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1. CO survey of high-z radio galaxies, revisited with ALMA: Jet-cloud Alignments and Synchrotron Brightening by Molecular Gas in the Circumgalactic Environment

Author

Emonts, Bjorn, Lehnert, Matthew, Lebowitz, Sophie, Miley, George K., Villar-Martin, Montserrat, Norris, Ray, De Breuck, Carlos, Carilli, Chris, Feain, Ilana, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Powerful radio sources associated with super-massive black holes are among the most luminous objects in the Universe, and are frequently recognized both as cosmological probes and active constituents in the evolution of galaxies. We present alignments between radio jets and cold molecular gas in the environment of distant radio galaxies, and show that the brightness of the radio synchrotron source can be enhanced by its interplay with the molecular gas. Our work is based on CO J>1 observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of three radio galaxies with redshifts in the range 1.4 < z < 2.1, namely MRC 0114-211 (z = 1.41), MRC 0156-252 (z = 2.02), and MRC 2048-272 (z = 2.05). These ALMA observations support previous work that found molecular gas out to 50 kpc in the circumgalactic environment, based on a CO(1-0) survey performed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The CO emission is found along the radio axes but beyond the main radio lobes. When compared to a large sample of high-z radio galaxies from the literature, we find that the presence of this cold molecular medium correlates with an increased flux-density ratio of the main vs. counter lobe. This suggest that the radio lobe brightens when encountering cold molecular gas in the environment. While part of the molecular gas is likely related to the interstellar medium (ISM) from either the host or a companion galaxy, a significant fraction of the molecular gas in these systems shows very low excitation, with r$_{2-1/1-0}$ and r$_{3-2/1-0}$ values $\lesssim$0.2. This could be part of the circumgalactic medium (CGM)., Accepted for publication in ApJ (19 pages, 6 figures)

Published
2023

2. Point spread function modelling for astronomical telescopes: a review focused on weak gravitational lensing studies

Author

Liaudat, Tobias, Starck, Jean-Luc, Kilbinger, Martin, Frugier, Pierre-Antoine, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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FOS: Computer and information sciences, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV), Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, FOS: Physical sciences, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The accurate modelling of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is of paramount importance in astronomical observations, as it allows for the correction of distortions and blurring caused by the telescope and atmosphere. PSF modelling is crucial for accurately measuring celestial objects' properties. The last decades brought us a steady increase in the power and complexity of astronomical telescopes and instruments. Upcoming galaxy surveys like Euclid and LSST will observe an unprecedented amount and quality of data. Modelling the PSF for these new facilities and surveys requires novel modelling techniques that can cope with the ever-tightening error requirements. The purpose of this review is three-fold. First, we introduce the optical background required for a more physically-motivated PSF modelling and propose an observational model that can be reused for future developments. Second, we provide an overview of the different physical contributors of the PSF, including the optic- and detector-level contributors and the atmosphere. We expect that the overview will help better understand the modelled effects. Third, we discuss the different methods for PSF modelling from the parametric and non-parametric families for ground- and space-based telescopes, with their advantages and limitations. Validation methods for PSF models are then addressed, with several metrics related to weak lensing studies discussed in detail. Finally, we explore current challenges and future directions in PSF modelling for astronomical telescopes., Comment: 63 pages, 14 figures. Submitted

Published
2023

3. Massive Black Hole Binaries as LISA Precursors in the Roman High Latitude Time Domain Survey

Author

Haiman, Zoltán, Xin, Chengcheng, Bogdanović, Tamara, Seoane, Pau Amaro, Bonetti, Matteo, Casey-Clyde, J. Andrew, Charisi, Maria, Colpi, Monica, Davelaar, Jordy, De Rosa, Alessandra, D'Orazio, Daniel J., Futrowsky, Kate, Gandhi, Poshak, Graham, Alister W., Greene, Jenny E., Habouzit, Melanie, Haggard, Daryl, Holley-Bockelmann, Kelly, Liu, Xin, Mangiagli, Alberto, Mastrobuono-Battisti, Alessandra, McGee, Sean, Mingarelli, Chiara M. F., Nemmen, Rodrigo, Palmese, Antonella, Porquet, Delphine, Sesana, Alberto, Stemo, Aaron, Torres-Orjuela, Alejandro, Zrake, Jonathan, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), High Energy Physics - Theory, LISA, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], gravitational radiation, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), redshift, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, black hole, binary, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], galaxy, AGN, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

With its capacity to observe $\sim 10^{5-6}$ faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) out to redshift $z\approx 6$, Roman is poised to reveal a population of $10^{4-6}\, {\rm M_\odot}$ black holes during an epoch of vigorous galaxy assembly. By measuring the light curves of a subset of these AGN and looking for periodicity, Roman can identify several hundred massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) with 5-12 day orbital periods, which emit copious gravitational radiation and will inevitably merge on timescales of $10^{3-5}$ years. During the last few months of their merger, such binaries are observable with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a joint ESA/NASA gravitational wave mission set to launch in the mid-2030s. Roman can thus find LISA precursors, provide uniquely robust constraints on the LISA source population, help identify the host galaxies of LISA mergers, and unlock the potential of multi-messenger astrophysics with massive black hole binaries., White Paper for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Core Community Surveys (https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs_white_papers.html)

Published
2023

4. Practical approaches to analyzing PTA data: Cosmic strings with six pulsars

Author

Leclere, Hippolyte Quelquejay, Auclair, Pierre, Babak, Stanislav, Chalumeau, Aurélien, Steer, Danièle A., Antoniadis, J., Nielsen, A. -S. Bak, Bassa, C. G., Berthereau, A., Bonetti, M., Bortolas, E., Brook, P. R., Burgay, M., Caballero, R. N., Champion, D. J., Chanlaridis, S., Chen, S., Cognard, I., Desvignes, G., Falxa, M., Ferdman, R. D., Franchini, A., Gair, J. R., Goncharov, B., Graikou, E., Grießmeier, J. -M., Guillemot, L., Guo, Y. J., Hu, H., Iraci, F., Izquierdo-Villalba, D., Jang, J., Jawor, J., Janssen, G. H., Jessner, A., Karuppusamy, R., Keane, E. F., Keith, M. J., Kramer, M., Krishnakumar, M. A., Lackeos, K., Lee, K. J., Liu, K., Liu, Y., Lyne, A. G., McKee, J. W., Main, R. A., Mickaliger, M. B., Niţu, I. C., Parthasarathy, A., Perera, B. B. P., Perrodin, D., Petiteau, A., Porayko, N. K., Possenti, A., Samajdar, A., Sanidas, S. A., Sesana, A., Shaifullah, G., Speri, L., Spiewak, R., Stappers, B. W., Susarla, S. C., Theureau, G., Tiburzi, C., van der Wateren, E., Vecchio, A., Krishnan, V. Venkatraman, Verbiest, J. P. W., Wang, J., Wang, L., Wu, Z., AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace (LPC2E), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), and EPTA

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High Energy Physics - Theory, kink, binary: mass, noise, data analysis method, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), gravitational radiation: stochastic, string tension, gravitational radiation: background, FOS: Physical sciences, statistical analysis: Bayesian, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), parametric, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), black hole: binary, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], string: closed, string model, simplex, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, cosmic string: network, pulsar
Abstract

We search for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) generated by a network of cosmic strings using six millisecond pulsars from Data Release 2 (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). We perform a Bayesian analysis considering two models for the network of cosmic string loops, and compare it to a simple power-law model which is expected from the population of supermassive black hole binaries. Our main strong assumption is that the previously reported common red noise process is a SGWB. We find that the one-parameter cosmic string model is slightly favored over a power-law model thanks to its simplicity. If we assume a two-component stochastic signal in the data (supermassive black hole binary population and the signal from cosmic strings), we get a $95\%$ upper limit on the string tension of $\log_{10}(Gμ) < -9.9$ ($-10.5$) for the two cosmic string models we consider. In extended two-parameter string models, we were unable to constrain the number of kinks. We test two approximate and fast Bayesian data analysis methods against the most rigorous analysis and find consistent results. These two fast and efficient methods are applicable to all SGWBs, independent of their source, and will be crucial for analysis of extended data sets., 13 pages, 5 figures

Published
2023

5. Euclid: Constraining linearly scale-independent modifications of gravity with the spectroscopic and photometric primary probes

Author

Frusciante, N., Pace, F., Cardone, V. F., Casas, S., Tutusaus, I., Ballardini, M., Bellini, E., Benevento, G., Bose, B., Valageas, P., Bartolo, N., Brax, P., Ferreira, P. G., Finelli, F., Koyama, K., Legrand, L., Lombriser, L., Paoletti, D., Pietroni, M., Rozas-Fernández, A., Sakr, Z., Silvestri, A., Vernizzi, F., Winther, H. A., Aghanim, N., Amendola, L., Auricchio, N., Azzollini, R., Baldi, M., Bonino, D., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Camera, S., Capobianco, V., Carbone, C., Carretero, J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Cropper, M., Da Silva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Dinis, J., Dubath, F., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Galeotta, S., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Holmes, W., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kitching, T., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Markovic, K., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Meneghetti, M., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. M., Nightingale, J., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pettorino, V., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L., Raison, F., Rebolo, R., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Saglia, R., Sapone, D., Sartoris, B., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Kleijn, G. A. Verdoes, Wang, Y., Zacchei, A., Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Scottez, V., Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Camille Jordan (ICJ), École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Euclid

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, dimension: 5, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), gravitation: model, perturbation, gr-qc, scalar tensor, satellite, multipole, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Brans-Dicke model, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, membrane model, embedding, gravitation: lens, invariance: scale, matter: coupling, statistical analysis, cosmological model: parameter space, general relativity, Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati model, universality, correlation function, Minkowski, Jordan, General Relativity and Cosmology, screening, field theory: scalar, confidence limit, astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], nonlinear, galaxy: cluster, higher-dimensional, k-essence, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The future Euclid space satellite mission will offer an invaluable opportunity to constrain modifications to general relativity at cosmic scales. We focus on modified gravity models characterised, at linear scales, by a scale-independent growth of perturbations while featuring different testable types of derivative screening mechanisms at smaller nonlinear scales. We consider 3 specific models, namely Jordan-Brans-Dicke (JBD), the normal branch of Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (nDGP) gravity and $k$-mouflage (KM) gravity. We provide forecasts from spectroscopic and photometric primary probes by Euclid on the cosmological parameters and the extra parameters of the models, respectively, $\omega_{\rm BD}$, $\Omega_{\rm rc}$ and $\epsilon_{2,0}$, which quantify the deviations from general relativity. This analysis will improve our knowledge of the cosmology of these modified gravity models. The forecasts analysis employs the Fisher matrix method applied to weak lensing (WL); photometric galaxy clustering (GC$_{ph}$); spectroscopic galaxy clustering (GC$_{sp}$) and the cross-correlation (XC) between GC$_{ph}$ and WL. For the Euclid survey specifications we define three scenarios, characterised by different cuts in $\ell$ and $k$, to assess the constraining power of nonlinear scales. For each model we consider two fiducial values for the corresponding model parameter. In an optimistic setting at 68.3\% confidence interval, with Euclid alone we find the following percentage relative errors: for $\log_{10}{\omega_{\rm BD}}$, with a fiducial value of $\omega_{\rm BD}=800$, 35% using GC$_{sp}$ alone, 3.6% using GC$_{ph}$+WL+XC and 3.3% using GC$_{ph}$+WL+XC+GC$_{sp}$; for $\log_{10}{\Omega_{\rm rc}}$, with a fiducial value of $\Omega_{\rm rc}=0.25$, we find respectively 90%, 20% and 17%; finally, for $\epsilon_{2,0}=-0.04$ respectively 5%, 0.15% and 0.14%. (abridged), Comment: 22 pages, 9 figures, 4 tables, 1 appendix

Published
2023

6. The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring A Generalized SHAM for Multiple Tracers with the UNIT Simulation

Author

Yu, Jiaxi, Zhao, Cheng, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Brodzeller, Allyson, de Mattia, Arnaud, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Krolewski, Alex, Rocher, Antoine, Ross, Ashley, Wang, Yunchong, Yuan, Sihan, Zhang, Hanyu, Zhou, Rongpu, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Brooks, David, Dawson, Kyle, de la Macorra, Alex, Doel, Peter, Fanning, Kevin, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Honscheid, Klaus, Kehoe, Robert, Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Landriau, Martin, Manera, Marc, Martini, Paul, Meisner, Aaron, Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Nie, Jundan, Percival, Will, Poppett, Claire, Raichoor, Anand, Rossi, Graziano, Seo, Hee-Jong, Tarlé, Gregory, Zhou, Zhimin, Zou, Hu, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

International audience; We perform a SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) study with two algorithms: {$\sigma, V_{\rm ceil}, v_{\rm smear}$}-SHAM and {$\sigma, V_{\rm ceil},f_{\rm sat}$}-SHAM. These are designed to reproduce the clustering on 5--30$\,h^{-1}\,{\rm Mpc}$ of DESI One Percent Survey targets: Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs), Emission Line Galaxies (ELGs) and Quasi-Stellar Objects (QSOs) at $0.4

