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We propose a simple and accurate method for computing analytically the mass correlation function for cold dark matter and scale-free models that fits N-body simulations over a range that extends from the linear to the strongly non-linear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. R. Caldwell , Roman Juszkiewicz , Paul J. Steinhardt , Francois Bouchet

Numerical simulations of self-gravitating systems are generally based on N-body codes, which solve the equations of motion of a large number of interacting particles. This approach suffers from poor statistical sampling in regions of low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Giovanni Manfredi , Jean-Louis Rouet , Bruce Miller , Yui Shiozawa

We present an algorithm which is designed to allow the efficient identification and preliminary dynamical analysis of thousands of structures and substructures in large N-body simulations. First we utilise a refined density gradient system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jochen Weller , Jeremiah P Ostriker , Paul Bode , Laurie Shaw

A generic second-order scalar-tensor theory contains a nonlinear derivative self-interaction of the scalar degree of freedom $\phi$ \`{a} la Galileon models, which allows for the Vainshtein screening mechanism. We investigate this effect on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-20 Rampei Kimura , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Kazuhiro Yamamoto

We present in this work a novel and yet extremely simple method for incorporating the effects of massive neutrinos in cosmological $N$-body simulations. This so-called "SuperEasy linear response" approach is based upon analytical solutions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-12 Joe Zhiyu Chen , Amol Upadhye , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

One of the most pressing questions in modified gravity is how deviations from general relativity can manifest in upcoming galaxy surveys. This is especially relevant for theories exhibiting Vainshtein screening, where such deviations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-10 Clare Burrage , Johannes Dombrowski , Daniela Saadeh

Direct $N$-body simulations of star clusters are accurate but expensive, largely due to the numerous $\mathcal{O} (N^2)$ pairwise force calculations. To solve the post-million-body problem, it will be necessary to use approximate force…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-24 Diptajyoti Mukherjee , Qirong Zhu , Hy Trac , Carl L. Rodriguez

Simulation based inference has seen increasing interest in the past few years as a promising approach to model the non linear scales of galaxy clustering. The common approach using Gaussian process is to train an emulator over the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian Bautista

We investigate the range of applicability of a model for the real-space power spectrum based on N-body dynamics and a (quadratic) Lagrangian bias expansion. This combination uses the highly accurate particle displacements that can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Chirag Modi , Shi-Fan Chen , Martin White

Modeling of collisionless galactic systems is based on the N-body model, which requires large computational resources due to the long-range nature of gravitational forces. The most common method for calculating gravity is the TreeCode…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Nikolay M. Kuzmin , Danila S. Sirotin , Alexander V. Khoperskov

We compute the scalar gravitational radiation from a binary pulsar system in the simplest model that exhibits the Vainshtein mechanism. The mechanism is successful in screening the effect from scalar fields conformally coupled to matter,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-14 Claudia de Rham , Andrew J. Tolley , Daniel H. Wesley

We investigate the dependence of the Vainshtein screening mechanism on the cosmic web morphology of both dark matter particles and halos as determined by ORIGAMI. Unlike chameleon and symmetron screening, which come into effect in regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-04 Bridget Falck , Kazuya Koyama , Gong-bo Zhao , Baojiu Li

Observations of the cosmic velocity field could become an important cosmological probe in the near future. To take advantage of future velocity-flow surveys we must however have the theoretical predictions under control. In many respects,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Camilla T. G. Sørensen , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

In reconstruction analysis of galaxy redshift surveys, one works backwards from the observed galaxy distribution to the primordial density field in the same region, then evolves the primordial fluctuations forward in time with an N-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Vijay K. Narayanan , David H. Weinberg

We present $\texttt{MG-evolution}$, an $N$-body code simulating the cosmological structure formation for parametrised modifications of gravity. It is built from the combination of parametrised linear theory with a parametrisation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Farbod Hassani , Lucas Lombriser

We study the stability of the Vainshtein screening solution of the massive/bi-gravity based on the massive nonlinear sigma model as the effective action inside the Vainshtein radius. The effective action is obtained by taking the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-30 Katsuki Aoki , Shuntaro Mizuno

We apply the joint lensing and dynamics code for the analysis of early-type galaxies, CAULDRON, to a rotating N-body stellar system with dark matter halo which significantly violates the two major assumptions of the method, i.e. axial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-05 Matteo Barnabe , Carlo Nipoti , Leon V. E. Koopmans , Simona Vegetti , Luca Ciotti

This paper presents a novel approach for accelerating n-body simulations by integrating a physics-informed graph neural networks (GNN) with traditional numerical methods. Our method implements a leapfrog-based simulation engine to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Víctor Ramos-Osuna , Alberto Díaz-Álvarez , Raúl Lara-Cabrera

Within a cosmological context, we study the behaviour of collisionless particles in the weak field approximation to General Relativity, allowing for large gradients of the fields and relativistic velocities for the particles. We consider a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Julian Adamek , Mateja Gosenca , Shaun Hotchkiss

By using observations of the Hulse-Taylor pulsar we constrain the gravitational wave (GW) speed to the level of $10^{-2}$. We apply this result to scalar-tensor theories that generalize Galileon 4 and 5 models, which display anomalous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Federico Piazza , Hermano Velten