Calibrating baryonic effects in cosmic shear with external data in the LSST era
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025)
Abstract:
Cosmological constraints derived from weak lensing (WL) surveys are limited by baryonic effects, which suppress the non-linear matter power spectrum on small scales. By combining WL measurements with data from external tracers of the gas around massive structures, it is possible to calibrate baryonic effects and, therefore, obtain more precise cosmological constraints. In this study, we generate mock data for a Stage-IV weak lensing survey such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), X-ray gas fractions, and stacked kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) measurements, to jointly constrain cosmological and astrophysical parameters describing baryonic effects (using the Baryon Correction Model - BCM). First, using WL data alone, we quantify the level to which the BCM parameters will need to be constrained to recover the cosmological constraints obtained under the assumption of perfect knowledge of baryonic feedback. We identify the most relevant baryonic parameters and determine that they must be calibrated to a precision of ∼10-20% to avoid significant degradation of the fiducial WL constraints. We forecast that long-term X-ray data from ∼5000 clusters should be able to reach this threshold for the parameters that characterise the abundance of hot virialised gas. Constraining the distribution of ejected gas presents a greater challenge, however, but we forecast that long-term kSZ data from a CMB-S4-like experiment should achieve the level of precision required for full self-calibration.
Hi intensity mapping with the MIGHTEE Survey: first results of the Hi power spectrum
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 91̽»¨ University Press 541:1 (2025) 476-493
Abstract:
We present the first results of the H i intensity mapping power spectrum analysis with the MeerKAT International GigaHertz Tiered Extragalactic Exploration (MIGHTEE) survey. We use data covering 4 square degrees in the COSMOS field using a frequency range of 962.5–1008.42 MHz, equivalent to H i emission in . The data consist of 15 pointings with a total of 94.2 h on-source. We verify the suitability of the MIGHTEE data for H i intensity mapping by testing for residual systematics across frequency, baselines, and pointings. We also vary the window used for H i signal measurements and find no significant improvement using stringent Fourier mode cuts. We compute the H i power spectrum at scales in autocorrelation as well as cross-correlation between observational scans using power spectrum domain averaging for pointings. We report consistent upper limits of 29.8 mK Mpc from the 2 cross-correlation measurements and 25.82 mK Mpc from autocorrelation at 2 Mpc.The low signal-to-noise ratio in this data potentially limits our ability to identify residual systematics, which will be addressed in the future by incorporating more data in the analysis.MIGHTEE-HI: The direct detection of neutral hydrogen in galaxies at $z>0.25$
(2025)
Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Counts-in-cells statistics
Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 698 (2025) a148
Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Cross-correlations with luminous red galaxies from eBOSS
Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 698 (2025) a58