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Taking advantage of the unprecedented statistical power of upcoming cosmic shear surveys will require exquisite knowledge of the matter power spectrum over a wide range of scales. Analytical methods can achieve such precision only up to…

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We describe in detail the general methodology and numerical implementation of consistent N-body simulations for coupled scalar field cosmological models, including the background cosmology and the generation of initial conditions (with the…

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To effectively exploit large-scale structure surveys, we depend on accurate and reliable predictions of non-linear cosmological structure formation. Tools for efficient and comprehensive computational modelling are therefore essential to…

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The linear matter power spectrum is an essential ingredient in all theoretical models for interpreting large-scale-structure observables. Although Boltzmann codes such as CLASS or CAMB are very efficient at computing the linear spectrum,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-20 Giovanni Aricò , Raul E. Angulo , Matteo Zennaro

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

The rapidly increasing statistical power of cosmological imaging surveys requires us to reassess the regime of validity for various approximations that accelerate the calculation of relevant theoretical predictions. In this paper, we…

Near-future cosmological observations targeted at investigations of dark energy pose stringent requirements on the accuracy of theoretical predictions for the clustering of matter. Currently, N-body simulations comprise the only viable…

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Approximate methods to full N-body simulations provide a fast and accurate solution to the development of mock catalogues for the modeling of galaxy clustering observables. In this paper we extend ICE-COLA (Izard et al. 2016), based on an…

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Neutrino mass constraints are a primary focus of current and future large-scale structure (LSS) surveys. Non-linear LSS models rely heavily on cosmological simulations -- the impact of massive neutrinos should therefore be included in these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 James M. Sullivan , J. D. Emberson , Salman Habib , Nicholas Frontiere

Validating modeling choices through simulated analyses and quantifying the impact of different systematic effects will form a major computational bottleneck in the preparation for 3$\times$2 analysis with Stage-IV surveys such as Vera Rubin…

Galaxy clustering is an important probe in the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey to understand the structure growth and reveal the nature of the dark sector. However, it is a long-term challenge to model this biased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Shuren Zhou , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

The effect of massive neutrinos on the growth of cold dark matter perturbations acts as a scale-dependent Newton's constant and leads to scale-dependent growth factors just as we often find in models of gravity beyond General Relativity. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-13 Bill S. Wright , Hans A. Winther , Kazuya Koyama

Accurate predictions of weak lensing observables are essential for understanding the large-scale structure of the Universe and probing the nature of gravity. In this work, we present a lightcone implementation to generate maps of the weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-28 Sophie Hoyland , Hans A. Winther , Daniela Saadeh , Kazuya Koyama , Albert Izard

The scaling law of Large Language Models (LLMs) reveals a power-law relationship, showing diminishing return on performance as model scale increases. While training LLMs from scratch is resource-intensive, fine-tuning a pre-trained model…

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We forecast cosmological parameter constraints for a cosmic shear analysis of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), defining an analysis framework that can accurately recover the $\Lambda$CDM model in the presence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 N. C. Robertson , C. Heymans , J. Zuntz , P. Burger , C. D. Leonard , I. G. McCarthy , J. G. Paine , J. Salcido , N. Šarčević , M. Schaller , J. Schaye , M. P. van Daalen

Standard cosmological weak lensing analyses using cosmic shear are inevitably sensitive to small-scale, non-linear clustering from low-redshift structures. The need to adequately model the clustering of matter on this non-linear regime,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Giulia Piccirilli , Matteo Zennaro , Carlos García-García , David Alonso

The mysterious nature of the dark sector of the $\Lambda$CDM model is one of the main motivators behind the study of alternative cosmological models. A central quantity of interest for these models is the matter power spectrum, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Renate Mauland , Hans A. Winther , Cheng-Zong Ruan

We present a new high-resolution N-body algorithm for cosmological simulations. The algorithm employs a traditional particle-mesh technique on a cubic grid and successive multilevel relaxations on the finer meshes, introduced recursively in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly A. Klypin , Alexei M. Khokhlov

We present the Differentiable Lensing Lightcone (DLL), a fully differentiable physical model designed for being used as a forward model in Bayesian inference algorithms requiring access to derivatives of lensing observables with respect to…