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We present a new algorithm for identifying the substructure within simulated dark matter haloes. The method is an extension of that proposed by Tormen et al. (2004) and Giocoli et al. (2008a), which identifies a subhalo as a group of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Carlo Giocoli , Giuseppe Tormen , Ravi K. Sheth , Frank C. van den Bosch

Context:Halo formation time, which quantifies the mass assembly history of dark-matter halos, directly impacts galaxy properties and evolution. Although not directly observable, it can be inferred through proxies like star formation history…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Atulit Srivastava , Weiguang Cui , Daniel de Andres , Jesse B. Golden-Marx , Elena Rasia , Ying Zu

We discover analytic equations that can infer the value of $\Omega_{\rm m}$ from the positions and velocity moduli of halo and galaxy catalogues. The equations are derived by combining a tailored graph neural network (GNN) architecture with…

We present a new exploratory framework to model galaxy formation and evolution in a hierarchical universe by using machine learning (ML). Our motivations are two-fold: (1) presenting a new, promising technique to study galaxy formation, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-30 Harshil M. Kamdar , Matthew J. Turk , Robert J. Brunner

High-resolution N-body simulations of hierarchical cosmologies have shown that the density and velocity dispersion profiles of dark-matter haloes display well-definite universal forms whose origin remains unknown. In the present paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Manrique , E. Salvador-Sole , A. Raig

We have performed the largest ever particle simulation of a Milky Way-sized dark matter halo, and present the most comprehensive convergence study for an individual dark matter halo carried out thus far. We have also simulated a sample of 6…

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

We develop a self-consistent and accurate halo model by partitioning matter according to the depletion radii of haloes. Unlike conventional models that define haloes with the virial radius while relying on a separate exclusion radius or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Yifeng Zhou , Jiaxin Han

Halo Models of large scale structure provide powerful and indispensable tools for phenomenological understanding of the clustering of matter in the Universe. While the halo model builds structures out of the superposition of haloes,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Alice Chen , Niayesh Afshordi

Cosmologists aim to model the evolution of initially low amplitude Gaussian density fluctuations into the highly non-linear "cosmic web" of galaxies and clusters. They aim to compare simulations of this structure formation process with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-05 Renan Alves de Oliveira , Yin Li , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

A fast artificial neural network is developed for the prediction of cosmic ray transport in turbulent astrophysical magnetic fields. The setup is trained and tested on bespoke datasets that are constructed with the aid of test-particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-13 D. I. Palade

In the cold dark matter paradigm, our Galaxy is predicted to contain >10000 dark matter subhaloes in the $10^5-10^8M_\odot$ range which should be completely devoid of stars. Stellar streams are sensitive to the presence of these subhaloes,…

We present a machine learning (ML) approach for the prediction of galaxies' dark matter halo masses that achieves an improved performance over conventional methods. We train three ML algorithms (\texttt{XGBoost}, Random Forests, and neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Victor F. Calderon , Andreas A. Berlind

Recent studies emphasize that an empirical relation between the stellar mass of galaxies and the mass of their host dark matter subhaloes can predict the clustering of galaxies and its evolution with cosmic time. In this paper we study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-07 Eyal Neistein , Simone M. Weinmann , Cheng Li , Michael Boylan-Kolchin

We present a detailed comparison of the substructure properties of a single Milky Way sized dark matter halo from the Aquarius suite at five different resolutions, as identified by a variety of different (sub-)halo finders for simulations…

Accurate predictions of the abundance and clustering of dark matter haloes play a key role in testing the standard cosmological model. Here, we investigate the accuracy of one of the leading methods of connecting the simulated dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-15 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Gustavo Yepes , Steffen Hess , Stefan Gottlober

Dark matter subhalos and satellite galaxies in state-of-the-art cosmological simulations still suffer from the ``overmerging'' problem, where inadequate force and/or mass resolution cause artificially enhanced tidal mass loss and premature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-16 Barry T. Chiang , Frank C. van den Bosch , Hsi-Yu Schive

The evolution of a dark matter halo in a dark matter only simulation is governed purely byNewtonian gravity, making a clean testbed to determine what halo properties drive its fate.Using machine learning, we predict the survival, mass loss,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Abigail Petulante , Andreas A. Berlind , J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Manodeep Sinha

We infer the local stellar-to-halo/subhalo mass relations (MRs) for central and satellite galaxies separately. We constraint this relations by using several combinations of observational data, consisting of the total galaxy stellar mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Rodriguez-Puebla , V. Avila-Reese , N. Drory

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos encompasses a range of processes and play a pivotal role in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this link has been established through physical or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta