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We develop the halo model of large-scale structure as an accurate tool for probing primordial non-Gaussianity. In this study we focus on understanding the matter clustering at several redshifts. The primordial non-Gaussianity is modeled as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 Robert E. Smith , Vincent Desjacques , Laura Marian

In this paper we present preliminary results from cosmological simulations of modified gravity in the dark matter sector. Our results show improvements over standard cold dark matter cosmology. The abundance of low-mass haloes in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-08 Wojciech A. Hellwing

The comparison between dynamical mass and lensing mass provides a targeted test for a wide range of modified gravity models. In our previous paper we showed, through numerical simulations, that the measurement of the line-of-sight velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Tsz Yan Lam , Fabian Schmidt , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada

We present a phenomenological modification of the standard perturbation theory prediction for the bispectrum in redshift space that allows us to extend the model to mildly non-linear scales over a wide range of redshifts, $z\leq1.5$. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-16 Héctor Gil-Marín , Christian Wagner , Jorge Noreña , Licia Verde , Will Percival

We develop a phenomenological model to predict the clustering of dark matter halos on the light-cone by combining several existing theoretical models. Assuming that the velocity field of halos on large scales is approximated by linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida , Yasushi Suto , August E. Evrard

We present astrophysical applications of the recently popular halo model to describe large scale structure clustering. We formulate the power spectrum, bispectrum and trispectrum of dark matter density field in terms of correlations within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray

We investigate various phenomenological schemes for the rapid generation of 3D mock galaxy catalogues with a given power spectrum and bispectrum. We apply the fast bispectrum estimator \MODALLSS{} to these mock galaxy catalogues and compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Johnathan Hung , Marc Manera , E. P. S. Shellard

We present two-point correlation function statistics of the mass and the halos in the chameleon $f(R)$ modified gravity scenario using a series of large volume N-body simulations. Three distinct variations of $f(R)$ are considered (F4, F5…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Pablo Arnalte-Mur , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Peder Norberg

The increase in the observed volume in cosmological surveys imposes various challenges on simulation preparations. Firstly, the volume of the simulations required increases proportionally to the observations. However, large-volume…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Sergio Rodríguez-Torres , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlöber , Cheng Zhao

Generating mocks for future sky surveys requires large volumes and high resolutions, which is computationally expensive even for fast simulations. In this work we try to develop numerical schemes to calibrate various halo and matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Biwei Dai , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak , Sukhdeep Singh

Resolving faint galaxies in large volumes is critical for accurate cosmic reionisation simulations. While less demanding than hydrodynamical simulations, semi-analytic reionisation models still require very large N-body simulations in order…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Yisheng Qiu , Simon J. Mutch , Pascal J. Elahi , Rhys J. J. Poulton , Chris Power , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Over $90$\% of dark matter haloes in cosmological simulations have unresolved properties. This can hinder the dynamical range of simulations and result in systematic biases when modelling cosmological tracers. We aim to more precisely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Gabriele Parimbelli , Gustavo Yepes

We investigate the impact of observational and theoretical uncertainties in cluster gravitational redshifts as a probe of modified gravity using an end-to-end forecasting pipeline. We use a generative model to build a halo catalogue with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Eleni Tsaprazi , Giorgio F. Lesci , Federico Marulli , Alan F. Heavens , Enrico Maraboli

We present a halo mass function accurate over the full relevant Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ parameter space based on spherical collapse calculations and calibrated to a suite of modified gravity $N$-body simulations that include massive neutrinos. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Steffen Hagstotz , Matteo Costanzi , Marco Baldi , Jochen Weller

We present the latest version of Pinocchio, a code that generates catalogues of DM haloes in an approximate but fast way with respect to an N-body simulation. This code version extends the computation of particle and halo displacements up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Emiliano Munari , Pierluigi Monaco , Emiliano Sefusatti , Emanuele Castorina , Faizan G. Mohammad , Stefano Anselmi , Stefano Borgani

We explore how diffuse stellar light and globular clusters (GCs) can be used to trace the matter distribution of their host halo using an observational methodology. For this, we use 117 simulated dark matter (DM) haloes from the $(34.4~\rm…

In this series of papers, we present a simulation-based model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies based on separate modelling of clustering in real space and velocity statistics. In the first paper, we present an emulator for the…

Future large-scale structure surveys will measure three-point statistics with high statistical significance. This will offer significant improvements on our understanding of gravity, provided we can model these statistics accurately. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Benjamin Bose , Joyce Byun , Fabien Lacasa , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Lucas Lombriser

Numerical simulations show that redshift space distortions (RSD) introduce strong scale dependence in the power spectra of halos, with ten percent deviations relative to linear theory predictions even on relatively large scales (k<0.1h/Mpc)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Zvonimir Vlah , Uroš Seljak , Teppei Okumura , Vincent Desjacques

Using a suite of $N$-body simulations we study the angular clustering of galaxies, halos, and dark matter in $\mathrm{\Lambda \text{CDM}}$ and Modified Gravity (MG) scenarios. We consider two general categories of such MG models, one is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Paweł Drozda , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki