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We present a novel method of robust probabilistic cosmic web particle classification in three dimensions using a supervised machine learning algorithm. Training data was generated using a simplified $\Lambda$CDM toy model with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-10 Brandon Buncher , Matias Carrasco Kind

The stable clustering hypothesis is a fundamental assumption about the nonlinear clustering of matter in cosmology. It states that the mean physical separation of particles is a constant on sufficiently small scales. While many authors have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Y. P. Jing

We present an algorithm which is designed to allow the efficient identification and preliminary dynamical analysis of thousands of structures and substructures in large N-body simulations. First we utilise a refined density gradient system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jochen Weller , Jeremiah P Ostriker , Paul Bode , Laurie Shaw

Accurately predicting structural properties of dark matter halos is one of the fundamental goals of modern cosmology. We use the new suite of MultiDark cosmological simulations to study the evolution of dark matter halo density profiles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Anatoly Klypin , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober , Francisco Prada , Steffen Hess

To understand the universe and to interpret the cosmological parameters governing its evolution it is necessary to contrast the data from galaxy surveys with simulation. Typically it entails using computationally expensive N -body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-02 Tolga Yapici , Zachery Brown , Regina Demina , Segev BenZvi

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are still limited by their spatial/mass resolution and cannot model from first principles some of the processes, like star formation, that are key in driving galaxy evolution. As a consequence they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea V. Macciò , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Pavle Vulanović , Hind Al Noori , Fabian Walter , Nico Krieger , Tobias Buck

We measure the mass function of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of flat LCDM cosmology and investigate its evolution at z<~2. Halos are identified as isolated density peaks, and their masses are…

In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance…

We present the largest full N-body simulation to date with local primordial non-Gaussianities (L-PNG), the \textsc{PNG-UNITsim}. It tracks the evolution of $4096^3$ particles within a periodic box with $L_{\rm box} = 1 \; h^{-1}\,{\rm…

Understanding astrophysical and cosmological processes can be challenging due to their complexity and lack of intuitive analogies. To address this, we present \texttt{AstronomyCalc}, a Python package specifically designed to aid…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-26 Sambit K. Giri

We examine the effects of mass resolution and force softening on the density profiles of cold dark matter halos that form within cosmological N-body simulations. As we increase the mass and force resolution, we resolve progenitor halos that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel , George Lake

The nature of dark matter is unknown. A number of dark matter candidates are quantum flavor-mixed particles but this property has never been accounted for in cosmology. Here we explore this possibility from the first principles via…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-13 Mikhail V. Medvedev

Star formation is a multi-scale problem, and only global simulations that account for the connection from the molecular cloud scale gas flow to the accreting protostar can reflect the observed complexity of protostellar systems.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-28 Rami Al-Belmpeisi , Vito Tuhtan , Mikkel Bregning Christensen , Rajika L Kuruwita , Troels Haugbølle

We present a detailed description and validation of our massively-parallel update to the mass-Peak Patch method, a fully predictive initial-space algorithm to quickly generate dark matter halo catalogues in very large cosmological volumes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 George Stein , Marcelo A. Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

We describe our visualization process for a particle-based simulation of the formation of the first stars and their impact on cosmic history. The dataset consists of several hundred time-steps of point simulation data, with each time-step…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-08 Paul Arthur Navrátil , Jarrett L. Johnson , Volker Bromm

(Shortened) We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure and dynamical evolution of dark matter halos in galaxy clusters. Our sample consists of nine massive halos from an EdS universe with scale free power spectrum and n = -1.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Giuseppe Tormen , Francois R. Bouchet , Simon D. M. White

We report some results from one of the largest hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of large scale structures that has been done up to date. The MareNostrum Universe SPH simulation consists of 2 billion particles (2 times 1024^3) in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Gottloeber , G. Yepes , A. Khalatyan , R. Sevilla , V. Turchaninov

We present a method to simulate deep sky images, including realistic galaxy morphologies and telescope characteristics. To achieve a wide diversity of simulated galaxy morphologies, we first use the shapelets formalism to parametrize the…

Small- and intermediate-scale galaxy clustering can be used to establish the galaxy-halo connection to study galaxy formation and evolution and to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters. With the increasing precision of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Zheng Zheng , Hong Guo