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The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest offers a unique avenue for studying the distribution of matter in the high redshift universe and extracting precise constraints on the nature of dark matter, neutrino masses, and other $\Lambda$CDM extensions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Laura Cabayol-Garcia , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Andreu Font-Ribera , Christian Pedersen

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

Taking advantage of the unprecedented statistical power of upcoming cosmic shear surveys will require exquisite knowledge of the matter power spectrum over a wide range of scales. Analytical methods can achieve such precision only up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-23 Matteo Cataneo

We allow for nonlinear effects in the likelihood analysis of galaxy peculiar velocities, and obtain ~35%-lower values for the cosmological density parameter Om and the amplitude of mass-density fluctuations. The power spectrum in the linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Silberman , A. Dekel , A. Eldar , I. Zehavi

An accurate theoretical template of the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum, if applicable out to nonlinear scales, enables us to extract more stringent and robust constraints on cosmological parameters from the measured galaxy clustering.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-20 Yosuke Kobayashi , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Ryuichi Takahashi , Ken Osato

Model-independent tests of gravity with cosmology are important when testing extensions to the standard cosmological model. To maximise the impact of these tests one requires predictions for the matter power spectrum on non-linear scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Sankarshana Srinivasan , Daniel B Thomas , Richard Battye

In this article, we argue that models based on machine learning (ML) can be very effective in estimating the non-linear matter power spectrum ($P(k)$). We employ the prediction ability of the supervised ML algorithms to build an estimator…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-17 Irshad Mohammed , Janu Verma

We show that in a certain, angle-averaged squeezed limit, the $N$-point function of matter is related to the response of the matter power spectrum to a long-wavelength density perturbation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Christian Wagner , Fabian Schmidt , Chi-Ting Chiang , Eiichiro Komatsu

Given the importance of future large scale structure surveys for delivering new cosmological information, it is crucial to reliably predict their observables. The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures (EFTofLSS) provides a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-14 Raul E. Angulo , Simon Foreman , Marcel Schmittfull , Leonardo Senatore

The use of Eulerian 'standard perturbation theory' to describe mass assembly in the early universe has traditionally been limited to modes with k $\lesssim$ 0.1 h/Mpc at z = 0. At larger k the SPT power spectrum deviates from measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 Lucía Fonseca de la Bella , Donough Regan , David Seery , Shaun Hotchkiss

In this paper we present an improved fitting formula for the dark matter bispectrum motivated by the previous phenomenological approach of Scoccimarro & Couchman (2001). We use a set of LCDM simulations to calibrate the fitting parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-08 Héctor Gil-Marín , Christian Wagner , Frantzeska Fragkoudi , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

We present relativistic $N$-body simulations of a $\Lambda_{\rm s}$CDM - sign-switching cosmological constant (CC) - scenario under general relativity and compare its nonlinear matter power spectrum to $\Lambda$CDM at ${z =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 Özgür Akarsu , Eleonora Di Valentino , Jiří Vyskočil , Ezgi Yılmaz , A. Emrah Yükselci , Alexander Zhuk

Weak lensing surveys are often summarized by constraints on the derived parameter ${S_8\equiv\sigma_8\sqrt{\Omega_{\rm m}/0.3}}$, obscuring the rich scale and redshift information encoded in the data, and limiting our ability to identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Cyrille Doux , Tanvi Karwal

Modern sky surveys are returning precision measurements of cosmological statistics such as weak lensing shear correlations, the distribution of galaxies, and cluster abundance. To fully exploit these observations, theorists must provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Juliana Kwan , Salman Habib , David Higdon

We propose a new model-independent reconstruction method for the matter power spectrum based on its time dependence and a combination of observations from different redshifts. The method builds on a perturbative expansion in terms of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-12 Gen Ye , Jun-Qian Jiang , Alessandra Silvestri

We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Maria Han Veiga , Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xun Huan

We compare and validate COLA (COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration) simulations against existing emulators in the literature, namely Bacco and Euclid Emulator 2. Our analysis focuses on the non-linear response function, i.e., the ratio between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Guilherme Brando , Bartolomeo Fiorini , Kazuya Koyama , Hans A. Winther

Uncertainties in predicting the nonlinear clustering of matter are among the most serious theoretical systematics facing the upcoming wide-field weak gravitational lensing surveys. We estimate the accuracy with which the matter power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Dragan Huterer , Masahiro Takada

We use two subsets of 2000 and 1000 Quijote simulations to build two power spectrum emulators, allowing for fast computations of the non-linear matter power spectrum. The first emulator is built in terms of seven cosmological parameters:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrei Lazanu

Structure formation at small cosmological scales provides an important frontier for dark matter (DM) research. Scenarios with small DM particle masses, large momenta or hidden interactions tend to suppress the gravitational clustering at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 Riccardo Murgia , Alexander Merle , Matteo Viel , Maximilian Totzauer , Aurel Schneider