Published
2023

7. Euclid: Constraints on f(R) cosmologies from the spectroscopic and photometric primary probes

Author

Casas, S., Cardone, V. F., Sapone, D., Frusciante, N., Pace, F., Parimbelli, G., Archidiacono, M., Koyama, K., Tutusaus, I., Camera, S., Martinelli, M., Pettorino, V., Sakr, Z., Lombriser, L., Silvestri, A., Pietroni, M., Vernizzi, F., Kunz, M., Kitching, T., Pourtsidou, A., Lacasa, F., Carbone, C., Garcia-Bellido, J., Aghanim, N., Altieri, B., Amara, A., Auricchio, N., Baldi, M., Bodendorf, C., Branchini, E., Brescia, M., Brinchmann, J., Capobianco, V., Carretero, J., Castellano, M., Cavuoti, S., Cimatti, A., Cledassou, R., Congedo, G., Conselice, C. J., Conversi, L., Copin, Y., Corcione, L., Courbin, F., Courtois, H. M., DaSilva, A., Degaudenzi, H., Dubath, F., Duncan, C. A. J., Dupac, X., Dusini, S., Farrens, S., Ferriol, S., Fosalba, P., Frailis, M., Franceschi, E., Fumana, M., Galeotta, S., Garilli, B., Gillard, W., Gillis, B., Giocoli, C., Grazian, A., Grupp, F., Guzzo, L., Haugan, S. V. H., Hormuth, F., Hornstrup, A., Hudelot, P., Jahnke, K., Kermiche, S., Kiessling, A., Kilbinger, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Ligori, S., Lilje, P. B., Lloro, I., Maiorano, E., Mansutti, O., Marggraf, O., Marulli, F., Massey, R., Medinaceli, E., Mellier, Y., Meneghetti, M., Merlin, E., Meylan, G., Moresco, M., Moscardini, L., Munari, E., Niemi, S. -M., Padilla, C., Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Percival, W. J., Pires, S., Polenta, G., Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Raison, F., Renzi, A., Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Romelli, E., Roncarelli, M., Rossetti, E., Saglia, R., Sartoris, B., Scottez, V., Secroun, A., Seidel, G., Serrano, S., Sirignano, C., Sirri, G., Stanco, L., Starck, J. -L., Surace, C., Tallada-Crespí, P., Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Toledo-Moreo, R., Torradeflot, F., Valentijn, E. A., Valenziano, L., Vassallo, T., Wang, Y., Weller, J., Zoubian, J., Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Camille Jordan (ICJ), École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Euclid

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

$\textit{Euclid}$ will provide a powerful compilation of data including spectroscopic redshifts, the angular clustering of galaxies, weak lensing cosmic shear, and the cross-correlation of these last two photometric observables. In this study we extend recently presented $\textit{Euclid}$ forecasts into the Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ cosmological model, a popular extension of the Hilbert-Einstein action that introduces an universal modified gravity force in a scale-dependent way. Our aim is to estimate how well future $\textit{Euclid}$ data will be able to constrain the extra parameter of the theory, $f_{R0}$, for the range in which this parameter is still allowed by current observations. For the spectroscopic probe, we use a phenomenological approach for the scale dependence of the growth of perturbations in the terms related to baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift-space distortions. For the photometric observables, we use a fitting formula that captures the modifications in the non-linear matter power spectrum caused by the $f(R)$ model. We show that, in an optimistic setting, and for a fiducial value of $f_{R0} = 5 \times 10^{-6}$, $\textit{Euclid}$ alone will be able to constrain the additional parameter $\log f_{R0}$ at the $3\%$ level, using spectroscopic galaxy clustering alone; at the $1.4\%$ level, using the combination of photometric probes on their own; and at the $1\%$ level, using the combination of spectroscopic and photometric observations. This last constraint corresponds to an error of the order of $6 \times 10^{-7}$ at the $1\sigma$ level on the model parameter $f_{R0} = 5 \times 10^{-6}$. We report also forecasted constraints for $f_{R0} = 5 \times 10^{-5}$ and $f_{R0} = 5 \times 10^{-7}$ and show that in the optimistic scenario, $\textit{Euclid}$ will be able to distinguish these models from $\Lambda\mathrm{CDM}$ at more than 3$\sigma$. (abridged), Comment: 10 Figures, 3 Tables, 1 Appendix

Published
2023

8. Optimal 1D Ly$\alpha$ Forest Power Spectrum Estimation -- III. DESI early data

Author

Karaçaylı, Naim Göksel, Martini, Paul, Guy, Julien, Ravoux, Corentin, Karim, Marie Lynn Abdul, Armengaud, Eric, Walther, Michael, Aguilar, J, Ahlen, S, Bailey, S, Bautista, J, Beltran, S.F, Brooks, D, Cabayol-Garcia, L, Chabanier, S, Chaussidon, E, Chaves-Montero, J, Dawson, K, de la Cruz, R, de la Macorra, A, Doel, P, Font-Ribera, A, Forero-Romero, J.E, Gontcho A. Gontcho, S, Gonzalez-Morales, A.X, Gordon, C, Herrera-Alcantar, H.K, Honscheid, K, Iršič, V, Ishak, M, Kehoe, R, Kisner, T, Kremin, A, Landriau, M, Le Guillou, L, Levi, M.E, Lukić, Z, Meisner, A, Miquel, R, Moustakas, J, Mueller, E, Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A, Napolitano, L, Nie, J, Niz, G, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Percival, W.J, Pieri, M, Poppett, C, Prada, F, Pérez-Ràfols, I, Ramírez-Pérez, C, Rossi, G, Sanchez, E, Seo, H, Sinigaglia, F, Tan, T, Tarlé, G, Wang, B, Weaver, B.A, Yèche, C, Zhou, Z, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de RadioAstronomía Milimétrica (IRAM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The one-dimensional power spectrum $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ of the Ly$\alpha$ forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on warm dark matter models, the sum of the masses of the three neutrino species, and the thermal state of the intergalactic medium. We present the first measurement of $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ with the quadratic maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey early data sample. This early sample of $54~600$ quasars is already comparable in size to the largest previous studies, and we conduct a thorough investigation of numerous instrumental and analysis systematic errors to evaluate their impact on DESI data with QMLE. We demonstrate the excellent performance of the spectroscopic pipeline noise estimation and the impressive accuracy of the spectrograph resolution matrix with two-dimensional image simulations of raw DESI images that we processed with the DESI spectroscopic pipeline. We also study metal line contamination and noise calibration systematics with quasar spectra on the red side of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line. In a companion paper, we present a similar analysis based on the Fast Fourier Transform estimate of the power spectrum. We conclude with a comparison of these two approaches and implications for the upcoming DESI Year 1 analysis., Comment: 22 pages, 18 figures

Published
2023

9. The Optical Corrector for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Author

Miller, Timothy N., Doel, Peter, Gutierrez, Gaston, Besuner, Robert, Brooks, David, Gallo, Giuseppe, Heetderks, Henry, Jelinsky, Patrick, Kent, Stephen M., Lampton, Michael, Levi, Michael, Liang, Ming, Meisner, Aaron, Sholl, Michael J., Silber, Joseph Harry, Sprayberry, David, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, de la Macorra, Axel, Eisenstein, Daniel, Fanning, Kevin, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Gaztanaga, Enrique, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Honscheid, Klaus, Jimenez, Jorge, Joyce, Dick, Kehoe, Robert, Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Landriau, Martin, Guillou, Laurent Le, Magneville, Christophe, Martini, Paul, Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Nie, Jundan, Percival, Will, Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Rossi, Graziano, Schlegel, David, Schubnell, Michael, Seo, Hee-Jong, Sharples, Ray, Tarle, Gregory, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Zhou, Zhimin, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and DESI

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the spectra of 40\,million galaxies and quasars, the largest such survey ever made to probe the nature of cosmological dark energy. The 4-meter Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory has been adapted for DESI, including the construction of a 3.2-degree diameter prime focus corrector that focuses astronomical light onto a 0.8-meter diameter focal surface with excellent image quality over the DESI bandpass of 360-980nm. The wide-field corrector includes six lenses, as large as 1.1-meters in diameter and as heavy as 237\,kilograms, including two counter-rotating wedged lenses that correct for atmospheric dispersion over Zenith angles from 0 to 60 degrees. The lenses, cells, and barrel assembly all meet precise alignment tolerances on the order of tens of microns. The barrel alignment is maintained throughout a range of observing angles and temperature excursions in the Mayall dome by use of a hexapod, which is itself supported by a new cage, ring, and truss structure. In this paper we describe the design, fabrication, and performance of the new corrector and associated structure, focusing on how they meet DESI requirements. In particular we describe the prescription and specifications of the lenses, design choices and error budgeting of the barrel assembly, stray light mitigations, and integration and test at the Mayall telescope. We conclude with some validation highlights that demonstrate the successful corrector on-sky performance, and list some lessons learned during the multi-year fabrication phase., Comment: 68 pages, 56 figures, 22 tables. Submitted to the Astronomical Journal

Published
2023

10. Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Author

Schlafly, E. F., Kirkby, D., Schlegel, D. J., Myers, A. D., Raichoor, A., Dawson, K., Aguilar, J., Prieto, C. Allende, Bailey, S., BenZvi, S., Bermejo-Climent, J., Brooks, D., de la Macorra, A., Dey, Arjun, Doel, P., Fanning, K., Font-Ribera, A., Forero-Romero, J. E., García-Bellido, J., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Guy, J., Hahn, C., Honscheid, K., Ishak, M., Juneau, S., Kehoe, R., Kisner, T., Kremin, A., Landriau, M., Lang, D. A., Lasker, J., Levi, M. E., Magneville, C., Manser, C. J., Martini, P., Meisner, A. M., Miquel, R., Moustakas, J., Newman, J. A., Nie, Jundan, Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Poppett, C., Rockosi, C., Ross, A. J., Rossi, G., Tarlé, G., Weaver, B. A., Yèche, C., Zhou, R., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and DESI

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at $0 < z < 3.5$ covering 14,000 square degrees of the sky. In its first 1.1 years of survey operations, it has observed more than 14 million galaxies and 4 million stars. We describe the processes that govern DESI's observations of the 15,000 fields composing the survey. This includes the planning of each night's observations in the afternoon; automatic selection of fields to observe during the night; real-time assessment of field completeness on the basis of observing conditions during each exposure; reduction, redshifting, and quality assurance of each field of targets in the morning following observation; and updates to the list of future targets to observe on the basis of these results. We also compare the performance of the survey with historical expectations, and find good agreement. Simulations of the weather and of DESI observations using the real field-selection algorithm show good agreement with the actual observations. After accounting for major unplanned shutdowns, the dark time survey is progressing about 7% faster than forecast., 28 pages, 12 figures; references updated, zenodo link added

Published
2023

11. The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest catalog from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Early Data Release

Author

Ramírez-Pérez, César, Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Karim, M. Abdul, Armengaud, E., Bautista, J., Beltran, S. F., Cabayol-Garcia, L., Cai, Z., Chabanier, S., Chaussidon, E., Chaves-Montero, J., Cuceu, A., de la Cruz, R., García-Bellido, J., Gonzalez-Morales, A. X., Gordon, C., Herrera-Alcantar, H. K., Iršič, V., Ishak, M., Karaçaylı, N. G., Lukić, Zarija, Manser, C. J., Montero-Camacho, P., Napolitano, L., Niz, G., Pieri, M., Ravoux, C., Sinigaglia, F., Tan, T., Walther, M., Wang, B., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Bailey, S., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., Dawson, K., de la Macorra, A., Dhungana, G., Doel, P., Fanning, K., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Guy, J., Honscheid, K., Kehoe, R., Kisner, T., Landriau, M., Guillou, L. Le, Levi, M. E., Magneville, C., Martini, P., Meisner, A., Miquel, R., Moustakas, J., Mueller, E., Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A., Nie, J., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Rossi, G., Sanchez, E., Schlafly, E. F., Schlegel, D., Seo, H., Tarlé, G., Weaver, B. A., Yèche, C., Zhou, Z., Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches Subatomiques (IReS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Cancéropôle du Grand Est-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and DESI

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

International audience; We present and validate the catalog of Lyman-$\alpha$ forest fluctuations for 3D analyses using the Early Data Release (EDR) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. We used 96,317 quasars collected from DESI Survey Validation (SV) data and the first two months of the main survey (M2). We present several improvements to the method used to extract the Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption fluctuations performed in previous analyses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In particular, we modify the weighting scheme and show that it can improve the precision of the correlation function measurement by more than 20%. This catalog can be downloaded from https://data.desi.lbl.gov/public/edr/vac/edr/lya/fuji/v0.3 and it will be used in the near future for the first DESI measurements of the 3D correlations in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest.

