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Existing models for the dependence of the halo mass function on cosmological parameters will become a limiting source of systematic uncertainty for cluster cosmology in the near future. We present a halo mass function emulator and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Thomas McClintock , Eduardo Rozo , Matthew R. Becker , Joseph DeRose , Yau-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Jeremy L. Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Zhongxu Zhai

We review the current state of the theory of large scale structure in a warm dark matter (WDM) cosmological model. In particular, we focus on the non-linear modelling of the matter power spectrum and on the mass function of dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-18 Katarina Markovič , Matteo Viel

We explore the impact of a LWDM cosmological scenario on the clustering properties of large-scale structure in the Universe. We do this by extending the halo model. The new development is that we consider two components to the mass density:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert E. Smith , Katarina Markovic

We investigate the effects of changes in the cosmological parameters between the WMAP 1st, 3rd, and 5th year results on the structure of dark matter haloes. We use a set of simulations that cover 5 decades in halo mass ranging from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrea V. Maccio' , Aaron A. Dutton , Frank C. van den Bosch

The mass distribution of halos, as specified by the halo mass function, is a key input for several cosmological probes. The sizes of $N$-body simulations are now such that, for the most part, results need no longer be statistics-limited,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Suman Bhattacharya , Katrin Heitmann , Martin White , Zarija Lukić , Christian Wagner , Salman Habib

The dark matter halo mass function is a key repository of cosmological information over a wide range of mass scales, from individual galaxies to galaxy clusters. N-body simulations have established that the friends-of-friends (FOF) mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Zarija Lukić , Darren Reed , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

The nature of dark matter is increasingly constrained by cosmological data. In this paper, we examine the implications of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy limits on the density of cold dark matter under different theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Melchiorri , J. Silk

We focus on the complex relationship between the shape of dark matter halos and the cosmological models underlying their formation. We used three realistic cosmological models from the Dark Energy Universe Simulation suite. They have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-30 Jean-Michel Alimi , Remy Koskas

Although numerous dynamical techniques have been developed to estimate the total dark matter halo mass of the Milky Way, it remains poorly constrained, with typical systematic uncertainties of 0.3 dex. In this study, we apply a neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 Elaheh Hayati , Peter Behroozi , Ekta Patel , Yunchong Wang , Stefan Gottlöber , Gustavo Yepes

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of cosmology, and the halo mass function (HMF) serves as a fundamental tool for extracting cosmological information. Previous calibrations of the HMF in dynamical dark energy (DE) models either assumed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani , Jeppe Dakin , Valerio Marra , Ronaldo Carlotto Batista , Laura Salvati

We use high-resolution simulations of large-scale structure formation to analyze the effects of interacting dark matter and dark energy on the evolution of the halo mass function. Using a chi-square likelihood analysis, we find significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Sutter , P. M. Ricker

Accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies with an angular resolution of a few arcminutes can be used to determine fundamental cosmological parameters such as the densities of baryons, cold and hot dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 J. Richard Bond , George Efstathiou , Max Tegmark

The parameters of cosmological model with cold dark matter and cosmological constant (Lambda CDM) have been determined on a basis of three-year cosmic microwave background observations by space mission WMAP, as well as the data on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Apunevych , B. Venhlovska , Yu. Kulinich , B. Novosyadlyj

The mean and the scatter of the HI content of a dark-matter halo as a function of the halo mass are useful statistics that can be used to test models of structure and galaxy formation. We investigate the possibility of constraining this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-21 Benedetta Spina , Cristiano Porciani , Carlo Schimd

We measure the clustering of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of the flat LCDM cosmology. Halos are identified using the spherical overdensity algorithm, which finds the mass around isolated peaks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy L. Tinker , Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Michael S. Warren , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober

The nature of dark matter is still unknown and one of the most fundamental scientific mysteries. Although successfully describing large scales, the standard cold dark matter model (CDM) exhibits possible shortcomings on galactic and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Donnino Anderhalden , Aurel Schneider , Andrea V. Maccio , Juerg Diemand , Gianfranco Bertone

The simplest interpretation of the microlensing events observed towards the Large Magellanic Clouds is that approximately half of the mass of the Milky Way halo is in the form of MAssive Compact Halo Objects with $M \sim 0.5 M_{\odot}$. It…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anne M Green

We discuss an implementation of a deep learning framework to gain insight into dark matter (DM) structure formation. We investigate the contribution of velocity and density field information to the construction of the halo mass function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-13 Saba Etezad-Razavi , Erfan Abbasgholinejad , Mohammad-Hadi Sotoudeh , Farbod Hassani , Sadegh Raeisi , Shant Baghram

In this paper we study the sensitivity of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) project to the determination of cosmological parameters, employing the Monte Carlo Markov Chains (MCMC) method. For comparison,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Zuhui Fan , Xinmin Zhang

We use recent low-mass star models, which reproduce accurately the observed sequences of various globular clusters, to convert the observed luminosity functions into bolometric luminosity functions and mass functions down to the bottom of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Gilles Chabrier , Dominique Méra