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Astrophysical techniques have pioneered the discovery of neutrino mass properties. Current cosmological observations give an upper bound on neutrino masses by attempting to disentangle the small neutrino contribution from the sum of all…

We review the impact of massive neutrinos on cosmological observables at the linear order. By means of N-body simulations we investigate the signatures left by neutrinos on the fully non-linear regime. We present the effects induced by…

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We investigate impacts of massive neutrinos on the cosmic velocity fields, employing high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations provided by the information-optimized CUBE code, where cosmic neutrinos are evolved using collisionless…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-08 Shuren Zhou , Zhenjie Liu , Qinglin Ma , Yu Liu , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li , Yang Wang , Xin Wang , Yu Yu , Hao-Ran Yu , Yi Zheng

Initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations are usually calculated by rescaling the present day linear power spectrum obtained from an Einstein-Boltzmann solver to the initial time employing the scale-independent matter growth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Christian Fidler , Alexander Kleinjohann

Cosmological $N$-body simulations are the standard tool to study the emergence of the observed large-scale structure of the Universe. Such simulations usually solve for the gravitational dynamics of matter within the Newtonian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-24 Jacob Brandbyge , Cornelius Rampf , Thomas Tram , Florent Leclercq , Christian Fidler , Steen Hannestad

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the universe, are particularly sensitive to diffuse density components such as cosmic neutrinos. This sensitivity is enhanced by the match between void sizes and the free-streaming scale of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gemma Zhang , Zack Li , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel , Christina D. Kreisch , Alice Pisani , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The cosmic neutrino background is an important component of the Universe that is difficult to include in cosmological simulations due to the extremely large velocity dispersion of neutrino particles. We develop a new approach to simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Derek Inman , Hao-ran Yu

In this work, we propose a powerful probe of neutrino effects on the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, i.e., Minkowski functionals (MFs). The morphology of LSS can be fully described by four MFs. This tool, with strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Yu Liu , Yu Yu , Hao-Ran Yu , Pengjie Zhang

Cosmology in the near future promises a measurement of the sum of neutrino masses, a fundamental Standard Model parameter, as well as substantially-improved constraints on the dark energy. We use the shape of the BOSS redshift-space galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Amol Upadhye

We present an efficient and accurate method for simulating massive neutrinos in cosmological structure formation simulations, together with an easy to use public implementation. Our method builds on our earlier implementation of the linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Simeon Bird , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Yu Feng , Jia Liu

Neutrino mass constraints are a primary focus of current and future large-scale structure (LSS) surveys. Non-linear LSS models rely heavily on cosmological simulations -- the impact of massive neutrinos should therefore be included in these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 James M. Sullivan , J. D. Emberson , Salman Habib , Nicholas Frontiere

How many simulations do we need to train machine learning methods to extract information available from summary statistics of the cosmological density field? Neural methods have shown the potential to extract non-linear information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Anirban Bairagi , Benjamin Wandelt , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Cosmic voids are progressively emerging as a new viable cosmological probe. Their abundance and density profiles are sensitive to modifications of gravity, as well as to dark energy and neutrinos. The main goal of this work is to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-21 Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Alfonso Veropalumbo , Carlo Giocoli , Marco Baldi

We present the first simulation capable of resolving the structure of neutrino clustering on Mpc scales. The method combines grid- and particle-based methods and achieves very good accuracy on both small and large scales, while keeping CPU…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob Brandbyge , Steen Hannestad

Cosmologists aim to model the evolution of initially low amplitude Gaussian density fluctuations into the highly non-linear "cosmic web" of galaxies and clusters. They aim to compare simulations of this structure formation process with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Renan Alves de Oliveira , Yin Li , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

There is a renewed interest in constraining the sum of the masses of the three neutrino flavours by using cosmological measurements. Solar, atmospheric, and reactor neutrino experiments have confirmed neutrino oscillations, implying that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Oystein Elgaroy , Ofer Lahav

Detecting the extremely low-energy neutrinos that form the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CNB) presents many experimental challenges, but pursuing this elusive goal is still worthwhile because these weakly-interacting particles could provide a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. M. Hedman

A key question in cosmology is whether massive neutrinos exist on cosmic scales. Current cosmological observations have severely compressed the viable range for neutrino masses and even prefer phenomenologically an effective negative mass.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Deng Wang

Maps of cosmic structure produced by galaxy surveys are one of the key tools for answering fundamental questions about the Universe. Accurate theoretical predictions for these quantities are needed to maximize the scientific return of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Noah Kasmanoff , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Jeremy Tinker , Shirley Ho

Cosmological observations from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) offer crucial insights into the Early Universe, enabling us to trace its evolution back to lifetimes as short as 0.01 seconds. Upcoming CMB…

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