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We investigate the potential of machine learning (ML) methods to model small-scale galaxy clustering for constraining Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) parameters. Our analysis reveals that while many ML algorithms report good statistical…

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We present an implicit likelihood approach to quantifying cosmological information over discrete catalogue data, assembled as graphs. To do so, we explore cosmological parameter constraints using mock dark matter halo catalogues. We employ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 T. Lucas Makinen , Tom Charnock , Pablo Lemos , Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens , Benjamin D. Wandelt

Galaxies and galaxy clusters trace the same cosmic density field, but their statistics have been modeled separately in cosmological analyses. We present a unified, simulation-based framework to model them using the galaxy-halo connection.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-26 Shulei Cao , Hao-Yi Wu , Andrés N. Salcedo , David H. Weinberg , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology. In this work we predict high resolution dark matter halos from large scale, low…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-25 David Schaurecker , Yin Li , Jeremy Tinker , Shirley Ho , Alexandre Refregier

I compare various semi-analytic models for the bias of dark matter halos with halo clustering properties observed in recent numerical simulations. The best fitting model is one based on the collapse of ellipsoidal perturbations proposed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 James Robinson

We present the first cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing using extended SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAMe). We analyse stellar mass-selected Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Constance Mahony , Sergio Contreras , Raul E. Angulo , David Alonso , Christos Georgiou , Andrej Dvornik

The halo model (HM) describes the inhomogeneous universe as a collection of halos. The full nonlinear power spectrum of the universe is well approximated by the HM, whose prediction can be easily computed without lengthy numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-07 Kimmo Kainulainen , Valerio Marra

The structural and dynamic properties of the dark matter halos, though an important ingredient in understanding large-scale structure formation, require more conservative particle resolution than those required by halo mass alone in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Premvijay Velmani

In the theory of structure formation, galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying matter density field. The statistical relation between galaxy and matter density field is commonly referred as galaxy bias. In this paper, we test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Eric Jullo , Jason Rhodes , Alina Kiessling , James E. Taylor , Richard Massey , Joel Berge , Carlo Schimd , Jean-Paul Kneib , Nick Scoville

Accurate modeling of galaxy distributions is paramount for cosmological analysis using galaxy redshift surveys. However, this endeavor is often hindered by the computational complexity of resolving the dark matter halos that host these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 J. M. Coloma-Nadal , F. -S. Kitaura , J. E. García-Farieta , F. Sinigaglia , G. Favole , D. Forero Sánchez

Recent cosmological bounds on the sum of neutrino masses, M_nu = sum m_nu, are in tension with laboratory oscillation experiments, making cosmological tests of neutrino free-streaming imperative. In order to study the scale-dependent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Amol Upadhye , Yin Li

Novel summary statistics beyond the standard 2-point correlation function (2PCF) are necessary to capture the full astrophysical and cosmological information from the small-scale (r < 30Mpc/h) galaxy clustering. However, the analysis of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Sihan Yuan , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Tom Abel

We have derived an analytical model for the postcollapse equilibrium structure of cosmological halos as nonsingular truncated isothermal spheres (TIS) and compared this model with observations and simulations of cosmological halos on all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro

Conventional studies of galaxy clustering within the framework of halo models typically assume that the density profile of all dark matter haloes can be approximated by the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) spherically symmetric profile. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Anna Durkalec , Agnieszka Pollo , Ummi Abbas

Strong gravitational lensing offers a compelling test of the cold dark matter paradigm, as it allows for subhaloes with masses of $\sim10^{9}$ M$_\odot$ and below to be detected. We test commonly-used techniques for detecting subhaloes…

We explore the cosmological constraints from cosmic shear using a new way of modelling the non-linear matter correlation functions. The new formalism extends the method of Angulo & White (2010), which manipulates outputs of $N$-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Raul E. Angulo , Stefan Hilbert

We explore and compare the performances of two nonlinear correction and scale-dependent biasing models for the extraction of cosmological information from galaxy power spectrum data, especially in the context of beyond-LCDM cosmologies. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Hamann , Steen Hannestad , Alessandro Melchiorri , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

We develop a machine learning approach to reconstructing the cosmological initial conditions from late-time dark matter halo number density fields in redshift space, with the goal of improving sensitivity to cosmological parameters, and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Jelte Bottema , Thomas Flöss , P. Daniel Meerburg

We present a comparison of major methodologies of fast generating mock halo or galaxy catalogues. The comparison is done for two-point and the three-point clustering statistics. The reference catalogues are drawn from the BigMultiDark…

We measure the clustering of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of the flat LCDM cosmology. Halos are identified using the spherical overdensity algorithm, which finds the mass around isolated peaks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy L. Tinker , Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Michael S. Warren , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober