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(Shortened) We use N-body simulations to investigate the structure and dynamical evolution of dark matter halos in galaxy clusters. Our sample consists of nine massive halos from an EdS universe with scale free power spectrum and n = -1.…

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The upcoming generation of galaxy surveys will probe the distribution of matter in the universe with unprecedented accuracy. Measurements of the matter power spectrum at different scales and redshifts will provide stringent constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Linda Blot , Pier Stefano Corasaniti , Jean-Michel Alimi , Vincent Reverdy , Yann Rasera

We produce mock angular catalogues from simulations with different initial power spectra to test methods that recover measures of clustering in three dimensions, such as the power spectrum, variance and higher order cumulants. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 E. Gaztanaga , C. M. Baugh

We study galaxy clustering using halo models, where gravitational clustering is described in terms of dark matter halos. At small scales, clustering statistics are dominated by halo density profiles, whereas at large scales, correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth , Lam Hui , Bhuvnesh Jain

We study constraints on primordial mode-coupling from the power spectrum, squeezed-limit bispectrum and collapsed trispectrum of matter and halos. We describe these statistics in terms of long-wavelength $2$-point functions involving the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-20 Roland de Putter

We introduce a new method for estimating the covariance matrix for the galaxy correlation function in surveys of large-scale structure. Our method combines simple theoretical results with a realistic characterization of the survey to…

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Discovering the mass of neutrinos is a principle goal in high energy physics and cosmology. In addition to cosmological measurements based on two-point statistics, the neutrino mass can also be estimated by observations of neutrino wakes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-08 Derek Inman , J. D. Emberson , Ue-Li Pen , Alban Farchi , Hao-Ran Yu , Joachim Harnois-Deraps

We perform a simulation-based forecasting analysis to compare the cosmological constraining power of higher-order summary statistics of the large-scale structure, the Minkowski Functionals (MFs) and a class weighted morphological measure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 M. H. Jalali Kanafi , S. M. S. Movahed

We present a new suite of mock galaxy catalogs mimicking the low-redshift Universe, based on an updated halo occupation distribution (HOD) model and a scaling relation between optical properties and the neutral hydrogen (HI) content of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Aseem Paranjape , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Ravi K. Sheth

We analyze the flux power spectrum and its covariance using simulated Lyman alpha forests. We find that pseudo-hydro techniques are good approximations of hydrodynamical simulations at high redshift. However, the pseudo-hydro techniques…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hu Zhan , Romeel Dave , Daniel Eisenstein , Neal Katz

We present an updated version of the HMcode augmented halo model that can be used to make accurate predictions of the non-linear matter power spectrum over a wide range of cosmologies. Major improvements include modelling of BAO damping in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-27 Alexander Mead , Samuel Brieden , Tilman Tröster , Catherine Heymans

We describe a method for generating halo catalogues on the light cone using the \Abacus{AbacusSummit} suite of $N$-body simulations. The main application of these catalogues is the construction of realistic mock galaxy catalogues and weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel Eisenstein , Sownak Bose

We report and provide fitting functions for the abundance of dark matter halos and subhalos as a function of mass, circular velocity, and redshift from the new Bolshoi-Planck and MultiDark-Planck $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulations, based…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-16 Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla , Peter Behroozi , Joel Primack , Anatoly Klypin , Christoph Lee , Doug Hellinger

We demonstrate the use of a variational method to determine a quantitative lower bound on the rate of convergence of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms as a function of the target density and proposal density. The bound relies on…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-05-29 Fergal P. Casey , Joshua J. Waterfall , Ryan N. Gutenkunst , Christopher R. Myers , James P. Sethna

We describe an approximate statistical model for the sample variance distribution of the non-linear matter power spectrum that can be calibrated from limited numbers of simulations. Our model retains the common assumption of a multivariate…

In two recent papers, we developed a powerful technique to link the distribution of galaxies to that of dark matter haloes by considering halo occupation numbers as function of galaxy luminosity and type. In this paper we use these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Frank C. van den Bosch , YaoQuan Chu

We propose a versatile and accurate method to estimate the halo mass and concentration from the kinematics of satellite galaxies. We construct the 6D phase-space distribution function of satellites from a cosmological simulation based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-02 Zhao-Zhou Li , Yong-Zhong Qian , Jiaxin Han , Wenting Wang , Y. P. Jing

Line intensity mapping (LIM) is an emerging technique with a unique potential to probe a wide range of scales and redshifts. Realizing the full potential of LIM, however, relies on accurate modeling of the signal. We introduce an extended…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Farnik Nikakhtar , Garrett K. Keating , Emanuele Castorina

Constraints on dark matter halo masses from weak gravitational lensing can be improved significantly by using additional information about the morphology of their density distribution, leading to tighter cosmological constraints derived…

In this work we study the relevance of the cosmic web and substructures on the matter and lensing power spectra measured from halo mock catalogues extracted from the N-body simulations. Since N-body simulations are computationally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Francesco Pace , Marc Manera , David J. Bacon , Robert Crittenden , Will J. Percival