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The Lyman-$\alpha$ forest offers a unique avenue for studying the distribution of matter in the high redshift universe and extracting precise constraints on the nature of dark matter, neutrino masses, and other $\Lambda$CDM extensions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Laura Cabayol-Garcia , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Andreu Font-Ribera , Christian Pedersen

We present a method for generating suites of dark-matter halo catalogs with only a few $N$-body simulations, focusing on making small changes to the underlying cosmology of a simulation with high precision. In the context of blind…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Fast N-body PM simulations with a small number of time steps such as FastPM or COLA have been remarkably successful in modeling the galaxy statistics, but their lack of small scale force resolution and long time steps cannot give accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Biwei Dai , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak

We examine the cosmological redshift-space distortion effect on the power spectrum of the objects at high-redshifts, which is an unavoidable observational contamination in general relativistic cosmology. In particular, we consider the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiromitsu Magira , Y. P. Jing , Yasushi Suto

We present a field-level emulator for large-scale structure, capturing the cosmology dependence and the time evolution of cosmic structure formation. The emulator maps linear displacement fields to their corresponding nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Drew Jamieson , Yin Li , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

Cosmological $N$-body simulations are the standard tool to study the emergence of the observed large-scale structure of the Universe. Such simulations usually solve for the gravitational dynamics of matter within the Newtonian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-24 Jacob Brandbyge , Cornelius Rampf , Thomas Tram , Florent Leclercq , Christian Fidler , Steen Hannestad

Modern cosmological surveys are delivering datasets characterized by unprecedented quality and statistical completeness; this trend is expected to continue into the future as new ground- and space-based surveys come online. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Kelly R. Moran , Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Salman Habib , Derek Bingham , Amol Upadhye , Juliana Kwan , David Higdon , Richard Payne

We develop a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

We present a machine-learning model for generating super-resolution $N$-body simulations with non-vanishing spatial curvature, conditioned on a given low-resolution field, $\Omega_k$, $\Omega_\mathrm{m}$, $\sigma_8$, $h$, and redshift. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Dennis Fremstad , Julian Adamek , David F. Mota

The optical depth to reionization, a key parameter of the $\Lambda$CDM model, can be computed within astrophysical frameworks for star formation by modeling the evolution of the intergalactic medium. Accurate evaluation of this parameter is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Gaétan Facchinetti

Machine learning can accelerate cosmological inferences that involve many sequential evaluations of computationally expensive data vectors. Previous works in this series have examined how machine learning architectures impact emulator…

The computational expense of solving non-equilibrium chemistry equations in astrophysical simulations poses a significant challenge, particularly in high-resolution, large-scale cosmological models. In this work, we explore the potential of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Pelle van de Bor , John Brennan , John A. Regan , Jonathan Mackey

We present a new power spectrum emulator named EuclidEmulator that estimates the nonlinear correction to the linear dark matter power spectrum. It is based on a spectral decomposition method called polynomial chaos expansion. All steps in…

We present a new high-resolution N-body algorithm for cosmological simulations. The algorithm employs a traditional particle-mesh technique on a cubic grid and successive multilevel relaxations on the finer meshes, introduced recursively in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , Alexei M. Khokhlov

Upcoming Large Scale Structure surveys aim to achieve an unprecedented level of precision in measuring galaxy clustering. However, accurately modeling these statistics may require theoretical templates that go beyond second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-21 M. Icaza-Lizaola , Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Yi Zheng

We present a high-fidelity realization of the cosmological $N$-body simulation from the Schneider et al. (2016) code comparison project. The simulation was performed with our Abacus $N$-body code, which offers high force accuracy, high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Philip A. Pinto

We present a general framework for obtaining robust bounds on the nature of dark matter using cosmological $N$-body simulations and Lyman-alpha forest data. We construct an emulator of hydrodynamical simulations, which is a flexible,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Keir K. Rogers , Hiranya V. Peiris

Many of the most exciting questions in astrophysics and cosmology, including the majority of observational probes of dark energy, rely on an understanding of the nonlinear regime of structure formation. In order to fully exploit the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Martin White , David Higdon , Christian Wagner , Salman Habib , Brian Williams

\textsc{DarkEmulator2} is a neural network emulator of the nonlinear matter power spectrum in a nine-dimensional $w_0 w_a \nu o \mathrm{CDM}$ parameter space, developed as the emulator component of the \textsc{Dark Quest II} (DQ2) program.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-28 Satoshi Tanaka , Takahiro Nishimichi , Yosuke Kobayashi

One of the main challenges in modeling massive stars to the onset of core collapse is the computational bottleneck of nucleosynthesis during advanced burning stages. The number of isotopes formed requires solving a large set of…