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We propose a lightweight deep convolutional neural network (lCNN) to estimate cosmological parameters from simulated three-dimensional dark matter (DM) halo distributions and associated statistics. The training dataset comprises 2000…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-20 Zhiwei Min , Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , Liang Xiao , Jie Jiang , Donglin Wu , Qiufan Lin , Yang Wang , Shuai Liu , Zhixin Chen , Xiangru Li , Jinqu Zhang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

The properties of the matter density field in the initial conditions have a decisive impact on the features of the large-scale structure of the Universe as observed today. These need to be studied via $N$-body simulations, which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jazhiel Chacón , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Menchaca Méndez , José Alberto Vázquez

The evolution of linear initial conditions present in the early universe into extended halos of dark matter at late times can be computed using cosmological simulations. However, a theoretical understanding of this complex process remains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Brian Nord , Jeyan Thiyagalingam

We present a new suite of over 1,500 cosmological N-body simulations with varied Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models ranging from 2.5 to 30 keV. We use these simulations to train Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to infer WDM particle masses…

Galaxies are theorized to form and co-evolve with their dark matter halos, such that their stellar masses and halo masses should be well-correlated. However, it is not known whether other observable galaxy features, such as their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Austin J. Larson , John F. Wu , Craig Jones

Dark matter haloes play a fundamental role in cosmological structure formation. The most common approach to model their assembly mechanisms is through N-body simulations. In this work we present an innovative pathway to predict dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Mauro Bernardini , Lucio Mayer , Darren Reed , Robert Feldmann

The abundance of dark matter haloes is a key cosmological probe in forthcoming galaxy surveys. The theoretical understanding of the halo mass function (HMF) is limited by our incomplete knowledge of the origin of non-universality and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Ningyuan Guo , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Davide Piras

Modern cosmological inference increasingly relies on differentiable models to enable efficient, gradient-based parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification. Here, we present a novel approach for predicting the abundance of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jim Buisman , Florian List , Oliver Hahn

We report a series of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations designed to explore the formation and properties of dark matter halos with masses close to the damping scale of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , V. Avila-Reese

We propose a UNet-based deep learning model to reconstruct the real-space dark matter (DM) velocity field from the redshift-space distribution of sparse DM halos. Using various statistical measures, we show that the reconstructed velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-26 Xu Xiao , Jiacheng Ding , XiaoLin Luo , Sun Ke Lan , Liang Xiao , Shuai Liu , Xin Wang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

For modern large-scale structure survey techniques it has become standard practice to test data analysis pipelines on large suites of mock simulations, a task which is currently prohibitively expensive for full N-body simulations. Instead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Philippe Berger , George Stein

A novel method images to estimate cosmological parameters based on images is presented. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a convolutional neural network (CNN) for constraining the mass of dark matter particle. For this purpose, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 Koya Murakami , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

(Abridged) Using high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations, we study how the density profiles of dark matter halos are affected by the filtering of the density power spectrum below a given scale length and by the introduction of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Avila-Reese , P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , E. D'Onghia , C. Firmani

We present a deep-learning-based approach for identifying dark matter haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. Our framework consists of a volumetric Convolutional Neural Network to classify individual simulation particles as either halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-26 Soumadeep Maiti , Carlos M. Correa , Andrea Fiorilli , Andrés N. Ruiz , Dante J. Paz , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Ariel G. Sánchez

The predicted mass function of dark matter halos is essential in connecting observed galaxy cluster counts and models of galaxy clustering to the properties of the primordial density field. We determine the mass function in the concordance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Michael S. Warren , Kevork Abazajian , Daniel E. Holz , Luis Teodoro

Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology. In this work we predict high resolution dark matter halos from large scale, low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-25 David Schaurecker , Yin Li , Jeremy Tinker , Shirley Ho , Alexandre Refregier

The formation of dark-matter halos from small cosmological perturbations generated in the early universe is a highly non-linear process typically modeled through N-body simulations. In this work, we explore the use of deep learning to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Toka Alokda , Cristiano Porciani

The circum-galactic medium (CGM) can feasibly be mapped by multiwavelength surveys covering broad swaths of the sky. With multiple large datasets becoming available in the near future, we develop a likelihood-free Deep Learning technique…

We train a machine learning algorithm to learn cosmological structure formation from N-body simulations. The algorithm infers the relationship between the initial conditions and the final dark matter haloes, without the need to introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Michelle Lochner

We present a generalization of our recently proposed machine learning framework, aiming to provide new physical insights into dark matter halo formation. We investigate the impact of the initial density and tidal shear fields on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-20 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen
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