Published
2023

12. Cosmological inference including massive neutrinos from the matter power spectrum: biases induced by uncertainties in the covariance matrix

Author

Beauchamps, S. Gouyou, Baratta, P., Escoffier, S., Gillard, W., Bel, J., Bautista, J., Carbone, C., Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332 (CPT), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Data analysis from upcoming large galaxy redshift surveys, such as Euclid and DESI will significantly improve constraints on cosmological parameters. To optimally extract the information from these galaxy surveys, it is important to control with a high level of confidence the uncertainty and bias arising from the estimation of the covariance that affects the inference of cosmological parameters. In this work, we are addressing two different but closely related issues: (i) the sampling noise present in a covariance matrix estimated from a finite set of simulations and (ii) the impact on cosmological constraints of the non-Gaussian contribution to the covariance matrix of the power spectrum. We focus on the parameter estimation obtained from fitting the matter power spectrum in real space, using the DEMNUni N-body simulations. Regarding the first issue, we adopt two different approaches to reduce the sampling noise in the precision matrix that propagates in the parameter space: on the one hand using an alternative estimator of the covariance matrix based on a non-linear shrinkage, NERCOME; and on the other hand employing a method of fast generation of approximate mock catalogs, COVMOS. We find that NERCOME can significantly reduce the noise induced on the posterior distribution of parameters, but at the cost of a systematic overestimation of the error bars on the cosmological parameters. We show that using a COVMOS covariance matrix estimated from a large number of realisations (10~000) results in unbiased cosmological constraints. Regarding the second issue, we quantify the impact on cosmological constraints of the non-Gaussian part of the power spectrum covariance purely coming from non-linear clustering. We find that when this term is neglected, both the errors and central values of the estimated parameters are affected for a scale cut $\kmax > 0.2\ \invMpc$., 21 pages, 2 appendices, 20 figures. Submitted to A&A

Published
2023

13. Gravitational waves from binary black holes in a self-interacting scalar dark matter cloud

Author

Boudon, Alexis, Brax, Philippe, Valageas, Patrick, Wong, Leong Khim, Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681 (IPHT), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Astrophysics and Astronomy, wave function, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), gr-qc, astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), mass: scalar, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, accretion, DECIGO, general relativity, cloud, self-force: scalar, dark matter: scalar, LIGO, correction: higher-order, density, LISA, General Relativity and Cosmology, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], hep-th, gravitational radiation, Schwarzschild, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, field theory: scalar, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), black hole: binary, gravitation, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Particle Physics - Theory, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We investigate the imprints of accretion and dynamical friction on the gravitational-wave signals emitted by binary black holes embedded in a scalar dark matter cloud. As a key feature in this work, we focus on scalar fields with a repulsive self-interaction that balances against the self-gravity of the cloud. To a first approximation, the phase of the gravitational-wave signal receives extra correction terms at $-4$PN and $-5.5$PN orders, relative to the prediction of vacuum general relativity, due to accretion and dynamical friction, respectively. Future observations by LISA and B-DECIGO have the potential to detect these effects for a large range of scalar masses~$m_\mathrm{DM}$ and self-interaction couplings~$\lambda_4$; observations by ET and Advanced~LIGO could also detect these effects, albeit in a more limited region of parameter space. Crucially, we find that even if a dark matter cloud has a bulk density~$\rho_0$ that is too dilute to be detected via the effects of dynamical friction, the imprints of accretion could still be observable because it is controlled by the independent scale $\rho_a = 4 m_{\rm DM}^4 c^3/(3 \lambda_4 \hbar^3)$. In the models we consider, the infalling dark matter increases in density up to this characteristic scale $\rho_a$ near the Schwarzschild radius, which sets the accretion rate and its associated impact on the gravitational~waveform., Comment: 20 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables

Published
2023

14. Bulk flows in the local Universe and the importance of relativistic effects

Author

Heinesen, Asta, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Bulk flow velocities are typically estimated in the idealised picture where observers are moving within a perfectly homogeneous and isotropic space-time. This picture is consistent within standard perturbation theory up to relativistic effects that lead to correction terms of order $v \times z$, where $z$ is the redshift of observation, and $v$ is the amplitude of the bulk flow. The dominant relativistic contributions at scales $z \lesssim 1$ are caused by gravitational redshift and time-evolution of the velocity field. We include these effects within a broadly applicable weak-field approximation, and provide a cosmographic formula for estimating bulk flows at a high precision. Based on this formula, we judge that recent bulk flow estimates are biased towards larger values by $\sim 10\%$. This theoretical bias surpasses the measurement biases of the same estimates, and it will become still more important to account for the relativistic effects as the scales at which bulk flows are estimated increase., Comment: 7 pages

Published
2023

15. Galaxy Morphology from $z\sim6$ through the eyes of JWST

Author

Huertas-Company, M., Iyer, K. G., Angeloudi, E., Bagley, M. B., Finkelstein, S. L., Kartaltepe, J., Sarmiento, R., Vega-Ferrero, J., Haro, P. Arrabal, Behroozi, P., Buitrago, F., Cheng, Y., Costantin, L., Dekel, A., Dickinson, M., Elbaz, D., Grogin, N. A., Hathi, N. P., Holwerda, B. W., Koekemoer, A. M., Lucas, R. A., Papovich, C., Pérez-González, P. G., Pirzkal, N., Seillé, L-M., de la Vega, A., Wuyts, S., Yang, G., Yung, L. Y. A., Observatoire de Paris - Site de Paris (OP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris 13 (UP13), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We analyze the Near Infrared ($\sim0.8-1\mu$m) rest-frame morphologies of galaxies with $\log M_*/M_\odot>9$ in the redshift range $010.5$) at $z\sim5$, and bulge-dominated galaxies also exist at these early epochs, confirming a rich and evolved morphological diversity of galaxies $\sim1$ Gyr after the Big Bang. Finally, we find that the morphology-quenching relation is already in place for massive galaxies at $z>3$, with massive quiescent galaxies ($\log M_*/M_\odot>10.5$) being predominantly bulge-dominated., Comment: Submitted to A&A, comments welcome

Published
2023

16. Performance of the Quasar Spectral Templates for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Author

Brodzeller, Allyson, Dawson, Kyle, Bailey, Stephen, Yu, Jiaxi, Ross, A. J., Bault, A., Filbert, S., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Alexander, David M., Armengaud, E., Berti, A., Brooks, D., Chaussidon, E., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Fanning, K., Fawcett, V. A., Font-Ribera, A., Gontcho, S. Gontcho A, Guy, J., Honscheid, K., Juneau, S., Kehoe, R., Kisner, T., Kremin, Anthony, Lan, Ting-Wen, Landriau, M., Levi, Michael E., Magneville, C., Martini, Paul, Meisner, Aaron M., Miquel, R., Moustakas, J., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Percival, W. J., Prada, F., Ravoux, C., Rossi, Graziano, Saulder, C., Siudek, M., Tarlé, Gregory, Weaver, B. A., Youles, S., Zheng, Zheng, Zhou, Rongpu, Zhou, Zhimin, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and DESI

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Millions of quasar spectra will be collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), leading to a four-fold increase in the number of known quasars. High accuracy quasar classification is essential to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters measured at the highest redshifts DESI observes ($z>2.0$). We present the spectral templates for identification and redshift estimation of quasars in the DESI Year 1 data release. The quasar templates are comprised of two quasar eigenspectra sets, trained on spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sets are specialized to reconstruct quasar spectral variation observed over separate yet overlapping redshift ranges and, together, are capable of identifying DESI quasars from $0.05 < z, to be published in Astronomical Journal; 21 pages, 8 figures

Published
2023

17. Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity from DESI quasar targets and Planck CMB lensing

Author

Krolewski, Alex, Percival, Will J., Ferraro, Simone, Chaussidon, Edmond, Rezaie, Mehdi, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Brooks, David, Dawson, Kyle, de la Macorra, Axel, Doel, Peter, Fanning, Kevin, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Guy, Julien, Honscheid, Klaus, Kehoe, Robert, Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael E., Martini, Paul, Meisner, Aaron M., Miquel, Ramon, Nie, Jundan, Poppett, Claire, Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Schubnell, Michael, Seo, Hee-Jong, Tarle, Gregory, Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Yeche, Christophe, Zhou, Rongpu, Zhou, Zhimin, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and DESI

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We detect the cross-correlation between 2.7 million DESI quasar targets across 14,700 deg$^2$ (180 quasars deg$^{-2}$) and Planck 2018 CMB lensing at $\sim$30$\sigma$. We use the cross-correlation on very large scales to constrain local primordial non-Gaussianity via the scale dependence of quasar bias. The DESI quasar targets lie at an effective redshift of 1.51 and are separated into four imaging regions of varying depth and image quality. We select quasar targets from Legacy Survey DR9 imaging, apply additional flux and photometric redshift cuts to improve the purity and reduce the fraction of unclassified redshifts, and use early DESI spectroscopy of 194,000 quasar targets to determine their redshift distribution and stellar contamination fraction (2.6%). Due to significant excess large-scale power in the quasar autocorrelation, we apply weights to mitigate contamination from imaging systematics such as depth, extinction, and stellar density. We use realistic contaminated mocks to determine the greatest number of systematic modes that we can fit, before we are biased by overfitting and spuriously remove real power. We find that linear regression with one to seven imaging templates removed per region accurately recovers the input cross-power, $f_{\textrm{NL}}$ and linear bias. As in previous analyses, our $f_{\textrm{NL}}$ constraint depends on the linear primordial non-Gaussianity bias parameter, $b_{\phi} = 2(b - p)\delta_c$ assuming universality of the halo mass function. We measure $f_{\textrm{NL}} = -26^{+45}_{-40}$ with $p=1.6$ $(f_{\textrm{NL}} = -18^{+29}_{-27}$ with $p=1.0$), and find that this result is robust under several systematics tests. Future spectroscopic quasar cross-correlations with Planck lensing lensing can tighten the $f_{\textrm{NL}}$ constraints by a factor of 2 if they can remove the excess power on large scales in the quasar auto power spectrum., Comment: 57 pages, 25 figures, submitted to JCAP

Published
2023

18. JWST CEERS probes the role of stellar mass and morphology in obscuring galaxies

Author

Gómez-Guijarro, Carlos, Magnelli, Benjamin, Elbaz, David, Wuyts, Stijn, Daddi, Emanuele, Le Bail, Aurélien, Giavalisco, Mauro, Dickinson, Mark, Pérez-González, Pablo G, Haro, Pablo Arrabal, Bagley, Micaela B, Bisigello, Laura, Buat, Véronique, Burgarella, Denis, Calabrò, Antonello, Casey, Caitlin M, Cheng, Yingjie, Ciesla, Laure, Dekel, Avishai, Ferguson, Henry C, Finkelstein, Steven L, Franco, Maximilien, Grogin, Norman A, Holwerda, Benne W, Jin, Shuowen, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S, Koekemoer, Anton M, Kokorev, Vasily, Long, Arianna S, Lucas, Ray A, Magdis, Georgios E, Papovich, Casey, Pirzkal, Nor, Seillé, Lise-Marie, Tacchella, Sandro, Tarrasse, Maxime, Valentino, Francesco, de la Vega, Alexander, Wilkins, Stephen M, Xiao, Mengyuan, Yung, L.Y. Aaron, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

A population of massive galaxies invisible or very faint in deep optical/near-infrared surveys, but brighter at longer wavelengths has been uncovered in the past years. However, the nature of these optically dark/faint galaxies (OFGs, among other nomenclatures) is highly uncertain. In this work, we investigate the drivers of dust attenuation in the JWST era. Particularly, we study the role of stellar mass, size, and orientation in obscuring star-forming galaxies (SFGs) at $3 < z < 7.5$, focusing on understanding why galaxies like OFGs are so faint at optical/near-infrared wavelengths. We find that stellar mass is the primary proxy of dust attenuation among those studied. Effective radius and axis ratio do not show a clear link with dust attenuation, with the effect of orientation close to random. However, there is a subset of highly dust attenuated ($A_V > 1$, typically) SFGs, of which OFGs are a specific case. For this subset, we find that the key distinctive feature is their compact size (for massive systems with $\log (M_{*}/M_{\odot}) > 10$), exhibiting 30% smaller effective radius than the average SFGs at the same stellar mass and redshift. On the contrary, they do not exhibit a preference for low axis ratios (i.e., edge-on disks). The results in this work show stellar mass as a primary proxy of dust attenuation and compact stellar light profiles behind thick dust columns obscuring typical massive SFGs., Submitted to A&A. 13 pages, 9 figures

Published
2023

19. Cosmoglobe DR1 results. II. Constraints on isotropic cosmic birefringence from reprocessed WMAP and Planck LFI data

Author

Eskilt, J. R., Watts, D. J., Aurlien, R., Basyrov, A., Bersanelli, M., Brilenkov, M., Colombo, L. P. L., Eriksen, H. K., Fornazier, K. S. F., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Galloway, M., Gjerløw, E., Hensley, B., Hergt, L. T., Herman, D., Ihle, H. T., Lee, K., Lunde, J. G. S., Nerval, S. K., Paradiso, S., Patel, S. K., Rahman, F., Regnier, M., San, M., Sanyal, S., Stutzer, N. -O., Thommesen, H., Verma, A., Wehus, I. K., Zhou, Y., AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Cosmic birefringence is a parity-violating effect that might have rotated the plane of linearly polarized light of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by an angle $\beta$ since its emission. This has recently been measured to be non-zero at a statistical significance of $3.6\sigma$ in the official Planck PR4 and 9-year WMAP data. In this work, we constrain $\beta$ using the reprocessed BeyondPlanck LFI and Cosmoglobe DR1 WMAP polarization maps. These novel maps have both lower systematic residuals and a more complete error description than the corresponding official products. Foreground $EB$ correlations could bias measurements of $\beta$, and while thermal dust $EB$ emission has been argued to be statistically non-zero, no evidence for synchrotron $EB$ power has been reported. Unlike the dust-dominated Planck HFI maps, the majority of the LFI and WMAP polarization maps are instead dominated by synchrotron emission. Simultaneously constraining $\beta$ and the polarization miscalibration angle, $\alpha$, of each channel, we find a best-fit value of $\beta=0.35^{\circ}\pm0.70^{\circ}$ with LFI and WMAP data only. When including the Planck HFI PR4 maps, but fitting $\beta$ separately for dust-dominated, $\beta_{>70\,\mathrm{GHz}}$, and synchrotron-dominated channels, $\beta_{\leq 70\,\mathrm{GHz}}$, we find $\beta_{\leq 70\,\mathrm{GHz}}=0.53^{\circ}\pm0.28^\circ$. This differs from zero with a statistical significance of $1.9\sigma$, and the main contribution to this value comes from the LFI 70 GHz channel. While the statistical significances of these results are low on their own, the measurement derived from the LFI and WMAP synchrotron-dominated maps agrees with the previously reported HFI-dominated constraints, despite the very different astrophysical and instrumental systematics involved in all these experiments., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to A&A

