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We present a method for generating suites of dark-matter halo catalogs with only a few $N$-body simulations, focusing on making small changes to the underlying cosmology of a simulation with high precision. In the context of blind…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We present a method to produce mock galaxy catalogues with efficient perturbation theory schemes, which match the number density, power spectra and bispectra in real and in redshift space from N-body simulations. The essential contribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Héctor Gil-Marín , Claudia Scoccola , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Volker Müller , Gustavo Yepes , Francisco Prada

We have derived estimators for the linear growth rate of density fluctuations using the cross-correlation function of voids and haloes in redshift space, both directly and in Fourier form. In linear theory, this cross-correlation contains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Yan-Chuan Cai , Andy Taylor , John A. Peacock , Nelson Padilla

We present the latest version of Pinocchio, a code that generates catalogues of DM haloes in an approximate but fast way with respect to an N-body simulation. This code version extends the computation of particle and halo displacements up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Emiliano Munari , Pierluigi Monaco , Emiliano Sefusatti , Emanuele Castorina , Faizan G. Mohammad , Stefano Anselmi , Stefano Borgani

We present a scheme to extend the halo mass resolution of N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter. The method uses the density field of the simulation to predict the number of sub-resolution dark matter haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Raul E. Angulo , Carlton M. Baugh , Carlos S. Frenk , Cedric G. Lacey

We present a simple method of generating approximate synthetic halo catalogues: HALOGEN. This method uses a combination of $2^{nd}$-order Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (2LPT) in order to generate the large-scale matter distribution,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Santiago Avila , Steven G. Murray , Alexander Knebe , Chris Power , Aaron S. G. Robotham , Juan Garcia-Bellido

We present a comparison between approximated methods for the construction of mock catalogs based on the halo-bias mapping technique. To this end, we use as reference a high resolution $N$-body simulation of 3840$^3$ dark matter particles on…

Mock halo catalogues are indispensable data products for developing and validating cosmological inference pipelines. A major challenge in generating mock catalogues is modelling the halo or galaxy bias, which is the mapping from matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Simon Ding , Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche

We present a method that extends the capabilities of the PINpointing Orbit-Crossing Collapsed HIerarchical Objects (PINOCCHIO) code, allowing it to generate accurate dark matter halo mock catalogues in cosmological models where the linear…

We investigate the accuracy of Eulerian perturbation theory for describing the matter and galaxy power spectra in real and redshift space in light of future observational probes for precision cosmology. Comparing the analytical results with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-05 Héctor Gil-Marín , Christian Wagner , Licia Verde , Cristiano Porciani , Raul Jimenez

Higher-order clustering statistics, like the galaxy bispectrum, can add complementary cosmological information to what is accessible with two-point statistics, like the power spectrum. While the standard way of measuring the bispectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-14 Joyce Byun , Andrea Oddo , Cristiano Porciani , Emiliano Sefusatti

The generation of simulated convergence maps is of key importance in fully exploiting weak lensing by Large Scale Structure (LSS) from which cosmological parameters can be derived. In this paper we present an extension of the PINOCCHIO code…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-05 Carlo Giocoli , Pierluigi Monaco , Lauro Moscardini , Tiago Castro , Massimo Meneghetti , R. Benton Metcalf , Marco Baldi

We use a suite of high-resolution $N$-body simulations and state-of-the-art perturbation theory to improve the code halofit, which predicts the nonlinear matter power spectrum. We restrict attention to parameters in the vicinity of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-09 Robert E. Smith , Raul E. Angulo

We present a Gaussian-process (GP) emulator for the monopole of the redshift-space halo power spectrum in $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies with massive neutrinos. The emulator is trained on 1000 COLA simulations distributed in a Latin-hypercube…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jixin Gan , Yonghao Feng , Gong-Bo Zhao

We present a new model for the redshift-space power spectrum of galaxies and demonstrate its accuracy in modeling the monopole, quadrupole, and hexadecapole of the galaxy density field down to scales of $k = 0.4 \ h\mathrm{Mpc}^{-1}$. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Nick Hand , Uros Seljak , Florian Beutler , Zvonimir Vlah

We study the covariance of the cross-power spectrum of different tracers for the large-scale structure. We develop the counts-in-cells framework for the multi-tracer approach, and use this to derive expressions for the full non-Gaussian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Robert E. Smith

We train graph neural networks on halo catalogues from Gadget N-body simulations to perform field-level likelihood-free inference of cosmological parameters. The catalogues contain $\lesssim$5,000 halos with masses $\gtrsim…

The gravitationally-driven evolution of cold dark matter dominates the formation of structure in the Universe over a wide range of length scales. While the longest scales can be treated by perturbation theory, a fully quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katrin Heitmann , Paul M. Ricker , Michael S. Warren , Salman Habib

In this work we investigate the generation of mock halo catalogues based on perturbation theory and nonlinear stochastic biasing with the novel PATCHY-code. In particular, we use Augmented Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (ALPT) to generate a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Gustavo Yepes , Francisco Prada

We measure three-dimensional bispectra of halo intrinsic alignments (IA) and dark matter overdensities in real space from N-body simulations for halos of mass $10^{12}-10^{12.5} M_\odot /h$. We show that their multipoles with respect to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Thomas Bakx , Toshiki Kurita , Alexander Eggemeier , Nora Elisa Chisari , Zvonimir Vlah