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We present a method to introduce relativistic corrections including linear dark energy perturbations in Horndeski theory into Newtonian simulations based on the N-body gauge approach. We assume that standard matter species (cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-20 Guilherme Brando , Kazuya Koyama , David Wands

Upcoming cosmological surveys will provide unprecedented amount of data, which will require innovative statistical methods to maximize the scientific exploitation. Standard cosmological analyses based on abundances, two-point and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Farida Farsian , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Carlo Giocoli

Understanding the nature of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe, is a major challenge of modern cosmology. The next generation of cosmological surveys, specifically designed to address this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-01 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

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

Faced by recent evidence for a flat universe dominated by dark energy, cosmologists grapple with deep cosmic enigmas such as the cosmological constant problem, extreme fine-tuning and the cosmic coincidence problem. The extent to which we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Greg Huey , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Several models based on General Relativity and Modified Gravity aim to reproduce the observed universe with precision comparable to the flat-$\Lambda$CDM cosmological model. In this study, we investigate the consistency of some of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Fernanda Oliveira , Bruno Ribeiro , Wiliam S. Hipólito-Ricaldi , Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui

Current and upcoming cosmological observations allow us to probe structures on smaller and smaller scales, entering highly nonlinear regimes. In order to obtain theoretical predictions in these regimes, large cosmological simulations have…

A simple speed-up cosmology model is proposed to account for the dark energy puzzle. We condense contributions from dark energy and curvature term into one effective parameter in order to reduce parameter degeneracies and to find any…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-10 Xin-He Meng , Meng Su , Zheng Wang

Current and upcoming surveys will measure the cosmological parameters with an extremely high accuracy. The primary goal of these observations is to eliminate some of the currently viable cosmological models created to explain the late time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Savvas Nesseris , Domenico Sapone

The cosmological constant $\Lambda$ and cold dark matter (CDM) model ($\Lambda\text{CDM}$) is one of the pillars of modern cosmology and is widely used as the de facto theoretical model by current and forthcoming surveys. As the nature of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Rubén Arjona , Alessandro Melchiorri , Savvas Nesseris

Frequentist profile likelihoods have seen a resurgence in cosmology, offering an alternative to Bayesian methods as they can circumvent the impact of prior-volume effects. This paper presents Procoli, a fast and accessible package to obtain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-26 Tanvi Karwal , Yashvi Patel , Alexa Bartlett , Vivian Poulin , Tristan L. Smith , Daniel N. Pfeffer

We construct gravitational modifications that go beyond Horndeski, namely theories with extended nonminimal derivative couplings, in which the coefficient functions depend not only on the scalar field but also on its kinetic energy. Such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-01 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Minas Tsoukalas

Could Machine Learning (ML) make fundamental discoveries and tackle unsolved problems in Cosmology? Detailed observations of the present contents of the universe are consistent with the Cosmological Constant Lambda and Cold Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Ofer Lahav

The set-up of the initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations is usually implemented by rescaling the desired low-redshift linear power spectrum to the required starting redshift consistently with the Newtonian evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Matteo Zennaro , Julien Bel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Carmelita Carbone , Emiliano Sefusatti , Luigi Guzzo

Current and future surveys of large-scale cosmic structure are associated with a massive and complex datastream to study, characterize, and ultimately understand the physics behind the two major components of the 'Dark Universe', dark…

Scalar fields aptly describe equation of state of dark energy. The scalar field models were initially proposed to circumvent the fine tuning problem of cosmological constant. However, the model parameters also need a fine tuning of their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Archana Sangwan , Ashutosh Tripathi , H. K. Jassal

The effective evolution of an inhomogeneous universe model in any theory of gravitation may be described in terms of spatially averaged variables. In Einstein's theory, restricting attention to scalar variables, this evolution can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Thomas Buchert

Weak gravitational lensing on a cosmological scales can provide strong constraints both on the nature of dark matter and the dark energy equation of state. Most current weak lensing studies are restricted to (two-dimensional) projections,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Dipak Munshi , Alan Heavens , Peter Coles

Bimetric gravity is an interesting alternative to standard GR given its potential to provide a concrete theoretical framework for a ghost-free massive gravity theory. Here we investigate a class of Bimetric gravity models for their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Ajay Bassi , Shahnawaz A. Adil , Manvendra Pratap Rajvanshi , Anjan A. Sen

New systematic classification of cosmological models of the present Universe is introduced. After making the comparison of these models with all existing observational data three viable models remain: the cold dark matter model with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Starobinsky