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A new approach to cosmological structure formation with massive neutrinos

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2019-01-16 v2

Abstract

We show how Newtonian cosmological simulations can be employed to investigate the non-linear evolution of two particle species in a relativistic context. We discuss the application for massive neutrinos and other multi-species systems such as Cold Dark Matter (CDM) plus baryons or Warm Dark Matter (WDM). We propose a method that allows us to perform simulations including massive neutrinos and general relativistic effects at almost the same computational cost as ordinary CDM only N-body simulations, employing tailor-made initial conditions and a dictionary for the interpretation of the simulation output.

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@article{arxiv.1807.03701,
  title  = {A new approach to cosmological structure formation with massive neutrinos},
  author = {Christian Fidler and Alexander Kleinjohann and Thomas Tram and Cornelius Rampf and Kazuya Koyama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.03701},
  year   = {2019}
}

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28 pages, 9 figures