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While dark matter (DM) is the key ingredient for a successful theory of structure formation, its microscopic nature remains elusive. Indirect detection may provide a powerful test for some strongly motivated DM particle models.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-05 Emmanuel Nezri , Julien Lavalle , Romain Teyssier

Most of the matter in the universe is not luminous and can be observed directly only through its gravitational effect. An emerging technique called weak gravitational lensing uses background galaxies to reveal the foreground dark matter…

Gravitational weak lensing maps the location of (dark) matter at all scales. The lens-induced distortion field traces gravity fields and can be used to reconstruct the mass distribution in galaxies, groups, clusters of galaxies or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Mellier , L. van Waerbeke

Stellar and gas kinematics of galaxies are a sensitive probe of the dark matter distribution in the halo. The popular fuzzy dark matter models predict the peculiar shape of density distribution in galaxies: specific dense core with sharp…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-07 Mariia Khelashvili , Anton Rudakovskyi , Sabine Hossenfelder

We address the issue of the cosmological bias between matter and galaxy distributions, looking at dark-matter haloes as a first step to characterize galaxy clustering. Starting from the linear density field at high redshift, we follow the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Anna Elia , Suchita Kulkarni , Cristiano Porciani , Massimo Pietroni , Sabino Matarrese

Our standard model of the Universe predicts the distribution of dark matter to $1\%$ at the scales needed for upcoming experiments, yet our predictions for how the luminous matter -- which has interactions besides gravity -- is distributed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 Nora Elisa Chisari

Cosmological simulations play a crucial role in elucidating the effect of physical parameters on the statistics of fields and on constraining parameters given information on density fields. We leverage diffusion generative models to address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Nayantara Mudur , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

The large-scale structure of the universe can only be observed via luminous tracers of the dark matter. However, the clustering statistics of tracers are biased and depend on various properties, such as their host-halo mass and assembly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-24 Giorgia Pollina , Nico Hamaus , Klaus Dolag , Jochen Weller , Marco Baldi , Lauro Moscardini

A grand challenge of the 21st century cosmology is to accurately estimate the cosmological parameters of our Universe. A major approach to estimating the cosmological parameters is to use the large-scale matter distribution of the Universe.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-07 Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Junier Oliva , Sebastien Fromenteau , Layne C. Price , Shirley Ho , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, distorts background light. Yet, mass reconstruction lacks the scalability and large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diego Royo , Brandon Zhao , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Katherine L. Bouman

The cold dark matter model successfully explains both the emergence and evolution of cosmic structures on large scales and, when we include a cosmological constant, the properties of the homogeneous and isotropic Universe. However, the cold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Ivan de Martino , Sankha S. Chakrabarty , Valentina Cesare , Arianna Gallo , Luisa Ostorero , Antonaldo Diaferio

Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout space but are instead arranged in an intricate "cosmic web" of filaments and walls surrounding bubble-like voids. There is still no compelling observational evidence of a link between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ignacio Trujillo , Conrado Carretero , Santiago G. Patiri

Diffusion models have been used in cosmological applications as a generative model for fast simulations and to reconstruct underlying cosmological fields or astrophysical images from noisy data. These two tasks are often treated as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-07 Supranta S. Boruah , Michael Jacob , Bhuvnesh Jain

We construct a viable cosmological model based on velocity diffusion of matter particles. In order to ensure the conservation of the total energy-momentum tensor in the presence of diffusion, we include a cosmological scalar field $\phi$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-04 Simone Calogero , Hermano Velten

According to the now strongly supported concordance $\Lambda$CDM model, galaxies may be grossly described as a luminous component embedded in a dark matter halo. The density profile of these mass dominating haloes may be determined by N -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-04 A. Del Popolo , V. F. Cardone

The massive exploitation of cosmic voids for precision cosmology in the upcoming dark energy experiments, requires a robust understanding of their internal structure, particularly of their density profile. We show that the void density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Ricciardelli , V. Quilis , J. Varela

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

In addition to their low stellar densities, ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) have a broad variety of dynamical mass-to-light ratios, ranging from dark matter (DM) dominated systems to objects nearly devoid of DM. To investigate the origin of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-04 Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez , J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Marta Reina-Campos

Analysing the weak lensing distortions of the images of faint background galaxies provides a means to constrain the average mass distribution of cluster galaxies and potentially to test the extent of their dark matter haloes as a function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bernhard Geiger , Peter Schneider