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We present a novel application of cosmological rescaling, or "remapping," to generate 21 cm intensity mapping mocks for different cosmologies. The remapping method allows for computationally efficient generation of N-body catalogs by…

The dark matter halo mass function is a key repository of cosmological information over a wide range of mass scales, from individual galaxies to galaxy clusters. N-body simulations have established that the friends-of-friends (FOF) mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Zarija Lukić , Darren Reed , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

We build a field level emulator for cosmic structure formation that is accurate in the nonlinear regime. Our emulator consists of two convolutional neural networks trained to output the nonlinear displacements and velocities of N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Drew Jamieson , Yin Li , Renan Alves de Oliveira , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

Determining the spatial curvature ($\Omega_k$) independent of cosmic microwave background observations plays a key role in revealing the physics of the early universe. The Hubble tension is one of the most serious issues in modern…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Sy-Yun Pu , Teppei Okumura , Chian-Chou Chen , Takahiro Nishimichi , Kazuyuki Akitsu

Halo bias links the statistical properties of the spatial distribution of dark matter halos to those of the underlying dark matter field, providing insights into clustering properties in both general relativity (GR) and modified-gravity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Jorge Enrique García-Farieta , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez

Searches for "dark" subhaloes in gamma-ray point-like source catalogues are among promising strategies for indirect dark matter detection. Such a search is nevertheless affected by uncertainties related, on the one hand, to the modelling of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-12 Francesca Calore , Moritz Hütten , Martin Stref

The density profiles of dark matter halos are typically modeled using empirical formulae fitted to the density profiles of relaxed halo populations. We present a neural network model that is trained to learn the mapping from the raw density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Brian Nord , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Davide Piras

Using cosmological N-body simulations, we investigate the influence of the matter density parameter Omega_m and the linear theory power spectrum P(k) on statistical properties of the dark matter halo population -- the mass function n(M),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Zheng Zheng , Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Andreas A. Berlind

We derive the weight function w(M) to apply to dark-matter halos that minimizes the stochasticity between the weighted halo distribution and its underlying mass density field. The optimal w(M) depends on the range of masses being used in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Yan-Chuan Cai , Gary Bernstein , Ravi K. Sheth

We study the clustering properties of dark matter halos in real- and redshift-space in cosmologies with massless and massive neutrinos through a large set of state-of-the-art N-body simulations. We provide quick and easy-to-use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 David Valcin , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Licia Verde , Alvise Raccanelli

We explore voids in dark matter and halo fields from simulations of $\Lambda$CDM and Hu-Sawicki $f(R)$ models. In $f(R)$ gravity, dark matter void abundances are greater than that of general relativity (GR). However, when using haloes to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Yan-Chuan Cai , Nelson Padilla , Baojiu Li

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the evolution of the equilibrium structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

We propose a new numerical procedure to simulate a single dark halo of any size and mass in a hierarchical framework coupling the extended Press-Schechter formalism (EPSF) to N-body simulations. The procedure consists of assigning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elena D'Onghia , Claudio Firmani , Guido Chincarini

We present constraints on the flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model through a joint analysis of galaxy abundance, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing observables with the Kilo-Degree Survey. Our theoretical model combines a flexible…

We describe in detail the general methodology and numerical implementation of consistent N-body simulations for coupled scalar field cosmological models, including the background cosmology and the generation of initial conditions (with the…

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

Can N-body simulations reliably determine the structural properties of dark matter halos? Focussing on a Virgo-sized galaxy cluster, we increase the resolution of current ``high resolution simulations'' by almost an order of magnitude to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sebastiano Ghigna , Ben Moore , Fabio Governato , George Lake , Tom Quinn , Joachim Stadel

Cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) surveys provide a promising tomographic probe of the post-reionization era and of the standard model of cosmology. Simulations of this signal are crucial for maximizing the utility of these surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Pascal Hitz , Pascale Berner , Devin Crichton , John Hennig , Alexandre Refregier

We present a new technique for creating mock catalogues of the individual stars that make up the accreted component of stellar haloes in cosmological simulations and show how the catalogues can be used to test and interpret observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-27 Ben Lowing , Wenting Wang , Andrew Cooper , Rachel Kennedy , John Helly , Carlos Frenk , Shaun Cole

Cosmological $N$-body simulations predict dark matter (DM) haloes with steep central cusps (e.g. NFW, Navarro et al. 1996). This contradicts observations of gas kinematics in low-mass galaxies that imply the existence of shallow DM cores.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-18 Harley Katz , Federico Lelli , Stacy S. McGaugh , Arianna Di Cintio , Chris B. Brook , James M. Schombert

We present a comprehensive series of dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the evolution of density distribution in equal-mass mergers between dark matter (DM) halos and multicomponent galaxies. The DM halo models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stelios Kazantzidis , Andrew R. Zentner , Andrey V. Kravtsov