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Near-future cosmological observations targeted at investigations of dark energy pose stringent requirements on the accuracy of theoretical predictions for the clustering of matter. Currently, N-body simulations comprise the only viable…

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Modern sky surveys are returning precision measurements of cosmological statistics such as weak lensing shear correlations, the distribution of galaxies, and cluster abundance. To fully exploit these observations, theorists must provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Juliana Kwan , Salman Habib , David Higdon

Next generation galaxy surveys demand the development of massive ensembles of galaxy mocks to model the observables and their covariances, what is computationally prohibitive using $N$-body simulations. COLA is a novel method designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-07 Albert Izard , Martin Crocce , Pablo Fosalba

Stage IV surveys like LSST and Euclid present a unique opportunity to shed light on the nature of dark energy. However, their full constraining power cannot be unlocked unless accurate predictions are available at all observable scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Daniela Saadeh , Kazuya Koyama , Xan Morice-Atkinson

In cosmological $N$-body simulations, the representation of dark matter as discrete "macroparticles" suppresses the growth of structure, such that simulations no longer reproduce linear theory on small scales near $k_{\rm Nyquist}$. Marcos…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-04 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Douglas Ferrer , Marc V. Metchnik , Philip A. Pinto

We introduce the N-body simulation technique to follow structure formation in linear and nonlinear regimes for the extended quintessence models (scalar-tensor theories in which the scalar field has a self-interaction potential and behaves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-04 Baojiu Li , David F. Mota , John D. Barrow

We present sCOLA -- an extension of the N-body COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) method to the spatial domain. Similar to the original temporal-domain COLA, sCOLA is an N-body method for solving for large-scale structure in a frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-02 Svetlin Tassev , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present the first field-level comparison of cosmological N-body simulations, considering various widely used codes: Abacus, CUBEP$^3$M, Enzo, Gadget, Gizmo, PKDGrav, and Ramses. Unlike previous comparisons focused on summary statistics,…

We present an algorithm for quickly generating multiple realizations of N-body simulations to be used, for example, for cosmological parameter estimation from surveys of large-scale structure. Our algorithm uses a new method to resample the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael D. Schneider , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Istvan Szapudi

One of the main objectives of stage IV galaxy surveys is to constrain gravity on cosmological scales. To this end, it is crucial to make accurate theoretical predictions in the nonlinear regime of structure formation in order to maximise…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Bartolomeo Fiorini

We present a Neural Network based emulator for the galaxy redshift-space power spectrum that enables several orders of magnitude acceleration in the galaxy clustering parameter inference, while preserving 3$\sigma$ accuracy better than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Svyatoslav Trusov , Pauline Zarrouk , Shaun Cole

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

Approximate N-body methods, such as FastPM and COLA, have been successful in modelling halo and galaxy clustering statistics, but their low resolution on small scales is a limitation for applications that require high precision. Full N-body…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yiheng Wu , Hong Guo , Volker Springel

Accurate thermal emission models of neutron stars are essential for constraining the dense matter equation of state. However, incorporating realistic magnetic field structures is computationally prohibitive, severely constraining feasible…

We use two subsets of 2000 and 1000 Quijote simulations to build two power spectrum emulators, allowing for fast computations of the non-linear matter power spectrum. The first emulator is built in terms of seven cosmological parameters:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Andrei Lazanu

In cosmology, emulators play a crucial role by providing fast and accurate predictions of complex physical models, enabling efficient exploration of high-dimensional parameter spaces that would be computationally prohibitive with direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Shivam Pandey

We test the convergence of fast simulations based on the COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) method for predictions of the matter power spectrum, specialising our analysis in the redshift range $1 \le z \le 1.65$, relevant to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 Bartolomeo Fiorini , Kazuya Koyama , Tessa Baker

High-resolution cosmological N-body simulations are excellent tools for modelling the formation and clustering of dark matter haloes. These simulations suggest complex physical theories of halo formation governed by a set of effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Androniki Dimitriou , Christoph Weniger , Camila A. Correa

How many simulations do we need to train machine learning methods to extract information available from summary statistics of the cosmological density field? Neural methods have shown the potential to extract non-linear information…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Anirban Bairagi , Benjamin Wandelt , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We develop a set of machine-learning based cosmological emulators, to obtain fast model predictions for the $C(\ell)$ angular power spectrum coefficients characterising tomographic observations of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Marco Bonici , Luca Biggio , Carmelita Carbone , Luigi Guzzo