Start year
2012
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Description
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) contains the statistical information about the early seeds of the structure formation in our Universe. Its natural counterpart in the local universe is the distribution of galaxies that arises as a result of gravitational growth of those primordial and small density fluctuations. The characterization of the distribution of inhomogeneities at large-scale in the local Universe provides a powerful tool, complementary to the CMB, to determine the origin and the energy content of the Universe, the expansion rate of the Universe during the cosmic history, and the detailed process of formation of the large-scale structures (LSS). The study of the LSS in the coming years will attempt to address the following open questions in cosmology:
What is the dark matter, and which is its detailed contribution to the energy content of the Universe?
What is the dark energy, and how it affects the dynamics of the Universe?
What is the connection between large scale structure and galaxy formation?
Do fundamental constants vary along the history of the Universe?
Is there evidence for primordial non-Gaussianities giving information on the details of the inflationary expansion epoch of the Universe?
In order to contribute to the possible answer to those questions, in this project we will use several large scale structure probes:
The distribution and large-scale clustering of the galaxies, and its evolution with time. The matter power spectrum (P(k)) and the two-point correlation function (ξ(r)) contain certain geometric features associated to some characteristic length-scales in the Universe, as the horizon at matter-radiation equality, or the acoustic horizon at last scattering. In particular, the latter determines the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale.
The higher order statistics: the three-point statistics characterizes the deviation from Gaussinity and therefore the structure formation through gravitational instability, the galaxy bias, and the primordial non-Gaussianities.
The distribution of the cosmic voids in the Universe. Both the statistics of big voids, as well as the characterization of the void expansion, provides a complementary tool to determine the matter density and the equation of state of the dark energy. Cosmic voids contain information of the higher order statistics of galaxies and can be used to further constrain the BAO scale.
The cosmic web can be used to characterize the formation of structures and relate the large scale structure with galaxy formation processes.
The distribution and abundance of galaxy clusters, as well as the evolution with time. Among other parameters, the cluster mass function depends both on the matter density as well as in the amplitude of the power spectrum. The time evolution of the mass function n(M,z) is also govern by the growth of structures in the Universe, thus being also sensitive to the equation of state of the dark energy.
Members
Principal investigator
FRANCISCO SHU
KITAURA JOYANES
Project staff
José Alberto
Rubiño Martín
Prof.
Rafael
Rebolo López
Juan E
Betancort Rijo
Martín
López Corredoira
Ricardo Tanausú
Genova Santos
Rafael Delfin
Barrena Delgado
Collaborators
José Javier
Díaz García
Dr.
A. Hempel
Dr.
F. Atrio-Barandela
Dr.
S. Patiri
Dr.
A.J. Cuesta Vázquez
Dr.
A.D. Montero Dorta
Dr.
F. Prada
Dr.
M.A. Sánchez Conde
Dr.
S. Gottlaber
Dr.
A. Klypin
Dr.
Sylos-Labini
Dr.
C. Hernández-Monteagudo
Dr.
A. Pérez Garrido
Dr.
A. Díaz Sánchez
Dr.
I. Villo
Dr.
R. Toledo
Dr.
C. Zhao
Results
- eBOSS: cosmological analysis from the quasar sample. Marcos Pellejero Ibañez and F. S. Kitaura participated in the construction of the likelihood and the cosmological parameter estimation (including as coauthors Kitaura & Pellejero Ibañez: 2018MNRAS.473.4773A).
- EUCLID: comparison project of mock galaxy catalogue generating codes showing the accuracy and speed of the PATCHY code (including as coauthors Balaguera-Antolínez, Kitaura & Pellejero Ibañez:https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09497, https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09477, https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09499)
- Development of an accurate Bias mapping method for large scale structure analysis (Balaguera-Antolínez, Kitaura, Pellejero Ibañez et al 2018:https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05870)
- Presentation of the UNITSIM project to provide simulations for the theoretical model comparison for DESI and EUCLID (including as coauthors Kitaura & Pellejero Ibañez:http://www.unitsims.org/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.02111)
- Presentation of BARCODE (Bos, Kitaura & Weygaert 2018: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05189, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018ascl.soft10002B)
Scientific activity
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PRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission): an extended white paperPRISM (Polarized Radiation Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) was proposed to ESA in May 2013 as a large-class mission for investigating within the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision program a set of important scientific questions that require high resolution, high sensitivity, full-sky observations of the sky emission at wavelengths ranging fromAndré, P. et al.
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Planck intermediate results. XI. The gas content of dark matter halos: the Sunyaev-Zeldovich-stellar mass relation for locally brightest galaxiesWe present the scaling relation between Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) signal and stellar mass for almost 260,000 locally brightest galaxies (LBGs) selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These are predominantly the central galaxies of their dark matter halos. We calibrate the stellar-to-halo mass conversion using realistic mock catalogues basedPlanck Collaboration et al.
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The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: constraints on the time variation of fundamental constants from the large-scale two-point correlation functionWe obtain constraints on the variation of the fundamental constants from the full shape of the redshift-space correlation function of a sample of luminous galaxies drawn from the Data Release 9 of the Baryonic Oscillations Spectroscopic Survey. We combine this information with additional data from recent cosmic microwave background, baryon acousticScóccola, C. G. et al.
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Peaks in the CMBR Power Spectrum II: Physical Interpretation for any Cosmological ScenarioIn a previous paper (part I), the mathematical properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) power spectrum which presents oscillations were discussed. Here, we discuss the physical interpretation: a power spectrum with oscillations is a rather normal characteristic expected from any fluid with clouds of overdensities that emitLópez-Corredoira, M.
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Constraints on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal from the warm-hot intergalactic medium from WMAP and SPT dataThe fraction of ionized gas in the warm-hot intergalactic medium induces temperature anisotropies on the cosmic microwave background similar to those of clusters of galaxies. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) anisotropies due to these low-density, weakly non-linear, baryon filaments cannot be distinguished from that of clusters using frequencyGénova-Santos, R. et al.
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Peaks in the CMBR power spectrum. I. Mathematical analysis of the associated real space featuresThe purpose of our study is to understand the mathematical origin in real space of modulated and damped sinusoidal peaks observed in cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropies. We use the theory of the Fourier transform to connect localized features of the two-point correlation function in real space to oscillations in the power spectrumGabrielli, A. et al.
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Planck intermediate results. III. The relation between galaxy cluster mass and Sunyaev-Zeldovich signalWe examine the relation between the galaxy cluster mass M and Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect signal DA2 Y500 for a sample of 19 objects for which weak lensing (WL) mass measurements obtained from Subaru Telescope data are available in the literature. Hydrostatic X-ray masses are derived from XMM-Newton archive data, and the SZ effect signal isMandolesi, N. et al.
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