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Existing models for the dependence of the halo mass function on cosmological parameters will become a limiting source of systematic uncertainty for cluster cosmology in the near future. We present a halo mass function emulator and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Thomas McClintock , Eduardo Rozo , Matthew R. Becker , Joseph DeRose , Yau-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Jeremy L. Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Zhongxu Zhai

In this work, we present a novel emulator of the halo mass function, which we implement in the framework of the e-mantis emulator of $f(R)$ gravity models. We also extend e-mantis to cover a larger cosmological parameter space and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-26 I. Sáez-Casares , Y. Rasera , T. R. G. Richardson , P. -S. Corasaniti

We introduce a new cosmic emulator for the matter power spectrum covering eight cosmological parameters. Targeted at optical surveys, the emulator provides accurate predictions out to a wavenumber k~5/Mpc and redshift z<=2. Besides covering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Juliana Kwan , Amol Upadhye , Derek Bingham , Salman Habib , David Higdon , Adrian Pope , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere

We construct accurate emulators for the projected and redshift space galaxy correlation functions and excess surface density as measured by galaxy-galaxy lensing, based on Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modeling. Using the complete…

Precise and accurate predictions of the halo mass function for cluster mass scales in $w\nu{\rm CDM}$ cosmologies are crucial for extracting robust and unbiased cosmological information from upcoming galaxy cluster surveys. Here, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Delon Shen , Nickolas Kokron , Joseph DeRose , Jeremy Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Arka Banerjee , the Aemulus Collaboration

Modern cosmological surveys are delivering datasets characterized by unprecedented quality and statistical completeness; this trend is expected to continue into the future as new ground- and space-based surveys come online. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Kelly R. Moran , Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Salman Habib , Derek Bingham , Amol Upadhye , Juliana Kwan , David Higdon , Richard Payne

We use an array of high-resolution N-body simulations to determine the mass function of dark matter haloes at redshifts 10-30. We develop a new method for compensating for the effects of finite simulation volume that allows us to find an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Darren Reed , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns

We perform an ensemble of $N$-body simulations with $2048^3$ particles for 101 flat $w$CDM cosmological models sampled based on a maximin-distance Sliced Latin Hypercube Design. By using the halo catalogs extracted at multiple redshifts in…

Accurate theoretical prediction for halo mass function across a broad cosmological space is crucial for the forthcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST) observations, which will capture cosmological information from multiple probes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

The universality of the halo mass function is investigated in the context of dark energy cosmologies. This widely used approximation assumes that the mass function can be expressed as a function of the matter density omega_m and the rms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 J. Courtin , Y. Rasera , J. -M. Alimi , P. -S. Corasaniti , V. Boucher , A. Fuzfa

Models of the spatial distribution of dark matter halos must achieve new levels of precision and accuracy in order to satisfy the requirements of upcoming experiments. In this work, we present a halo bias emulator for modeling the…

We introduce a new set of large N-body runs, the MICE simulations, that provide a unique combination of very large cosmological volumes with good mass resolution. They follow the gravitational evolution of ~ 8.5 billion particles (2048^3)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Martin Crocce , Pablo Fosalba , Francisco J. Castander , Enrique Gaztanaga

We study the formation of dark matter halos in the concordance LCDM model over a wide range of redshifts, from z=20 to the present. Our primary focus is the halo mass function, a key probe of cosmology. By performing a large suite of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zarija Lukic , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Sergei Bashinsky , Paul M. Ricker

We measure the mass function of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of flat LCDM cosmology and investigate its evolution at z<~2. Halos are identified as isolated density peaks, and their masses are…

We introduce the Ultramarine simulation, an extremely large $N$-body simulation of the structure formation and evolution to redshift 5.5 at which cosmic reionization was just completed. The simulation evolves 2.1 trillion particles within a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Qiao Wang , Liang Gao , Cheng Meng

The concentration-mass relation for dark matter-dominated halos is one of the essential results expected from a theory of structure formation. We present a simple prediction scheme, a cosmic emulator, for the c-M relation as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Juliana Kwan , Suman Bhattacharya , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib

In this series of papers we present an emulator-based halo model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies in modified gravity cosmologies. In the first paper, we present emulators for the following halo properties: the halo mass function,…

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…

We present a new method for emulating the halo mass function (HMF) and other distribution functions in large effective volumes, down to low halo masses, whilst simultaneously modifying large ranges of parameters, for a fraction of the cost…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Christopher C. Lovell , Max E. Lee , William J. Roper , Daniel Anglés-Alcázar , Shy Genel , Shivam Pandey , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

$N$-body cosmological simulations are an essential tool to understand the observed distribution of galaxies. We use the MultiDark simulation suite, run with the Planck cosmological parameters, to revisit the mass and velocity functions. At…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-16 Johan Comparat , Francisco Prada , Gustavo Yepes , Anatoly Klypin
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