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most citedDESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

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astro-ph.CO2026

Interpreting the stacked kinetic SZ signal II: the degeneracy between satellite galaxies and baryonic feedback

Lurdes Ondaro-Mallea, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Raul E. Angulo

The kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal stacked around a galaxy sample traces the gas around halos and is a powerful probe of baryonic feedback. Its interpretation, however, de…

astro-ph.CO2026

Probing Baryons with the Kinematic Sunyae Zel'dovich Effect and Machine Learning Derived Peculiar Velocities using DESI DR2 and ACT DR6

Yulin Gong, Rachel Bean, Patricio A. Gallardo +54

We present novel empirical constraints on average optical depths and gas density profiles from combining kinematic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect (kSZ) measurements and nonlinear peculi…

astro-ph.CO2026

Model-Independent Measurement of Baryon Gas Fractions through Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing and the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

R. Henry Liu, Uroš Seljak, Simone Ferraro +52

Baryon feedback is a leading source of systematic uncertainty for cosmology from weak lensing, but measurements of the gas distribution around galaxies have largely relied on param…

astro-ph.CO2026

BINDing the lightcone: A suite of astrophysical ray-traced weak lensing and SZ maps

Max E. Lee, Shy Genel, Zoltan Haiman +2

Recent multiwavelength observations of galaxy group and cluster gas suggest stronger baryonic feedback than our best-calibrated hydrodynamical simulations produce, while modeling t…

astro-ph.GA2026

BIND (Baryonic INpainting with Deep learning): A Field-level Emulator for Galaxy Groups and Clusters

Max E. Lee, Shy Genel, Zoltan Haiman +3

Baryonic feedback is a dominant source of systematic uncertainty for upcoming weak-lensing surveys, but current tools for modeling its effect rely on spherical approximations and d…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optical Depths from the Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with ACT DR6 and DESI DR1 Spectroscopic Galaxies and Optically-Selected Clusters

J. E. Moore, C. Popik, Y. Gong +66

We present stacked thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) effect measurements for three samples of galaxy groups and clusters: those traced by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Da…

astro-ph.CO2026

A new measurement of the FRB DM-galaxy cross correlation and a first joint analysis with the kinematic SZ effect

Samuel McCarty, Liam Connor, Kritti Sharma +8

Understanding the distribution of cosmic baryons is crucial for advancing cosmology and galaxy formation. Localized Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising new probe of the diffus…

astro-ph.CO2026

Validation of the DESI DR2 Ly forest full-shape analysis

M. Herbold, A. Cuceu, P. Martini +100

We present the validation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2) Lyman- (Ly) forest full-shape analysis. This analysis combines three-dimensi…

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Results IV: Alcock-Paczyński Measurements from the Lyman Alpha Forest and Cosmological Constraints

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +152

We present Alcock-Paczyński (AP) measurements from the full shape of Lyman- (Ly) forest correlation functions measured from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy S…

astro-ph.CO2026

Shear-kSZ: A New Estimator for the Matter-Electron Power Spectrum from kSZ Tomography and Weak Lensing

Boryana Hadzhiyska

We propose a new estimator of the electron--matter power spectrum, , which correlates the kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich (kSZ) temperature with the product of the line-of…

astro-ph.CO2026

Interpreting the stacked kinetic SZ effect I: velocity reconstruction and non-linear velocity effects

Lurdes Ondaro-Mallea, Raul E. Angulo, Boryana Hadzhiyska +1

The stacked kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) signal probes the velocity-weighted projected gas momentum around galaxies, and is emerging as a powerful probe of gas fractions and ba…

astro-ph.CO2026

Fewer simulations, sharper covariances: Reducing mock covariance noise with Zeldovich approximation control variates

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Martin White

We present a control-variate method for reducing the variance of power spectrum covariance matrix estimates from simulations of large-scale structure. The idea is to pair each mock…

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological constraints from the small scale clustering of Emission Line Galaxies

Sara Ortega-Martinez, Raul E. Angulo, Sergio Contreras +7

Spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid are mapping the spatial distribution of millions of galaxies, with Emission Line Galaxies (…

astro-ph.CO2026

Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part II. Bright Galaxy Survey and Emission-Line Galaxies

B. Hadzhiyska, S. Ferraro, F. J. Qu +50

We present the first high-significance spectroscopic stacked kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurements of circumgalactic gas profiles for both Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) and Em…

astro-ph.CO2026

Precision Kinematic Sunyaev--Zel'dovich Measurements Across Halo Mass and Redshift with DESI DR2 and ACT DR6: Part I. Luminous Red Galaxies

F. J. Qu, B. Ried Guachalla, E. Schaan +51

We present the most precise measurements of the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect around luminous red galaxies to date, detecting the signal at significance in both har…

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★ 1 cited

Clustering redshift distribution calibration of weak lensing surveys using the DESI-DR1 spectroscopic dataset

R. Ruggeri, C. Blake, J. Aguilar +63

We estimate the source redshift distribution of current weak lensing surveys by applying the clustering-based redshift calibration technique, using the galaxy redshift sample provi…

astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

astro-ph.CO2025

kSZ for everyone: the pseudo-Cl approach to stacking

Lea Harscouet, Kevin Wolz, Amy Wayland +2

We present a harmonic-space estimator for the cross-correlation between the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the reconstructed galaxy momentum field that offers several prac…

astro-ph.CO2025

Bridging Simulations and EFT: A Hybrid Model of the Lyman-Alpha Forest Field

Roger de Belsunce, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Mikhail M. Ivanov

The Lyman-alpha (Lya) forest is a unique probe of cosmology and the intergalactic medium at high redshift and small scales. The statistical power of the ongoing Dark Energy Spectro…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

The effect of baryons on the positions and velocities of satellite galaxies in the MTNG simulation

Sergio Contreras, Raul E. Angulo, Sownak Bose +5

Mock galaxy catalogues are often constructed from dark-matter-only simulations based on the galaxy-halo connection. Although modern mocks can reproduce galaxy clustering to some ex…

astro-ph.CO2025

Joint cosmological fits to DESI-DR1 full-shape clustering and weak gravitational lensing in configuration space

A. Semenaite, C. Blake, A. Porredon +69

We present a joint -pt cosmological analysis of auto- and cross-correlations between the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1) Bright Galaxy Surv…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 2 cited

DESI-DR1 -pt analysis: consistent cosmology across weak lensing surveys

A. Porredon, C. Blake, J. U. Lange +70

We present a joint cosmological analysis of projected galaxy clustering observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release 1 (DESI-DR1), and overlapping weak g…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

ELGLRG distribution through dark matter halo dynamics

Ginevra Favole, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Boryana Hadzhiyska +3

We investigate the clustering and halo occupation distribution (HOD) of DESI Y1 emission-line (ELGs) and luminous red (LRGs) galaxies at , including their cross-correlat…