The biased Cosmic web, from theoretical modelling to observations

Thesis topic details

General information

Organisation

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-25-0270  

Direction

DRF

Thesis topic details

Category

Corpuscular physics and outer space

Thesis topics

The biased Cosmic web, from theoretical modelling to observations

Contract

Thèse

Job description

The study of the filamentary Cosmic Web is a paramount aspect of modern research in cosmology. With the advent of extremely large and precise cosmological datasets which are now (or within months) coming notably from the Euclid space mission, it becomes feasible to study in detail the formation of cosmic structures through gravitational instability. In particular, fine non-linear aspects of this dynamics can be studied from a theoretical point of view with the hope of detecting signatures in real observations. One of the major difficulty in this regard is probably to make the link between the observed distribution of galaxies along filaments and the underlying matter distribution for which first-principles models are known. Building on recent and state of the art theoretical developments in gravitational perturbation theory and constrained random field theory, the successful candidate will develop first-principles predictions for statistical observables (extrema counts, topological estimators, extrema correlation functions, e.g. Pogosyan et al. 2009, MNRAS 396 or Ayçoberry, Barthelemy, Codis 2024, A&A 686) of the cosmic web, applied to the actual discrete field of galaxies which only traces the total matter in a biased manner. This model will then be applied to the analysis of Euclid data.

University / doctoral school

Astronomie et Astrophysique d’Île de France (ED A&A)
Paris-Saclay

Thesis topic location

Site

Saclay

Requester

Person to be contacted by the applicant

Codis Sandrine sandrine.codis@cea.fr
CNRS
UMR AIM, DRF/IRFU/DAp
CEA/Saclay/DAp
Orme des Merisiers
Batiment 709
Gif-sur-Yvette
+33 1 69 08 78 27

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

Codis Sandrine sandrine.codis@cea.fr
CNRS
UMR AIM, DRF/IRFU/DAp
CEA/Saclay/DAp
Orme des Merisiers
Batiment 709
Gif-sur-Yvette
+33 1 69 08 78 27

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