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We present the results from combining machine learning with the profile likelihood fit procedure, using data from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment. This approach demonstrates reduction in computation time by a factor…

The power spectrum of density fluctuations is a foundational source of cosmological information. Precision cosmological probes targeted primarily at investigations of dark energy require accurate theoretical determinations of the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Martin White , Salman Habib , Brian J. Williams , Christian Wagner

We present Goku, a suite of cosmological $N$-body simulations, and the corresponding 10-dimensional emulator, GokuEmu, for the nonlinear matter power spectrum. The simulations span the base parameters of $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Yanhui Yang , Simeon Bird , Ming-Feng Ho

Cosmological probes pose an inverse problem where the measurement result is obtained through observations, and the objective is to infer values of model parameters which characterize the underlying physical system -- our Universe. Modern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-21 Timur Takhtaganov , Zarija Lukic , Juliane Mueller , Dmitriy Morozov

Numerical models based on physics represent the state-of-the-art in earth system modeling and comprise our best tools for generating insights and predictions. Despite rapid growth in computational power, the perceived need for higher model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Kate Duffy , Thomas Vandal , Weile Wang , Ramakrishna Nemani , Auroop R. Ganguly

Cosmic Voids are a promising probe of cosmology for spectroscopic galaxy surveys due to their unique response to cosmological parameters. Their combination with other probes promises to break parameter degeneracies. Due to simplifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Kai Lehman , Nico Schuster , Luisa Lucie-Smith , Nico Hamaus , Christopher T. Davies , Klaus Dolag

Dark matter haloes are typically characterised by radial density profiles with fixed forms motivated by simulations (e.g. NFW). However, simulation predictions depend on uncertain dark matter physics and baryonic modelling. Here, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Alicia Martín , Tariq Yasin , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Pedro G. Ferreira

Precise estimation of cosmological parameters from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) remains a central goal of modern cosmology and a key test of inflationary physics. However, this task is fundamentally limited by strong foreground…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-03 Larissa Santos , Camila P. Novaes , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Carlo Baccigalupi

This thesis introduces a set of methods for testing models of modified gravity using galaxy clusters. In particular, a technique for constraining models with a chameleon screening is introduced. In addition, the outlined technique is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Andrius Tamosiunas

We present a review of the current state of the art of cosmological dark matter simulations, with particular emphasis on the implications for dark matter detection efforts and studies of dark energy. This review is intended both for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-29 Michael Kuhlen , Mark Vogelsberger , Raul Angulo

We present GokuNEmu, a ten-dimensional neural network emulator for the nonlinear matter power spectrum, designed to support next-generation cosmological analyses. Built on the Goku $N$-body simulation suite and the T2N-MusE emulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yanhui Yang , Simeon Bird , Ming-Feng Ho , Mahdi Qezlou

Increasing resolution and coverage of astrophysical and climate data necessitates increasingly sophisticated models, often pushing the limits of computational feasibility. While emulation methods can reduce calculation costs, the neural…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Tara P. A. Tahseen , Luís F. Simões , Kai Hou Yip , Nikolaos Nikolaou , João M. Mendonça , Ingo P. Waldmann

Reconstructing cosmological initial conditions (ICs) from late-time observations is a difficult task, which relies on the use of computationally expensive simulators alongside sophisticated statistical methods to navigate multi-million…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Oleg Savchenko , Florian List , Guillermo Franco Abellán , Noemi Anau Montel , Christoph Weniger

High-resolution (HR) simulations in cosmology, in particular when including baryons, can take millions of CPU hours. On the other hand, low-resolution (LR) dark matter simulations of the same cosmological volume use minimal computing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Adam Rouhiainen , Michael Gira , Moritz Münchmeyer , Kangwook Lee , Gary Shiu

We present a coherent, re-usable python framework which further builds on the cosmological emulator code CosmoPower. In the current era of high-precision cosmology, we require high-accuracy calculations of cosmological observables with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-14 H. T. Jense , I. Harrison , E. Calabrese , A. Spurio Mancini , B. Bolliet , J. Dunkley , J. C. Hill

We study the properties of galaxy cluster 2-point correlation function covariance matrices estimated using the linear-construction (LC) method, which is computationally up to 20 times faster than the standard sample-covariance method. Our…

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The halo occupation distribution (HOD) approach has proven to be an effective method for modeling galaxy clustering and bias. In this approach, galaxies of a given type are probabilistically assigned to individual halos in N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Juliana Kwan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Hal Finkel , Nick Frontiere , Adrian Pope

Modern sky surveys are returning precision measurements of cosmological statistics such as weak lensing shear correlations, the distribution of galaxies, and cluster abundance. To fully exploit these observations, theorists must provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Juliana Kwan , Salman Habib , David Higdon

The steep computational cost of diffusion models at inference hinders their use as fast physics emulators. In the context of image and video generation, this computational drawback has been addressed by generating in the latent space of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 François Rozet , Ruben Ohana , Michael McCabe , Gilles Louppe , François Lanusse , Shirley Ho

Machine Learning facilitates building a large variety of models, starting from elementary linear regression models to very complex neural networks. Neural networks are currently limited by the size of data provided and the huge…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-25 Ruman Moulik , Ankita Phutela , Sajjan Sheoran , Saswata Bhattacharya