Research

We compute the real space galaxy power spectrum, including the leading order effects of General Relativity and primordial non-Gaussianity from the fNL and gNL parameters. Such contributions come from the one-loop matter power spectrum terms dominant at large scales, and from the factors of the non-linear bias parameter bNL (akin to the Newtonian bϕ). We use our modelling to assess the ability …

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Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Mapping (HI IM) surveys will be a powerful new probe of cosmology. However, strong astrophysical foregrounds contaminate the signal and their coupling with instrumental systematics further increases the data cleaning complexity. In this work, we simulate a realistic single-dish HI IM survey of a 5000~deg2 patch in the 950−1400 MHz range, with both the MID telescope …

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n this paper, we study how to directly measure the effect of peculiar velocities in the observed angular power spectra. We do this by constructing a new anti-symmetric estimator of Large Scale Structure using different dark matter tracers. We show that the Doppler term is the major component of our estimator and we show that …

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We examine the distribution of radio emission from ~42,000 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, as measured in the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS). We present a model of the radio luminosity distribution of the quasars that assumes that every quasar displays a superposition of two sources of radio emission: active galactic nuclei (jets) …

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Survey telescopes such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will increase the number of observed supernovae (SNe) by an order of magnitude, discovering millions of events; however, it is impossible to spectroscopically confirm the class for all the SNe discovered. Thus, photometric classification is crucial but its accuracy depends on the not-yet-finalized observing strategy of …

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We examine the evolution of intragroup gas X-ray scaling relations for group-sized halos (M500=1012.3−15M⊙) in the Simba galaxy formation simulation. X-ray luminosity LX vs M500 shows increasing deviation from self-similarity from z=3→0, with M500<1013.5M⊙ halos exhibiting a large reduction in LXand slight increase in X-ray luminosity-weighted temperature TX. These shifts are driven by a strong drop in fgas with time for these halos, and coincides with …

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Upcoming galaxy surveys will allow us to probe the growth of the cosmic large-scale structure with improved sensitivity compared to current missions, and will also map larger areas of the sky. This means that in addition to the increased precision in observations, future surveys will also access the ultra-large scale regime, where commonly neglected effects …

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Recent high-resolution interferometric images of submillimetre galaxies (SMGs) reveal fascinatingly complex morphologies. This raises a number of questions: how does the relative orientation of a galaxy affect its observed submillimetre emission, and does this result in an `orientation bias’ in the selection and analysis of such galaxies in flux-limited cosmological surveys? We investigate these questions …

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