A. Pisani +123

The Euclid mission with its spectroscopic galaxy survey covering a sky area over in the redshift range will provide a sample of tens o…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 67 cited

The CAMELS project: public data release

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar +44

The Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS) project was developed to combine cosmology with astrophysics through thousands of cosmological hydrodynami…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 7 cited

Unveiling the Universe with Emerging Cosmological Probes

Michele Moresco, Lorenzo Amati, Luca Amendola +22

The detection of the accelerated expansion of the Universe has been one of the major breakthroughs in modern cosmology. Several cosmological probes (CMB, SNe Ia, BAO) have been stu…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 125 cited

The High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Yun Wang, Zhongxu Zhai, Anahita Alavi +15

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS) over a large volume at high redshift, using the near-IR grism (1.0-1.93 m, $R=435-…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 68 cited

Euclid: Forecasts from redshift-space distortions and the Alcock-Paczynski test with cosmic voids

N. Hamaus, M. Aubert, A. Pisani +127

Euclid is poised to survey galaxies across a cosmological volume of unprecedented size, providing observations of more than a billion objects distributed over a third of the full s…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 74 cited

The GIGANTES dataset: precision cosmology from voids in the machine learning era

Christina D. Kreisch, Alice Pisani, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro +4

We present GIGANTES, the most extensive and realistic void catalog suite ever released -- containing over 1 billion cosmic voids covering a volume larger than the observable Univer…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 12 cited

How do galaxy properties affect void statistics?

Rushy R. Panchal, Alice Pisani, David N. Spergel

Using a mapping from dark matter halos to galaxy properties based on hydrodynamical simulations, we explore the impact of galaxy properties on the void size function and the void-g…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 84 cited

Precision cosmology with voids in the final BOSS data

Nico Hamaus, Alice Pisani, Jin-Ah Choi +3

We report novel cosmological constraints obtained from cosmic voids in the final BOSS DR12 dataset. They arise from the joint analysis of geometric and dynamic distortions of avera…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 54 cited

Properties of simulated galaxies and supermassive black holes in cosmic voids

Melanie Habouzit, Alice Pisani, Andy Goulding +3

Cosmic voids, the under-dense regions of the cosmic web, are widely used to constrain cosmology. Voids contain few, isolated galaxies, presumably expected to be less evolved and pr…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 27 cited

The void halo mass function: a promising probe of neutrino mass

Gemma Zhang, Zack Li, Jia Liu +4

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the universe, are particularly sensitive to diffuse density components such as cosmic neutrinos. This sensitivity is enhanced by the match b…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 340 cited

The Quijote simulations

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, ChangHoon Hahn, Elena Massara +26

The Quijote simulations are a set of 44,100 full N-body simulations spanning more than 7,000 cosmological models in the hyperplane.…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 85 cited

The Void Size Function in Dynamical Dark Energy Cosmologies

Giovanni Verza, Alice Pisani, Carmelita Carbone +2

We test a theoretical description of the void size distribution function against direct estimates from halo catalogues of the DEMNUni suite of large cosmological simulations. Besid…