Search Results for author: Oliver H. E. Philcox

Found 11 papers, 7 papers with code

Cosmology Without Windows: Quadratic Estimators for the Galaxy Power Spectrum

no code implementations17 Dec 2020 Oliver H. E. Philcox

Conventional algorithms for galaxy power spectrum estimation measure the true spectrum convolved with a survey window function, which, for parameter inference, must be compared with a similarly convolved theory model.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Fewer Mocks and Less Noise: Reducing the Dimensionality of Cosmological Observables with Subspace Projections

no code implementations7 Sep 2020 Oliver H. E. Philcox, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Matias Zaldarriaga, Marko Simonovic, Marcel Schmittfull

The procedure is validated with full-shape analyses of power spectra from BOSS DR12 mock catalogs, showing that the 96-bin power spectra can be replaced by 12 subspace coefficients without biasing the output cosmology; this allows for accurate parameter inference using only $\sim 100$ mocks.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR16 luminous red galaxy and emission line galaxy samples: cosmic distance and structure growth measurements using multiple tracers in configuration space

1 code implementation17 Jul 2020 Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Cheng Zhao, Oliver H. E. Philcox, Shadab Alam, Amélie Tamone, Arnaud de Mattia, Ashley J. Ross, Anand Raichoor, Etienne Burtin, Romain Paviot, Sylvain de la Torre, Will J. Percival, Kyle S. Dawson, Héctor Gil-Marín, Julian E. Bautista, Jiamin Hou, Kazuya Koyama, John A. Peacock, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Johan Comparat, Stephanie Escoffier, Eva-Maria Mueller, Jeffrey A. Newman, Graziano Rossi, Arman Shafieloo, Donald P. Schneider

We perform a multi-tracer analysis using the complete Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) DR16 luminous red galaxy (LRG) and the DR16 emission line galaxy (ELG) samples in the configuration space, and successfully detect a cross correlation between the two samples, and find the growth rate to be $f\sigma_8=0. 342 \pm 0. 085$ ($\sim25$ per cent accuracy) from the cross sample alone.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

A Faster Fourier Transform? Computing Small-Scale Power Spectra and Bispectra for Cosmological Simulations in $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ Time

1 code implementation4 May 2020 Oliver H. E. Philcox

We present $\mathcal{O}(N^2)$ estimators for the small-scale power spectrum and bispectrum in cosmological simulations.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Computational Physics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

The Effective Halo Model: Creating a Physical and Accurate Model of the Matter Power Spectrum and Cluster Counts

1 code implementation20 Apr 2020 Oliver H. E. Philcox, David N. Spergel, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We introduce a physically-motivated model of the matter power spectrum, based on the halo model and perturbation theory.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Combining Full-Shape and BAO Analyses of Galaxy Power Spectra: A 1.6% CMB-independent constraint on H0

no code implementations10 Feb 2020 Oliver H. E. Philcox, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Marko Simonović, Matias Zaldarriaga

We present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the pre- and post-reconstruction galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the final data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Computing the Small-Scale Galaxy Power Spectrum and Bispectrum in Configuration-Space

2 code implementations2 Dec 2019 Oliver H. E. Philcox, Daniel J. Eisenstein

We present a new class of estimators for computing small-scale power spectra and bispectra in configuration-space via weighted pair- and triple-counts, with no explicit use of Fourier transforms.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Estimating Covariance Matrices for Two- and Three-Point Correlation Function Moments in Arbitrary Survey Geometries

1 code implementation10 Oct 2019 Oliver H. E. Philcox, Daniel J. Eisenstein

These are derived in the Gaussian limit (setting higher-order correlation functions to zero), but for arbitrary non-linear 2PCFs (which may be estimated from the survey itself), with a shot-noise rescaling parameter included to capture non-Gaussianity.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

RascalC: A Jackknife Approach to Estimating Single and Multi-Tracer Galaxy Covariance Matrices

1 code implementation24 Apr 2019 Oliver H. E. Philcox, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Ross O'Connell, Alexander Wiegand

Deviations between large scale model covariances from a mock survey and those from a large suite of mocks are found to be be indistinguishable from noise.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Detection and Removal of B-mode Dust Foregrounds with Signatures of Statistical Anisotropy

1 code implementation23 May 2018 Oliver H. E. Philcox, Blake D. Sherwin, Alexander van Engelen

Searches for inflationary gravitational wave signals in the CMB B-mode polarisation are expected to reach unprecedented power over the next decade.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

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