Search Results for author: Alexander Mead

Found 9 papers, 8 papers with code

Uncertain Evidence in Probabilistic Models and Stochastic Simulators

no code implementations21 Oct 2022 Andreas Munk, Alexander Mead, Frank Wood

We consider the problem of performing Bayesian inference in probabilistic models where observations are accompanied by uncertainty, referred to as "uncertain evidence."

Bayesian Inference

HMcode-2020: Improved modelling of non-linear cosmological power spectra with baryonic feedback

3 code implementations3 Sep 2020 Alexander Mead, Samuel Brieden, Tilman Tröster, Catherine Heymans

We present an updated version of the HMcode augmented halo model that can be used to make accurate predictions of the non-linear matter power spectrum over a wide range of cosmologies.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Core Cosmology Library: Precision Cosmological Predictions for LSST

3 code implementations14 Dec 2018 Nora Elisa Chisari, David Alonso, Elisabeth Krause, C. Danielle Leonard, Philip Bull, Jérémy Neveu, Antonio Villarreal, Sukhdeep Singh, Thomas McClintock, John Ellison, Zilong Du, Joe Zuntz, Alexander Mead, Shahab Joudaki, Christiane S. Lorenz, Tilman Troester, Javier Sanchez, Francois Lanusse, Mustapha Ishak, Renée Hlozek, Jonathan Blazek, Jean-Eric Campagne, Husni Almoubayyed, Tim Eifler, Matthew Kirby, David Kirkby, Stéphane Plaszczynski, Anze Slosar, Michal Vrastil, Erika L. Wagoner

As a result, predictions for correlation functions of galaxy clustering, galaxy-galaxy lensing and cosmic shear are demonstrated to be within a fraction of the expected statistical uncertainty of the observables for the models and in the range of scales of interest to LSST.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

KiDS-450 + 2dFLenS: Cosmological parameter constraints from weak gravitational lensing tomography and overlapping redshift-space galaxy clustering

1 code implementation20 Jul 2017 Shahab Joudaki, Chris Blake, Andrew Johnson, Alexandra Amon, Marika Asgari, Ami Choi, Thomas Erben, Karl Glazebrook, Joachim Harnois-Deraps, Catherine Heymans, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Henk Hoekstra, Dominik Klaes, Konrad Kuijken, Chris Lidman, Alexander Mead, Lance Miller, David Parkinson, Gregory B. Poole, Peter Schneider, Massimo Viola, Christian Wolf

The complementarity of our observables allows for constraints on modified gravity degrees of freedom that are not simultaneously bounded with either probe alone, and up to a factor of three improvement in the $S_8$ constraint in the extended cosmology compared to KiDS alone.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Accurate halo-model matter power spectra with dark energy, massive neutrinos and modified gravitational forces

1 code implementation5 Feb 2016 Alexander Mead, Catherine Heymans, Lucas Lombriser, John Peacock, Olivia Steele, Hans Winther

We show that the tuned halo model method can predict the non-linear matter power spectrum measured from simulations of parameterised $w(a)$ dark energy models at the few per cent level for $k<10\, h\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$, and we present theoretically motivated extensions to cover non-minimally coupled scalar fields, massive neutrinos and Vainshtein screened modified gravity models that result in few per cent accurate power spectra for $k<10\, h\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

CFHTLenS revisited: assessing concordance with Planck including astrophysical systematics

1 code implementation21 Jan 2016 Shahab Joudaki, Chris Blake, Catherine Heymans, Ami Choi, Joachim Harnois-Deraps, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Benjamin Joachimi, Andrew Johnson, Alexander Mead, David Parkinson, Massimo Viola, Ludovic van Waerbeke

When the systematic uncertainties are considered independently, the intrinsic alignment amplitude is the only degree of freedom that is substantially preferred by the data.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

An accurate halo model for fitting non-linear cosmological power spectra and baryonic feedback models

2 code implementations28 May 2015 Alexander Mead, John Peacock, Catherine Heymans, Shahab Joudaki, Alan Heavens

We are able to fit all feedback models investigated at the 5 per cent level using only two free parameters, and we place limits on the range of these halo parameters for feedback models investigated by the OWLS simulations.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Remapping simulated halo catalogues in redshift space

1 code implementation5 Aug 2014 Alexander Mead, John Peacock

We discuss the extension to redshift space of a rescaling algorithm, designed to alter the effective cosmology of a pre-existing simulated particle distribution or catalogue of dark matter haloes.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Remapping dark matter halo catalogues between cosmological simulations

1 code implementation23 Aug 2013 Alexander Mead, John Peacock

We present and test a method for modifying the catalogue of dark matter haloes produced from a given cosmological simulation, so that it resembles the result of a simulation with an entirely different set of parameters.

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

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