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The symmetron is a dark energy and dark matter candidate that forms topological defects in the late-time universe and holds the promise of resolving some of the cosmological tensions. We performed high-resolution simulations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-29 Øyvind Christiansen , Farbod Hassani , David F. Mota

Astronomical observations suggest that the Universe may be anisotropic on the largest scales. In order to model this situation, we develop a new approach to cosmology that allows for large-scale anisotropy to emerge from the growth of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-26 Theodore Anton , Timothy Clifton

According to the separate universe conjecture, spherically symmetric sub-regions in an isotropic universe behave like mini-universes with their own cosmological parameters. This is an excellent approximation in both Newtonian and general…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-14 Gábor Rácz , László Dobos , Róbert Beck , István Szapudi , István Csabai

Cosmological perturbations of sufficiently long wavelength admit a fluid dynamic description. We consider modes with wavevectors below a scale $k_m$ for which the dynamics is only mildly non-linear. The leading effect of modes above that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Diego Blas , Stefan Floerchinger , Mathias Garny , Nikolaos Tetradis , Urs Achim Wiedemann

The behaviour of the wave function of the Universe under the barrier for anisotropic cosmological Bianchi type IX model with account of influence of the scalar field is explored. In view of known difficulties with interpretation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Folomeev , V. Ts. Gurovich , I. V. Tokareva

We study the evolution of globular clusters with mass spectra under the influence of the steady Galactic tidal field, including the effects of velocity anisotropy. Similar to single-mass models, velocity anisotropy develops as the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Takahashi , H. M. Lee

In order to infer the impact of the small-scale physics to the large-scale properties of the universe, we use a series of cosmological $N$-body simulations of self-gravitating matter inhomogeneities to measure, for the first time, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Takahiro Nishimichi , Francis Bernardeau , Atsushi Taruya

The power spectrum response function of the large-scale structure of the Universe describes how the evolved power spectrum is modified by a small change in initial power through non-linear mode coupling of gravitational evolution. It was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Anaëlle Halle , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya , Stéphane Colombi , Francis Bernardeau

We present a new method for simulating cosmologies that contain massive particles with thermal free streaming motion, such as massive neutrinos or warm/hot dark matter. This method combines particle and fluid descriptions of the thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Arka Banerjee , Neal Dalal

We present an algorithm for quickly generating multiple realizations of N-body simulations to be used, for example, for cosmological parameter estimation from surveys of large-scale structure. Our algorithm uses a new method to resample the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael D. Schneider , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Istvan Szapudi

Modeling self-gravity of collisionless fluids (e.g. ensembles of dark matter, stars, black holes, dust, planetary bodies) in simulations is challenging and requires some force softening. It is often desirable to allow softenings to evolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Ethan O. Nadler , Michael Y. Grudic , Xuejian Shen , Isabel Sands , Fangzhou Jiang

In this letter we review the separate universe approach for cosmological perturbations and point out that it is essentially the lowest order approximation to a gradient expansion. Using this approach, one can study the nonlinear evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. I. Rigopoulos , E. P. S. Shellard

In a universe with quintessence isocurvature, or perturbations in dark energy that are independent from the usual curvature perturbations, structure formation is changed qualitatively. The existence of two independent fields, curvature and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Drew Jamieson , Marilena LoVerde

Recent high-precision observations with HST and Gaia enabled new investigations of the internal kinematics of star clusters (SCs) and the dependence of kinematic properties on the stellar mass. These studies raised new questions about the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Václav Pavlík , Douglas C. Heggie , Anna Lisa Varri , Enrico Vesperini

We examine the cosmological redshift-space distortion effect on the power spectrum of the objects at high-redshifts, which is an unavoidable observational contamination in general relativistic cosmology. In particular, we consider the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiromitsu Magira , Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

Long-wavelength matter inhomogeneities contain cleaner information on the nature of primordial perturbations as well as the physics of the early universe. The large-scale coherent overdensity and tidal force, not directly observable for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Masahiro Takada , Yin Li

Upcoming weak lensing surveys require a detailed theoretical understanding of the matter power spectrum in order to derive accurate and precise cosmological parameter values. While galaxy formation is known to play an important role, its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Marcel P. van Daalen , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye

We measure power spectrum response functions in the presence of baryonic physical processes using separate universe simulations with the IllustrisTNG galaxy formation model. The response functions describe how the small-scale power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Alexandre Barreira , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Volker Springel , Fabian Schmidt , Ruediger Pakmor , Lars Hernquist , Mark Vogelsberger

In performing cosmological N-body simulations, it is widely appreciated that the growth of structure on the largest scales within a simulation box will be inhibited by the finite size of the simulation volume. Following ideas set forth in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-16 Chris Orban

The universe is smooth on large scales but very inhomogeneous on small scales. Why is the spacetime on large scales modeled to a good approximation by the Friedmann equations? Are we sure that small-scale non-linearities do not induce a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel Baumann , Alberto Nicolis , Leonardo Senatore , Matias Zaldarriaga