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most citedThe clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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26 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Cosmological inference from a joint DESI DR1 full-shape power spectrum and bispectrum analysis

Caroline Guandalin, Prakhar Bansal, Pedro Carrilho +11

The galaxy bispectrum directly probes the non-linear gravitational evolution of large-scale structure (LSS) and can break parameter degeneracies that remain in power-spectrum analy…

astro-ph.CO2025

Web-Halo Model (WHM): Accurate non-linear matter power spectrum predictions without free parameters

Samuel Brieden, Florian Beutler, Marcos Pellejero-Ibañez

We present a parameter-free variant of the halo model that significantly improves the precision of matter clustering predictions, particularly in the challenging 1-halo to 2-halo t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 5 cited

Covariance matrices for variance-suppressed simulations

Tony Zhang, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Risa H. Wechsler +9

Cosmological -body simulations provide numerical predictions of the structure of the Universe against which to compare data from ongoing and future surveys, but the growing volu…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 37 cited

Priors on Lagrangian bias parameters from galaxy formation modelling

Matteo Zennaro, Raul E. Angulo, Sergio Contreras +2

We study the relations among the parameters of the hybrid Lagrangian bias expansion model, fitting biased auto and cross power spectra up to $k_{\rm max} = 0.7 \, h \, \mathrm{Mpc}…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 5 cited

The BACCO Simulation Project: A baryonification emulator with Neural Networks

Giovanni Aricò, Raul E. Angulo, Sergio Contreras +3

We present a neural-network emulator for baryonic effects in the non-linear matter power spectrum. We calibrate this emulator using more than 50,000 measurements in a 15-dimensiona…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 199 cited

The BACCO Simulation Project: Exploiting the full power of large-scale structure for cosmology

Raul E. Angulo, Matteo Zennaro, Sergio Contreras +3

We present the BACCO project, a simulation framework specially designed to provide highly-accurate predictions for the distribution of mass, galaxies, and gas as a function of cosm…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 37 cited

Cosmological parameter estimation via iterative emulation of likelihoods

Marcos Pellejero-Ibañez, Raul E. Angulo, Giovanni Aricó +3

The interpretation of cosmological observables requires the use of increasingly sophisticated theoretical models. Since these models are becoming computationally very expensive and…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 98 cited

Modelling the large scale structure of the Universe as a function of cosmology and baryonic physics

Giovanni Aricò, Raul E. Angulo, Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo +4

We present and test a framework that models the three-dimensional distribution of mass in the Universe as a function of cosmological and astrophysical parameters. Our approach comb…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 22 cited

The bias of dark matter tracers: assessing the accuracy of mapping techniques

M. Pellejero-Ibañez, A. Balaguera-Antolínez, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +7

We present a comparison between approximated methods for the construction of mock catalogs based on the halo-bias mapping technique. To this end, we use as reference a high resolut…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 89 cited

UNIT project: Universe -body simulations for the Investigation of Theoretical models from galaxy surveys

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Gustavo Yepes, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +13

We present the UNIT -body cosmological simulations project, designed to provide precise predictions for nonlinear statistics of the galaxy distribution. We focus on characterizi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 78 cited

Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices III: Bispectrum

Manuel Colavincenzo, Emiliano Sefusatti, Pierluigi Monaco +19

We compare the measurements of the bispectrum and the estimate of its covariance obtained from a set of different methods for the efficient generation of approximate dark matter ha…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 86 cited

Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices II: Power spectrum multipoles

Linda Blot, Martin Crocce, Emiliano Sefusatti +19

We study the accuracy of several approximate methods for gravitational dynamics in terms of halo power spectrum multipoles and their estimated covariance matrix. We propagate the d…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 84 cited

Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices I: correlation function

Martha Lippich, Ariel G. Sánchez, Manuel Colavincenzo +19

This paper is the first in a set that analyses the covariance matrices of clustering statistics obtained from several approximate methods for gravitational structure formation. We…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 39 cited

BAM: Bias Assignment Method to generate mock catalogs

A. Balaguera-Antolínez, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Marcos Pellerejo-Ibañez +2

We present BAM: a novel Bias Assignment Method envisaged to generate mock catalogs. Combining the statistics of dark matter tracers from a high resolution cosmological -body sim…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 19 cited

Improving baryon acoustic oscillation measurement with the combination of cosmic voids and galaxies

Cheng Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +6

We develop a methodology to optimise the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 58 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a tomographic analysis of structure growth and expansion rate from anisotropic galaxy clustering

Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang +4

We perform a tomographic analysis of structure growth and expansion rate from the anisotropic galaxy clustering of the combined sample of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (B…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 681 cited

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi, D. S. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar +344

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourtee…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 413 cited

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Metin Ata, Falk Baumgarten, Julian Bautista +60

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 3.1k cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

Shadab Alam, Metin Ata, Stephen Bailey +69

We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined gal…

astro-ph.CO2016

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: double-probe measurements from BOSS galaxy clustering \& Planck data -- towards an analysis without informative priors

Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez, Chia-Hsun Chuang, J. A. Rubiño-Martín +28

We develop a new methodology called double-probe analysis with the aim of minimizing informative priors in the estimation of cosmological parameters. We extract the dark-energy-mod…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 62 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the Completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: single-probe measurements from DR12 galaxy clustering -- towards an accurate model

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres +27

We analyse the broad-range shape of the monopole and quadrupole correlation functions of the BOSS Data Release 12 (DR12) CMASS and LOWZ galaxy sample to obtain constraints on the H…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 276 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Observational systematics and baryon acoustic oscillations in the correlation function

Ashley J. Ross, Florian Beutler, Chia-Hsun Chuang +27

We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale measurements determined from the clustering of 1.2 million massive galaxies with redshifts 0.2 < z < 0.75 distributed over 9300 s…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 4 cited

The Low Redshift survey at Calar Alto (LoRCA)

J. Comparat, C. -H. Chuang, S. Rodriguez-Torres +13

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to measure the accelerated expansion of the Universe. To extract all avail…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 33 cited

Robustness of cosmic neutrino background detection in the cosmic microwave background

Benjamin Audren, Emilio Bellini, Antonio J. Cuesta +9

The existence of a cosmic neutrino background can be probed indirectly by CMB experiments, not only by measuring the background density of radiation in the universe, but also by se…