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We present $\texttt{Abacus}$, a fast and accurate cosmological $N$-body code based on a new method for calculating the gravitational potential from a static multipole mesh. The method analytically separates the near- and far-field forces,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Nina A. Maksimova , Philip A. Pinto

We make available to the public 4 dark matter simulations that cover 4 CDM cosmological models and were run with the AP^3M code (Couchamn 1991). These simulations are described in Colin et al. (ApJ, 523, 32, 1999). There are about 20 epochs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Colin , A. Klypin

We present CoSANG (Coupling Semi-Analytic and N-body Galaxies), a new hybrid model for cosmological dark matter and stellar halo simulations. In this approach a collisionless model (Gadget3) is used for gravitational interactions while a…

The development of numerical N -body simulations have allowed to study formation process and evolution of galaxies at different scales. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of N-body systems applied to the cosmological evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jazhiel Chacon , J. Alberto Vazquez , Ruslan Gabbasov

N-body simulations are essential tools in physical cosmology to understand the large-scale structure (LSS) formation of the Universe. Large-scale simulations with high resolution are important for exploring the substructure of universe and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Shenggan Cheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Derek Inman , Qiucheng Liao , Qiaoya Wu , James Lin

The gravitational $N$-body problem is a nearly universal problem in astrophysics which, despite its deceptive simplicity, still presents a significant computational challenge. For collisional systems such as dense star clusters, the need to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-03 Kerwann Tep , Brian T. Cook , Carl L. Rodriguez , Jiya Jolly , Eddie Sawin , Michael S. Petersen , Christoph Gaffud

We present a new N-body and gas dynamics code, called Nyx, for large-scale cosmological simulations. Nyx follows the temporal evolution of a system of discrete dark matter particles gravitationally coupled to an inviscid ideal fluid in an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ann Almgren , John Bell , Mike Lijewski , Zarija Lukić , Ethan Van Andel

Dark matter (DM) could be subject to non-gravitational self-interactions which is relevant to resolve potential problems of cold DM on small scales. Their impact on astrophysical objects such as galaxies and galaxy clusters allows for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Moritz S. Fischer , Marc Wiertel , Cenanda Arido , Yashraj Patil , Antonio Ragagnin , Klaus Dolag , Marcus Brüggen , Mathias Garny , Andrew Robertson , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

We present the multi-GPU realization of the StePS (Stereographically Projected Cosmological Simulations) algorithm with MPI-OpenMP-CUDA hybrid parallelization and nearly ideal scale-out to multiple compute nodes. Our new zoom-in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-22 Gábor Rácz , István Szapudi , László Dobos , István Csabai , Alexander S. Szalay

The study of massive neutrinos and their interactions is a critical aspect of contemporary cosmology. Recent advances in parallel computation and high-performance computing provide new opportunities for accurately constraining Large-Scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Yu Chen , Chang-Zhi Lu , Juan Li , Siqi Liu , Tong-Jie Zhang , Tingting Zhang

Cosmological $N$-body simulations are the standard tool to study the emergence of the observed large-scale structure of the Universe. Such simulations usually solve for the gravitational dynamics of matter within the Newtonian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-24 Jacob Brandbyge , Cornelius Rampf , Thomas Tram , Florent Leclercq , Christian Fidler , Steen Hannestad

We present a code allowing to evolve three-dimensional self-gravitating collisionless systems with a large number of particles N >= 10^7. FLY (Fast Level-based N-bodY code) is a fully parallel code based on a tree algorithm. It adopts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Becciani , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , F. Buonomo , C. Gheller

We present a new parallel PM N-body code named PMFAST that is freely available to the public. PMFAST is based on a two-level mesh gravity solver where the gravitational forces are separated into long and short range components. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugh Merz , Ue-Li Pen , Hy Trac

Since its first formulation in 1983, Milgromian dynamics (MOND) has been very successful in predicting the gravitational potential of galaxies from the distribution of baryons alone, including general scaling relations and detailed rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fabian Lüghausen , Benoit Famaey , Pavel Kroupa

We study the accumulation of errors in cosmological N-body algorithms that are caused by representing the continuous distribution of matter by massive particles, comparing the PPPM and Adaptive Multigrid codes. We use for this a new measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivar Suisalu , Enn Saar

We present a hydrodynamical code for cosmological simulations which uses the Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) to follow the dynamics of gas component and an N-body Particle-Mesh algorithm for the evolution of collisionless component. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Claudio Gheller , Ornella Pantano , Lauro Moscardini

The power spectrum of density fluctuations is a foundational source of cosmological information. Precision cosmological probes targeted primarily at investigations of dark energy require accurate theoretical determinations of the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Martin White , Salman Habib , Brian J. Williams , Christian Wagner

Cosmological $N$-body simulations are typically purely run with particles using Newtonian equations of motion. However, such simulations can be made fully consistent with general relativity using a well-defined prescription. Here, we extend…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Thomas Tram , Jacob Brandbyge , Jeppe Dakin , Steen Hannestad

We present a method for integrating the cosmological hydrodynamical equations including a collisionless dark matter component. For modelling the baryonic matter component, we use the Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM) which is a high-accuracy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Sornborger , B. Fryxell , K. Olson , P. MacNeice

We present the largest set of N-body and hydrodynamical simulations to date for cosmological models featuring a direct interaction between the Dark Energy (DE) scalar field, responsible of the observed cosmic acceleration, and the Cold Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Marco Baldi