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On the scale of galactic haloes, the distribution of matter in the cosmos is affected by energetic, non-gravitational processes; so-called baryonic feedback. A lack of knowledge about the details of how feedback processes redistribute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 A. J. Mead , T. Tröster , C. Heymans , L. Van Waerbeke , I. G. McCarthy

Weak gravitational lensing convergence peaks, the local maxima in weak lensing convergence maps, have been shown to contain valuable cosmological information complementary to commonly used two-point statistics. To exploit the full power of…

We study the impact of baryonic processes and massive neutrinos on weak lensing peak statistics that can be used to constrain cosmological parameters. We use the BAHAMAS suite of cosmological simulations, which self-consistently include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Matthew Fong , Miyoung Choi , Victoria Catlett , Brandyn Lee , Austin Peel , Rachel Bowyer , Lindsay J. King , Ian G. McCarthy

We provide a simple toy model to elucidate the effects of baryonic cooling on predictions of the convergence power spectrum in weak gravitational lensing. Our model suggests that the effects of baryonic cooling on dark matter halo profiles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Martin White

Baryonic effects created by feedback processes associated with galaxy formation are an important, poorly constrained systematic effect for models of large-scale structure as probed by weak gravitational lensing. Upcoming surveys require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Baryonic physics has a considerable impact on the distribution of matter in our Universe on scales probed by current and future cosmological surveys, acting as a key systematic in such analyses. We seek simple symbolic parametrisations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Lukas Kammerer , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Gabriel Kronberger , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate how the inclusion of physical processes relevant to galaxy formation (star formation, metal-line cooling, stellar winds, supernovae and feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei, AGN)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-09 Marco Velliscig , Marcel P. van Daalen , Joop Schaye , Ian G. McCarthy , Marcello Cacciato , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

The interpretation of upcoming weak gravitational lensing surveys depends critically on our understanding of the matter power spectrum on scales $k < 10 h/\mathrm{Mpc}$, where baryonic processes are important. We study the impact of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Stijn N. B. Debackere , Joop Schaye , Henk Hoekstra

The halo mass function from N-body simulations of collisionless matter is generally used to retrieve cosmological parameters from observed counts of galaxy clusters. This neglects the observational fact that the baryonic mass fraction in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-16 A. Balaguera-Antolinez , Cristiano Porciani

The clustering of matter, as measured by the matter power spectrum, informs us about dark matter and cosmology, as well as baryonic effects on the distribution of matter in the universe. Using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-14 M. L. van Loon , Marcel P. van Daalen

Upcoming weak lensing surveys, such as LSST, EUCLID, and WFIRST, aim to measure the matter power spectrum with unprecedented accuracy. In order to fully exploit these observations, models are needed that, given a set of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-27 Marcel P. van Daalen , Joop Schaye , C. M. Booth , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

Galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing are two of the main observational probes in Stage-IV large-scale structure surveys. Unfortunately, the complicated relationship between galaxies and matter limits the exploitation of this data.…

The back-reaction of baryons on the dark matter halo density profile is of great interest, not least because it is an important systematic uncertainty when attempting to detect the dark matter. Here, we draw on a large suite of high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-01 Alan R. Duffy , Joop Schaye , Scott T. Kay , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Richard A. Battye , C. M. Booth

Baryonic feedback effects consist of a major systematic for upcoming weak-lensing and galaxy-clustering surveys. In this paper, we present an emulator for the baryonic suppression of the matter power spectrum. The emulator is based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Sambit K. Giri , Aurel Schneider

The power spectrum has been a workhorse for cosmological studies of large-scale structure. However, the present-day matter distribution is highly non-Gaussian and significant cosmological information is also contained in higher-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Victoria Yankelevich , Ian G. McCarthy , Juliana Kwan , Sam G. Stafford , Jia Liu

Forthcoming cosmic shear surveys will make precise measurements of the matter density field down to very small scales, scales which are dominated by baryon feedback. The modelling of baryon feedback is crucial to ensure unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Alessandro Maraio , Alex Hall , Andy Taylor

We study the change in the radial distribution of dark matter within haloes in response to baryonic astrophysical processes in galaxies at different epochs, investigating the role of astrophysical modeling in cosmological hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-30 Premvijay Velmani , Aseem Paranjape

Baryonic physics is anticipated to be a major source of systematic uncertainty in current and future large-scale cosmological surveys. We investigate how baryonic effects on halo density profiles vary with secondary halo properties at fixed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Yikun Wang , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Aricò , Sownak Bose , Lars Hernquist

Satellite kinematics offers a powerful method to infer dynamical halo masses and has been demonstrated to yield tight constraints on the galaxy-halo connection. However, previous studies have assumed that the halos in which the satellites…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Josephine F. W. Baggen , Frank C. van den Bosch , Kaustav Mitra

An accurate modelling of baryonic feedback effects is required to exploit the full potential of future weak-lensing surveys such as Euclid or LSST. In this second paper in a series of two, we combine Euclid-like mock data of the cosmic…