Published
2023

20. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Key Results

Author

Shen, Yue, Grier, Catherine J, Horne, Keith, Stone, Zachary, Li, Jennifer I, Yang, Qian, Homayouni, Yasaman, Trump, Jonathan R, Anderson, Scott F, Brandt, W.N, Hall, Patrick B, Ho, Luis C, Jiang, Linhua, Petitjean, Patrick, Schneider, Donald P, Tao, Charling, Donnan, Fergus.R, Alsayyad, Yusra, Bershady, Matthew A, Blanton, Michael R, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Bundy, Kevin, Chen, Yuguang, Davis, Megan C, Dawson, Kyle, Fan, Xiaohui, Greene, Jenny E, Groller, Hannes, Guo, Yucheng, Ibarra-Medel, Hector, Keenan, Ryan P, Kollmeier, Juna A, Lejoly, Cassandra, Li, Zefeng, de la Macorra, Axel, Moe, Maxwell, Nie, Jundan, Rossi, Graziano, Smith, Paul S, Tee, Wei Leong, Weijmans, Anne-Marie, Xu, Jiachuan, Yue, Minghao, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zou, Hu, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the final data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, a precursor to the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping program. This data set includes 11-year photometric and 7-year spectroscopic light curves for 849 broad-line quasars over a redshift range of 0.1=0.62+-0.07 for the line dispersion measured from the RMS spectrum. The intrinsic scatter of individual virial factors is 0.31+-0.07 dex, indicating a factor of two systematic uncertainty in RM black hole masses. Our lag measurements reveal significant R-L relations for Hbeta and MgII at high redshift, consistent with the latest measurements based on heterogeneous samples. While we are unable to robustly constrain the slope of the R-L relation for CIV given the limited dynamical range in luminosity, we found substantially larger scatter in CIV lags at fixed L1350. Using the SDSS-RM lag sample, we derive improved single-epoch (SE) mass recipes for Hbeta, MgII and CIV, which are consistent with their respective RM masses as well as between the SE recipes from two different lines, over the luminosity range probed by our sample. The new Hbeta and MgII recipes are approximately unbiased estimators at given RM masses, but there are systematic biases in the CIV recipe. The intrinsic scatter of SE masses around RM masses is ~0.45 dex for Hbeta and MgII, increasing to ~0.58 dex for CIV., Comment: 33 pages. Data products available at ftp://quasar.astro.illinois.edu/public/sdssrm/final_result/

Published
2023

21. Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network

Author

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The KAGRA Collaboration, Abbott, R., Abe, H., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adhicary, S., Adhikari, N., Adhikari, R. X., Adkins, V. K., Adya, V. B., Affeldt, C., Agarwal, D., Agathos, M., Aguiar, O. D., Aiello, L., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Akutsu, T., Albanesi, S., Alfaidi, R. A., Alléné, C., Allocca, A., Altin, P. A., Amato, A., Anand, S., Ananyeva, A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Ando, M., Andrade, T., Andres, N., Andrés-Carcasona, M., Andrić, T., Ansoldi, S., Antelis, J. M., Antier, S., Apostolatos, T., Appavuravther, E. Z., Appert, S., Apple, S. K., Arai, K., Araya, A., Araya, M. C., Areeda, J. S., Arène, M., Aritomi, N., Arnaud, N., Arogeti, M., Aronson, S. M., Asada, H., Ashton, G., Aso, Y., Assiduo, M., Melo, S. Assis de Souza, Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aubin, F., AultONeal, K., Babak, S., Badaracco, F., Badger, C., Bae, S., Bae, Y., Bagnasco, S., Bai, Y., Baier, J. G., Baird, J., Bajpai, R., Baka, T., Ball, M., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Baltus, G., Banagiri, S., Banerjee, B., Bankar, D., Barayoga, J. C., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barneo, P., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barta, D., Bartlett, J., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Basak, S., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Bawaj, M., Bayley, J. C., Bazzan, M., Bécsy, B., Bedakihale, V. M., Beirnaert, F., Bejger, M., Belahcene, I., Bell, A. S., Benedetto, V., Beniwal, D., Benoit, W., Bentley, J. D., BenYaala, M., Bera, S., Berbel, M., Bergamin, F., Berger, B. K., Bernuzzi, S., Beroiz, M., Berry, C. P. L., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, D., Bhandare, R., Bhandari, A. V., Bhardwaj, U., Bhatt, R., Bhattacharjee, D., Bhaumik, S., Bianchi, A., Bilenko, I. A., Bilicki, M., Billingsley, G., Bini, S., Birnholtz, O., Biscans, S., Bischi, M., Biscoveanu, S., Bisht, A., Biswas, B., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. -A., Blackburn, J. K., Blair, C. D., Blair, D. G., Blair, R. M., Bobba, F., Bode, N., Boër, M., Bogaert, G., Boldrini, M., Bolingbroke, G. N., Bonavena, L. D., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonilla, E., Bonnand, R., Booker, P., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, N., Bose, S., Bossilkov, V., Boudart, V., Bouffanais, Y., Bozzi, A., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Bramley, A., Branch, A., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breschi, M., Briant, T., Briggs, J. H., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brockill, P., Brooks, A. F., Brooks, J., Brown, D. D., Brunett, S., Bruno, G., Bruntz, R., Bryant, J., Bucci, F., Buchanan, J., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burtnyk, K., Buscicchio, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Davies, G. S. Cabourn, Cabras, G., Cabrita, R., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Cahillane, C., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Callaghan, J. D., Callister, T. A., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Canepa, M., Caneva, G., Cannavacciuolo, M., Cannon, K. C., Cao, H., Cao, Z., Capistran, L. A., Capocasa, E., Capote, E., Carapella, G., Carbognani, F., Carlassara, M., Carlin, J. B., Carpinelli, M., Carrillo, G., Carter, J. J., Carullo, G., Diaz, J. Casanueva, Casentini, C., Castaldi, G., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cerdá-Durán, P., Cesarini, E., Chaibi, W., Chakalis, W., Subrahmanya, S. Chalathadka, Champion, E., Chan, C. -H., Chan, C., Chan, C. L., Chan, K., Chan, M., Chandra, K., Chang, I. P., Chang, W., Chanial, P., Chao, S., Chapman-Bird, C., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chatterjee, C., Chatterjee, Debarati, Chatterjee, Deep, Chaturvedi, M., Chaty, S., Chatziioannou, K., Chen, C., Chen, D., Chen, H. Y., Chen, J., Chen, K., Chen, X., Chen, Y. -B., Chen, Y. -R., Chen, Y., Cheng, H., Chessa, P., Cheung, H. Y., Chia, H. Y., Chiadini, F., Chiang, C-Y., Chiarini, G., Chierici, R., Chincarini, A., Chiofalo, M. L., Chiummo, A., Choudhary, R. K., Choudhary, S., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chu, Y-K., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, K. W., Ciani, G., Ciecielag, P., Cieślar, M., Cifaldi, M., Ciobanu, A. A., Ciolfi, R., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Clarke, T. A., Clearwater, P., Clesse, S., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Codazzo, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Cohen, D. E., Colleoni, M., Collette, C. G., Colombo, A., Colpi, M., Compton, C. M., Conti, L., Cooper, S. J., Corban, P., Corbitt, T. R., Cordero-Carrión, I., Corezzi, S., Cornish, N. J., Corsi, A., Cortese, S., Coschizza, A. C., Cotesta, R., Cottingham, R., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S. T., Cousins, B., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M. J., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Criswell, A. W., Croquette, M., Crowder, S. G., Cudell, J. R., Cullen, T. J., Cumming, A., Cummings, R., Cuoco, E., Curyło, M., Dabadie, P., Canton, T. Dal, Dall'Osso, S., Dálya, G., Dana, A., D'Angelo, B., Danilishin, S., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Darsow-Fromm, C., Dasgupta, A., Datrier, L. E. H., Datta, Sayak, Datta, Sayantani, Dattilo, V., Dave, I., Davier, M., Davis, D., Davis, M. C., Daw, E. 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S., Eisenmann, M., Eisenstein, R. A., Ejlli, A., Engelby, E., Enomoto, Y., Errico, L., Essick, R. C., Estellés, H., Estevez, D., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T. M., Evstafyeva, T., Ewing, B. E., Ezquiaga, J. M., Fabrizi, F., Faedi, F., Fafone, V., Fair, H., Fairhurst, S., Fan, P. C., Farah, A. M., Farr, B., Farr, W. M., Favaro, G., Favata, M., Fays, M., Fazio, M., Feicht, J., Fejer, M. M., Fenyvesi, E., Ferguson, D. L., Fernandez-Galiana, A., Ferrante, I., Ferreira, T. A., Fidecaro, F., Figura, P., Fiori, A., Fiori, I., Fishbach, M., Fisher, R. P., Fittipaldi, R., Fiumara, V., Flaminio, R., Floden, E., Fong, H. K., Font, J. A., Fornal, B., Forsyth, P. W. F., Franke, A., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Freed, J. P., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Freitas, O., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fronzé, G. G., Fujii, Y., Fujikawa, Y., Fujimoto, Y., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gabbard, H. A., Gabella, W. E., Gadre, B. U., Gair, J. 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S., Wilken, D., Williams, C. E., Williams, D., Williams, M. J., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wipf, C. C., Woan, G., Woehler, J., Wofford, J. K., Wojtowicz, I. A., Wong, D., Wong, I. C. F., Wright, M., Wu, C., Wu, D. S., Wu, H., Wysocki, D. M., Xiao, L., Yadav, N., Yamada, T., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, T., Yamashita, K., Yamazaki, R., Yang, F. W., Yang, K. Z., Yang, L., Yang, Y. -C., Yang, Y., Yang, Yang, Yap, M. J., Yeeles, D. W., Yeh, S. -W., Yelikar, A. B., Yokoyama, J., Yokozawa, T., Yoo, J., Yoshioka, T., Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Yuzurihara, H., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zeidler, S., Zelenova, T., Zendri, J. -P., Zevin, M., Zhan, M., Zhang, H., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, R., Zhang, T., Zhang, Y., Zhao, C., Zhao, G., Zhao, Y., Zhao, Yue, Zheng, Y., Zhou, R., Zhu, X. J., Zhu, Z. -H., Zimmerman, A. B., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON (Institut FOTON), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Rennes (INSA Rennes), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-École Nationale Supérieure des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie (ENSSAT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB [Collège de France]), Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire des deux Infinis de Toulouse (L2IT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne] (ILM), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique corpusculaire de Caen (LPCC), Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs de Caen (ENSICAEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), IHES, Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF (UMR_8243)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Laboratoire de physique et chimie de l'environnement (LPCE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LIGO Scientific, VIRGO, and KAGRA

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Gravitational lensing by massive objects along the line of sight to the source causes distortions of gravitational wave-signals; such distortions may reveal information about fundamental physics, cosmology and astrophysics. In this work, we have extended the search for lensing signatures to all binary black hole events from the third observing run of the LIGO--Virgo network. We search for repeated signals from strong lensing by 1) performing targeted searches for subthreshold signals, 2) calculating the degree of overlap amongst the intrinsic parameters and sky location of pairs of signals, 3) comparing the similarities of the spectrograms amongst pairs of signals, and 4) performing dual-signal Bayesian analysis that takes into account selection effects and astrophysical knowledge. We also search for distortions to the gravitational waveform caused by 1) frequency-independent phase shifts in strongly lensed images, and 2) frequency-dependent modulation of the amplitude and phase due to point masses. None of these searches yields significant evidence for lensing. Finally, we use the non-detection of gravitational-wave lensing to constrain the lensing rate based on the latest merger-rate estimates and the fraction of dark matter composed of compact objects., 28 pages, 11 figures

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2023

22. Stochastic gravitational wave background from stellar origin binary black holes in LISA

Author

Babak, Stanislav, Caprini, Chiara, Figueroa, Daniel G., Karnesis, Nikolaos, Marcoccia, Paolo, Nardini, Germano, Pieroni, Mauro, Ricciardone, Angelo, Sesana, Alberto, Torrado, Jesús, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

Subjects
Astrophysics and Astronomy, noise, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), gravitational radiation, stochastic, gr-qc, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), galaxy, binary, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, black hole, binary, redshift, high, KAGRA, LIGO, Monte Carlo, LISA, General Relativity and Cosmology, supernova remnant, VIRGO, astro-ph.CO, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], star, tracks, spectral, star, formation, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, gravitational radiation, background
Abstract

We use the latest constraints on the population of stellar origin binary black holes (SOBBH) from LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observations, to estimate the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) they generate in the frequency band of LISA. We account for the faint and distant binaries, which contribute the most to the SGWB, by extending the merger rate at high redshift assuming it tracks the star formation rate. We adopt different methods to compute the SGWB signal: an analytical evaluation, Monte Carlo sums over SOBBH population realisations, and a method that accounts for the role of the detector by simulating LISA data and iteratively removing resolvable signals until only the confusion noise is left, allowing for the extraction of both the expected SGWB and the number of resolvable SOBBHs. Since the latter are few for SNR thresholds larger than five, we confirm that the spectral shape of the SGWB in the LISA band follows the analytical prediction of a power law. We infer the probability distribution of the SGWB amplitude from the LVK GWTC-3 posterior of the binary population model; its interquartile range of $h^2\Omega_\mathrm{GW}(f=3\times10^{-3}\,\mathrm{Hz}) \in [5.65,\,11.5]\times10^{-13}$ is in agreement with most previous estimates. We perform a MC analysis to assess LISA's capability to detect and characterise this signal. Accounting for both the instrumental noise and the galactic binaries foreground, with four years of data, LISA will be able to detect the SOBBH SGWB with percent accuracy, narrowing down the uncertainty on the amplitude by one order of magnitude with respect to the range of possible amplitudes inferred from the population model. A measurement of this signal by LISA will help to break the degeneracy among some of the population parameters, and provide interesting constraints, in particular on the redshift evolution of the SOBBH merger rate., Comment: 39 pages, 15 figures. Prepared for submission to JCAP

