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For the first time, we develop a simulation-based model for the Minkowski functionals (MFs) of large-scale structure, which allows us to extract the full information available from the MFs (including both the Gaussian and non-Gaussian…

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This paper introduces Roundabout Constrained Convex Generators (RCGs), a set representation framework for modeling multiply connected regions in control and verification applications. The RCG representation extends the constrained convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Peng Xie , Sabin Diaconescu , Florin Stoican , Amr Alanwar

We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to constraining cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Michelle Ntampaka , Alexey Vikhlinin

We present the first cosmological constraints using only the observed photometry of galaxies. Villaescusa-Navarro et al. (2022; arXiv:2201.02202) recently demonstrated that the internal physical properties of a single simulated galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 ChangHoon Hahn , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Peter Melchior , Romain Teyssier

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations predict the physical state of baryons in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), which can be directly tested via quasar absorption line observations. We use high resolution "zoom-in" simulations of 21…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michele Fumagalli , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska , Daniel Kasen , Avishai Dekel , Daniel Ceverino , Joel Primack

At ~16-17Mpc from us, the Virgo cluster is a formidable source of information to study cluster formation and galaxy evolution in rich environments. Several observationally-driven formation scenarios arose within the past decade to explain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Jenny G. Sorce , Yohan Dubois , Jeremy Blaizot , Sean L. McGee , Gustavo Yepes , Alexander Knebe

The local Hubble flow provides a valuable probe of the transition between cosmic expansion and nonlinear gravitational dynamics. On large scales, galaxies follow the linear Hubble law, but within group- and cluster-sized environments,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 David Benisty , Antonino Del Popolo

Using high-resolution simulations within the Cold and Warm Dark Matter models we study the evolution of small scale structure in the Local Volume, a sphere of 8 Mpc radius around the Local Group. We compare the observed spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Tikhonov , S. Gottloeber , G. Yepes , Y. Hoffman

We use semi-analytic galaxy catalogs based on two high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations, Millennium-WMAP7 and Millennium-II, to investigate the formation of the Local Group (LG) analogs. Unlike previous studies, we use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 Meng Zhai , Qi Guo , Gang Zhao , Qing Gu , Ang Liu

Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiaoxuan Liang , Saeid Naderiparizi , Yunpeng Liu , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

We build a field level emulator for cosmic structure formation that is accurate in the nonlinear regime. Our emulator consists of two convolutional neural networks trained to output the nonlinear displacements and velocities of N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Drew Jamieson , Yin Li , Renan Alves de Oliveira , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

To date, 14 high-redshift (z>1.0) galaxy clusters with mass measurements have been observed, spectroscopically confirmed and are reported in the literature. These objects should be exceedingly rare in the standard LCDM model. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Ben Hoyle , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

We characterize the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around a sample of galaxies extracted from state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation in a cosmological volume of 25 Mpc comoving at $z\sim 2$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-03 C. Mongardi , M. Viel , V. D'Odorico , T. -S. Kim , P. Barai , G. Murante , P. Monaco

Constrained realisations of Gaussian random fields are used in cosmology to design special initial conditions for numerical simulations. We review this approach and its application to density peaks providing several worked-out examples. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-06 Cristiano Porciani

We introduce a new technique for following the formation and evolution of galaxies in cosmological N-body simulations. Dissipationless simulations are used to track the formation and merging of dark matter halos as a function of redshift.…

We simulate the flux emitted from galaxy halos in order to quantify the brightness of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). We use dedicated zoom-in cosmological simulations with the hydrodynamical Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES, which are…

Strongly gravitational lensing systems (SGL) encodes cosmology information in source/lens distance ratios $\mathcal{D}_{\rm obs}=\mathcal{D}_{\rm ls}/\mathcal{D}_{\rm s}$, which can be used to precisely constrain cosmological parameters. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Shuaibo Geng , Yuting Liu , Xuan Ji , Zong-Hong Zhu

We analyze the circumgalactic medium (CGM) for eight commonly-used cosmological codes in the AGORA collaboration. The codes are calibrated to use identical initial conditions, cosmology, heating and cooling, and star formation thresholds,…

High-fidelity modeling of turbulent flows is one of the major challenges in computational physics, with diverse applications in engineering, earth sciences and astrophysics, among many others. The rising popularity of high-fidelity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-06 Arvind Mohan , Don Daniel , Michael Chertkov , Daniel Livescu