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Galactic rotation curves are crucial for understanding the distribution of mass in galaxies. Despite advances in precision observations, there are discrepancies between the inferred mass from luminosity and the observed rotational…

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Dark matter in the universe evolves through gravity to form a complex network of halos, filaments, sheets and voids, that is known as the cosmic web. Computational models of the underlying physical processes, such as classical N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Andres C. Rodriguez , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Janis Fluri , Thomas Hofmann , Alexandre Réfrégier

We present a method for generating suites of dark-matter halo catalogs with only a few $N$-body simulations, focusing on making small changes to the underlying cosmology of a simulation with high precision. In the context of blind…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Different models of dark matter can alter the distribution of mass in galaxy clusters in a variety of ways. However, so can uncertain astrophysical feedback mechanisms. Here we present a Machine Learning method that ''learns'' how the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-29 David Harvey

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are powerful tools to understand the complex processes that govern the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, evaluating the realism of these simulations remains a challenge. The two common…

The different regimes of gravitational lensing constitutes an interesting tool in order to map the mass distribution in galaxy clusters on different scales. In this proceedings article, I review some work I have performed on this topic.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 Marceau Limousin

Numerical simulations play a key important role in modern cosmology. Examples are plenty including the cosmic web - large scale structure of the distribution of galaxies in space - which was first observed in N-body simulations and later…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Johan Comparat

The lack of tangible evidence for non-gravitational interactions between dark and visible sectors drives the need for exploring new avenues of inferring dark matter properties through purely gravitational probes. In particular, addressing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-23 Mihael Petac

A novel method images to estimate cosmological parameters based on images is presented. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for constraining the mass of dark matter particle. For this purpose, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Koya Murakami , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are limited by finite computational resources. We draw from the ongoing rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (specifically Deep Learning) to address this problem. Neural networks have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-10 Yin Li , Yueying Ni , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo , Simeon Bird , Yu Feng

We use topological summaries based on Betti curves to characterize the large-scale spatial distribution of simulated dark matter haloes and galaxies. Using the IllustrisTNG and CAMELS-SAM simulations, we show that the topology of the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-16 Aaron Ouellette , Gilbert Holder , Ely Kerman

Modern galaxy surveys demand extensive survey volumes and resolutions surpassing current dark matter-only simulations' capabilities. To address this, many methods employ effective bias models on the dark matter field to approximate object…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Francesco Sinigaglia , Jose María Coloma-Nadal , Jean-Paul Kneib

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the large-scale cosmic matter distribution. Wide-field galaxy surveys allow us to generate the so-called weak lensing maps, but actual observations suffer from noise due to imperfect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Masato Shirasaki , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda

Deep learning is a powerful analysis technique that has recently been proposed as a method to constrain cosmological parameters from weak lensing mass maps. Due to its ability to learn relevant features from the data, it is able to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak , Aurelien Lucchi , Alexandre Refregier , Adam Amara , Thomas Hofmann

Predicting the spatial distribution of objects as a function of cosmology is an essential ingredient for the exploitation of future galaxy surveys. In this paper we show that a specially-designed suite of gravity-only simulations together…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 S. Contreras , R. E. Angulo , M. Zennaro , G. Aricó , M. Pellejero-Ibañez

Matter evolved under influence of gravity from minuscule density fluctuations. Non-perturbative structure formed hierarchically over all scales, and developed non-Gaussian features in the Universe, known as the Cosmic Web. To fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 Siyu He , Yin Li , Yu Feng , Shirley Ho , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Wei Chen , Barnabás Póczos

Ground and space-based sky surveys enable powerful cosmological probes based on measurements of galaxy properties and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe. These probes include weak lensing, baryon acoustic oscillations, abundance…

The development of numerical N -body simulations have allowed to study formation process and evolution of galaxies at different scales. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of N-body systems applied to the cosmological evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jazhiel Chacon , J. Alberto Vazquez , Ruslan Gabbasov

After decades of successful hot big-bang paradigm, Cosmology still lacks a framework in which the early inflationary phase of the universe smoothly matches the radiation epoch and evolves to the present `quasi' de Sitter spacetime. No less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. Basilakos , J. A. S. Lima , J. Solà

We present a series of four simulations of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) and Cold + Hot Dark Matter (CHDM) cosmologies. We discuss the power spectrum and correlation functions in real and redshift space, with comparisons to the CfA2 and IRAS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Klypin , R. Nolthenius , J. Primack