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Jun 23 – 27, 2025
Eckhardt Research Center
America/Chicago timezone

Advancing kSZ Tomography: Velocity Reconstruction, Constraints on Primordial Non-Gaussianity, and a New Approach to Galaxy Simulations

Jun 25, 2025, 3:55 PM
15m
401 (ERC)

401

ERC

Parallel Session Parallel Session B

Speaker

Dr Selim Hotinli (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Description

In this talk, I will summarize the latest results from ongoing kSZ tomography velocity-reconstruction programs centered at the Perimeter Institute. Highlights will include the most recent LSS × CMB data analyses, featuring the most stringent constraints to date on primordial non-Gaussianity from scale-dependent galaxy bias in galaxy-velocity correlations. I will also introduce a new analysis pipeline and publicly available code for velocity reconstruction, simulations, and data analysis. Additionally, I will present a novel approach to simulating galaxy data that is both more practical and simpler than traditional mocks. This method not only enables an exact determination of the window function but also provides a sufficiently accurate estimate of the covariance, making it a robust and efficient alternative.

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Primary author

Dr Selim Hotinli (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Co-author

Prof. Kendrick Smith (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

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