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We present GLASS, the Generator for Large Scale Structure, a new code for the simulation of galaxy surveys for cosmology, which iteratively builds a light cone with matter, galaxies, and weak gravitational lensing signals as a sequence of…

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We present CosmoGridV1: a large set of lightcone simulations for map-level cosmological inference with probes of large scale structure. It is designed for cosmological parameter measurement based on Stage-III photometric surveys with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Tomasz Kacprzak , Janis Fluri , Aurel Schneider , Alexandre Refregier , Joachim Stadel

To use strong gravitational lenses as an astrophysical or cosmological probe, models of their mass distributions are often needed. We present a new, time-efficient automation code for uniform modeling of strongly lensed quasars with GLEE, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 S. Ertl , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , T. Schmidt , T. Treu , S. Birrer , A. J. Shajib , D. Sluse

We present an assumption-minimized framework for testing late-time cosmological models using Uncalibrated Cosmic Standards (UCS), including standard rulers and standard candles, without relying on absolute calibrations. The method exploits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yihao Wang , Weikang Lin

We present CoLoRe, a public software package to efficiently generate synthetic realisations of multiple cosmological surveys. CoLoRe can simulate the growth of structure with different degrees of accuracy, with the current implementation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 César Ramírez-Pérez , Javier Sanchez , David Alonso , Andreu Font-Ribera

We present a code to generate mock observations of 21 cm intensity mapping experiments. The emphasis of the code is on reducing the computational cost of running a full-blown simulation, trading computational time for accuracy. The code can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos

(Abridged) A thorough interpretation of the current and upcoming generation of cosmological observations requires unprecedented large-scale, high-resolution simulations spanning multiple cosmological models and parameters. The realization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Riccardo Zangarelli , Marco Baldi , Federico Marinacci , Enrico Garaldi

The advent of the new generation of wide field galaxy surveys makes large N-body cosmological simulations a necessary evil. While the cosmological simulation codes have evolved a lot since the first calculations in the 80s, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-15 Claudio Llinares

We present a novel method for generation of sets of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy maps, which reproduces the $\Delta \l=2$ correlations associated with Alfv\'en turbulence. The method is based on the non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-17 Pavel Naselsky , Jaiseung Kim

Developing accurate analysis techniques to combine various probes of cosmology is essential to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters and to check for inconsistencies in our model of the Universe. In this paper we develop a joint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Peter Schneider , Klaus Honscheid

We present a new fast method for simulating pencil-beam type light-cones, using the MLAPM-code (Multi Level Adaptive Particle Mesh) with light-cone additions. We show that by a careful choice of the light-cone orientation, it is possible to…

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The progenitors of present-day galaxy clusters give important clues about the evolution of the large scale structure, cosmic mass assembly, and galaxy evolution. Simulations are a major tool for these studies since they are used to…

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We present a coherent, re-usable python framework which further builds on the cosmological emulator code CosmoPower. In the current era of high-precision cosmology, we require high-accuracy calculations of cosmological observables with…

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Weak gravitational lensing simulations serve as indispensable tools for obtaining precise cosmological constraints. In particular, it is crucial to address the systematic uncertainties in theoretical predictions, given the rapid increase in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

We demonstrate the capabilities of probabilistic diffusion models to reduce dramatically the computational cost of expensive hydrodynamical simulations to study the relationship between observable baryonic cosmological probes and dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Satvik Mishra , Roberto Trotta , Matteo Viel

The tightest and most robust cosmological results of the next decade will be achieved by bringing together multiple surveys of the Universe. This endeavor has to happen across multiple layers of the data processing and analysis, e.g.,…

We advocate for a new paradigm of cosmological likelihood-based inference, leveraging recent developments in machine learning and its underlying technology, to accelerate Bayesian inference in high-dimensional settings. Specifically, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Davide Piras , Alicja Polanska , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Matthew A. Price , Jason D. McEwen

The standard model of cosmology, {\Lambda}CDM, is the simplest model that matches the current observations, but it relies on two hypothetical components, to wit, dark matter and dark energy. Future galaxy surveys and cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-13 Cyrille Doux , Mariana Penna-Lima , Sandro D. P. Vitenti , Julien Tréguer , Eric Aubourg , Ken Ganga

In paper I of this series (Fosalba et al. 2013), we presented a new N-body lightcone simulation from the MICE collaboration, the MICE Grand Challenge (MICE-GC), containing about 70 billion dark-matter particles in a (3 Gpc)^3 comoving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-30 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce

We describe a subgrid model for including galaxies into hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of galaxy cluster evolution. Each galaxy construct- or galcon- is modeled as a physically extended object within which star formation, galactic…

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