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The circular velocity function (CVF) of galaxies is a fundamental test of the $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter (CDM) paradigm as it traces the variation of galaxy number densities with circular velocity ($v_{\rm{circ}}$), a proxy for dynamical…

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We develop a deep learning technique to infer the non-linear velocity field from the dark matter density field. The deep learning architecture we use is an "U-net" style convolutional neural network, which consists of 15 convolution layers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-21 Ziyong Wu , Zhenyu Zhang , Shuyang Pan , Haitao Miao , Xin Wang , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Yang Wang , Xiao-Dong Li

Using cosmological dark matter only simulations of a $(1.6$ Gpc$/h)^3$ volume from the Legacy simulation project, we calculate Cosmic Mach Numbers (CMN) and perform a theoretical investigation of their relation with halo properties and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-09 Romain Meriot , Sadegh Khochfar , Jose Onorbe , Britton Smith

The halo mass function (HMF) is fundamental for interpreting the number counts of galaxy clusters, serving as a pivotal theoretical tool in cosmology. With the advent of high-precision surveys such as LSST, eROSITA, DESI, and Euclid,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani , Jeppe Dakin

Measuring the sum of the three active neutrino masses, $M_\nu$, is one of the most important challenges in modern cosmology. Massive neutrinos imprint characteristic signatures on several cosmological observables in particular on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes Hurtado , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shirley Ho , ChangHoon Hahn

Reconstructing the initial conditions of the Universe from late-time observations has the potential to optimally extract cosmological information. Due to the high dimensionality of the parameter space, a differentiable forward model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Adrian E. Bayer , Chirag Modi , Simone Ferraro

We propose a light-weight deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to estimate the cosmological parameters from simulated 3-dimensional dark matter distributions with high accuracy. The training set is based on 465 realizations of a cubic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Shuyang Pan , Miaoxin Liu , Jaime Forero-Romero , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Zhigang Li , Haitao Miao , Xiao-Dong Li

The distribution of galaxies, halo abundance, and peculiar velocities are influenced by non-linear gravitational interactions, making the study of non-linear evolution crucial for accurate cosmological predictions. We explore these aspects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-24 Swati Gavas

We build a deep learning framework that connects the local formation process of dark matter halos to the halo bias. We train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the final mass and concentration of dark matter halos from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Alexandre Barreira , Fabian Schmidt

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of cosmology, and the halo mass function (HMF) serves as a fundamental tool for extracting cosmological information. Previous calibrations of the HMF in dynamical dark energy (DE) models either assumed a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Tiago Castro , Stefano Borgani , Jeppe Dakin , Valerio Marra , Ronaldo Carlotto Batista , Laura Salvati

The dark energy dominated warm dark matter (WDM) model is a promising alternative cosmological scenario. We explore large-scale structure formation in this paradigm. We do this in two different ways: with the halo model approach and with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aurel Schneider , Robert E. Smith , Andrea V. Maccio , Ben Moore

A galaxy's morphological features encode details about its gas content, star formation history, and feedback processes, which play important roles in regulating its growth and evolution. We use deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-15 John F. Wu

The universality of the halo mass function is investigated in the context of dark energy cosmologies. This widely used approximation assumes that the mass function can be expressed as a function of the matter density omega_m and the rms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 J. Courtin , Y. Rasera , J. -M. Alimi , P. -S. Corasaniti , V. Boucher , A. Fuzfa

Cosmic voids, the underdense regions in the universe, are particularly sensitive to diffuse density components such as cosmic neutrinos. This sensitivity is enhanced by the match between void sizes and the free-streaming scale of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Gemma Zhang , Zack Li , Jia Liu , David N. Spergel , Christina D. Kreisch , Alice Pisani , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Accurately predicting the shape of the HI velocity function of galaxies is regarded widely as a fundamental test of any viable dark matter model. Straightforward analyses of cosmological $N$-body simulations imply that the $\Lambda$CDM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Chauhan , C. D. P. Lagos , D. Obreschkow , C. Power , K. Oman , P. J. Elahi

We perform an analysis of the Cosmic Web as a complex network, which is built on a $\Lambda$CDM cosmological simulation. For each of nodes, which are in this case dark matter halos formed in the simulation, we compute 10 network metrics,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Maksym Tsizh , Bohdan Novosyadlyj , Yurij Holovatch , Noam I Libeskind

The peculiar velocities of dark matter halos are crucial to study many issues in cosmology and galaxy evolution. In this study, by using the state-of-the-art deep learning technique, a UNet-based neural network, we propose to reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ziyong Wu , Liang Xiao , Xu Xiao , Jie Wang , Xi Kang , Yang Wang , Xin Wang , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

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

Despite the Milky Way's proximity to us, our knowledge of its dark matter halo is fairly limited, and there is still considerable uncertainty in its halo mass. Many past techniques have been limited by assumptions such as the Galaxy being…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-09 Elaheh Hayati , Peter Behroozi , Ekta Patel

The standard cold dark matter (CDM) model predicts too many and too dense small structures. We consider an alternative model that the dark matter undergoes two-body decays with cosmological lifetime $\tau$ into only one type of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Dalong Cheng , M. -C. Chu , Jiayu Tang