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The distribution of galaxies, halo abundance, and peculiar velocities are influenced by non-linear gravitational interactions, making the study of non-linear evolution crucial for accurate cosmological predictions. We explore these aspects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Swati Gavas

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation often rely on prescriptions for star formation and feedback that depend on halo properties such as halo mass, central over-density, and virial temperature. In this paper we address the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Trenti , B. D. Smith , E. J. Hallman , S. W. Skillman , J. M. Shull

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 study the power spectrum dipole of an N-body simulation which includes relativistic effects through ray-tracing and covers the low redshift Universe up to $z_{\rm max} = 0.465$ (RayGalGroup simulation). We model relativistic corrections…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-05 Florian Beutler , Enea Di Dio

We study the properties of galaxy cluster 2-point correlation function covariance matrices estimated using the linear-construction (LC) method, which is computationally up to 20 times faster than the standard sample-covariance method. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 V. Lindholm , E. Sihvola , J. Valiviita , A. Fumagalli , B. Altieri , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , V. F. Cardone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , R. Nakajima , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , C. Rosset , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , A. G. Sánchez , D. Sapone , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , T. Castro , J. Martín-Fleitas , P. Monaco , A. Pezzotta , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Viel , D. Sciotti

It is crucial to understand and model a behavior of galaxy biasing for future ambitious galaxy redshift surveys. Using 40 large cosmological N-body simulations for a standard LambdaCDM cosmology, we study the cross-correlation coefficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Masanori Sato , Takahiko Matsubara

Accurately predicting structural properties of dark matter halos is one of the fundamental goals of modern cosmology. We use the new suite of MultiDark cosmological simulations to study the evolution of dark matter halo density profiles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Anatoly Klypin , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober , Francisco Prada , Steffen Hess

Upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys aim to achieve an unprecedented level of precision in measuring galaxy clustering. However, accurately modeling these statistics may require theoretical templates that go beyond second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 M. Icaza-Lizaola , Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Yi Zheng

We use a suite of $N$-body simulations to study intrinsic alignments (IA) of halo shapes with the surrounding large-scale structure in the $\Lambda$CDM model. For this purpose, we develop a novel method to measure multipole moments of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Toshiki Kurita , Masahiro Takada , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ryuichi Takahashi , Ken Osato , Yosuke Kobayashi

Generating mocks for future sky surveys requires large volumes and high resolutions, which is computationally expensive even for fast simulations. In this work we try to develop numerical schemes to calibrate various halo and matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Biwei Dai , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak , Sukhdeep Singh

In this paper we demonstrate that the information encoded in \emph{one} single (sufficiently large) $N$-body simulation can be used to reproduce arbitrary numbers of halo catalogues, using approximated realisations of dark matter density…

We assess the performance of the multipole expansion formalism in the case of single-dish HI intensity mapping, including instrumental and foreground removal effects. This formalism is used to provide MCMC forecasts for a range of HI and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Paula S. Soares , Steven Cunnington , Alkistis Pourtsidou , Chris Blake

We study the impact of different bias and redshift-space models on the halo power spectrum, quantifying their effect by comparing the fit to a subset of realizations taken from the WizCOLA suite. These provide simulated power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-16 Lucia Fonseca de la Bella , Donough Regan , David Seery , David Parkinson

Clustering properties and peculiar velocities of halos in large-scale structure carry a wealth of cosmological information over a wide range of scales from linear to nonlinear scales. We use halo catalogs in a suite of high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Yosuke Kobayashi , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Ryuichi Takahashi

This paper develops further approximate methods for obtaining the dipole matrix elements and corresponding transition and decay rates of the high-n, high-l gravitational eigenstates. These methods include (1) investigation of the polar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 A D Ernest

We present validation tests of emulator-based halo model method for cosmological parameter inference, assuming hypothetical measurements of the projected correlation function of galaxies, $w_{\rm p}(R)$, and the galaxy-galaxy weak lensing,…

We perform detailed comparison of the semi-analytic halo model predictions with measurements in numerical simulations of the two and three point correlation functions (3PCF), as well as power spectrum and bispectrum. We discuss the accuracy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Fosalba , Jun Pan , Istvan Szapudi , .

We construct time-evolving gravitational potential models for a Milky Way-mass galaxy from the FIRE-2 suite of cosmological-baryonic simulations using basis function expansions. These models capture the angular variation with spherical…

We address the amount of information in the non-Gaussian regime of weak lensing surveys by modelling all relevant covariances of the power spectra and bispectra, using 1000 ray-tracing simulation realizations for a Lambda-CDM model and an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Issha Kayo , Masahiro Takada , Bhuvnesh Jain

Fast N-body PM simulations with a small number of time steps such as FastPM or COLA have been remarkably successful in modeling the galaxy statistics, but their lack of small scale force resolution and long time steps cannot give accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Biwei Dai , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak