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Constraining neutrino mass through cosmological observations relies on precise simulations to calibrate their effects on large scale structure, while these simulations must overcome computational challenges like dealing with large velocity…

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Cosmic voids are progressively emerging as a new viable cosmological probe. Their abundance and density profiles are sensitive to modifications of gravity, as well as to dark energy and neutrinos. The main goal of this work is to…

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The non-zero mass of neutrinos suppresses the growth of cosmic structure on small scales. Since the level of suppression depends on the sum of the masses of the three active neutrino species, the evolution of large-scale structure is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Jia Liu , Simeon Bird , José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla , J. Colin Hill , Zoltán Haiman , Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Andrea Petri , David N. Spergel

We have performed detailed studies of non-linear structure formation in cosmological models with light neutrinos. For the first time the effect of neutrino thermal velocities has been included in a consistent way, and the effect on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jacob Brandbyge , Steen Hannestad , Troels Haugboelle , Bjarne Thomsen

Measuring the sum of the three active neutrino masses, $M_\nu$, is one of the most important challenges in modern cosmology. Massive neutrinos imprint characteristic signatures on several cosmological observables in particular on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes Hurtado , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shirley Ho , ChangHoon Hahn

Effective field theory of dark matter fluid on large scales predicts the presence of viscosity of the order of $10^{-6} H_0 M_P^2$. It has been shown that this magnitude of viscosities can resolve the discordance between large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Sampurn Anand , Prakrut Chaubal , Arindam Mazumdar , Subhendra Mohanty , Priyank Parashari

Massive neutrinos suppress the growth of cosmic structure on small, non-linear, scales. It is thus often proposed that using statistics beyond the power spectrum can tighten constraints on the neutrino mass by extracting additional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-16 Adrian E. Bayer , Arka Banerjee , Uros Seljak

Cosmic neutrinos are among the most abundant fermions in the Universe, yet the values of their masses and chemical potentials remain uncertain. In this Letter, we present the first constraints on the total neutrino mass $M_\nu$ and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Wangzheng Zhang , Ming-chung Chu , Shihong Liao

We investigate the impact of massive neutrinos on the distribution of matter in the semi-non-linear regime (0.1<k<0.6 h/Mpc). We present a suite of large-scale N-body simulations quantifying the scale dependent suppression of the total…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-30 Shankar Agarwal , Hume A. Feldman

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the universe, are particularly sensitive to diffuse density components such as cosmic neutrinos. This sensitivity is enhanced by the match between void sizes and the free-streaming scale of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gemma Zhang , Zack Li , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel , Christina D. Kreisch , Alice Pisani , Benjamin D. Wandelt

The present experimental results on neutrino flavour oscillations provide evidence for non-zero neutrino masses, but give no hint on their absolute mass scale, which is the target of beta decay and neutrinoless double-beta decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julien Lesgourgues , Sergio Pastor

Cosmological neutrinos strongly affect the evolution of the largest structures in the Universe, i.e. galaxies and galaxy clusters. We use large box-size full hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the non-linear effects that massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-16 Federico Marulli , Carmelita Carbone , Matteo Viel , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

Cosmological neutrino mass and abundance measurements are reaching unprecedented precision. Testing their stability versus redshift and scale is a crucial issue, as it can serve as a guide for optimizing ongoing and future searches. Here,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Deng Wang , Olga Mena , Eleonora Di Valentino , Stefano Gariazzo

We estimate the velocity field in a large set of $N$-body simulations including massive neutrino particles, and measure the auto-power spectrum of the velocity divergence field as well as the cross-power spectrum between the cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Julien Bel , Andrea Pezzotta , Carmelita Carbone , Emiliano Sefusatti , Luigi Guzzo

Accurate cosmological simulations that include the effect of non-linear matter clustering as well as of massive neutrinos are essential for measuring the neutrino mass scale from upcoming galaxy surveys. Typically, Newtonian simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-24 Christian Partmann , Christian Fidler , Cornelius Rampf , Oliver Hahn

Searches for modified gravity in the large-scale structure try to detect the enhanced amplitude of density fluctuations caused by the fifth force present in many of these theories. Neutrinos, on the other hand, suppress structure growth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Steffen Hagstotz , Max Gronke , David Mota , Marco Baldi

Exploiting the Persistent Homology technique and its complementary representations, we examine the footprint of summed neutrino mass ($M_{\nu}$) in the various density fields simulated by the publicly available Quijote suite. The evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 M. H. Jalali Kanafi , S. Ansarifard , S. M. S. Movahed

The cosmic neutrino background is an important component of the Universe that is difficult to include in cosmological simulations due to the extremely large velocity dispersion of neutrino particles. We develop a new approach to simulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Derek Inman , Hao-ran Yu

Non-zero neutrino mass would affect the evolution of the Universe in observable ways, and a strong constraint on the mass can be achieved using combinations of cosmological data sets. We focus on the power spectrum of cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Tomo Takahashi , Lincoln Greenhill

We present a new method for generating initial conditions for numerical cosmological simulations in which massive neutrinos are treated as an extra set of N-body (collisionless) particles. It allows us to accurately follow the density field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Arka Banerjee , Devon Powell , Tom Abel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro
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