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We perform cosmological zoom-in simulations of $19$ relaxed cluster-mass haloes with the inclusion of adiabatic gas in the cold dark matter (CDM) and self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) models. These clusters are selected as dynamically…

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We present a test to quantify how well some approximate methods, designed to reproduce the mildly non-linear evolution of perturbations, are able to reproduce the clustering of DM halos once the grouping of particles into halos is defined…

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The simplest scheme for predicting real galaxy properties after performing a dark matter simulation is to rank order the real systems by stellar mass and the simulated systems by halo mass and then simply assume monotonicity - that the more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-22 Stephanie Tonnesen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Geometric method based on the high-order 3D Voronoi tessellation is proposed for identifying the single galaxies, pairs and triplets. This approach allows to select small galaxy groups and isolated galaxies in different environment and find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Elyiv , O. Melnyk , I. Vavilova

We present a calibration of halo assembly bias using the Separate Universe technique. Specifically, we measure the response of halo abundances at fixed mass and concentration to the presence of an infinite-wavelength initial perturbation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Aseem Paranjape , Nikhil Padmanabhan

For idealized (spherical, smooth) dark matter halos described by single-parameter density profiles (such as the NFW profile) there exists a one-to-one mapping between the energy of the halo and the scale radius of its density profile. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Turner Johnson , Andrew J. Benson , Daniel Grin

We present a method for populating dark matter simulations with haloes of mass below the resolution limit. It is based on stochastically sampling a field derived from the density field of the halo catalogue, using constraints from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sylvain de la Torre , John A. Peacock

We introduce two new methods to obtain reliable velocity field statistics from N-body simulations, or indeed from any general density and velocity fluctuation field sampled by discrete points. These methods, the {\it Voronoi tessellation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Francis Bernardeau , Rien van de Weygaert

We present "sheet+release" simulations that reliably follow the evolution of dark matter structure at and below the dark matter free-streaming scale, where instabilities in traditional N-body simulations create a large population of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Jens Stücker , Raul E. Angulo , Oliver Hahn , Simon D. M. White

We describe a NOVel form of Adaptive softening (NovA) for collisionless $N$-body simulations, implemented in the Ramses adaptive mesh refinement code. We introduce a refinement criterion that the particle distribution within each cell be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Alexander Hobbs , Justin Read , Oscar Agertz , Francesca Iannuzzi , Chris Power

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…

Xu \& Jing reported a monotonic relationship between host halo mass $M_h$ and the morphology of massive central galaxies, characterized by the S\'ersic index $n$, at fixed stellar mass, suggesting that morphology could serve as a good…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-30 Zhenjie Liu , Kun Xu , Jun Zhang , Wenting Wang , Cong Liu

Statistics of lensed arcs in clusters of galaxies serve as a powerful probe of both the non-sphericity and the inner slope of dark matter halos. We develop a semi-analytic method to compute the number of arcs in triaxial dark matter halos.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masamune Oguri , Jounghun Lee , Yasushi Suto

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) enable exact and tractable inference but employ data independent mixture weights that limit their ability to capture local geometry of the data manifold. We propose Voronoi tessellations (VT) as a natural way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sahil Sidheekh , Sriraam Natarajan

Gersho's conjecture in 3D asserts the asymptotic periodicity and structure of the optimal centroidal Voronoi tessellation. This relatively simple crystallization problem remains to date open. We prove bounds on the geometric complexity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Rustum Choksi , Xin Yang Lu

Can N-body simulations reliably determine the structural properties of dark matter halos? Focussing on a Virgo-sized galaxy cluster, we increase the resolution of current ``high resolution simulations'' by almost an order of magnitude to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

Cosmological simulations predict dark matter shapes that deviate from spherical symmetry. The exact shape depends on the prescription of the simulation and the interplay between dark matter and baryons. This signature is most pronounced in…

In order to derive unbiased cosmological parameters from Stage-IV surveys, we need models that can predict the matter power spectrum for at least $k\,\lesssim\,10\,h\mathrm{\,Mpc^{-1}}$ with percent-level accuracy. The main challenge in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Marcel P. van Daalen , Ioannis Koutalios , Jeger C. Broxterman , Bart J. H. Wolfs , John C. Helly , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

The cross-correlation of galaxies at different redshifts with other tracers of the large-scale structure can be used to reconstruct the cosmic mean of key physical quantities, and their evolution over billions of years, at high precision.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Sara Maleubre , Matteo Zennaro , David Alonso , Ian McCarthy , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to investigate the hypothesis that uniform sampling measurements that are endowed with antipodal symmetry play an important role when the raw data and image data are related through the Fourier…

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