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Cosmic shear measurements rely on our ability to measure and correct the Point Spread Function (PSF) of the observations. This PSF is measured using stars in the field, which give a noisy measure at random points in the field. Using Wiener…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Amara , A. Refregier , S. Paulin-Henriksson

We present PySCo, a fast and user-friendly Python library designed to run cosmological $N$-body simulations across various cosmological models, such as $\Lambda$CDM and $w_0w_a$CDM, and alternative theories of gravity, including $f(R)$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Michel-Andrès Breton

We describe a major update to the public GIZMO code. GIZMO has been used in simulations of cosmology; galaxy and star formation and evolution; black hole accretion and feedback; proto-stellar disk dynamics and planet formation; fluid…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Philip F. Hopkins

We present numerical measurements of the power spectrum response function of the gravitational growth of cosmic structures, defined as the functional derivative of the nonlinear spectrum with respect to the linear counterpart, based on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Takahiro Nishimichi , Francis Bernardeau , Atsushi Taruya

We introduce COBRA (Cosmology with Optimally factorized Bases of Radial Approximants), a novel framework for rapid computation of large-scale structure observables. COBRA separates scale dependence from cosmological parameters in the linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Thomas Bakx , Nora Elisa Chisari , Zvonimir Vlah

The continuous progress toward more precise cosmological surveys and experiments has galvanized recent interest into consistency tests on cosmological parameters and models. At the heart of this effort is quantifying the degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 Weikang Lin , Mustapha Ishak

The redshifted 21 cm line is an emerging tool in cosmology, in principle permitting three-dimensional surveys of our Universe that reach unprecedentedly large volumes, previously inaccessible length scales, and hitherto unexplored epochs of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-27 Adrian Liu , J. Richard Shaw

We present a Monte-Carlo package for simulation of high-redshift supernova data, SNOC. Optical and near-infrared photons from supernovae are ray-traced over cosmological distances from the simulated host galaxy to the observer at Earth. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Goobar , E. Mortsell , R. Amanullah , M. Goliath , L. Bergstrom , T. Dahlen

Determining the atomic and molecular content of the interstellar medium (ISM) as a function of environmental parameters is of fundamental importance to understand the star-formation process across the epochs. Although there exist various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Thomas G. Bisbas , Ewine F. van Dishoeck , Chia-Yu Hu , Andreas Schruba

The Core Cosmology Library (CCL) provides routines to compute basic cosmological observables to a high degree of accuracy, which have been verified with an extensive suite of validation tests. Predictions are provided for many cosmological…

We present a code to generate mock observations of 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. The emphasis of the code is on reducing the computational cost of running a full-blown simulation, trading computational time for accuracy. The code can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos

HI intensity mapping (IM) is a novel technique capable of mapping the large-scale structure of the Universe in three dimensions and delivering exquisite constraints on cosmology, by using HI as a biased tracer of the dark matter density…

CosmoMC is a Fortran 95 Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) engine to explore the cosmological parameter space, plus a Python suite for plotting and presenting results (see http://cosmologist.info/cosmomc/). This document describes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-12 Ming-Hua Li , Ping Wang , Zhe Chang , Dong Zhao

Petabyte-scale data volumes are generated by observations and simulations in modern astronomy and astrophysics. Storage, access, and data analysis are significantly hampered by such data volumes and are leading to the development of a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Eva Sciacca , Nicola Tuccari , Fabio Vitello , Valentina Cesare

This paper describes the architecture and demonstrates the capabilities of a newly developed, physically-based imaging simulator environment called SISPO, developed for small solar system body fly-by and terrestrial planet surface mission…

We present CosmoHub (https://cosmohub.pic.es), a web application based on Hadoop to perform interactive exploration and distribution of massive cosmological datasets. Recent Cosmology seeks to unveil the nature of both dark matter and dark…

Modern sky surveys are returning precision measurements of cosmological statistics such as weak lensing shear correlations, the distribution of galaxies, and cluster abundance. To fully exploit these observations, theorists must provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Juliana Kwan , Salman Habib , David Higdon

Understanding how cosmological parameters influence the cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra is a central component of modern cosmology education, but interactive exploration is often limited by computational cost or technical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Andreas Nygaard , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

We present $\it{CosmoPower}$, a suite of neural cosmological power spectrum emulators providing orders-of-magnitude acceleration for parameter estimation from two-point statistics analyses of Large-Scale Structure (LSS) and Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 A. Spurio Mancini , D. Piras , J. Alsing , B. Joachimi , M. P. Hobson

We present the CosmoBolognaLib, a large set of Open Source C++ numerical libraries for cosmological calculations. CosmoBolognaLib is a living project aimed at defining a common numerical environment for cosmological investigations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Federico Marulli , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Michele Moresco