Optimal transport reconstruction of biased tracers in redshift space

F Nikakhtar, N Padmanabhan, B Lévy, RK Sheth… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Recent research has emphasized the benefits of accurately reconstructing the initial
Lagrangian positions of biased tracers from their positions at a later time, to gain …

Effective cosmic density field reconstruction with convolutional neural network

X Chen, F Zhu, S Gaines… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a cosmic density field reconstruction method that augments the traditional
reconstruction algorithms with a convolutional neural network (CNN). Following previous …

Reconstructing the baryonic acoustic oscillations in the presence of photo-z uncertainties

KC Chan, G Lu, X Wang - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The reconstruction method has been widely employed to improve the baryon acoustic
oscillations (BAO) measurement in spectroscopic survey data analysis. In this study, we …

Cosmological forecasts for future galaxy surveys with the linear point standard ruler: toward consistent bao analyses far from a fiducial cosmology

S Anselmi, GD Starkman, A Renzi - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The linear point (LP) standard ruler was identified as the basis of a purely geometric method
for exploiting the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). The LP exploits the BAO feature …

Monge-Ampère gravity: From the large deviation principle to cosmological simulations through optimal transport

B Lévy, Y Brenier, R Mohayaee - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We study Monge-Ampère gravity (MAG) as an effective theory of cosmological structure
formation through optimal transport theory. MAG is based on the Monge-Ampère equation, a …

Forecasting the BAO measurements of the CSST galaxy and AGN spectroscopic surveys

H Miao, Y Gong, X Chen, Z Huang… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The spectroscopic survey of the China's Space Survey Telescope (CSST) is expected to
obtain a huge number of slitless spectra, including more than one hundred million galaxy …

Velocity reconstruction in the era of DESI and Rubin/LSST. II. Realistic samples on the light cone

B Hadzhiyska, S Ferraro, B Ried Guachalla, E Schaan - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
Reconstructing the galaxy peculiar velocity field from the distribution of large-scale structure
plays an important role in cosmology. On one hand, it gives us an insight into structure …

Quantitative Stability of the Pushforward Operation by an Optimal Transport Map

G Carlier, A Delalande, Q Mérigot - Foundations of Computational …, 2024 - Springer
We study the quantitative stability of the mapping that to a measure associates its
pushforward measure by a fixed (non-smooth) optimal transport map. We exhibit a tight …

Getting in shape with minimal energy: a variational principle for protohaloes

M Musso, RK Sheth - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In analytical models of structure formation, protohaloes are routinely assumed to be peaks of
the smoothed initial density field, with the smoothing filter being spherically symmetric. This …

Cosmological constraints with the linear point from the BOSS survey

M He, C Zhao, H Shan - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Linear Point (LP), defined as the mid-point between the baryon acoustic
oscillation (BAO) peak and the associated left dip of the two-point correlation function …