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Large sets of matter density simulations are becoming increasingly important in large-scale structure cosmology. Matter power spectra emulators, such as the Euclid Emulator and CosmicEmu, are trained on simulations to correct the non-linear…

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A number of known techniques for improving cache performance in scientific computations involve the reordering of the iteration space. Some of these reorderings can be considered coverings of the iteration space with sets having small…

Performance · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Michael Frumkin , Rob F. Van der Wijngaart

Motivated by recent developments in perturbative calculations of the nonlinear evolution of large-scale structure, we present an iterative algorithm to reconstruct the initial conditions in a given volume starting from the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 Marcel Schmittfull , Tobias Baldauf , Matias Zaldarriaga

We employ cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to study the growth of massive black holes (BHs) at high redshifts subject to BH merger recoils from gravitational wave emission. We select the most massive dark matter halo at z=6 from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Martin G. Haehnelt

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

Galactic sized gravitational lenses are simulated by combining a cosmological N-body simulation and models for the baryonic component of the galaxy. The lens caustics, critical curves, image locations and magnification ratios are calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adam Amara , R. Benton Metcalf , Thomas J. Cox , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We introduce Project GIBLE (Gas Is Better resoLved around galaxiEs), a suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations where gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is preferentially simulated at ultra-high numerical resolution. Our initial sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-24 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson

We present a numerical scheme, implemented in the cosmological adaptive mesh refinement code ENZO, to model the injection of Cosmic Ray (CR) particles at shocks, their advection and their dynamical feedback on thermal baryonic gas. We give…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Vazza , M. Bruggen , C. Gheller , G. Brunetti

This is the second paper in a series presenting the results from a 500 $h^{-1}$Mpc large constrained hydro-dynamical simulation of the local Universe (SLOW). The initial conditions are based on peculiar velocities derived from the…

Simulations of isolated giant molecular clouds (GMCs) are an important tool for studying the dynamics of star formation, but their turbulent initial conditions (ICs) are uncertain. Most simulations have either initialized a velocity field…

We study the impact of numerical parameters on the properties of cold dark matter haloes formed in collisionless cosmological simulations. We quantify convergence in the median spherically-averaged circular velocity profiles for haloes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Richard Bower

We present a description for setting initial particle displacements and field values for simulations of arbitrary metric theories of gravity, for perfect and imperfect fluids with arbitrary characteristics. We extend the Zel'dovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Wessel Valkenburg , Bin Hu

Simulating the small-scale features and dynamics of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is computationally challenging due to its large volume, low densities, multiphase structure, and chaotic environmental effects. Traditional mass-based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Scott Lucchini , Cecilia Abramson , Cameron Hummels , Charlie Conroy , Lars Hernquist , Aaron Smith

We present a simplified and fast method for simulating minor mergers between galaxy clusters. Instead of following the evolution of the dark matter halos directly by the N-body method, we employ a rigid potential approximation for both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Roediger , J. A. ZuHone

Gravitational softening length is one of the key parameters to properly set up a cosmological $N$-body simulation. In this paper, we perform a large suit of high-resolution $N$-body simulations to revise the optimal softening scheme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-07 Tianchi Zhang , Shihong Liao , Ming Li , Liang Gao

We extend the concept of galaxy environment from the local galaxy number density to the gravitational potential and its functions like the shear tensor. For this purpose we examine whether or not one can make an accurate estimation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hyunbae Park , Juhan Kim , Changbom Park

N-body simulations sample their initial conditions on an initial particle distribution, which for cosmological simulations is usually a glass or grid, whilst a Poisson distribution is used for galaxy models, spherical collapse etc. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Steen H. Hansen , Oscar Agertz , Michael Joyce , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore , Doug Potter

We introduce the new cosmological simulation project cosmosTNG, a first-of-its-kind suite of constrained galaxy formation simulations for the universe at Cosmic Noon ($z\sim 2$). cosmosTNG simulates a $0.2$ deg$^2$ patch of the COSMOS field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson , Benjamin Horowitz , Khee-Gan Lee , Annalisa Pillepich

We present a new warped gridding scheme adapted to simulating gas dynamics in binary black hole spacetimes. The grid concentrates grid points in the vicinity of each black hole to resolve the smaller scale structures there, and rarefies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-03 Miguel Zilhão , Scott C. Noble

Precipitation is potentially a mechanism through which the circumgalactic medium (CGM) can regulate a galaxy's star formation. Here we present idealized simulations of isolated Milky Way-like galaxies intended to examine the ability of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-26 Claire Kopenhafer , Brian W. O'Shea , G. Mark Voit