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We describe a new hybrid N-body/hydrodynamical code based on the particle-mesh (PM) method and the piecewise-parabolic method (PPM) for use in solving problems related to the evolution of large-scale structure, galaxy clusters, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. M. Ricker , S. Dodelson , D. Q. Lamb

We introduce IGM-Vis, a novel astrophysics visualization and data analysis application for investigating galaxies and the gas that surrounds them in context with their larger scale environment, the Cosmic Web. Environment is an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-29 Joseph N. Burchett , David Abramov , Jasmine Otto , Cassia Artanegara , J. Xavier Prochaska , Angus G. Forbes

In this review, I outline the use of galaxy correlations to constrain cosmological parameters. As with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the density of dark and baryonic matter imprints important scales on the fluctuations of matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert C. Nichol

The Chinese Space Station Optical Survey (CSS-OS) is a planned full sky survey operated by the Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST). It can simultaneously perform the photometric imaging and spectroscopic slitless surveys, and will probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Yan Gong , Xiangkun Liu , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen , Zuhui Fan , Ran Li , Xiao-Dong Li , Zhigang Li , Xin Zhang , Hu Zhan

Galaxy redshift surveys are a major tool to address the most challenging cosmological problems facing cosmology, like the nature of dark energy and properties dark matter. The same observations are useful for a much larger variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-10 Laerte Sodre

Recent cosmic shear analyses have exhibited discrepancies of up to $1\sigma$ between the inferred cosmological parameters when analyzing summary statistics in real space versus harmonic space. In this paper, we demonstrate the consistent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Andy Park , Sukhdeep Singh , Xiangchong Li , Rachel Mandelbaum , Tianqing Zhang

21cm Intensity Mapping (IM) has been proposed about 15 years ago as a cost effective method to carry out cosmological surveys and to map the 3D distribution of matter in the universe, over a large range of post EoR redshifts, from z=0 to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-01 Reza Ansari

Cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) surveys provide a promising tomographic probe of the post-reionization era and of the standard model of cosmology. Simulations of this signal are crucial for maximizing the utility of these surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Pascal Hitz , Pascale Berner , Devin Crichton , John Hennig , Alexandre Refregier

Many of the most exciting questions in astrophysics and cosmology, including the majority of observational probes of dark energy, rely on an understanding of the nonlinear regime of structure formation. In order to fully exploit the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Martin White , David Higdon , Christian Wagner , Salman Habib , Brian Williams

Frequentist profile likelihoods have seen a resurgence in cosmology, offering an alternative to Bayesian methods as they can circumvent the impact of prior-volume effects. This paper presents Procoli, a fast and accessible package to obtain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Tanvi Karwal , Yashvi Patel , Alexa Bartlett , Vivian Poulin , Tristan L. Smith , Daniel N. Pfeffer

For most of its history, cosmology was a qualitatively constrained discourse on the universe, shaped by limited observational access and the absence of global dynamical laws. This situation has changed decisively in recent decades. Modern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We present the integrated 3-point shear correlation function $i\zeta_{\pm}$ -- a higher-order statistic of the cosmic shear field -- which can be directly estimated in wide-area weak lensing surveys without measuring the full 3-point shear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-05 Anik Halder , Oliver Friedrich , Stella Seitz , Tamas N. Varga

Cosmological N-Body simulations are used for a variety of applications. Indeed progress in the study of large scale structures and galaxy formation would have been very limited without this tool. For nearly twenty years the limitations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 J. S. Bagla , Nishikanta Khandai

We present jax-cosmo, a library for automatically differentiable cosmological theory calculations. It uses the JAX library, which has created a new coding ecosystem, especially in probabilistic programming. As well as batch acceleration,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-01 Jean-Eric Campagne , François Lanusse , Joe Zuntz , Alexandre Boucaud , Santiago Casas , Minas Karamanis , David Kirkby , Denise Lanzieri , Yin Li , Austin Peel

Robust measurements based on current large-scale structure surveys require precise knowledge of statistical and systematic errors. This can be obtained from large numbers of realistic mock galaxy catalogues that mimic the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-04 Cullan Howlett , Marc Manera , Will J. Percival

Cosmography, the study and making of maps of the universe or cosmos, is a field where visual representation benefits from modern three-dimensional visualization techniques and media. At the extragalactic distance scales, visualization is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Daniel Pomarede , Helene M. Courtois , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully

Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) is a long-term program of numerical simulations of cosmic reionization. Its goal is to model fully self-consistently (albeit not necessarily from the first principles) all relevant physics, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Cosmography is an ideal tool to investigate the cosmic expansion history of the Universe in a model-independent way. The equations of motion in modified theories of gravity are usually very complicated; cosmography may select practical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Sanjay Mandal , Deng Wang , P. K. Sahoo

We have developed a Java-based teaching tool, "Appreciating Hubble at Hyper-speed" ($\textit{AHaH}$), intended for use by students and instructors in beginning astronomy and cosmology courses, which we have made available online. This tool…

Context. Cosmic voids are vast underdense regions in the cosmic web that encode crucial information about structure formation, the composition of the Universe, and its expansion history. Due to their lower density, these regions are less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 M. D. Lepinzan , C. T. Davies , T. Castro , N. Schuster , J. Mohr , P. Monaco