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Cosmological surveys aim at answering fundamental questions about our Universe, including the nature of dark matter or the reason of unexpected accelerated expansion of the Universe. In order to answer these questions, two important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Xinyue Zhang , Yanfang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yueqiu Sun , Siyu He , Gabriella Contardo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho

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

A grand challenge of the 21st century cosmology is to accurately estimate the cosmological parameters of our Universe. A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Junier Oliva , Sebastien Fromenteau , Layne C. Price , Shirley Ho , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Hydrodynamical simulations play a fundamental role in modern cosmological research, serving as a crucial bridge between theoretical predictions and observational data. However, due to their computational intensity, these simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Andrés Caro , Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Antonio Ferragamo , Félicien Schiltz , Amélie Nef

We explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

In the era of precision cosmology, the ability to generate accurate and large-scale galaxy catalogs is crucial for advancing our understanding of the universe. With the flood of cosmological data from current and upcoming missions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Tanner Sether , Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes-Hurtado

Connecting the formation and evolution of galaxies to the large-scale structure is crucial for interpreting cosmological observations. While hydrodynamical simulations accurately model the correlated properties of galaxies, they are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Shivam Pandey , Christopher C. Lovell , Chirag Modi , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We present a novel method to infer the Dark Matter (DM) content and spatial distribution within galaxies, based on convolutional neural networks trained within state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations (Illustris TNG100). The framework we…

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, while the current state-of-the art methodology for generating theoretical predictions for the large scale structures of the Universe, are among the most expensive simulation tools, requiring upwards…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Antoine Bourdin , Ronan Legin , Matthew Ho , Alexandre Adam , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We present the first systematic study of multi-domain map-to-map translation in galaxy formation simulations, leveraging deep generative models to predict diverse galactic properties. Using high-resolution magneto-hydrodynamical simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Philipp Denzel , Yann Billeter , Frank-Peter Schilling , Elena Gavagnin

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

Over the last decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental for advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These simulations follow the non-linear evolution of galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-20 Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Paul Torrey , Ewald Puchwein

Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology. In this work we predict high resolution dark matter halos from large scale, low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-25 David Schaurecker , Yin Li , Jeremy Tinker , Shirley Ho , Alexandre Refregier

Reducing theoretical uncertainties in Galactic dark matter (DM) searches is an important challenge as several experiments are now delving into the parameter space relevant to popular (particle or not) candidates. Since many DM signal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-20 Thomas Lacroix , Arturo Núñez-Castiñeyra , Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle , Emmanuel Nezri

The Dark Matter present in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe is invisible, but its presence can be inferred through the small gravitational lensing effect it has on the images of far away galaxies. By measuring this lensing effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Zaccharie Ramzi , Jia Liu , Niall Jeffrey , Jean-Luc Starck

We present a review of the current state of the art of cosmological dark matter simulations, with particular emphasis on the implications for dark matter detection efforts and studies of dark energy. This review is intended both for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-29 Michael Kuhlen , Mark Vogelsberger , Raul Angulo

We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-02 Dakshesh Kololgi , Krishna Naidoo , Amelie Saintonge , Ofer Lahav

We train deep learning models on thousands of galaxy catalogues from the state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations of the CAMELS project to perform regression and inference. We employ Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), architectures designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Pablo Villanueva-Domingo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are still limited by their spatial/mass resolution and cannot model from first principles some of the processes, like star formation, that are key in driving galaxy evolution. As a consequence they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea V. Macciò , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Pavle Vulanović , Hind Al Noori , Fabian Walter , Nico Krieger , Tobias Buck

For many analyses in cosmology it is necessary to reconstruct the likely distribution of unobserved fields, such as dark matter or non-luminous baryons, from observed luminous tracers. The dominant approach in cosmology has been to use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jordan Krywonos , Yurii Kvasiuk , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer
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