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2023

23. Axial perturbations of black holes in scalar-tensor gravity: near-horizon behaviour

Author

Noui, Karim, Roussille, Hugo, Langlois, David, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon (Phys-ENS), and École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
High Energy Physics - Theory, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), higher-order, background, [PHYS.HTHE]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Theory [hep-th], FOS: Physical sciences, black hole, hair, parametrization, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), stability, gravitation, scalar tensor, field theory, scalar, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, horizon, High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th), black hole, perturbation, general relativity, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], perturbation, axial, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We consider axial (or odd-parity) perturbations of non-spinning hairy black holes (BH) in shift-symmetric DHOST (Degenerate Higher-Order Scalar-Tensor) theories, including terms quartic and cubic in second derivatives of the scalar field. We give a new formulation of the effective metric in which axial perturbations propagate as in general relativity. We then introduce a generic parametrization of the effective metric in the vicinity of the background BH horizon. Writing the dynamics of the perturbations in terms of a Schr\"odinger-like operator, we discuss in which cases the operator is (essentially) self-adjoint, thus leading to an unambiguous time evolution, according to the choice of parameters characterizing the near-horizon effective metric. This is in particular useful to investigate the stability of the perturbations. We finally illustrate our general analysis with two examples of BH solutions., Comment: 24 pages, 3 appendices

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2023

24. Detecting cosmic voids via maps of geometric-optics parameters

Author

Peper, Marius, Roukema, Boudewijn F., Bolejko, Krzysztof, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Curved-spacetime geometric-optics maps derived from a deep photometric survey should contain information about the three-dimensional matter distribution and thus about cosmic voids in the survey, despite projection effects. We explore to what degree sky-plane geometric-optics maps can reveal the presence of intrinsic three-dimensional voids. We carry out a cosmological $N$-body simulation and place it further than a gigaparsec from the observer, at redshift 0.5. We infer three-dimensional void structures using the watershed algorithm. Independently, we calculate a surface overdensity map and maps of weak gravitational lensing and geometric-optics scalars. We propose and implement a heuristic algorithm for detecting (projected) radial void profiles from these maps. We find in our simulation that given the sky-plane centres of the three-dimensional watershed-detected voids, there is significant evidence of correlated void centres in the surface overdensity $\Sigma$, the averaged weak-lensing tangential shear $\overline{\gamma_\perp}$, the Sachs expansion $\theta$, and the Sachs shear modulus $\lvert\sigma\rvert$. Recovering the centres of the three-dimensional voids from the sky-plane information alone is significant given the weak-lensing shear $\overline{\gamma_\perp}$, the Sachs expansion $\theta$, or the Sachs shear $\lvert\sigma\rvert$, but not significant for the surface overdensity $\Sigma$. Void radii are uncorrelated between three-dimensional and two-dimensional voids; our algorithm is not designed to distinguish voids that are nearly concentric in projection. This investigation shows preliminary evidence encouraging observational studies of gravitational lensing through individual voids, either blind or with spectroscopic/photometric redshifts. The former case - blind searches - should generate falsifiable predictions of intrinsic three-dimensional void centres., Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, zenodo.7792910 at https://zenodo.org/record/7792910, archived git at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/swh:1:rev:b5dff23ab8ba8c758112d5fd3f737fb6f44cd6fe, live git at https://codeberg.org/mpeper/lensing

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2023

25. Probabilistic Mass Mapping with Neural Score Estimation

Author

B. Remy, F. Lanusse, N. Jeffrey, J. Liu, J.-L. Starck, K. Osato, T. Schrabback, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique, Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Département de Physique de l'ENS-PSL, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Département de Physique de l'ENS-PSL, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), University College of London [London] (UCL), University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC), Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Subjects
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Gravitational lensing weak, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Machine Learning (cs.LG), [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Cosmology - observations, Space and Planetary Science, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Weak lensing mass-mapping is a useful tool to access the full distribution of dark matter on the sky, but because of intrinsic galaxy ellipticies and finite fields/missing data, the recovery of dark matter maps constitutes a challenging ill-posed inverse problem. We introduce a novel methodology allowing for efficient sampling of the high-dimensional Bayesian posterior of the weak lensing mass-mapping problem, and relying on simulations for defining a fully non-Gaussian prior. We aim to demonstrate the accuracy of the method on simulations, and then proceed to applying it to the mass reconstruction of the HST/ACS COSMOS field. The proposed methodology combines elements of Bayesian statistics, analytic theory, and a recent class of Deep Generative Models based on Neural Score Matching. This approach allows us to do the following: 1) Make full use of analytic cosmological theory to constrain the 2pt statistics of the solution. 2) Learn from cosmological simulations any differences between this analytic prior and full simulations. 3) Obtain samples from the full Bayesian posterior of the problem for robust Uncertainty Quantification. We demonstrate the method on the $\kappa$TNG simulations and find that the posterior mean significantly outperfoms previous methods (Kaiser-Squires, Wiener filter, Sparsity priors) both on root-mean-square error and in terms of the Pearson correlation. We further illustrate the interpretability of the recovered posterior by establishing a close correlation between posterior convergence values and SNR of clusters artificially introduced into a field. Finally, we apply the method to the reconstruction of the HST/ACS COSMOS field and yield the highest quality convergence map of this field to date., Comment: Submitted to A&A, 20 pages, 15 figures, comments are welcome

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2023

26. Euclid: Validation of the MontePython forecasting tools

Author

Santiago Casas, Julien Lesgourgues, Nils Schöneberg, Sabarish V.M., Lena Rathmann, Doerenkamp, M., Archidiacono, M., Bellini, E., Sebastien Clesse, Frusciante, N., Matteo Martinelli, Francesco Pace, Domenico Sapone, ziad sakr, Alain Blanchard, Thejs Brinckmann, Stefano Camera, Carmelita Carbone, Ilić, S., Dida Markovic, Pettorino, V., Isaac Tutusaus, Aghanim, N., Amara, A., Luca Amendola, Natalia Auricchio, Marco Baldi, Bonino, D., Enzo Branchini, Massimo Brescia, Jarle Brinchmann, Vito Capobianco, Cardone, V. F., Carretero, J., Marco Castellano, Stefano Cavuoti, Cimatti, A., Cledassou, Rodolphe, Giuseppe Congedo, Luca Conversi, Yannick Copin, leonardo corcione, Frederic Courbin, Mark Cropper, Hubert Degaudenzi, Dinis, J., Douspis, M., Florian Dubath, Dupac, X., stefano dusini, Samuel Farrens, Marco Frailis, Enrico Franceschi, Marco Fumana, Samuele Galeotta, Bianca Garilli, Bryan Gillis, Giocoli, C., Andrea Grazian, Grupp, F., Stein Vidar Hagfors Haugan, Hormuth, F., Allan Hornstrup, Knud Jahnke, Martin Kuemmel, Alina Kiessling, Martin Kilbinger, Thomas Kitching, Martin Kunz, Hannu Antero Kurki-Suonio, Sebastiano Ligori, Per Lilje, Lloro, I., Oriana Mansutti, Ole Marggraf, Federico Marulli, Richard Massey, Eduardo Medinaceli, Simona Mei, Massimo Meneghetti, Emiliano Merlin, Meylan, G., Michele Moresco, Lauro Moscardini, Emiliano Munari, Niemi, S. -M, Cristobal Padilla, Paltani, S., Pasian, F., Pedersen, K., Will Percival, Pires, S., Gianluca Polenta, Poncet, M., Popa, L. A., Frederic Raison, Alessandro Renzi, Rhodes, J., Riccio, G., Erik Romelli, Mauro Roncarelli, Rossetti, E., Roberto Saglia, Sartoris, B., Schneider, P., Aurélia Secroun, Gregor Seidel, Santiago Serrano Elorduy, Sirignano, Chiara, Gabriele Sirri, Luca Stanco, Jean-Luc Starck, christian surace, Pau Tallada Crespí, Taylor, A. N., Tereno, I., Rafael Toledo-Moreo, Assís Torradeflot, Francesc D., Valentijn, E. A., Luca Valenziano, Thomas Vassallo, Yun Wang, Jochen Weller, Zamorani, G., Zoubian, J., Scottez, V., Alfonso Veropalumbo, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Euclid

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency will perform a survey of weak lensing cosmic shear and galaxy clustering in order to constrain cosmological models and fundamental physics. We expand and adjust the mock Euclid likelihoods of the MontePython software in order to match the exact recipes used in previous Euclid Fisher matrix forecasts for several probes: weak lensing cosmic shear, photometric galaxy clustering, the cross-correlation between the latter observables, and spectroscopic galaxy clustering. We also establish which precision settings are required when running the Einstein-Boltzmann solvers CLASS and CAMB in the context of Euclid. For the minimal cosmological model, extended to include dynamical dark energy, we perform Fisher matrix forecasts based directly on a numerical evaluation of second derivatives of the likelihood with respect to model parameters. We compare our results with those of other forecasting methods and tools. We show that such MontePython forecasts agree very well with previous Fisher forecasts published by the Euclid Collaboration, and also, with new forecasts produced by the CosmicFish code, now interfaced directly with the two Einstein-Boltzmann solvers CAMB and CLASS. Moreover, to establish the validity of the Gaussian approximation, we show that the Fisher matrix marginal error contours coincide with the credible regions obtained when running Monte Carlo Markov Chains with MontePython while using the exact same mock likelihoods. The new Euclid forecast pipelines presented here are ready for use with additional cosmological parameters, in order to explore extended cosmological models., 45 pages, 24 figures

Published
2023

27. Cosmoglobe DR1 results. I. Improved Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe maps through Bayesian end-to-end analysis

Author

Watts, D. J., Basyrov, A., Eskilt, J. R., Galloway, M., Hergt, L. T., Herman, D., Ihle, H. T., Paradiso, S., Rahman, F., Thommesen, H., Aurlien, R., Bersanelli, M., Bianchi, L. A., Brilenkov, M., Colombo, L. P. L., Eriksen, H. K., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Gjerløw, E., Hensley, B., Hoerning, G. A., Lee, K., Lunde, J. G. S., Marins, A., Nerval, S. K., Patel, S. K., Regnier, M., San, M., Sanyal, S., Stutzer, N. -O., Verma, A., Wehus, I. K., Zhou, Y., AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present Cosmoglobe Data Release 1, which implements the first joint analysis of WMAP and Planck LFI time-ordered data, processed within a single Bayesian end-to-end framework. This framework builds directly on a similar analysis of the LFI measurements by the BeyondPlanck collaboration, and approaches the CMB analysis challenge through Gibbs sampling of a global posterior distribution, simultaneously accounting for calibration, mapmaking, and component separation. The computational cost of producing one complete WMAP+LFI Gibbs sample is 812 CPU-hr, of which 603 CPU-hrs are spent on WMAP low-level processing; this demonstrates that end-to-end Bayesian analysis of the WMAP data is computationally feasible. We find that our WMAP posterior mean temperature sky maps and CMB temperature power spectrum are largely consistent with the official WMAP9 results. Perhaps the most notable difference is that our CMB dipole amplitude is $3366.2 \pm 1.4\ \mathrm{\mu K}$, which is $11\ \mathrm{\mu K}$ higher than the WMAP9 estimate and $2.5\ {\sigma}$ higher than BeyondPlanck; however, it is in perfect agreement with the HFI-dominated Planck PR4 result. In contrast, our WMAP polarization maps differ more notably from the WMAP9 results, and in general exhibit significantly lower large-scale residuals. We attribute this to a better constrained gain and transmission imbalance model. It is particularly noteworthy that the W-band polarization sky map, which was excluded from the official WMAP cosmological analysis, for the first time appears visually consistent with the V-band sky map. Similarly, the long standing discrepancy between the WMAP K-band and LFI 30 GHz maps is finally resolved, and the difference between the two maps appears consistent with instrumental noise at high Galactic latitudes. All maps and the associated code are made publicly available through the Cosmoglobe web page., Comment: 65 pages, 61 figures. Data available at cosmoglobe.uio.no. Submitted to A&A

Published
2023

28. No strong dependence of Lyman continuum leakage on physical properties of star-forming galaxies at $\mathbf{3.1 \lesssim z \lesssim 3.5}$

Author

Saxena, A., Pentericci, L., Ellis, R.S., Guaita, L., Calabrò, A., Schaerer, D., Vanzella, E., Amorín, R., Bolzonella, M., Castellano, M., Fontanot, F., Hathi, N.P., Hibon, P., Llerena, M., Mannucci, F., Saldana-Lopez, A., Talia, M., Zamorani, G., Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), and Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), galaxies: high-redshift, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), first stars, FOS: Physical sciences, reionization, dark ages, early Universe, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present Lyman continuum (LyC) radiation escape fraction $f_{\rm{esc}}$ measurements for 183 spectroscopically confirmed star-forming galaxies in the redshift range $3.11 < z < 3.53$ in the \textit{Chandra} Deep Field South. We use ground-based imaging to measure $f_{\rm{esc}}$, and use ground- and space-based photometry to derive galaxy physical properties using spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. We additionally derive [O III]+H$��$ equivalent widths (that fall in the observed K band) by including nebular emission in the SED fitting. After removing foreground contaminants, we report the discovery of 11 new candidate LyC leakers, with absolute LyC escape fractions, $f_{\rm{esc}}$ in the range $0.14-0.85$. From non-detections, we place $1��$ upper limits of $f_{\rm{esc}}300$A. For candidate LyC leakers, we find a weak negative correlation between $f_{\rm{esc}}$ and galaxy stellar masses, no correlation between $f_{\rm{esc}}$ specific star-formation rates (sSFRs) and a positive correlation between $f_{\rm{esc}}$ and EW$_0$([O III]+H$��$). The weak/no correlations between stellar mass and sSFRs may be explained by misaligned viewing angles and/or non-coincident timescales of starburst activity and periods of high $f_{\rm{esc}}$. Alternatively, escaping radiation may predominantly occur in highly localised star-forming regions, or $f_{\rm{esc}}$ measurements may be impacted by stochasticity of the intervening neutral medium, obscuring any global trends with galaxy properties. These hypotheses have important consequences for models of reionisation., 19 pages, 11 figures, 1 appendix, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Published
2023

