Start year
2012
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Description
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) contains the statistical information about the early seeds of the structure formation in our Universe. Its natural counterpart in the local universe is the distribution of galaxies that arises as a result of gravitational growth of those primordial and small density fluctuations. The characterization of the distribution of inhomogeneities at large-scale in the local Universe provides a powerful tool, complementary to the CMB, to determine the origin and the energy content of the Universe, the expansion rate of the Universe during the cosmic history, and the detailed process of formation of the large-scale structures (LSS). The study of the LSS in the coming years will attempt to address the following open questions in cosmology:
What is the dark matter, and which is its detailed contribution to the energy content of the Universe?
What is the dark energy, and how it affects the dynamics of the Universe?
What is the connection between large scale structure and galaxy formation?
Do fundamental constants vary along the history of the Universe?
Is there evidence for primordial non-Gaussianities giving information on the details of the inflationary expansion epoch of the Universe?
In order to contribute to the possible answer to those questions, in this project we will use several large scale structure probes:
The distribution and large-scale clustering of the galaxies, and its evolution with time. The matter power spectrum (P(k)) and the two-point correlation function (ξ(r)) contain certain geometric features associated to some characteristic length-scales in the Universe, as the horizon at matter-radiation equality, or the acoustic horizon at last scattering. In particular, the latter determines the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale.
The higher order statistics: the three-point statistics characterizes the deviation from Gaussinity and therefore the structure formation through gravitational instability, the galaxy bias, and the primordial non-Gaussianities.
The distribution of the cosmic voids in the Universe. Both the statistics of big voids, as well as the characterization of the void expansion, provides a complementary tool to determine the matter density and the equation of state of the dark energy. Cosmic voids contain information of the higher order statistics of galaxies and can be used to further constrain the BAO scale.
The cosmic web can be used to characterize the formation of structures and relate the large scale structure with galaxy formation processes.
The distribution and abundance of galaxy clusters, as well as the evolution with time. Among other parameters, the cluster mass function depends both on the matter density as well as in the amplitude of the power spectrum. The time evolution of the mass function n(M,z) is also govern by the growth of structures in the Universe, thus being also sensitive to the equation of state of the dark energy.
Members
Principal investigator
FRANCISCO SHU
KITAURA JOYANES
Project staff
José Alberto
Rubiño Martín
Prof.
Rafael
Rebolo López
Juan E
Betancort Rijo
Martín
López Corredoira
Ricardo Tanausú
Genova Santos
Rafael Delfin
Barrena Delgado
Collaborators
José Javier
Díaz García
Dr.
A. Hempel
Dr.
F. Atrio-Barandela
Dr.
S. Patiri
Dr.
A.J. Cuesta Vázquez
Dr.
A.D. Montero Dorta
Dr.
F. Prada
Dr.
M.A. Sánchez Conde
Dr.
S. Gottlaber
Dr.
A. Klypin
Dr.
Sylos-Labini
Dr.
C. Hernández-Monteagudo
Dr.
A. Pérez Garrido
Dr.
A. Díaz Sánchez
Dr.
I. Villo
Dr.
R. Toledo
Dr.
C. Zhao
Results
- eBOSS: cosmological analysis from the quasar sample. Marcos Pellejero Ibañez and F. S. Kitaura participated in the construction of the likelihood and the cosmological parameter estimation (including as coauthors Kitaura & Pellejero Ibañez: 2018MNRAS.473.4773A).
- EUCLID: comparison project of mock galaxy catalogue generating codes showing the accuracy and speed of the PATCHY code (including as coauthors Balaguera-Antolínez, Kitaura & Pellejero Ibañez:https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09497, https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09477, https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09499)
- Development of an accurate Bias mapping method for large scale structure analysis (Balaguera-Antolínez, Kitaura, Pellejero Ibañez et al 2018:https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05870)
- Presentation of the UNITSIM project to provide simulations for the theoretical model comparison for DESI and EUCLID (including as coauthors Kitaura & Pellejero Ibañez:http://www.unitsims.org/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02111)
- Presentation of BARCODE (Bos, Kitaura & Weygaert 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05189, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ascl.soft10002B)
Scientific activity
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A common explanation of the Hubble tension and anomalous cold spots in the CMBThe standard cosmological paradigm narrates a reassuring story of a universe currently dominated by an enigmatic dark energy component. Disquietingly, its universal explaining power has recently been challenged by, above all, the ∼4σ tension in the values of the Hubble constant. Another, less studied anomaly is the repeated observation ofKovács, A. et al.
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Biases in galaxy cluster velocity dispersion and mass estimates in the small N<SUB>gal</SUB> regimeAims: We present a study of the statistical properties of three velocity dispersion and mass estimators: biweight, gapper, and standard deviation for a small number of galaxies (N gal ≤ 75). Methods: Using a set of 73 numerically simulated galaxy clusters, we first characterised the statistical bias and the variance for each one of the threeFerragamo, A. et al.
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Optical validation and characterisation of Planck PSZ1 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. II. Second year of ITP13 observationsWe report new galaxy clusters previously unknown included in the first Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources catalogue, the PSZ1. The results presented here were achieved during the second year of a two-year observational programme, the ITP13, developed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain). Using the 2.5 m Isaac NewtonBarrena, R. et al.
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The bias of dark matter tracers: assessing the accuracy of mapping techniquesWe present a comparison between approximated methods for the construction of mock catalogues based on the halo-bias mapping technique. To this end, we use as reference a high-resolution N-body simulation of 3840 3 dark matter particles on a 400 h -1 Mpc cube box from the Multidark suite. In particular, we explore parametric versus non-parametricPellejero-Ibañez, Marcos et al.
