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We study structure formation in the presence of primordial non-Gaussianity of the local type with parameters f_NL and g_NL. We show that the distribution of dark-matter halos is naturally described by a multivariate bias scheme where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 Tommaso Giannantonio , Cristiano Porciani

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) might originate from supermassive primordial black holes (PBHs). However, the hypothesis that these PBHs formed through the enhancement of the primordial curvature perturbations has consistently faced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Zhan-He Wang , Hai-Long Huang , Yun-Song Piao

We examine the scale dependence of dark matter, halo and galaxy clustering on very large scales (0.01<k[h/Mpc]<0.15), due to non-linear effects from dynamics and halo bias. We pursue a two line offensive: high resolution numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert E. Smith , Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth

The primordial power spectrum of matter density perturbations contains highly valuable information about new fundamental physics, in particular cosmological inflation, but is only very weakly constrained observationally for small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Torsten Bringmann , Djuna Croon , Sergio Sevillano Muñoz

Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed a surprisingly large number of galaxies at high redshift, challenging the standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmology with a power-law primordial power spectrum. Previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Jianhao Wu , Tsang Keung Chan , Victor J. Forouhar Moreno

We study the impact of the cosmological parameters uncertainties on the measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity through the large-scale non-Gaussian halo bias effect. While this is not expected to be an issue for the standard LCDM model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Carmelita Carbone , Olga Mena , Licia Verde

N-body dark matter simulations of structure formation in the $\Lambda$CDM model predict a population of subhalos within Galactic halos that have higher central densities than inferred for satellites of the Milky Way, a tension known as the…

In the present work, we study the large scale matter power spectrum as well as the observed galaxy power spectrum for non-canonical tachyon field dark energy model considering the full general relativistic perturbation equations. We form a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ajay Bassi , Ankan Mukherjee , Anjan A. Sen

There are several issues to do with dwarf galaxy predictions in the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology that have suscitated much recent debate about the possible modification of the nature of dark matter as providing a solution. We explore a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-07 David J. E. Marsh , Joe Silk

Accurate knowledge of the non-linear dark-matter power spectrum is important for understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe, the statistics of dark-matter haloes and their evolution, and cosmological gravitational lensing. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Carlo Giocoli , Matthias Bartelmann , Ravi K. Sheth , Marcello Cacciato

We examine Gaussian isocurvature hot dark matter (massive neutrino) models for large-scale structure in which the initial density perturbations are produced in the baryons with a power--law spectrum $P_B(k) = Ak^{n_B}$. We calculate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrew A. de Laix , Rober J. Scherrer

We introduce simplified models for enhancements in the matter power spectrum at small scales and study their implications for dark matter substructure and gravitational observables. These models capture the salient aspects of a variety of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Nikita Blinov , Matthew J. Dolan , Patrick Draper , Jessie Shelton

The matter power spectrum has been strongly constrained by astronomical measurements at large scales, but only weakly at small scales. Compared with the standard scenario, the deviation of the matter power spectrum at small scales has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-12 Yupeng Yang , Xiujuan Li , Gang Li

On large scales galaxies and their halos are usually assumed to trace the dark matter with a constant bias and dark matter is assumed to trace the linear density field. We test these assumption using several large N-body simulations with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uros Seljak , Michael S. Warren

The cold dark matter (CDM) model of structure formation, normalized on large scales, leads to excessive pairwise velocity dispersions on small scales. In an attempt to circumvent this problem, we study three scenarios (all with $\Omega=1$)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 James. M. Gelb , Ben-Ami Gradwohl , Joshua A. Frieman

We present measurements of the bispectrum of dark matter halos in numerical simulations with non-Gaussian initial conditions of the local type. We show, in the first place, that the overall effect of primordial non-Gaussianity on the halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Emiliano Sefusatti , Martin Crocce , Vincent Desjacques

The dark energy plus cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model has been a demonstrably successful framework for predicting and explaining the large-scale structure of Universe and its evolution with time. Yet on length scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 James S. Bullock , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

The growth of the density fluctuations is considered to be an important cosmological test. In the standard model, for a matter dominated universe, the growth of the density perturbations evolves with redshift z like (1/{1+z))^s with s=1.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Andre Maeder , Vesselin G. Gueorguiev

Features in the primordial scalar power spectrum provide a possible roadway to describe the outliers at the low multipoles in the WMAP data. Apart from the CMB angular power spectrum, these features can also alter the matter power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-04 Dhiraj Kumar Hazra

We perform for the first time N-body simulations of Interacting Dark Energy assuming non-Gaussian initial conditions, with the aim of investigating possible degeneracies of these two theoretically independent phenomena in different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-22 M. Hashim , C. Giocoli , M. Baldi , D. Bertacca , R. Maartens