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We present a new scheme to compensate for the small-scales approximations resulting from Particle-Mesh (PM) schemes for cosmological N-body simulations. This kind of simulations are fast and low computational cost realizations of the large…

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In this work, we forecast the number of, and requirements on, N-body simulations needed to train hybrid effective field theory (HEFT) emulators for a range of use cases, using a hybrid of HMcode and perturbation theory as a surrogate model.…

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Cosmological analyses can be accelerated by approximating slow calculations using a training set, which is either precomputed or generated dynamically. However, this approach is only safe if the approximations are well understood and…

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Cosmological N-Body simulations have become an essential tool for studying formation of large scale structure. These simulations are computationally challenging even though the available computing power gets better every year. A number of…

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The power spectrum of density fluctuations is a foundational source of cosmological information. Precision cosmological probes targeted primarily at investigations of dark energy require accurate theoretical determinations of the power…

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We investigate the possibility of generating initial conditions for cosmological N-body simulations by simulating a system whose correlations at thermal equilibrium approximate well those of cosmological density perturbations. The system is…

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The small-scale linear information in galaxy samples typically lost during non-linear growth can be restored to a certain level by the density field reconstruction, which has been demonstrated for improving the precision of the baryon…

Cosmological N-body simulations are done on massively parallel computers. This necessitates the use of simple time integrators, and, additionally, of mesh-grid approximations of the potentials. Recently, Adamek et al. (2015);…

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The halo occupation distribution (HOD) approach has proven to be an effective method for modeling galaxy clustering and bias. In this approach, galaxies of a given type are probabilistically assigned to individual halos in N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Juliana Kwan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Hal Finkel , Nick Frontiere , Adrian Pope

N-body simulations are essential tools in physical cosmology to understand the large-scale structure (LSS) formation of the Universe. Large-scale simulations with high resolution are important for exploring the substructure of universe and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Shenggan Cheng , Hao-Ran Yu , Derek Inman , Qiucheng Liao , Qiaoya Wu , James Lin

A major aim of cosmological surveys is to test deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, but the full scientific value of these surveys will only be realised through efficient simulation methods that keep up with the increasing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Yash Gondhalekar , Sownak Bose , Baojiu Li , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro

We present neural networks to generate redshift-space galaxy power spectrum multipoles for multiple tracer and redshift bins simultaneously given a set of input cosmology and galaxy bias parameters. This emulator utilizes a combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Joseph Adamo , Grace Gibbins , Anne Moore , Tim Eifler

Future large-scale structure surveys of the Universe will aim to constrain the cosmological model and the true nature of dark energy with unprecedented accuracy. In order for these surveys to achieve their designed goals, they will require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Robert E. Smith , Darren S. Reed , Doug Potter , Laura Marian , Martin Crocce , Ben Moore

We revisit a method to incorporate the Vainshtein screening mechanism in N-body simulations proposed by R. Scoccimarro in~\cite{Scoccimarro:2009eu}. We further extend this method to cover a subset of Horndeski theories that evade the bound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Guilherme Brando , Kazuya Koyama , Hans A. Winther

We present methods for emulating the matter power spectrum by combining information from cosmological $N$-body simulations at different resolutions. An emulator allows estimation of simulation output by interpolating across the parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ming-Feng Ho , Simeon Bird , Christian R. Shelton

Artificial neural network emulators have been demonstrated to be a very computationally efficient method to rapidly generate galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs), for parameter inference or otherwise. Using a highly flexible and fast…

We introduce COBRA (Cosmology with Optimally factorized Bases of Radial Approximants), a novel framework for rapid computation of large-scale structure observables. COBRA separates scale dependence from cosmological parameters in the linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Thomas Bakx , Nora Elisa Chisari , Zvonimir Vlah

In this review we discuss Cosmological N-Body codes with a special emphasis on Particle Mesh codes. We present the mathematical model for each component of N-Body codes. We compare alternative methods for computing each quantity by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. S. Bagla , T. Padmanabhan

$N$-body simulation serves as a critical method for modeling cosmic evolution and poses a significant challenge in high-performance computing. We present CUBE2, an open-source cosmological $N$-body code emphasizing memory efficiency,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Hao-Ran Yu , Bing-Hang Chen , Kun Xu , Ming-Jie Sheng , Jiaxin Han , Yipeng Jing , Huahua Cui

Cosmological large scale structure $N$-body simulations are computation-light, memory-heavy problems in supercomputing. The considerable amount of memory is usually dominated by an inefficient way of storing more than sufficient phase space…

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