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We present a new module of the parallel N-Body code P-GADGET3 for cosmological simulations of light bosonic non-thermal dark matter, often referred as Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM). The dynamics of the FDM features a highly non-linear Quantum…

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The distribution of angles subtended between pairs of galaxies and the line of sight,which is uniform in real space, is distorted by their peculiar motions, and has been proposed as a probe of cosmic expansion. We test this idea using…

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Testing gravity and the concordance model of cosmology, $\Lambda$CDM, at large scales is a key goal of this decade's largest galaxy surveys. Here we present a comparative study of dark matter power spectrum predictions from different…

We present a new method for generating initial conditions for numerical cosmological simulations in which massive neutrinos are treated as an extra set of N-body (collisionless) particles. It allows us to accurately follow the density field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Arka Banerjee , Devon Powell , Tom Abel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

VPIC is a general purpose Particle-in-Cell simulation code for modeling plasma phenomena such as magnetic reconnection, fusion, solar weather, and laser-plasma interaction in three dimensions using large numbers of particles. VPIC's…

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Dark matter comprises the bulk of the matter in the universe but its particle nature and cosmological origin remain mysterious. Knowledge of the dark matter density distribution in the Milky Way Galaxy is crucial to both our understanding…

Multiple signal classification algorithm (MUSICAL) provides a super-resolution microscopy method. In the previous research, MUSICAL has enabled data-parallelism well on a desktop computer or a Linux-based server. However, the running time…

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The abundance and distribution of collapsed objects such as galaxy clusters will become an important tool to investigate the nature of dark energy and dark matter. Number counts of very massive objects are sensitive not only to the equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 L. R. Abramo , R. C. Batista , L. Liberato , R. Rosenfeld

We present the Differentiable Lensing Lightcone (DLL), a fully differentiable physical model designed for being used as a forward model in Bayesian inference algorithms requiring access to derivatives of lensing observables with respect to…

Tormen and Bertschinger have presented an algorithm which allows the dynamic range of N-body simulations to be extended by adding long-wavelength power to an evolved N-body simulation. This procedure is of considerable interest as it will…

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We address key points for an efficient implementation of likelihood codes for modern weak lensing large-scale structure surveys. Specifically, we focus on the joint weak lensing convergence power spectrum-bispectrum probe and we tackle the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-02 Matteo Rizzato , Karim Benabed , Francis Bernardeau , Fabien Lacasa

An improved implementation of an N-body code for simulating collisionless cosmological dynamics is presented. TPM (Tree-Particle-Mesh) combines the PM method on large scales with a tree code to handle particle-particle interactions at small…

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The sensitivity of direct detection experiments depends on the phase-space distribution of dark matter near the Sun, which can be modeled theoretically using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies. However,…

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Here we present a simple, parameter-free, non-perturbative algorithm that gives low-redshift cosmological particle realizations accurate to few-Megaparsec scales, called MUSCLE (MUltiscale Spherical ColLapse Evolution). It has virtually the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Mark C. Neyrinck

In the next decade, cosmological surveys will have the statistical power to detect the absolute neutrino mass scale. N-body simulations of large-scale structure formation play a central role in interpreting data from such surveys. Yet these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-31 Caio Bastos de Senna Nascimento , Marilena Loverde

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

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Weak lensing peak counts are a powerful statistical tool for constraining cosmological parameters. So far, this method has been applied only to surveys with relatively small areas, up to several hundred square degrees. As future surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-01 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Adam Amara

The "gravitational million-body problem," to model the dynamical evolution of a self-gravitating, collisional N-body system with ~10^6 particles over many relaxation times, remains a major challenge in computational astrophysics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-07 Carl L. Rodriguez , Bharath Pattabiraman , Sourav Chatterjee , Alok Choudhary , Wei-keng Liao , Meagan Morscher , Frederic A. Rasio

Constraining neutrino mass through cosmological observations relies on precise simulations to calibrate their effects on large scale structure, while these simulations must overcome computational challenges like dealing with large velocity…

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