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Sahyadri: A simulation suite for the cosmology dependence of the Cosmic Web

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-01-14 v1

Abstract

We present Sahyadri, a suite of cosmological NN-body simulations designed to enable precision studies of the low-redshift Universe with next-generation spectroscopic surveys. Sahyadri includes systematic variations of six cosmological parameters around Planck 2018 constraints, with seed-matched initial conditions enabling cosmological parameter derivatives. Each simulation evolves 204832048^3 particles in a periodic box of side length 200200 h1h^{-1} Mpc, yielding a particle mass of mp=8.1×107h1Mm_{\rm{p}} = 8.1 \times 10^{7}\,h^{-1}\,M_{\odot} in the fiducial Planck 2018 cosmology. This resolution enables robust identification of dark matter halos down to Mmin=3.2×109M_{\rm min} = 3.2 \times 10^{9} h1h^{-1} MM_\odot, which represents a factor of \sim25 improvement over the AbacusSummit suite, and is over two orders of magnitude better than the Quijote and Aemulus suites. We estimate that approximately 40% of DESI BGS galaxies at redshift z<0.15z < 0.15 - roughly 1.6 million objects - reside in halos accessible to Sahyadri but beyond the reach of existing parameter-varying simulation suites. We demonstrate Sahyadri's capabilities through measurements of the matter power spectrum, halo mass function and power spectrum, and beyond 2-point statistics such as the Voronoi volume function and kthk^{\rm th} nearest neighbour statistics, showing excellent agreement with theoretical predictions and significant sensitivity to Ωm\Omega_{\rm m} variations. We implement a custom compression scheme reducing storage requirements by a factor of \sim3 while maintaining sub-percent clustering accuracy. Key data products will be made publicly available.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.07924,
  title  = {Sahyadri: A simulation suite for the cosmology dependence of the Cosmic Web},
  author = {Saee Dhawalikar and Shadab Alam and Aseem Paranjape and Arka Banerjee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.07924},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

29 pages, 17 figures, prepared for submission to JCAP, comments welcome