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We develop a model for the matter power spectrum as the sum of Zeldovich approximation and even powers of $k$, i.e., $A_0 - A_2k^2 + A_4k^4 - ...$, compensated at low $k$. With terms up to $k^4$ the model can predict the true power spectrum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Irshad Mohammed , Uros Seljak

Baryonification algorithms model the impact of galaxy formation and feedback on the matter field in gravity-only simulations by adopting physically motivated parametric prescriptions. In this paper, we extend these models to describe gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-09 Giovanni Aricò , Raul E. Angulo

We present an emulator for the two-point clustering of biased tracers in real space. We construct this emulator using neural networks calibrated with more than $400$ cosmological models in a 8-dimensional cosmological parameter space that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-03 Matteo Zennaro , Raul E. Angulo , Marcos Pellejero-Ibáñez , Jens Stücker , Sergio Contreras , Giovanni Aricò

We use matter power spectra from cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to quantify the effect of baryon physics on the weak gravitational lensing shear signal. The simulations consider a number of processes, such as radiative cooling, star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Elisabetta Semboloni , Henk Hoekstra , Joop Schaye , Marcel P. van Daalen , Ian G. McCarthy

Baryonic feedback effects lead to a suppression of the weak lensing angular power spectrum on small scales. The poorly constrained shape and amplitude of this suppression is an important source of uncertainties for upcoming cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Aurel Schneider , Nicola Stoira , Alexandre Refregier , Andreas J. Weiss , Mischa Knabenhans , Joachim Stadel , Romain Teyssier

Many different studies have shown that a wealth of cosmological information resides on small, non-linear scales. Unfortunately, there are two challenges to overcome to utilize that information. First, we do not know the optimal estimator…

We develop an extension of \textit{the Halo Model} that describes analytically the corrections to the matter power spectrum due to the physics of baryons. We extend these corrections to the weak-lensing shear angular power spectrum. Within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Irshad Mohammed , Davide Martizzi , Romain Teyssier , Adam Amara

Forthcoming cosmic shear surveys will make precise measurements of the matter density field down to very small scales, scales which are dominated by baryon feedback. The modelling of baryon feedback is crucial to ensure unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Alessandro Maraio , Alex Hall , Andy Taylor

Hydrodynamic simulations provide a powerful, but computationally expensive, approach to study the interplay of dark matter and baryons in cosmological structure formation. Here we introduce the EMulating Baryonic EnRichment (EMBER) Deep…

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

Modelling nonlinear structure formation is essential for current and forthcoming cosmic shear experiments. We combine the halo model reaction formalism, implemented in the REACT code, with the COSMOPOWER machine learning emulation platform,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 A. Spurio Mancini , B. Bose

We use the emulation framework CosmoPower to construct and publicly release neural network emulators of cosmological observables, including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra, matter power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-06 Boris Bolliet , Alessio Spurio Mancini , J. Colin Hill , Mathew Madhavacheril , Hidde T. Jense , Erminia Calabrese , Jo Dunkley

Future large-scale galaxy surveys have the potential to become leading probes for cosmology provided the influence of baryons on the total mass distribution is understood well enough. As hydrodynamical simulations strongly depend on details…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 Aurel Schneider , Romain Teyssier

The complex processes of baryonic feedback associated with galaxy evolution are still poorly understood, and their impact on the clustering of matter on small scales remains difficult to quantify. While many fitting functions and emulators…

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Cosmic Voids are a promising probe of cosmology for spectroscopic galaxy surveys due to their unique response to cosmological parameters. Their combination with other probes promises to break parameter degeneracies. Due to simplifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kai Lehman , Nico Schuster , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Nico Hamaus , Christopher T. Davies , Klaus Dolag

A challenging requirement posed by next-generation observations is a firm theoretical grasp of the impact of baryons on structure formation. Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations modeling gas physics are vital in this regard. A high degree…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 J. D. Emberson , Nicholas Frontiere , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Patricia Larsen , Hal Finkel , Adrian Pope

The halo model formalism is widely adopted in cosmological studies for predicting the growth of large-scale structure in the Universe. However, to date there have been relatively few direct comparisons of the halo model with more accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Alberto Acuto , Ian G. McCarthy , Juliana Kwan , Jaime Salcido , Sam G. Stafford , Andreea S. Font

Weak gravitational lensing convergence peaks, the local maxima in weak lensing convergence maps, have been shown to contain valuable cosmological information complementary to commonly used two-point statistics. To exploit the full power of…

Numerical simulations play an important role in current astronomy researches. Previous dark-matter-only simulations have represented the large-scale structure of the Universe. However, nowadays, hydro-dynamical simulations with baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-09 Weiguang Cui , Youcai Zhang

We present a pipeline to estimate baryonic properties of a galaxy inside a dark matter (DM) halo in DM-only simulations using a machine trained on high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations. As an example, we use the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamic…

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