Séminaire Univers / |
| « Precision cosmology with cosmic expansion » |
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Doogesh Kodi Ramanah |
| We present a large-scale Bayesian inference framework to constrain cosmological parameters using galaxy redshift surveys, via an application of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test. This hierarchical approach encodes a novel AP test, extracting several orders of magnitude more information from the cosmological expansion compared to classical approaches, to infer cosmological parameters and jointly reconstruct the underlying 3D dark matter density field. The novelty of this AP test lies in constraining the comoving-redshift transformation to infer the appropriate cosmology which yields isotropic correlations of the galaxy density field, with the underlying assumption relying purely on the geometrical symmetries of the cosmological principle. Such an AP test does not rely explicitly on modelling the full statistics of the field. This is among the first methods to extract a large fraction of information from statistics other than that of direct density contrast correlations, without being sensitive to the amplitude of density fluctuations. We showcase the key aspects of our approach via an application to a mock SDSS-III galaxy catalogue. |
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mardi 11 septembre 2018 - 11:00 IHP Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
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