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Galaxy redshift surveys have achieved significant progress over the last couple of decades. Those surveys tell us in the most straightforward way what our local universe looks like. While the galaxy distribution traces the bright side of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ofer Lahav , Yasushi Suto

Numerical simulations play an important role in current astronomy researches. Previous dark-matter-only simulations have represented the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, nowadays, hydro-dynamical simulations with baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 Weiguang Cui , Youcai Zhang

Upcoming weak lensing surveys require a detailed theoretical understanding of the matter power spectrum in order to derive accurate and precise cosmological parameter values. While galaxy formation is known to play an important role, its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Marcel P. van Daalen , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye

Complex astrophysical processes regulate the growth of galaxies by injecting energy and momentum into their surroundings, redistributing baryons across megaparsec scales. The clustering of matter on these scales, as measured via weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Kritti Sharma , Elisabeth Krause , Vikram Ravi , Liam Connor , Dhayaa Anbajagane , Pranjal R. S

We present an improved prescription for matter power spectrum in redshift space taking a proper account of both the non-linear gravitational clustering and redshift distortion, which are of particular importance for accurately modeling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Nishimichi , Shun Saito

The large-scale clustering of matter is impacted by baryonic physics, particularly AGN feedback. Modelling or mitigating this impact will be essential for making full use of upcoming measurements of cosmic shear and other large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Simon Foreman , William Coulton , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Alexandre Barreira

Understanding the impact of baryonic feedback on the small-scale ($k \gtrsim 1\,h\,$Mpc$^{-1}$) matter power spectrum is a key astrophysical challenge, and essential for interpreting data from upcoming weak-lensing surveys, which require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-29 Kritti Sharma , Elisabeth Krause , Vikram Ravi , Robert Reischke , Pranjal R. S. , Liam Connor

The effect of baryon physics associated with galaxy formation onto the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe is a key uncertainty in the theoretical modelling required for the interpretation of Stage IV surveys. We use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , Roi Kugel , Jeger C. Broxterman , Marcel P. van Daalen

Several cosmological measurements have attained significant levels of maturity and accuracy over the last decade. Continuing this trend, future observations promise measurements of the statistics of the cosmic mass distribution at an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Brian Williams

The large scale structures of the universe will likely be the next leading source of cosmological information. It is therefore crucial to understand their behavior. The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures provides a consistent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew Lewandowski , Ashley Perko , Leonardo Senatore

We review the current state of empirical knowledge of the total budget of baryonic matter in the Universe as observed since the epoch of reionization. Our summary examines on three milestone redshifts since the reionization of H in the IGM,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jason X. Prochaska , Jason Tumlinson

The baryonic acoustic oscillations are features in the spatial distribution of the galaxies which, if observed at different epochs, probe the nature of the dark energy. In order to be able to measure the parameters of the dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-29 A. Gorecki , A. Abate , R. Ansari , A. Barrau , S. Baumont , M. Moniez

We use Monte Carlo techniques to simulate the ability of future large high-redshift galaxy surveys to measure the temporal evolution of the dark energy equation-of-state w(z), using the baryonic acoustic oscillations in the clustering power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karl Glazebrook , Chris Blake

One of the major goals of observational cosmology is to acquire empirical data that has the diagnostic power to develop the theoretical modelling of the high-redshift universe, ultimately leading to an accurate understanding of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David H. Hughes

We evaluate the potential for current and future cosmic shear measurements from large galaxy surveys to constrain the impact of baryonic physics on the matter power spectrum. We do so using a model-independent parameterization that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Simon Foreman , Matthew R. Becker , Risa H. Wechsler

Cosmic voids constitute promising cosmological laboratories. However, a full description of all the redshift-space effects that affect observational measurements is mandatory in order to obtain unbiased cosmological constraints. We make a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-30 Carlos M. Correa , Dante J. Paz

We use the EAGLE galaxy formation simulation to study the effects of baryons on the power spectrum of the total matter and dark matter distributions and on the velocity fields of dark matter and galaxies. On scales $k{\stackrel{>}{{}_\sim}}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-03 Wojciech A. Hellwing , Matthieu Schaller , Carlos S. Frenk , Tom Theuns , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain

The recent observational evidence for the current cosmic acceleration have stimulated renewed interest in alternative cosmologies, such as scenarios with interaction in the dark sector (dark matter and dark energy). In general, such models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 R. S. Goncalves , J. S. Alcaniz , A. Dev , D. Jain

We use numerical simulations to investigate how the statistical properties of dark matter (DM) haloes are affected by the baryonic processes associated with galaxy formation. We focus on how these processes influence the spin and shape of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. E. Bryan , S. T. Kay , A. R. Duffy , J. Schaye , C. Dalla Vecchia , C. M. Booth

Recent development of galaxy surveys enables us to investigate the deep universe of high redshift. We quantitatively present the physical information extractable from the observable correlation function in deep redshift space in a framework…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takahiko Matsubara