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We present a new high-resolution N-body algorithm for cosmological simulations. The algorithm employs a traditional particle-mesh technique on a cubic grid and successive multilevel relaxations on the finer meshes, introduced recursively in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , Alexei M. Khokhlov

Cosmological N-body simulations have been a major tool of theorists for decades, yet many of the numerical issues that these simulations face are still unexplored. This paper measures numerical biases in these large, dark matter-only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Philip Mansfield , Camille Avestruz

We investigate various phenomenological schemes for the rapid generation of 3D mock galaxy catalogues with a given power spectrum and bispectrum. We apply the fast bispectrum estimator \MODALLSS{} to these mock galaxy catalogues and compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Johnathan Hung , Marc Manera , E. P. S. Shellard

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

Analysis of large galaxy surveys requires confidence in the robustness of numerical simulation methods. The simulations are used to construct mock galaxy catalogs to validate data analysis pipelines and identify potential systematics. We…

Large-scale sky surveys require companion large volume simulated mock catalogs. To ensure precision cosmology studies are unbiased, the correlations in these mocks between galaxy properties and their large-scale environments must be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

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

Approximate N-body methods, such as FastPM and COLA, have been successful in modelling halo and galaxy clustering statistics, but their low resolution on small scales is a limitation for applications that require high precision. Full N-body…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yiheng Wu , Hong Guo , Volker Springel

We present the implementation of a halo based method for the reconstruction of the cosmic mass density field. The method employs the mass density distribution of dark matter haloes and its environments computed from cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. C. Muñoz-Cuartas , V. Mueller , J. Forero-Romero

We present a method to numerically estimate the densities of a discretely sampled data based on binary space partitioning tree. We start with a root node containing all the particles and then recursively divide each node into two nodes each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sanjib Sharma , Matthias Steinmetz

When constructing galaxy mock catalogs based on suits of dark matter halo catalogs generated with approximated, calibrated or machine-learning approaches, the assignment of intrinsic properties for such tracers is a step of paramount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Andres Balaguera-Antolinez , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

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 present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm to generate unbiased samples of the underlying dark matter field from halo catalogues. Our new contribution consists of implementing a non-Poisson likelihood including a deterministic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Metin Ata , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Volker Müller

We present a new approach for modelling galaxy/halo bias that utilizes the full non-linear information contained in the moments of the matter density field, which we derive using a set of numerical simulations. Although our method is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jennifer E. Pollack , Robert E. Smith , Cristiano Porciani

For idealized (spherical, smooth) dark matter halos described by single-parameter density profiles (such as the NFW profile) there exists a one-to-one mapping between the energy of the halo and the scale radius of its density profile. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Turner Johnson , Andrew J. Benson , Daniel Grin

We use N-body simulations to test the predictions of the redshift distortion in the power spectrum given by the halo model in which the clustering of dark matter particles is considered as a result both of the clustering of dark halos in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xi. Kang , Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Borner

Models of the spatial distribution of dark matter halos must achieve new levels of precision and accuracy in order to satisfy the requirements of upcoming experiments. In this work, we present a halo bias emulator for modeling the…

We report a series of high-resolution N-body simulations designed to examine the internal physical properties of dark matter halos. A total of fifteen halos, each represented by $\sim 1$ million particles within the virial radius, have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We test and present the application of the full rescaling method by Angulo & White (2010) to change the cosmology of halo catalogues in numerical simulations for cosmological parameter search using semi-analytic galaxy properties. We show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrés N. Ruiz , Nelson D. Padilla , Mariano J. Domínguez , Sofía A. Cora