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One simulation to have them all: performance of the Bias Assignment Method against N-body simulationsIn this paper, we demonstrate that the information encoded in one single (sufficiently large) N-body simulation can be used to reproduce arbitrary numbers of halo catalogues, using approximated realizations of dark matter density fields with different initial conditions. To this end, we use as a reference one realization (from an ensemble of 300)Balaguera-Antolínez, A. et al.
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Euclid preparation. V. Predicted yield of redshift 7 < z < 9 quasars from the wide surveyWe provide predictions of the yield of 7 < z < 9 quasars from the Euclid wide survey, updating the calculation presented in the Euclid Red Book in several ways. We account for revisions to the Euclid near-infrared filter wavelengths; we adopt steeper rates of decline of the quasar luminosity function (QLF; Φ) with redshift, Φ ∝ 10 k(z - 6), k = -0Euclid Collaboration et al.
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Improving baryon acoustic oscillation measurement with the combination of cosmic voids and galaxiesWe develop a methodology to optimize the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO from tracers in underdense regions (voids). In this study, we combine the overdense and underdense tracers (galaxies and voids) to obtain better constraints on the BAOZhao, Cheng et al.
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Optical validation and characterization of Planck PSZ2 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. II. Second year of LP15 observationsContext. The second legacy catalog of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, provides the largest galaxy cluster sample selected by means of the SZ signature of the clusters in a full sky survey. In order to fully characterize this PSZ2 sample for cosmological studies, all the members should be validated and the physical propertiesAguado-Barahona, A. et al.
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Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: the relationship between mass and light around cosmic voidsWhat are the mass and galaxy profiles of cosmic voids? In this paper, we use two methods to extract voids in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 redMaGiC galaxy sample to address this question. We use either 2D slices in projection, or the 3D distribution of galaxies based on photometric redshifts to identify voids. For the mass profile, we measureFang, Y. et al.
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All-sky angular power spectra from cleaned WISE×SuperCOSMOS galaxy number countsAiming to extract cosmological information from linear scales of the WISE×SuperCOSMOS photometric redshift catalog, we perform a characterization of the systematic effects associated with stellar content, evidencing the presence of contamination and obscuration. We create an integrated model for these effects (which together we call "usurperXavier, H. S. et al.
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Optical validation and characterization of Planck PSZ2 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. I. First year of LP15 observationsAims: The second catalogue of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, is the largest sample of galaxy clusters selected through their SZ signature in the full sky. At the time of publication, 21% of these objects had no known counterpart at other wavelengths. Using telescopes at the Canary Island observatories, we conducted the longStreblyanska, A. et al.
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Bayesian cosmic density field inference from redshift space dark matter mapsWe present a self-consistent Bayesian formalism to sample the primordial density fields compatible with a set of dark matter density tracers after a cosmic evolution observed in redshift space. Previous works on density reconstruction did not self-consistently consider redshift space distortions or included an additional iterative distortionBos, E. G. Patrick et al.
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UNIT project: Universe N-body simulations for the Investigation of Theoretical models from galaxy surveysWe present the UNIT N-body cosmological simulations project, designed to provide precise predictions for non-linear statistics of the galaxy distribution. We focus on characterizing statistics relevant to emission line and luminous red galaxies in the current and upcoming generation of galaxy surveys. We use a suite of precise particle meshChuang, Chia-Hsun et al.
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Optical Identifications of Galaxy Clusters Among Objects from the Second Planck Catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich SourcesWe present the results of optical identifications and spectroscopic redshift measurements for galaxy clusters from the second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources. We used the data of observations with the 1.5-m Russian-Turkish telescope (RTT150), the 1.6-m Sayan Observatory AZT-33IK telescope, the 3.5-m Calar Alto telescope, and the 6-mZaznobin, I. A. et al.
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Clustering properties of TGSS radio sourcesWe investigate the clustering properties of radio sources in the Alternative Data Release 1 of the TIFR GMRT Sky Survey (TGSS), focusing on large angular scales, where previous analyses have detected a large clustering signal. After appropriate data selection, the TGSS sample we use contains ˜110 000 sources selected at 150 MHz over ˜70% of the skyDolfi, A. et al.
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Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices II: power spectrum multipolesWe 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 differences in covariances into parameter constraints related to growth rate of structure, Alcock-Paczynski distortions, and biasing. We consider seven methods in threeBlot, L. et al.
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More out of less: an excess integrated Sachs-Wolfe signal from supervoids mapped out by the Dark Energy SurveyThe largest structures in the cosmic web probe the dynamical nature of dark energy through their integrated Sachs-Wolfe imprints. In the strength of the signal, typical cosmic voids have shown good consistency with expectation AISW = ΔTdata/ΔTtheory = 1, given the substantial cosmic variance. Discordantly, large-scale hills in the gravitationalKovács, A. et al.
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Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices - I. Correlation functionThis 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 focus here on the covariance matrices of anisotropic two-point correlation function measurements. Our comparison includes seven approximate methods, which can be dividedLippich, M. et al.
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Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices - III: bispectrumWe 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 halo catalogues to the same quantities obtained from full N-body simulations. To this purpose we employ a large set of 300 realizations of the same cosmology for eachColavincenzo, Manuel et al.
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BAM: bias assignment method to generate mock cataloguesWe present BAM: a novel Bias Assignment Method envisaged to generate mock catalogues. Combining the statistics of dark matter tracers from a high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation and the dark matter density field calculated from down-sampled initial conditions using efficient structure formation solvers, we extract the halo-bias relationBalaguera-Antolínez, A. et al.
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