Galaxy morphology rules out astrophysically relevant Hu-Sawicki f (R) gravity

PHYSICAL REVIEW D American Physical Society (APS) 102:10 (2020) ARTN 104060

Authors:

Harry Desmond, Pedro G Ferreira

Growth of accretion driven scalar hair around Kerr black holes

(2020)

Authors:

Jamie Bamber, Katy Clough, Pedro G Ferreira, Lam Hui, Macarena Lagos

The SAMI Galaxy Survey: a statistical approach to an optimal classification of stellar kinematics in galaxy surveys

(2020)

Authors:

Jesse van de Sande, Sam P Vaughan, Luca Cortese, Nicholas Scott, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Scott M Croom, Claudia DP Lagos, Sarah Brough, Julia J Bryant, Julien Devriendt, Yohan Dubois, Francesco D'Eugenio, Caroline Foster, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Katherine E Harborne, Jon S Lawrence, Sree Oh, Matt S Owers, Adriano Poci, Rhea-Silvia Remus, Samuel N Richards, Felix Schulze, Sarah M Sweet, Mathew R Varidel, Charlotte Welker

Developing a unified pipeline for large-scale structure data analysis with angular power spectra -- III. Implementing the multi-tracer technique to constrain neutrino masses

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 502, Issue 2, April 2021, Pages 2952–2960

Authors:

Konstantinos Tanidis, Stefano Camera

Abstract:

In this paper, we apply the multitracer technique to harmonic-space (i.e. angular) power spectra with a likelihood-based approach. This goes beyond the usual Fisher matrix formalism hitherto implemented in forecasts with angular statistics, opening up a window for future developments and direct application to available data sets. We also release a fully operational modified version of the publicly available code CosmoSIS, where we consistently include all the add-ons presented in the previous papers of this series. The result is a modular cosmological parameter estimation suite for angular power spectra of galaxy number counts, allowing for single and multiple tracers, and including density fluctuations, redshift-space distortions, and weak-lensing magnification. We demonstrate the improvement on parameter constraints enabled by the use of multiple tracers on a multitracing analysis of luminous red galaxies and emission-line galaxies. We obtain an enhancement of 44 per cent on the 2σ upper bound on the sum of neutrino masses.

Spatially offset black holes in the Horizon-AGN simulation and comparison to observations

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press 500:4 (2020) staa3516

Authors:

Deaglan J Bartlett, Harry Desmond, Julien Devriendt, Pedro G Ferreira, Adrianne Slyz

Abstract:

We study the displacements between the centres of galaxies and their supermassive black holes (BHs) in the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation Horizon-AGN, and in a variety of observations from the literature. The BHs in Horizon-AGN feel a subgrid dynamical friction force, sourced by the surrounding gas, which prevents recoiling BHs being ejected from the galaxy. We find that (i) the fraction of spatially offset BHs increases with cosmic time, (ii) BHs live on prograde orbits in the plane of the galaxy with an orbital radius that decays with time but stalls near z = 0, and (iii) the magnitudes of offsets from the galaxy centres are substantially larger in the simulation than in observations. We attribute the stalling of the infall and excessive offset magnitudes to the fact that dynamical friction from stars and dark matter is not modelled in the simulation, and hence provide a way to improve the BH dynamics of future simulations.