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Many of the most exciting questions in astrophysics and cosmology, including the majority of observational probes of dark energy, rely on an understanding of the nonlinear regime of structure formation. In order to fully exploit the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Martin White , David Higdon , Christian Wagner , Salman Habib , Brian Williams

We extend our super-resolution and emulation framework for cosmological dark matter simulations to include hydrodynamics. We present a two-stage deep learning model to emulate high-resolution (HR-HydroSim) baryonic fields from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Fatemeh Hafezianzadeh , Xiaowen Zhang , Yueying Ni , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana DiMatteo , Mahdi Qezlou , Simeon Bird

We present a neural network emulator to constrain the thermal parameters of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $\displaystyle{5.4}\le{z}\le{6.0}$ using the Lyman-$\displaystyle\alpha$ (Ly$\displaystyle\alpha$) forest flux auto-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Zhenyu Jin , Molly Wolfson , Joseph F. Hennawi , Diego González-Hernández

(abridged) The flux power spectrum of the Lyman-alpha forest in quasar (QSO) absorption spectra is sensitive to a wide range of cosmological and astrophysical parameters and instrumental effects. Modelling the flux power spectrum in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matteo Viel , Martin G. Haehnelt

Accurate predictions for the non-linear matter power spectrum are needed to confront theory with observations in current and near future weak lensing and galaxy clustering surveys. We propose a computationally cheap method to create an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hans Winther , Santiago Casas , Marco Baldi , Kazuya Koyama , Baojiu Li , Lucas Lombriser , Gong-Bo Zhao

Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are a powerful tool for accurately predicting the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) and for producing mock skies that can be compared against observational data. However, the need to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Cooper Jacobus , Peter Harrington , Zarija Lukić

The ultralight dark photon is a well-motivated, hypothetical dark matter candidate. In a dilute plasma, they can resonantly convert into photons, and heat up the intergalactic medium between galaxies. In this work, we explore the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Andrea Trost , James S. Bolton , Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Stefano Cristiani , Matteo Viel

The power spectrum of density fluctuations is a foundational source of cosmological information. Precision cosmological probes targeted primarily at investigations of dark energy require accurate theoretical determinations of the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Martin White , Salman Habib , Brian J. Williams , Christian Wagner

We review the field of collisionless numerical simulations for the large-scale structure of the Universe. We start by providing the main set of equations solved by these simulations and their connection with General Relativity. We then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Raul E. Angulo , Oliver Hahn

We apply and test a field-level emulator for non-linear cosmic structure formation in a volume matching next-generation surveys. Inferring the cosmological parameters and initial conditions from which the particular galaxy distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Matthew T. Scoggins , Matthew Ho , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Drew Jamieson , Ludvig Doeser , Greg L. Bryan

The inference of cosmological quantities requires accurate and large hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Unfortunately, their computational time can take millions of CPU hours for a modest coverage in cosmological scales ($\approx (100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-03 Chotipan Boonkongkird , Guilhem Lavaux , Sebastien Peirani , Yohan Dubois , Natalia Porqueres , Eleni Tsaprazi

Cosmological probes pose an inverse problem where the measurement result is obtained through observations, and the objective is to infer values of model parameters which characterize the underlying physical system -- our Universe. Modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Timur Takhtaganov , Zarija Lukic , Juliane Mueller , Dmitriy Morozov

Full-physics cosmological simulations are powerful tools for studying the formation and evolution of structure in the universe but require extreme computational resources. Here, we train a convolutional neural network to use a cheaper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Peter Harrington , Mustafa Mustafa , Max Dornfest , Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić

Structure formation at small cosmological scales provides an important frontier for dark matter (DM) research. Scenarios with small DM particle masses, large momenta or hidden interactions tend to suppress the gravitational clustering at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 Riccardo Murgia , Alexander Merle , Matteo Viel , Maximilian Totzauer , Aurel Schneider

We present numerical $N$-body simulation studies of large-scale structure formation. The main purpose of these studies is to analyze the several models of dark matter and the role they played in the process of large-scale structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-22 M. A. Rodriguez-Meza

Cosmological $N$-body simulations are the standard tool to study the emergence of the observed large-scale structure of the Universe. Such simulations usually solve for the gravitational dynamics of matter within the Newtonian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-24 Jacob Brandbyge , Cornelius Rampf , Thomas Tram , Florent Leclercq , Christian Fidler , Steen Hannestad

We present methods for emulating the matter power spectrum by combining information from cosmological $N$-body simulations at different resolutions. An emulator allows estimation of simulation output by interpolating across the parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ming-Feng Ho , Simeon Bird , Christian R. Shelton

We revisit techniques for performing cosmological simulations with both baryons and cold dark matter when each fluid has different initial conditions, as is the case at the end of the radiation era. Most simulations do not reproduce the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Simeon Bird , Yu Feng , Christian Pedersen , Andreu Font-Ribera

The gravitationally-driven evolution of cold dark matter dominates the formation of structure in the Universe over a wide range of length scales. While the longest scales can be treated by perturbation theory, a fully quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Katrin Heitmann , Paul M. Ricker , Michael S. Warren , Salman Habib

N-body simulations are the most powerful method to study the non-linear evolution of large-scale structure. However, they require large amounts of computational resources, making unfeasible their direct adoption in scenarios that require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Miguel Conceição , Alberto Krone-Martins , Antonio da Silva , Ángeles Moliné