29. Target Selection for the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey

Author

Saulder, Christoph, Howlett, Cullan, Douglass, Kelly A., Said, Khaled, BenZvi, Segev, Ahlen, Steven, Aldering, Greg, Bailey, Stephen, Brooks, David, Davis, Tamara, de la Macorra, Axel, Dey, Arjun, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Honscheid, Klaus, Kim, Alex G., Kisner, Theodore, Kremin, Anthony, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael E., Lucey, John, Meisner, Aaron M., Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam D., Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Percival, Will, Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Qin, Fei, Schubnell, Michael, Tarlé, Gregory, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Zhou, Rongpu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zou, Hu, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We describe the target selection and characteristics of the DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey, the largest survey of peculiar velocities (PVs) using both the fundamental plane (FP) of galaxies and the Tully-Fisher (TF) relationship planned to date. We detail how we identify suitable early-type galaxies for the FP and suitable late-type galaxies for the TF relation using the photometric data provided by the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey DR9. Subsequently, we provide targets for 373 533 early-type galaxies and 118 637 late-type galaxies within the DESI 5-year footprint. We validate these photometric selections using existing morphological classifications. Furthermore, we demonstrate using survey validation data that DESI is able to measure the spectroscopic properties to sufficient precision to obtain PVs for our targets. Based on realistic DESI fiber assignment simulations and spectroscopic success rates, we predict the final DESI Peculiar Velocity Survey will obtain $\sim$133 000 FP-based and $\sim$53 000 TF-based PV measurements over an area of 14 000 $\mathrm{deg^{2}}$. Each of these components will be a factor of 4--5 larger than other recent samples. We forecast the ability of using these data to measure the clustering of galaxy positions and peculiar velocities from the combined DESI PV and Bright Galaxy Surveys (BGS), which allows for cancellation of cosmic variance at low redshifts. With these forecasts, we anticipate a $4\%$ statistical measurement on the growth rate of structure at $z, 20 pages, 15 figures, 14 tables; submitted to MNRAS

Published
2023

30. Galaxy rotation curves and universal scaling relations: comparison between phenomenological and fermionic dark matter profiles

Author

A. Krut, C. R. Argüelles, P.-H. Chavanis, J. A. Rueda, R. Ruffini, Physique Statistique des Systèmes Complexes (LPT) (PhyStat), Laboratoire de Physique Théorique (LPT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Fédération de recherche « Matière et interactions » (FeRMI), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Toulouse (INSA Toulouse), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Galaxy dark matter halos, Ciencias Astronómicas, Galaxy structure, cosmological model, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), fermion, halo, FOS: Physical sciences, feedback, rotation, dark matter, thermodynamics, Dark matter, surface, density, scaling, Astronomy and Astrophysics, acceleration, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy physics, Galaxy dynamics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), slope, galaxy, statistical mechanics, entropy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Galaxies show different halo scaling relations such as the Radial Acceleration Relation, the Mass Discrepancy Acceleration Relation (MDAR) or the dark matter Surface Density Relation (SDR). At difference with traditional studies using phenomenological $\Lambda$CDM halos, we analyze the above relations assuming that dark matter (DM) halos are formed through a Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP) in which the fermionic (quantum) nature of the DM particles is dully accounted for. For the first time a competitive DM model based on first physical principles, such as (quantum) statistical-mechanics and thermodynamics, is tested against a large data-set of galactic observables. In particular, we compare the fermionic DM model with empirical DM profiles: the NFW model, a generalized NFW model accounting for baryonic feedback, the Einasto model and the Burkert model. For this task, we use a large sample of 120 galaxies taken from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) data-set, from which we infer the DM content to compare with the models. We find that the Radial Acceleration Relation and MDAR are well explained by all the models with comparable accuracy, while the fits to the individual rotation curves, in contrast, show that cored DM halos are statistically preferred with respect to the cuspy NFW profile. However, very different physical principles justify the flat inner halo slope in the most favored DM profiles: while generalized NFW or Einasto models rely on complex baryonic feedback processes, the MEP scenario involves a quasi-thermodynamic equilibrium of the DM particles., Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Published
2023

31. Tensor-to-scalar ratio forecasts for extended LiteBIRD frequency configurations

Author

Fuskeland, U., Aumont, J., Aurlien, R., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Génova-Santos, R. T., Hasebe, T., Hubmayr, J., Imada, H., Krachmalnicoff, N., Lamagna, L., Pisano, G., Poletti, D., Remazeilles, M., Thompson, K. L., Vacher, L., Wehus, I. K., Azzoni, S., Ballardini, M., Barreiro, R. B., Bartolo, N., Basyrov, A., Beck, D., Bersanelli, M., Bortolami, M., Brilenkov, M., Calabrese, E., Carones, A., Casas, F. J., Cheung, K., Chluba, J., Clark, S. E., Clermont, L., Columbro, F., Coppolecchia, A., D'Alessandro, G., de Bernardis, P., de Haan, T., de la Hoz, E., De Petris, M., Della Torre, S., Diego-Palazuelos, P., Finelli, F., Franceschet, C., Galloni, G., Galloway, M., Gerbino, M., Gervasi, M., Ghigna, T., Giardiello, S., Gjerløw, E., Gruppuso, A., Hargrave, P., Hattori, M., Hazumi, M., Hergt, L. T., Herman, D., Herranz, D., Hivon, E., Hoang, T. D., Kohri, K., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Leloup, C., Levrier, F., Lonappan, A. I., Luzzi, G., Maffei, B., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Matsumura, T., Migliaccio, M., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mot, B., Mousset, L., Nagata, R., Namikawa, T., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Nerval, S., Novelli, A., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Pascual-Cisneros, G., Patanchon, G., Pelgrims, V., Piacentini, F., Piccirilli, G., Polenta, G., Puglisi, G., Raffuzzi, N., Ritacco, A., Rubino-Martin, J. A., Savini, G., Scott, D., Sekimoto, Y., Shiraishi, M., Signorelli, G., Stever, S. L., Stutzer, N., Sullivan, R. M., Takakura, H., Terenzi, L., Thommesen, H., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Vielva, P., Weller, J., Westbrook, B., Weymann-Despres, G., Wollack, E. J., Zannoni, M., Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de physique de l'ENS - ENS Paris (LPENS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Département de Physique de l'ENS-PSL, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and LiteBIRD

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

LiteBIRD is a planned JAXA-led CMB B-mode satellite experiment aiming for launch in the late 2020s, with a primary goal of detecting the imprint of primordial inflationary gravitational waves. Its current baseline focal-plane configuration includes 15 frequency bands between 40 and 402 GHz, fulfilling the mission requirements to detect the amplitude of gravitational waves with the total uncertainty on the tensor-to-scalar ratio, $\delta r$, down to $\delta r, Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures, submitted to A&A

Published
2023

32. DESI and DECaLS (D&D): galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements with 1% survey and its forecast

Author

Yao, Ji, Shan, Huanyuan, Zhang, Pengjie, Jullo, Eric, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Yu, Yu, Zu, Ying, Brooks, David, de la Macorra, Axel, Doel, Peter, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Kisner, Theodore, Landriau, Martin, Meisner, Aaron, Miquel, Ramon, Nie, Jundan, Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Schubnell, Michael, Magana, Mariana Vargas, Zhou, Zhimin, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The shear measurement from DECaLS (Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey) provides an excellent opportunity for galaxy-galaxy lensing study with DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) galaxies, given the large ($\sim 9000$ deg$^2$) sky overlap. We explore this potential by combining the DESI 1\% survey and DECaLS DR8. With $\sim 106$ deg$^2$ sky overlap, we achieve significant detection of galaxy-galaxy lensing for BGS and LRG as lenses. Scaled to the full BGS sample, we expect the statistical errors to improve from $18(12)\%$ to a promising level of $2(1.3)\%$ at $\theta>8^{'}(, Comment: submitted to MNRAS

Published
2023

33. Nonperturbative collapse models for collisionless self-gravitating flows

Author

Fardeau, Niels, Buchert, Thomas, Roumi, Fosca Al, Felegary, Fereshteh, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Structure formation in the Universe has been well-studied within the Eulerian and Lagrangian perturbation theories, where the latter performs substantially better in comparison with N-body simulations. Standing out is the celebrated Zel'dovich approximation for dust matter. In this work, we recall the description of gravitational noncollisional systems and extend both the Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches by including, possibly anisotropic, velocity dispersion. A simple case with plane symmetry is then studied with an exact, nonperturbative approach, and various approximations of the derived model are then compared numerically. A striking result is that linearized Lagrangian solutions outperform models based on Burgers' equation in the multi-stream regime in comparison with the exact solution. These results are finally extended to a 3D case without symmetries, and master equations are derived for the evolution of all parts of the perturbations., 20 pages, 5 figures, submitted to PRD

Published
2023

34. Strong gravitational lensing's 'external shear' is not shear

Author

Etherington, Amy, Nightingale, James W., Massey, Richard, Tam, Sut-Ieng, Cao, XiaoYue, Niemiec, Anna, He, Qiuhan, Robertson, Andrew, Li, Ran, Amvrosiadis, Aristeidis, Cole, Shaun, Diego, Jose M., Frenk, Carlos S., Frye, Brenda L., Harvey, David, Jauzac, Mathilde, Koekemoer, Anton M., Lagattuta, David J., Limousin, Marceau, Mahler, Guillaume, Sirks, Ellen, Steinhardt, Charles L., Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The distribution of mass in galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses is often modelled as an elliptical power law plus `external shear', which notionally accounts for neighbouring galaxies and cosmic shear. We show that it does not. Except in a handful of rare systems, the best-fit values of external shear do not correlate with independent measurements of shear: from weak lensing in 45 Hubble Space Telescope images, or in 50 mock images of lenses with complex distributions of mass. Instead, the best-fit shear is aligned with the major or minor axis of 88% of lens galaxies; and the amplitude of the external shear increases if that galaxy is disky. We conclude that `external shear' attached to a power law model is not physically meaningful, but a fudge to compensate for lack of model complexity. Since it biases other model parameters that are interpreted as physically meaningful in several science analyses (e.g. measuring galaxy evolution, dark matter physics or cosmological parameters), we recommend that future studies of galaxy-scale strong lensing should employ more flexible mass models., Comment: 13 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Published
2023

35. A new step forward in realistic cluster lens mass modelling: Analysis of Hubble Frontier Field Cluster Abell S1063 from joint lensing, X-ray and galaxy kinematics data

Author

Beauchesne, Benjamin, Clément, Benjamin, Hibon, Pascale, Limousin, Marceau, Eckert, Dominique, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Richard, Johan, Natarajan, Priyamvada, Jauzac, Mathilde, Montes, Mireia, Mahler, Guillaume, Claeyssens, Adélaïde, Jeanneau, Alexandre, Koekemoer, Anton M., Lagattuta, David, Pagul, Amanda, Sánchez, Javier, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a new method to simultaneously/self-consistently model the mass distribution of galaxy clusters that combines constraints from strong lensing features, X-ray emission and galaxy kinematics measurements. We are able to successfully decompose clusters into their collisionless and collisional mass components thanks to the X-ray surface brightness, as well as using the dynamics of cluster members to obtain more accurate masses with the fundamental plane of elliptical galaxies. Knowledge from all observables is included through a consistent Bayesian approach in the likelihood or in physically motivated priors. We apply this method to the galaxy cluster Abell S1063 and produce a mass model that we publicly release with this paper. The resulting mass distribution presents a different ellipticities for the intra-cluster gas and the other large-scale mass components; and deviation from elliptical symmetry in the main halo. We assess the ability of our method to recover the masses of the different elements of the cluster using a mock cluster based on a simplified version of our Abell S1063 model. Thanks to the wealth of information provided by the mass model and the X-ray emission, we also found evidence for an on-going merger event with gas sloshing from a smaller infalling structure into the main cluster. In agreement with previous findings, the total mass, gas profile and gas mass fraction are consistent with small deviations from the hydrostatic equilibrium. This new mass model for Abell S1063 is publicly available as is the software used to construct it through the \textsc{Lenstool} package., Comment: 29 pages, 23 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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2023

36. Extended Lyman-$\alpha$ emission towards the SPT2349-56 protocluster at $z=4.3$

Author

Apostolovski, Yordanka, Aravena, Manuel, Anguita, Timo, Bethermin, Matthieu, Burgoyne, James, Chapman, Scott, De Breuck, Carlos, Gonzalez, Anthony, Gronke, Max, Guaita, Lucia, Hezaveh, Yashar, Hill, Ryley, Jarugula, Sreevani, Johnston, Evelyn, Malkan, Matt, Narayanan, Desika, Reuter, Cassie, Solimano, Manuel, Spilker, Justin, Sulzenauer, Nikolaus, Vieira, Joaquin, Vizgan, David, Weiß, Axel, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Context. Deep spectroscopic surveys with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have revealed that some of the brightest infrared sources in the sky correspond to concentrations of dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFG) at high redshift. Among these, the SPT2349-56 protocluster system at z = 4.304 is amongst the most extreme examples due to its high source density and integrated star formation rate. Aims. We conducted a deep Lyman-$\alpha$ line emission survey around SPT2349-56 using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at Very Large Telescope (VLT) in order to characterize this uniquely dense environment. Methods. Taking advantage of the deep three-dimensional nature of this survey, we performed a sensitive search for Lyman-$\alpha$ emitters (LAEs) toward the core and northern extension of the protocluster, which correspond to the brightest infrared regions in this field. Using a smoothed narrowband image extracted from the MUSE datacube around the protocluster redshift, we searched for possible extended structures. Results. We identify only three LAEs at z = 4.3 in this field, in concordance with expectations for blank-fields, and an extended Lyman-$\alpha$ structure spatially associated with core of the protocluster. All the previously-identified DSFGs in this field are undetected in Lyman-$\alpha$ emission, consistent with the conspicuous dust obscuration in these systems. We find an extended Lyman-$\alpha$ structure, about $60 \times 60$ kpc$^{2}$ in size, and located 56 kpc west of the protocluster core. Three DSFGs coincide spatially with the location of this structure. We conclude that either the three co-spatial DSFGs or the protocluster core itself are feeding ionizing photons to the Lyman-$\alpha$ structure., Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, submitted to A&A

