Is the observable Universe consistent with the cosmological principle?

PK Aluri, P Cea, P Chingangbam… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The cosmological principle (CP)—the notion that the Universe is spatially isotropic and
homogeneous on large scales—underlies a century of progress in cosmology. It is …

Euclid preparation-XXVIII. Forecasts for ten different higher-order weak lensing statistics

V Ajani, M Baldi, A Barthelemy, A Boyle… - Astronomy & …, 2023 - aanda.org
Recent cosmic shear studies have shown that higher-order statistics (HOS) developed by
independent teams now outperform standard two-point estimators in terms of statistical …

Persistent homology in cosmic shear-II. A tomographic analysis of DES-Y1

S Heydenreich, B Brück, P Burger… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We demonstrate how to use persistent homology for cosmological parameter inference in a
tomographic cosmic shear survey. We obtain the first cosmological parameter constraints …

BAO angular scale at zeff= 0.11 with the SDSS blue galaxies

E De Carvalho, A Bernui, F Avila, CP Novaes… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
Aims. We measure the transverse baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal in the local
Universe using a sample of blue galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) survey …

The persistence of large scale structures. Part I. Primordial non-Gaussianity

M Biagetti, A Cole, G Shiu - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop an analysis pipeline for characterizing the topology of large scale structure and
extracting cosmological constraints based on persistent homology. Persistent homology is a …

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Simulation-based cosmological inference with wavelet harmonics, scattering transforms, and moments of weak lensing mass maps …

M Gatti, N Jeffrey, L Whiteway, J Williamson, B Jain… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Beyond-two-point statistics contain additional information on cosmological as well as
astrophysical and observational (systematics) parameters. In this methodology paper we …

Minkowski functionals of SDSS-III BOSS: hints of possible anisotropy in the density field?

S Appleby, C Park, P Pranav, SE Hong… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of the Minkowski functionals extracted from the SDSS-III BOSS
catalogs. After defining the Minkowski functionals, we describe how an unbiased …

Cosmological constraints from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam year 1 shear catalogue lensing convergence probability distribution function

L Thiele, GA Marques, J Liu, M Shirasaki - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We utilize the probability distribution function (PDF) of normalized convergence maps
reconstructed from the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) year 1 shear catalogue, in …

Homological percolation and the Euler characteristic

O Bobrowski, P Skraba - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
In this paper we study the connection between the zeros of the expected Euler characteristic
curve and the phenomenon which we refer to as homological percolation—the formation of …

Persistent homology of the cosmic web–I. Hierarchical topology in ΛCDM cosmologies

G Wilding, K Nevenzeel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Using a set of Lambda cold dark matter simulations of cosmic structure formation, we study
the evolving connectivity and changing topological structure of the cosmic web using state-of …