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The predicted mass function of dark matter halos is essential in connecting observed galaxy cluster counts and models of galaxy clustering to the properties of the primordial density field. We determine the mass function in the concordance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Michael S. Warren , Kevork Abazajian , Daniel E. Holz , Luis Teodoro

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

We present a new set of cosmological zoom-in simulations of a MW-like galaxy which for the first time include elastic velocity-dependent self interacting dark matter (SIDM) and IllustrisTNG physics. With these simulations we investigate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Jonah C. Rose , Paul Torrey , Mark Vogelsberger , Stephanie O'Neil

We construct an emulator for the halo mass function over group and cluster mass scales for a range of cosmologies, including the effects of dynamical dark energy and massive neutrinos. The emulator is based on the recently completed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-06 Sebastian Bocquet , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Earl Lawrence , Thomas Uram , Nicholas Frontiere , Adrian Pope , Hal Finkel

Baryonic effects such as AGN feedback can significantly impact the matter clustering, are harder to model from first principles, and emerge as a severe limiting factor in weak lensing cosmology. To tackle this issue, we propose a generic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Shuren Zhou , Pengjie Zhang

Peaks in two-dimensional weak lensing (WL) maps contain significant cosmological information, complementary to the WL power spectrum. This has recently been demonstrated using N-body simulations which neglect baryonic effects. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiuyuan Yang , Jan M. Kratochvil , Kevin Huffenberger , Zoltán Haiman , Morgan May

We use six, high-resolution $\Lambda$CDM simulations of galaxy formation to study how emission from dark matter annihilation is affected by baryonic processes. These simulations produce isolated, disc-dominated galaxies with structure,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Robert J J Grand , Simon D M White

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

We study the impact of baryons on the distribution of dark matter in a Milky Way-size halo by comparing a high-resolution, moving-mesh cosmological simulation with its dark matter-only counterpart. We identify three main processes related…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-20 Qirong Zhu , Federico Marinacci , Moupiya Maji , Yuexing Li , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Baryons both increase halo concentration through adiabatic contraction and expel mass through feedback processes. However, it is not well understood how the radiation fields prevalent during the epoch of reionization affect the evolution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Hanjue Zhu , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Acoustic oscillations in the baryon-photon fluid leave a signature in the matter power spectrum. The overall shape of the spectrum and the wavelength of the oscillations depend upon the sound horizon scale at recombination. Using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 R. Angulo , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk , R. G. Bower , A. Jenkins , S. L. Morris

We present BAHAMAS-SIDM, the first large-volume, (400/h Mpc)^3, cosmological simulations including both self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) and baryonic physics. These simulations are important for two primary reasons: 1) they include the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-02 Andrew Robertson , David Harvey , Richard Massey , Vincent Eke , Ian G. McCarthy , Mathilde Jauzac , Baojiu Li , Joop Schaye

The effect of baryon physics associated with galaxy formation onto the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe is a key uncertainty in the theoretical modelling required for the interpretation of Stage IV surveys. We use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , Roi Kugel , Jeger C. Broxterman , Marcel P. van Daalen

Baryonic feedback effects lead to a suppression of the weak lensing angular power spectrum on small scales. The poorly constrained shape and amplitude of this suppression is an important source of uncertainties for upcoming cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Aurel Schneider , Nicola Stoira , Alexandre Refregier , Andreas J. Weiss , Mischa Knabenhans , Joachim Stadel , Romain Teyssier

We present a novel statistic to extract cosmological information in weak lensing data: the lensing minima. We also investigate the effect of baryons on the cosmological constraints from peak and minimum counts. Using the \texttt{MassiveNuS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 William R. Coulton , Jia Liu , Ian G. McCarthy , Ken Osato

We use the FLAMINGO galaxy formation model to quantify the impact of baryon-CDM isocurvature perturbations on galaxy formation in $\Lambda$CDM. In linear theory, these perturbations represent local, compensated variations in the ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-04 Owen Jessop , Adrian Jenkins , Andrew Pontzen , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , John C. Helly

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the APOSTLE project along with high-quality rotation curve observations to examine the fraction of baryons in {\Lambda}CDM haloes that collect into galaxies. This 'galaxy formation…

The abundance and structure of dark matter subhalos has been analyzed extensively in recent studies of dark matter-only simulations, but comparatively little is known about the impact of baryonic physics on halo substructures. We here…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Dolag , S. Borgani , G. Murante , V. Springel

The spatial distribution of matter in clusters of galaxies is mainly determined by the dominant dark matter component, however, physical processes involving baryonic matter are able to modify it significantly. We analyse a set of 500 pc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-13 Davide Martizzi , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore , Tina Wentz

We combine data for extragalactic systems to quantify a relation between the observed baryonic mass $M_b$ and the enclosed dynamical mass $M_{200}$ inferred from kinematics or gravitational lensing. Our sample covers nine orders of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Stacy McGaugh , Tobias Mistele , Francis Duey , Konstantin Haubner , Federico Lelli , Jim Schombert , Pengfei Li