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2023

37. Characterising cosmic birefringence in the presence of galactic foregrounds and instrumental systematic effects

Author

Jost, Baptiste, Errard, Josquin, Stompor, Radek, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Centre Pierre Binétruy (CPB), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We study a possibility of constraining isotropic cosmic birefringence with help of cosmic microwave background polarisation data in the presence of polarisation angle miscalibration without relying on any assumptions about the Galactic foreground angular power spectra and in particular on their EB correlation. We propose a new analysis framework based on a generalised parametric component separation approach, which accounts simultaneously on the presence of galactic foregrounds, relevant instrumental effects and external priors. We find that upcoming multi-frequency CMB data with appropriate calibration priors will allow producing an instrumental-effect-corrected and foreground-cleaned CMB map, which can be used to estimate the isotropic birefringence angle and the tensor-to-scalar ratio, accounting on statistical and systematic uncertainties incurred during the entire procedure. In particular, in the case of a Simons Observatory-like, three Small Aperture Telescopes, we derive an uncertainty on the birefringence angle of $\sigma(\beta_{b}) = 0.07^\circ$ (0.1$^\circ$), assuming the standard cosmology and calibration priors for all (single) frequency channels with the precision of $\sigma(\alpha_i)= 0.1^\circ$ as aimed at by the near future ground-based experiments. This implies that these experiments could confirm or disprove the recently detected value of $\beta_b=0.35^\circ$ with a significance between $3$ and $5 \sigma$. [abridged version], Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures

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2023

38. Constraining $\nu \Lambda$CDM with density-split clustering

Author

Paillas, Enrique, Cuesta-Lazaro, Carolina, Zarrouk, Pauline, Cai, Yan-Chuan, Percival, Will J., Nadathur, Seshadri, Pinon, Mathilde, de Mattia, Arnaud, Beutler, Florian, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
large-scale structure of Universe, cosmological parameters, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The dependence of galaxy clustering on local density provides an effective method for extracting non-Gaussian information from galaxy surveys. The two-point correlation function (2PCF) provides a complete statistical description of a Gaussian density field. However, the late-time density field becomes non-Gaussian due to non-linear gravitational evolution and higher-order summary statistics are required to capture all of its cosmological information. Using a Fisher formalism based on halo catalogues from the Quijote simulations, we explore the possibility of retrieving this information using the density-split clustering (DS) method, which combines clustering statistics from regions of different environmental density. We show that DS provides more precise constraints on the parameters of the $\nu \Lambda$CDM model compared to the 2PCF, and we provide suggestions for where the extra information may come from. DS improves the constraints on the sum of neutrino masses by a factor of $7$ and by factors of 4, 3, 3, 6, and 5 for $\Omega_{\rm m}$, $\Omega_{\rm b}$, $h$, $n_s$, and $\sigma_8$, respectively. We compare DS statistics when the local density environment is estimated from the real or redshift-space positions of haloes. The inclusion of DS autocorrelation functions, in addition to the cross-correlation functions between DS environments and haloes, recovers most of the information that is lost when using the redshift-space halo positions to estimate the environment. We discuss the possibility of constructing simulation-based methods to model DS clustering statistics in different scenarios., Comment: Author's accepted manuscript

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2023

39. JWST constraints on the UV luminosity density at cosmic dawn: implications for 21-cm cosmology

Author

Hassan, Sultan, Lovell, Christopher C., Madau, Piero, Huertas-Company, Marc, Somerville, Rachel S., Burkhart, Blakesley, Dixon, Keri L., Feldmann, Robert, Starkenburg, Tjitske K., Wu, John F., Jespersen, Christian Kragh, Gelfand, Joseph D., Bera, Ankita, and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

An unprecedented array of new observational capabilities are starting to yield key constraints on models of the epoch of first light in the Universe. In this Letter we discuss the implications of the UV radiation background at cosmic dawn inferred by recent JWST observations for radio experiments aimed at detecting the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine transition of diffuse neutral hydrogen. Under the basic assumption that the 21-cm signal is activated by the Ly$\alpha$ photon field produced by metal-poor stellar systems, we show that a detection at the low frequencies of the EDGES experiment may be expected from a simple extrapolation of the declining UV luminosity density estimated at $z\lesssim 14$ by JWST early galaxy data. Our findings raise the intriguing possibility that a high star formation efficiency at early times may trigger the onset of intense Ly$\alpha$ emission at redshift $z\lesssim 18$ and produce a cosmic 21-cm absorption signal 200 Myr after the Big Bang., Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, to be submitted to ApJL, comments are welcome

Published
2023

40. Cosmological Fisher forecasts for next-generation spectroscopic surveys

Author

William d’Assignies D, Cheng Zhao, Jiaxi Yu, Jean-Paul Kneib, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, neutrinos, Astronomy and Astrophysics, early Universe, hubble constant, surveys, Space and Planetary Science, non-gaussianity, large-scale structure of Universe, cosmological parameters, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], growth-rate, techniques: spectroscopic, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Next-generation spectroscopic surveys such as the MegaMapper, MUltiplexed Survey Telescope (MUST), MaunaKea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE), and Wide Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) are foreseen to increase the number of galaxy/quasar redshifts by an order of magnitude, with hundred millions of spectra that will be measured at $z>2$. We perform a Fisher matrix analysis for these surveys on the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO), the redshift-space distortion (RSD) measurement, the non-Gaussianity amplitude $f_{\rm NL}$, and the total neutrino mass $M_\nu$. For BAO and RSD parameters, these surveys may achieve precision at sub-percent level (, Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures

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2023

41. The undiscovered ultra-diffuse galaxies of the Local Group

Author

Oliver Newton, Arianna Di Cintio, Salvador Cardona–Barrero, Noam I. Libeskind, Yehuda Hoffman, Alexander Knebe, Jenny G. Sorce, Matthias Steinmetz, Elmo Tempel, and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) are attractive candidates to probe cosmological models and test theories of galaxy formation at low masses; however, they are difficult to detect because of their low surface brightness. In the Local Group a handful of UDGs have been found to date, most of which are satellites of the Milky Way and M31, and only two are isolated galaxies. It is unclear whether so few UDGs are expected. We address this by studying the population of UDGs formed in hydrodynamic constrained simulations of the Local Group from the HESTIA suite. For a Local Group with a total enclosed mass $M_{\rm LG}\!\left(< 2.5\, {\rm Mpc}\right)=8\times10^{12}\, {\rm M_\odot}$, we predict that there are $12\pm3$ isolated UDGs (68% confidence) with stellar masses $10^6 \leq M_\ast\, /\, {\rm M_\odot} < 10^9,$ and effective radii $R_{\rm e} \geq 1.5\, {\rm kpc}$, within 2.5 Mpc of the Local Group, of which $2^{+2}_{-1}$ (68% confidence) are detectable in the footprint of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Accounting for survey incompleteness, we find that almost the entire population of UDGs in the Local Group field would be observable in a future all-sky survey with a depth similar to the SDSS, the Dark Energy Survey, or the Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Our results suggest that there is a population of UDGs in the Local Group awaiting discovery., 9 pages including acknowledgements and references. Contains 5 figures and two tables. A repository of reduced data and scripts to reproduce the results in this manuscript is available at https://github.com/Musical-Neutron/lg_field_udgs and archived at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7757685 . Accepted by ApJL

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2023

42. Transverse Doppler effect and parameter estimation of LISA three-body systems

Author

Kuntz, Adrien, Leyde, Konstantin, HEP, INSPIRE, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), LISA, velocity, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.GRQC] Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], binary, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Doppler effect, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, monitoring, transverse, phase shift, [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], black hole, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], orbit, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

International audience; Some binary black hole systems potentially observable in LISA could be in orbit around a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The imprint of relativistic three-body effects on the waveform of the binary can be used to estimate all the parameters of the triple system, in particular the mass of the SMBH. We determine the phase shift in the waveform due to the Doppler effect of the SMBH up to second order in velocity, which breaks a well-known exact degeneracy of the lowest-order Doppler effect between the mass of the SMBH and its inclination. We perform several parameter estimations for LISA signals including this additional dephasing in the wave, showing that one can determine accurately all parameters of the three-body system. Our results indicate that one can measure the mass of a $10^8\,$M$_{\odot}$ SMBH with an accuracy better than $\sim 30\%$ (resp. $\sim 15\%$) by monitoring the waveform of a binary system whose period around the SMBH is less 100 yr (resp. 20 yr).

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2023

43. Efficient Computation of Super-Sample Covariance for Stage IV Galaxy Surveys

Author

Fabien Lacasa, Marie Aubert, Philippe Baratta, Julien Carron, Adélie Gorce, Sylvain Gouyou Beauchamps, Louis Legrand, Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah, Isaac Tutusaus, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon (IP2I Lyon), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Super-sample covariance (SSC) is an important effect for cosmological analyses that use the deep structure of the cosmic web; it may, however, be nontrivial to include it practically in a pipeline. We solve this difficulty by presenting a formula for the precision (inverse covariance) matrix and show applications to update likelihood or Fisher forecast pipelines. The formula has several advantages in terms of speed, reliability, stability, and ease of implementation. We present an analytical application to show the formal equivalence between three approaches to SSC: (i) at the usual covariance level, (ii) at the likelihood level, and (iii) with a quadratic estimator. We then present an application of this computationally efficient framework for studying the impact of inaccurate modelling of SSC responses for cosmological constraints from stage IV surveys. We find that a weak-lensing-only analysis is very sensitive to inaccurate modelling of the scale dependence of the response, which needs to be calibrated at the $\sim15\%$ level. The sensitivity to this scale dependence is less severe for the joint weak-lensing and galaxy clustering analysis (also known as 3x2pt). Nevertheless, we find that both the amplitude and scale-dependence of the responses have to be calibrated at better than 30\%., Comment: 12+2 pages, 5 figures. Version published in A&A

Published
2023

44. Closing the cosmological loop with the redshift drift

Author

C. J. A. P. Martins, C. S. Alves, J. Esteves, A. Lapel, B. G. Pereira, HEP, INSPIRE, Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Observational cosmology, Redshift drift, Extremely Large Telescope, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.GRQC] Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The redshift drift (also known as the Sandage Test) is a model-independent probe of fundamental cosmology, enabling us to watch the universe expand in real time, and thereby to confirm (or not) the recent acceleration of the universe without any model-dependent assumptions. On the other hand, by choosing a fiducial model one can also use it to constrain the model parameters, thereby providing a consistency test for results obtained with other probes. The drift can be measured by the Extremely Large Telescope and also by the full SKA. Recently two alternative measurement methods have been proposed: the cosmic accelerometer, and the differential redshift drift. Here we summarize a comparative analysis of the various methods and their possible outcomes, using both Fisher Matrix and MCMC techniques. We find that no single method is uniformly better than the others. Instead, their comparative performance depends both on experimental parameters (including the experiment time and redshift at which the measurement is made) and also on the scientific goal (e.g., detecting the drift signal with high statistical significance, constraining the matter density, or constraining the dark energy properties). In other words, the experiment should be optimized for the preferred scientific goal., Summary of a talk given at the Non Standard Cosmological Probes parallel session of the Sixteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, partially summarizing work previously reported in arXiv:1907.05151 and arXiv:2108.10739. To appear in the proceedings

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2023

45. The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission Line Galaxies

Author

Ting-Wen Lan, R. Tojeiro, E. Armengaud, J. Xavier Prochaska, T. M. Davis, David M. Alexander, A. Raichoor, Rongpu Zhou, Christophe Yèche, C. Balland, S. BenZvi, A. Berti, R. Canning, A. Carr, H. Chittenden, S. Cole, M.-C. Cousinou, K. Dawson, Biprateep Dey, K. Douglass, A. Edge, S. Escoffier, A. Glanville, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, J. Guy, C. Hahn, C. Howlett, Ho Seong Hwang, L. Jiang, A. Kovács, M. Mezcua, S. Moore, S. Nadathur, M. Oh, D. Parkinson, A. Rocher, A. J. Ross, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, C. G. Sabiu, K. Said, C. Saulder, D. Sierra-Porta, B. Weiner, J. Yu, P. Zarrouk, Y. Zhang, H. Zou, S. Ahlen, S. Bailey, D. Brooks, A. P. Cooper, A. de la Macorra, A. Dey, G. Dhungana, P. Doel, S. Eftekharzadeh, K. Fanning, A. Font-Ribera, L. Garrison, E. Gaztañaga, R. Kehoe, T. Kisner, A. Kremin, M. Landriau, L. Le Guillou, Michael E. Levi, C. Magneville, Aaron M. Meisner, R. Miquel, J. Moustakas, Adam D. Myers, Jeffrey A. Newman, J. D. Nie, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, W. J. Percival, C. Poppett, F. Prada, M. Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, B. A. Weaver, K. Zhang, Zhimin Zhou, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), and University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy

