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We recently developed a generalization of the halo model in order to describe the spatial clustering properties of each mass component in the Universe, including hot gas and stars. In this work we discuss the complementarity of the model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Fedeli , E. Semboloni , M. Velliscig , M. Van Daalen , J. Schaye , H. Hoekstra

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

Galaxy clusters are a promising probe of late-time structure growth, but constraints on cosmology from cluster abundances are currently limited by systematics in their inferred masses. One unmitigated systematic effect in weak-lensing mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Dylan Cromer , Nicholas Battaglia , Hironao Miyatake , Melanie Simet

We present a new prescription for the halo mass function (HMF) built upon the Evolution Mapping framework. This approach provides a physical motivation to parametrise the non-universality of the HMF in terms of the recent history of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Andrea Fiorilli , Andrés N. Ruiz , Ariel G. Sanchez , Matteo Esposito

We use an array of high-resolution N-body simulations to determine the mass function of dark matter haloes at redshifts 10-30. We develop a new method for compensating for the effects of finite simulation volume that allows us to find an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Darren Reed , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns

The structural and dynamic properties of the dark matter halos, though an important ingredient in understanding large-scale structure formation, require more conservative particle resolution than those required by halo mass alone in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Premvijay Velmani

Halo models provide a simple and computationally inexpensive way to investigate the connection between galaxies and their dark matter haloes. However, these models rely on the assumption that the role of baryons can be easily parametrized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Gillian D. Beltz-Mohrmann , Andreas A. Berlind , Adam O. Szewciw

We examine the present-day total stellar-to-halo mass (SHM) ratio as a function of halo mass for a new sample of simulated field galaxies using fully cosmological, LCDM, high resolution SPH + N-Body simulations.These simulations include an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ferah Munshi , F. Governato , A. M. Brooks , C. Christensen , S. Shen , S. Loebman , B. Moster , T. Quinn , J. Wadsley

We use self-similarity in N-body simulations of scale-free models to test for resolution dependence in the mass function and two-point correlation functions of dark matter halos. We use 1024$^3$ particle simulations performed with ABACUS,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-22 M. Leroy , L. Garrison , D. Eisenstein , M. Joyce , S. Maleubre

We provide a quantitative analysis of the halo model in the context of massive neutrino cosmologies. We discuss all the ingredients necessary to model the non-linear matter and cold dark matter power spectra and compare with the results of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Elena Massara , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Matteo Viel

The abundance of dark matter haloes is one of the key probes of the growth of structure and expansion history of the Universe. Theoretical predictions for this quantity usually assume that, when expressed in a certain form, it depends only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Lurdes Ondaro-Mallea , Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Aricò

The halo occupation distribution (HOD) approach has proven to be an effective method for modeling galaxy clustering and bias. In this approach, galaxies of a given type are probabilistically assigned to individual halos in N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Juliana Kwan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Hal Finkel , Nick Frontiere , Adrian Pope

We study halo mass functions with high-resolution $N$-body simulations under a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Our simulations adopt the cosmological model that is consistent with recent measurements of the cosmic microwave backgrounds with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Masato Shirasaki , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Shin'ichiro Ando

We analyze clustering measurements of BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulator of two-point statistics. We focus on the monopole and quadrupole of the redshift-space correlation function, and the projected correlation function, at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

The halo mass function, encoding the comoving number density of dark matter halos of a given mass, plays a key role in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. As such, it is a key goal of current and future deep optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 Steven G. Murray , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Chris Power

Accurate predictions of the abundance and clustering of dark matter haloes play a key role in testing the standard cosmological model. Here, we investigate the accuracy of one of the leading methods of connecting the simulated dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-15 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Gustavo Yepes , Steffen Hess , Stefan Gottlober

We introduce a new cosmic emulator for the matter power spectrum covering eight cosmological parameters. Targeted at optical surveys, the emulator provides accurate predictions out to a wavenumber k~5/Mpc and redshift z<=2. Besides covering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Juliana Kwan , Amol Upadhye , Derek Bingham , Salman Habib , David Higdon , Adrian Pope , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere

We introduce an emulator approach to predict the non-linear matter power spectrum for broad classes of beyond-$\Lambda$CDM cosmologies, using only a suite of $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body simulations. By including a range of suitably modified…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Benjamin Giblin , Matteo Cataneo , Ben Moews , Catherine Heymans

We use $N$-body simulations to measure mass functions in flat cosmological models with quintessence characterized by constant $w$ with $w=-1$, -2/3 and -1/2. The results are compared to the predictions of the formula proposed by Jenkins et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ewa L. Lokas , Paul Bode , Yehuda Hoffman

The halo assembly bias, a phenomenon referring to dependencies of the large-scale bias of a dark matter halo other than its mass, is a fundamental property of the standard cosmological model. First discovered in 2005 from the Millennium Run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yen-Ting Lin , Hironao Miyatake , Hong Guo , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Kai-Feng Chen , Ting-Wen Lan , Yu-Yen Chang