Santiago Casas
Postdoctoral Researcher
TTK, RWTH Aachen University
The Horndeski Lagrangian
PhD thesis: Non-linear structure formation in models of Dark Energy and Modified Gravity, http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23120/
Beyond Einstein's GR
Scalar-Tensor theories
Effect on LSS
CONCEPT: Python and Neutrinos
GADGET2/CoDECS
Credit: Yun Ling, My bachelor student,
Jeppe Dakin (U. Zurich)
Credit: Dr. Marco Baldi, Master thesis co-supervisor
Approximate methods: COLA
ABACUS: Fits for GCspectro with 1loopEFT
Other codes tested:
gevolution
flowpm
GNQ: Growing Neutrino Quintessence (developed in Heidelberg)
Credit: Winther, SC, Koyama, et al (2019)
Credit: SC, Führer, Ayaita, Weber, Wetterich
Credit: Rademacher, Moradinezhad, Lesgourges, SC
Credits: www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid, www.euclid-ec.org, ESA/NASA/SpaceX, Euclid Consortium
Euclid consortium scientist visits Cannes. Credits: ThalesAlenia Space
Euclid preparation: VII. Forecast validation for Euclid cosmological probes,,Blanchard et al. arXiv:1910.09273
★ Awardees of the Euclid STAR Prize Team 2019
EC Builder Status achieved 2023
Early Release Observations. ECICOM, ECEPO: Social media manager of instagram: @euclidconsortium
Euclid Launch: 1st July 2023
Large forecasting projects
The Fingertip Galaxy
SC, Lesgourgues, Schöneberg, et al., Euclid: Validation of the MontePython forecasting tools, 2303.09451
SC, Kunz, Martinelli, Pettorino, Phys.Dark Univ. 18 1703.01271
3x2pt Photometric Cosmic Shear + Clustering
Spectroscopic Galaxy Clustering: BAO+RSD+DM+LSS+Galaxy bias
Excellent complimentarity
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_test_images_tease_of_riches_to_come
Code: CosmicFish
S.Casas, M.Martinelli and M.Raveri
Soon to be released: Full pythonic version
https://github.com/santiagocasas/cosmicfishpie
Cosmomathica/Fishermathica
Python, Numpy-intensive
Couples to CAMB, CLASS, HiCLASS, MGCAMB, input4cast files
GC, WL, 21cm-IM, 3x2pt, CMB
Euclid, DESI, Rubin LSST, SKAO
Wolfram Language,
Cosmomathica-FORTRAN link for CAMB
GC, WL
Euclid, SKA1
Used to produce and validate IST:F forecasts 2015-2019
Hessian of a Gaussian Likelihood. Used to approximate posterior distributions at the maximum (fiducial value)
First code to be validated against MontePython MCMC forecasts
SC, Lesgourgues, Schöneberg, et al., Euclid: Validation of the MontePython forecasting tools, 2303.09451
Euclid preparation: VII. Forecast validation for Euclid cosmological probes,,Blanchard et al. arXiv:1910.09273
SC, Kunz, Martinelli, Pettorino, Phys.Dark Univ. 18 1703.01271
https://github.com/santiagocasas/cosmomathica
SC, I. Tutusaus : Work Package lead of WP6, Forecasting and statistics
SC: Member of WP1,2,3,4,6,7,11 : From theory and non-linearities to likelihood
SC: Co-coordinator of the KeyPaper-Theory-1 project
Leader and first author of TWG-Standard Project 1 paper:
SC, Cardone, Sapone, et al, Euclid: Constraints on f(R) cosmologies from the spectroscopic and photometric primary probes, 2306.11053
Frusciante, Pace, Cardone, SC et al, Euclid: Constraining linearly scale-independent modifications of gravity with the spectroscopic and photometric primary probes, 2306.12368
Main tasks:
Constrain gravitational potentials
Test for screening mechanisms
Check theories of modified gravity
Requires expertise with modified Einstein-Boltzmann solvers,
Emulators, Halo-model,
Fisher and likelihoods
EUCLID PRELIMINARY
Credit: P. Carrilho for IST:NL
Credit: SC, for IST:NL
Cosmological Likelihood for Observables in Euclid
Credit: SC, for IST:L
Credit: SC, for IST:NL
SC: Main developer and core member of CLOE. KeyPaper co-lead of 3x2pt in IST:NL
Preparation of DR1 analysis
Vera Rubin Observatory, LSST Project Office - http://www.lsst.org/gallery/telescope-rendering-2013
DESI telescope in Tucson, Arizona, in the Schuk Toak District on the Tohono O’odham Nation
Square Kilometer Array Observatory https://www.skao.int/
SC, Carucci, Pettorino et al (2022), Constraining gravity with synergies between radio and optical cosmological surveys, 2210.05705
CMB Stage-IV experiments: https://kipac.stanford.edu/research/projects/cmb-stage-4
Invited talk at the Manchester Optical x Radio Synergy meeting
Euclid Preparation: Sensitivity to Neutrino parameters. (Under internal review). Archidiacono, Lesgourgues, SC, Pamuk, et al.
EUCLID PRELIMINARY
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JAX, Differentiable Programming, Variational Tools, Bayesian-ML-emulators
JAX-COSMO: Campagne, Lanusse, Zuntz, SC, et al, 2302.05163.
https://github.com/DifferentiableUniverseInitiative/jax_cosmo
Automatic Fisher Matrices
Go beyond Fisher: DALI, etc...
Differentiable Boltzmann codes:
Emulators with AD:
In collaboration with Johanna Schaffmeister and Sven Günther, students at RWTH
Accelerate parameter inference by factor 10^4 wrt current (Euclid) pipelines:
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Non-linearities for spectroscopic and photometric LSS probes
CLASS 1-loop: Linde, Moradinezhad, Radermacher, SC, Lesgourgues, 2302.05163.
Techniques to include neutrinos as linear recipe through relativistic gauge transformations
CONCEPT: Python and Neutrinos
Credit: Yun Ling, My bachelor student,
Jeppe Dakin (U. Zurich)
KP-JC6-SP1 paper: Koyama, Pamuk, SC, et al
Emulators for the nonlinear matter power spectrum beyond ΛCDM, arXiv:1903.08798,
Winther, SC, Baldi, Koyama, et al.
Exotic models of DE-MG-\(\nu\):
Dynamics of neutrino lumps in growing neutrino quintessence, arXiv:1608.02358.
SC, Pettorino, Wetterich
Emulators?
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Euclid projects and synergies with other surveys
Constraining gravity with synergies between radio and optical cosmological surveys,
arXiv:2210.05705.
SC, Carucci, Pettorino, Camera, Martinelli
Combinations of SKAO with Euclid still to be performed. MEERKAT data?
Possible combinatons with Roman H\(\alpha\) and [OIII] tracers. Overlap and extension of redshift ranges offers interesting possibilities.
Wang et al. (2022)
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Modified Gravity + Dark Energy + Exploratory research
Model-independent reconstruction of the linear anisotropic stress η
arXiv:1805.00027
Pinho, SC, Amendola
Higgs-dilaton cosmology: An inflation-dark-energy connection and forecasts for future galaxy surveys, arXiv:1712.04956.
SC, Pauly, Rubio.
Connections between inflation and Dark Energy (i.e. ns vs w0) (late-time correlated to early time)
Leverage recent power of CMB-XC-LSS (Euclid and others)
Study if GWs bring extra information (Einstein-Telescope/Aachen/Padova collaboration)
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