Subjects
MCC, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, general [Galaxies], DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Surveys, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), QB Astronomy, digital sky survey, Catalogs, spectroscopic target selection, observations [Cosmology], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], QC, QB, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Full list of authors: Lan, Ting-Wen; Tojeiro, R.; Armengaud, E.; Prochaska, J. Xavier; Davis, T. M.; Alexander, David M.; Raichoor, A.; Zhou, Rongpu; Yeche, Christophe; Balland, C.; BenZvi, S.; Berti, A.; Canning, R.; Carr, A.; Chittenden, H.; Cole, S.; Cousinou, M. -c.; Dawson, K.; Dey, Biprateep; Douglass, K.; Edge, A.; Escoffier, S.; Glanville, A.; Gontcho, S. Gontcho; Guy, J.; Hahn, C.; Howlett, C.; Hwang, Ho Seong; Jiang, L.; Kovacs, A.; Mezcua, M.; Moore, S.; Nadathur, S.; Oh, M.; Parkinson, D.; Rocher, A.; Ross, A. J.; Ruhlmann-Kleider, V.; Sabiu, C. G.; Said, K.; Saulder, C.; Sierra-Porta, D.; Weiner, B.; Yu, J.; Zarrouk, P.; Zhang, Y.; Zou, H.; Ahlen, S.; Bailey, S.; Brooks, D.; Cooper, A. P.; de la Macorra, A.; Dey, A.; Dhungana, G.; Doel, P.; Eftekharzadeh, S.; Fanning, K.; Font-Ribera, A.; Garrison, L.; Gaztanaga, E.; Kehoe, R.; Kisner, T.; Kremin, A.; Landriau, M.; Le Guillou, L.; Levi, Michael E.; Magneville, C.; Meisner, Aaron M.; Miquel, R.; Moustakas, J.; Myers, Adam D.; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Nie, J. D.; Palanque-Delabrouille, N.; Percival, W. J.; Poppett, C.; Prada, F.; Schubnell, M.; Tarle, Gregory; Weaver, B. A.; Zhang, K.; Zhou, Zhimin.--This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To assist in these tasks, we visually inspect DESI spectra of approximately 2500 bright galaxies, 3500 luminous red galaxies (LRGs), and 10,000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to obtain robust redshift identifications. We then utilize the visually inspected redshift information to characterize the performance of the DESI operation. Based on the visual inspection (VI) catalogs, our results show that the final survey design yields samples of bright galaxies, LRGs, and ELGs with purity greater than 99%. Moreover, we demonstrate that the precision of the redshift measurements is approximately 10 km s−1 for bright galaxies and ELGs and approximately 40 km s−1 for LRGs. The average redshift accuracy is within 10 km s−1 for the three types of galaxies. The VI process also helps improve the quality of the DESI data by identifying spurious spectral features introduced by the pipeline. Finally, we show examples of unexpected real astronomical objects, such as Lyα emitters and strong lensing candidates, identified by VI. These results demonstrate the importance and utility of visually inspecting data from incoming and upcoming surveys, especially during their early operation phases. © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society., W.L. is supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 111-2112-M-002-015-MY3), the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (MOE Yushan Young Scholar grant Nos. NTU-110VV007 and NTU-110VV007-2), National Taiwan University research grant Nos. NTU-CC-111L894806, NTU-111L7318, and NTU-112L7302 and NSF grant No. AST-1911140. D.M.A. acknowledges the Science Technology and Facilities Council (STFC) for support through grant No. ST/T000244/1. This research is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract; additional support for DESI is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Astronomical Sciences under contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technologies Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT); the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), and by the DESI Member Institutions: https://www.desi.lbl.gov/collaborating-institutions., With funding from the Spanish government through the "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" accreditation (CEX2021-001131-S).

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2023

46. Target Selection and Validation of DESI Quasars

Author

Edmond Chaussidon, Christophe Yèche, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, David M. Alexander, Jinyi Yang, Steven Ahlen, Stephen Bailey, David Brooks, Zheng Cai, Solène Chabanier, Tamara M. Davis, Kyle Dawson, Axel de laMacorra, Arjun Dey, Biprateep Dey, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Julien Guy, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Klaus Honscheid, Mustapha Ishak, Linhua Jiang, Stephanie Juneau, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Andras Kovács, Anthony Kremin, Ting-Wen Lan, Martin Landriau, Laurent Le Guillou, Michael E. Levi, Christophe Magneville, Paul Martini, Aaron M. Meisner, John Moustakas, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Adam D. Myers, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jundan Nie, Will J. Percival, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Anand Raichoor, Corentin Ravoux, Ashley J. Ross, Edward Schlafly, David Schlegel, Ting Tan, Gregory Tarlé, Rongpu Zhou, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Full list of authors: Chaussidon, Edmond; Yeche, Christophe; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Alexander, David M.; Yang, Jinyi; Ahlen, Steven; Bailey, Stephen; Brooks, David; Cai, Zheng; Chabanier, Solene; Davis, Tamara M.; Dawson, Kyle; de laMacorra, Axel; Dey, Arjun; Dey, Biprateep; Eftekharzadeh, Sarah; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Fanning, Kevin; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Gaztanaga, Enrique; Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A.; Gonzalez-Morales, Alma X.; Guy, Julien; Herrera-Alcantar, Hiram K.; Honscheid, Klaus; Ishak, Mustapha; Jiang, Linhua; Juneau, Stephanie; Kehoe, Robert; Kisner, Theodore; Kovacs, Andras; Kremin, Anthony; Lan, Ting-Wen; Landriau, Martin; Le Guillou, Laurent; Levi, Michael E.; Magneville, Christophe; Martini, Paul; Meisner, Aaron M.; Moustakas, John; Munoz-Gutierrez, Andrea; Myers, Adam D.; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Nie, Jundan; Percival, Will J.; Poppett, Claire; Prada, Francisco; Raichoor, Anand; Ravoux, Corentin; Ross, Ashley J.; Schlafly, Edward; Schlegel, David; Tan, Ting; Tarle, Gregory; Zhou, Rongpu; Zhou, Zhimin; Zou, Hu.--This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited., The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will measure large-scale structures using quasars as direct tracers of dark matter in the redshift range 0.9 < z < 2.1 and using Lyα forests in quasar spectra at z > 2.1. We present several methods to select candidate quasars for DESI, using input photometric imaging in three optical bands (g, r, z) from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys and two infrared bands (W1, W2) from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. These methods were extensively tested during the Survey Validation of DESI. In this paper, we report on the results obtained with the different methods and present the selection we optimized for the DESI main survey. The final quasar target selection is based on a random forest algorithm and selects quasars in the magnitude range of 16.5 < r < 23. Visual selection of ultra-deep observations indicates that the main selection consists of 71% quasars, 16% galaxies, 6% stars, and 7% inconclusive spectra. Using the spectra based on this selection, we build an automated quasar catalog that achieves a fraction of true QSOs higher than 99% for a nominal effective exposure time of ∼1000 s. With a 310 deg−2 target density, the main selection allows DESI to select more than 200 deg−2 quasars (including 60 deg−2 quasars with z > 2.1), exceeding the project requirements by 20%. The redshift distribution of the selected quasars is in excellent agreement with quasar luminosity function predictions. © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society., A.D.M. was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics, under award No. DE-SC0019022. T.W.L. was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST 111-2112-M-002-015-MY3), the Ministry of Education, Taiwan (Yushan Young Scholar grant NTU-110VV007), National Taiwan University research grant (NTU-CC-111L894806), and NSF grant AST-1911140., With funding from the Spanish government through the "Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence" accreditation (CEX2021-001131-S).

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2023

47. X-Shooting ULLYSES: massive stars at low metallicity. I. Project Description

Author

Vink, Jorick S., Mehner, A., Crowther, P. A., Fullerton, A., Garcia, M., Martins, F., Morrell, N., Oskinova, L. M., St-Louis, N., ud-Doula, A., Sander, A. A. C., Sana, H., Bouret, J. -C., Kubatova, B., Marchant, P., Martins, L. P., Wofford, A., van Loon, J. Th., Telford, O. Grace, Gotberg, Y., Bowman, D. M., Erba, C., Kalari, V. M., Abdul-Masih, M., Alkousa, T., Backs, F., Barbosa, C. L., Berlanas, S. R., Bernini-Peron, M., Bestenlehner, J. M., Blomme, R., Bodensteiner, J., Brands, S. A., Evans, C. J., David-Uraz, A., Driessen, F. A., Dsilva, K., Geen, S., Gomez-Gonzalez, V. M. A., Grassitelli, L., Hamann, W. -R., Hawcroft, C., Herrero, A., Higgins, E. R., Hillier, D. John, Ignace, R., Istrate, A. G., Kaper, L., Kee, N. D., Kehrig, C., Keszthelyi, Z., Klencki, J., de Koter, A., Kuiper, R., Laplace, E., Larkin, C. J. K., Lefever, R. R., Leitherer, C., Lennon, D. J., Mahy, L., Apellaniz, J. Maiz, Maravelias, G., Marcolino, W., McLeod, A. F., de Mink, S. E., Najarro, F., Oey, M. S., Parsons, T. N., Pauli, D., Pedersen, M. G., Prinja, R. K., Ramachandran, V., Ramirez-Tannus, M. C., Sabhahit, G. N., Schootemeijer, A., Serantes, S. Reyero, Shenar, T., Stringfellow, G. S., Sudnik, N., Tramper, F., Wang, L., Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier (LUPM), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and XShootU

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Observations of individual massive stars, super-luminous supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, and gravitational-wave events involving spectacular black-hole mergers, indicate that the low-metallicity Universe is fundamentally different from our own Galaxy. Many transient phenomena will remain enigmatic until we achieve a firm understanding of the physics and evolution of massive stars at low metallicity (Z). The Hubble Space Telescope has devoted 500 orbits to observe 250 massive stars at low Z in the ultraviolet (UV) with the COS and STIS spectrographs under the ULLYSES program. The complementary ``X-Shooting ULLYSES'' (XShootU) project provides enhanced legacy value with high-quality optical and near-infrared spectra obtained with the wide-wavelength coverage X-shooter spectrograph at ESO's Very Large Telescope. We present an overview of the XShootU project, showing that combining ULLYSES UV and XShootU optical spectra is critical for the uniform determination of stellar parameters such as effective temperature, surface gravity, luminosity, and abundances, as well as wind properties such as mass-loss rates in function of Z. As uncertainties in stellar and wind parameters percolate into many adjacent areas of Astrophysics, the data and modelling of the XShootU project is expected to be a game-changer for our physical understanding of massive stars at low Z. To be able to confidently interpret James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spectra of the first stellar generations, the individual spectra of low Z stars need to be understood, which is exactly where XShootU can deliver., Comment: Accepted in A&A - 35 Pages, 12 Figures, 4 Tables, 2 Large Tables

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2023

48. Gas accretion and Ram Pressure Stripping of Haloes in Void Walls

Author

Rory Smith, Katarina Kraljic, Benjamin Thompson, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
galaxies: haloes, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies: formation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: evolution, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We conduct hydrodynamical cosmological zoom simulations of fourteen voids to study the ability of haloes to accrete gas at different locations throughout the voids at z = 0. Measuring the relative velocity of haloes with respect to their ambient gas, we find that a tenth of the haloes are expected to be unable to accrete external gas due to its fast flow passed them (so called 'fast flow haloes'). These are typically located near void walls. We determine that these haloes have recently crossed the void wall and are still moving away from it. their motion counter to that of ambient gas falling towards the void wall results in fast flows that make external gas accretion very challenging, and often cause partial gas loss via the resultant ram pressures. Using an analytical approach, we model the impact of such ram pressures on the gas inside haloes of different masses. A halo's external gas accretion is typically cut off, with partial stripping of halo gas. For masses below a few times 10$^{9}$ M$_{\odot}$, their halo gas is heavily truncated but not completely stripped. We identify numerous examples of haloes with a clear jelly-fish like gas morphology, indicating their surrounding gas is being swept away, cutting them off from further external accretion. These results highlight how, even in the relatively low densities of void walls, a fraction of galaxies can interact with large-scale flows in a manner that has consequences for their gas content and ability to accrete gas., Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures

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2023

49. Massive black hole assembly in nuclear star clusters

Author

Kritos, Konstantinos, Berti, Emanuele, Silk, Joseph, and HEP, INSPIRE

Subjects
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.GRQC] Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc], FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Nuclear star clusters, that fragment into metal-poor stars in situ at the centers of protogalaxies, provide ideal environments for the formation of intermediate-mass black holes with masses $10^3-10^6M_\odot$. We utilize the semi-analytic model implemented in Rapster, a public rapid cluster evolution code. We implement simple recipes for stellar collisions and gas accretion/expulsion into the code and identify the regimes where each channel contributes to the dynamical formation of intermediate-mass black holes via repeated mergers of stellar black-hole seeds. We find that intermediate-mass black hole formation is almost inevitable if the initial mean density of the nuclear cluster is $>10^8M_\odot{\rm pc}^{-3}$. Million solar mass black holes can form within 100 Myr in the heaviest ($>10^7M_\odot$) and most compact ($, 13 pages, 7 figures

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2023

50. An unbiased method of measuring the ratio of two data sets

Author

Sun, Zeyang, Zhang, Pengjie, Dong, Fuyu, Yao, Ji, Shan, Huanyuan, Jullo, Eric, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Yin, Boyan, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

In certain cases of astronomical data analysis, the meaningful physical quantity to extract is the ratio $R$ between two data sets. Examples include the lensing ratio, the interloper rate in spectroscopic redshift samples, the decay rate of gravitational potential and $E_G$ to test gravity. However, simply taking the ratio of the two data sets is biased, since it renders (even statistical) errors in the denominator into systematic errors in $R$. Furthermore, it is not optimal in minimizing statistical errors of $R$. Based on Bayesian analysis and the usual assumption of Gaussian error in the data, we derive an analytical expression of the posterior PDF $P(R)$. This result enables fast and unbiased $R$ measurement, with minimal statistical errors. Furthermore, it relies on no underlying model other than the proportionality relation between the two data sets. Even more generally, it applies to the cases where the proportionality relation holds for the underlying physics/statistics instead of the two data sets directly. It also applies to the case of multiple ratios ($R\rightarrow {\bf R}=(R_1,R_2,\cdots)$). We take the lensing ratio as an example to demonstrate our method. We take lenses as DESI imaging survey galaxies, and sources as DECaLS cosmic shear and \emph{Planck} CMB lensing. We restrict the analysis to the ratio between CMB lensing and cosmic shear. The resulting $P(R)$, for multiple lens-shear pairs, are all nearly Gaussian. The S/N of measured $R$ ranges from $4.9$ to $8.4$. We perform several tests to verify the robustness of the above result., 13 pages, 9 figures. Codes available at https://github.com/Ze-yangSUN/Ratio_method

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2023

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