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To understand how well galaxies, gas and intracluster stars trace dark matter in and around galaxy clusters, we use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation and compare the spatial distribution of dark matter with those of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Jihye Shin , Jong Chul Lee , Ho Seong Hwang , Hyunmi Song , Jongwan Ko , Rory Smith , Jae-Woo Kim , Jaewon Yoo

Cosmological surveys aim at answering fundamental questions about our Universe, including the nature of dark matter or the reason of unexpected accelerated expansion of the Universe. In order to answer these questions, two important…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 Xinyue Zhang , Yanfang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yueqiu Sun , Siyu He , Gabriella Contardo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho

We review the formalism and applications of non-linear perturbation theory (PT) to understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe. We first discuss the dynamics of gravitational instability, from the linear to the non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Bernardeau , S. Colombi , E. Gaztanaga , R. Scoccimarro

We study the mapping from Lagrangian to Eulerian space in the context of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of Large Scale Structure. We compute Lagrangian displacements with Lagrangian Perturbation Theory (LPT) and perform the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-16 Tobias Baldauf , Emmanuel Schaan , Matias Zaldarriaga

In this work we investigate the nonlinear and nonlocal relation between cosmological density and peculiar velocity fields. Our goal is to provide an algorithm for the recon- struction of the nonlinear velocity field from the fully nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Raul E. Angulo , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottl"ober

We investigate the accuracy of Eulerian perturbation theory for describing the matter and galaxy power spectra in real and redshift space in light of future observational probes for precision cosmology. Comparing the analytical results with…

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Lagrangian algorithms to simulate the evolution of cold dark matter (CDM) are invaluable tools to generate large suites of mock halo catalogues. In this paper, we first show that the main limitation of current semi-analytical schemes to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Federico Tosone , Mark C. Neyrinck , Benjamin R. Granett , Luigi Guzzo , Nicola Vittorio

We present an effective Eulerian description, in the non-relativistic regime, of the growth of cosmological perturbations around a homogeneous but anisotropic Bianchi I spacetime background. We assume a small deviation from isotropy,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-10 Juan P. Beltrán Almeida , Josué Motoa-Manzano , Jorge Noreña , Thiago S. Pereira , César A. Valenzuela-Toledo

Understanding the structure of the matter distribution in the Universe due to the action of the gravitational instability -- the cosmic web -- is complicated by lack of direct analytic access to the nonlinear domain of structure formation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergei Shandarin , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

Observations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure. In this paper we develop and test a new statistic based on anisotropies in the…

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The cosmic web is a complex spatial pattern of walls, filaments, cluster nodes and underdense void regions. It emerged through gravitational amplification from the Gaussian primordial density field. Here we infer analytical expressions for…

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We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

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The relationship between observed tracers such as galaxies and the underlying dark matter distribution is crucial in extracting cosmological information. As the linear bias model breaks down at quasi-linear scales, the standard perturbative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Xin Wang , Alex Szalay

The 80% of the matter in the Universe is in the form of dark matter that comprises the skeleton of the large-scale structure called the Cosmic Web. As the Cosmic Web dictates the motion of all matter in galaxies and inter-galactic media…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-28 Sungwook E. Hong , Donghui Jeong , Ho Seong Hwang , Juhan Kim

We present a cosmography analysis of the Local Universe based on the recently released Two-Micron All-Sky Redshift Survey (2MRS). Our method is based on a Bayesian Networks Machine Learning algorithm (the Kigen-code) which self-consistently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-08 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Pirin Erdogdu , Sebastian E. Nuza , Arman Khalatyan , Raul E. Angulo , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottloeber

It is known than the inclusion of spatial curvature can modify the evolution of matter perturbations and affect the Large Scale Structure (LSS) formation. We quantify the effects of the non-zero space curvature in terms of LSS formation for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-08 Jhonny A. Agudelo Ruiz , Júlio C. Fabris , Alan M. Velasquez-Toribio , Ilya L. Shapiro

We consider a new variant of cosmological perturbation theory that has been designed specifically to include non-linear density contrasts on scales 100 Mpc, while still allowing for linear fluctuations on larger scales. This theory is used…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Christopher S. Gallagher , Timothy Clifton

Matter evolved under influence of gravity from minuscule density fluctuations. Non-perturbative structure formed hierarchically over all scales, and developed non-Gaussian features in the Universe, known as the Cosmic Web. To fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-01 Siyu He , Yin Li , Yu Feng , Shirley Ho , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Wei Chen , Barnabás Póczos