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Hydrodynamical cosmological simulations are a powerful tool for accurately predicting the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) and for producing mock skies that can be compared against observational data. However, the need to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Cooper Jacobus , Peter Harrington , Zarija Lukić

Studying the impact of systematic effects, optimizing survey strategies, assessing tensions between different probes and exploring synergies of different data sets require a large number of simulated likelihood analyses, each of which cost…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Supranta S. Boruah , Tim Eifler , Vivian Miranda , Sai Krishanth P. M

Future weak lensing measurements of cosmic shear will reach such high accuracy that second order effects in weak lensing modeling, like the influence of baryons on structure formation, become important. We use a controlled set of state of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. P. Jing , Pengjie Zhang , W. P. Lin , L. Gao , V. Springel

We use a series of cosmological N-body simulations and various analytic models to study the evolution of the matter power spectrum in real space in a \Lambda Cold Dark Matter universe. We compare the results of N-body simulations against…

Context. Accurate model predictions including the physics of baryons are required to make the most of the upcoming large cosmological surveys devoted to gravitational lensing. The advent of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations enables…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 C. Gouin , R. Gavazzi , C. Pichon , Y. Dubois , C. Laigle , N. E. Chisari , S. Codis , J. Devriendt , S. Peirani

We study the effect of baryonic processes on weak lensing (WL) observables with a suite of mock WL maps, the $\kappa$TNG, based on the cosmological hydrodynamic simulations IllustrisTNG. We quantify the baryonic effects on the WL angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-09 Ken Osato , Jia Liu , Zoltán Haiman

We present a general framework for obtaining robust bounds on the nature of dark matter using cosmological $N$-body simulations and Lyman-alpha forest data. We construct an emulator of hydrodynamical simulations, which is a flexible,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Keir K. Rogers , Hiranya V. Peiris

We present a novel statistic to extract cosmological information in weak lensing data: the lensing minima. We also investigate the effect of baryons on the cosmological constraints from peak and minimum counts. Using the \texttt{MassiveNuS}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 William R. Coulton , Jia Liu , Ian G. McCarthy , Ken Osato

Renewable energy projects, such as large offshore wind farms, are critical to achieving low-emission targets set by governments. Stochastic computer models allow us to explore future scenarios to aid decision making whilst considering the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-07 Jack C. Kennedy , Daniel A. Henderson , Kevin J. Wilson

As weak lensing surveys are becoming deeper and cover larger areas, information will be available on small angular scales down to the arcmin level. To extract this extra information, accurate modelling of baryonic effects is necessary. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman

We use the emulation framework CosmoPower to construct and publicly release neural network emulators of cosmological observables, including the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization power spectra, matter power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-06 Boris Bolliet , Alessio Spurio Mancini , J. Colin Hill , Mathew Madhavacheril , Hidde T. Jense , Erminia Calabrese , Jo Dunkley

We present a new method for modeling inhomogeneous cosmic reionization on large scales. Utilizing high-resolution radiation-hydrodynamic simulations with 2048^3 dark matter particles, 2048^3 gas cells, and 17 billion adaptive rays in a L =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nick Battaglia , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Abraham Loeb

We study the importance of baryonic physics on predictions of the matter power spectrum as it is relevant for forthcoming weak lensing surveys. We quantify the impact of baryonic physics using a set of three cosmological numerical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Douglas H. Rudd , Andrew R. Zentner , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Baryonification algorithms model the impact of galaxy formation and feedback on the matter field in gravity-only simulations by adopting physically motivated parametric prescriptions. In this paper, we extend these models to describe gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-09 Giovanni Aricò , Raul E. Angulo

A challenging requirement posed by next-generation observations is a firm theoretical grasp of the impact of baryons on structure formation. Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations modeling gas physics are vital in this regard. A high degree…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 J. D. Emberson , Nicholas Frontiere , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Patricia Larsen , Hal Finkel , Adrian Pope

Full-physics cosmological simulations are powerful tools for studying the formation and evolution of structure in the universe but require extreme computational resources. Here, we train a convolutional neural network to use a cheaper…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Peter Harrington , Mustafa Mustafa , Max Dornfest , Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukić

We present an optimized variant of the halo model, designed to produce accurate matter power spectra well into the non-linear regime for a wide range of cosmological models. To do this, we introduce physically motivated free parameters into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Alexander Mead , John Peacock , Catherine Heymans , Shahab Joudaki , Alan Heavens

Future large-scale galaxy surveys have the potential to become leading probes for cosmology provided the influence of baryons on the total mass distribution is understood well enough. As hydrodynamical simulations strongly depend on details…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-04 Aurel Schneider , Romain Teyssier

Baryonic processes such as radiative cooling and feedback from massive stars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) directly redistribute baryons in the Universe but also indirectly redistribute dark matter due to changes in the gravitational…

We demonstrate that baryonification algorithms, which displace particles in gravity-only simulations according to physically-motivated prescriptions, can simultaneously capture the impact of baryonic physics on the 2 and 3-point statistics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Giovanni Aricò , Raul E. Angulo , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo , Sergio Contreras , Matteo Zennaro