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Cosmological simulations play an important role in the interpretation of astronomical data, in particular in comparing observed data to our theoretical expectations. However, to compare data with these simulations, the simulations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-14 Jacky H. T. Yip , Xinyue Zhang , Yanfang Wang , Wei Zhang , Yueqiu Sun , Gabriella Contardo , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shy Genel , Shirley Ho

We present the first suite of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations of isolated dwarf galaxies for a dark sector that consists of Cold Dark Matter and a strongly-dissipative sub-component. The simulations are implemented in GIZMO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-29 Sandip Roy , Xuejian Shen , Jared Barron , Mariangela Lisanti , David Curtin , Norman Murray , Philip F. Hopkins

The impact of 2-body scattering on the innermost density profiles of dark matter haloes is well established. We use a suite of cosmological simulations and idealised numerical experiments to show that 2-body scattering is exacerbated in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Jack Richings

Hydrodynamic simulations have become irreplaceable in modern cosmology for exploring complex systems and making predictions to steer future observations. In Chapter 1, we begin with a philosophical discussion on the role of simulations in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Edoardo Altamura

We introduce the AIDA-TNG project, a suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamic simulations that simultaneously model galaxy formation and different variations of the underlying dark matter model. We consider the standard cold dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Giulia Despali , Lauro Moscardini , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger

We introduce the Illustris Project, a series of large-scale hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. The highest resolution simulation, Illustris-1, covers a volume of $(106.5\,{\rm Mpc})^3$, has a dark mass resolution of ${6.26…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Volker Springel , Paul Torrey , Debora Sijacki , Dandan Xu , Gregory F. Snyder , Dylan Nelson , Lars Hernquist

Many of the most exciting questions in astrophysics and cosmology, including the majority of observational probes of dark energy, rely on an understanding of the nonlinear regime of structure formation. In order to fully exploit the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Martin White , David Higdon , Christian Wagner , Salman Habib , Brian Williams

At early times dark matter has a thermal velocity dispersion of unknown amplitude which, for warm dark matter models, can influence the formation of nonlinear structure on observable scales. We propose a new scheme to simulate cosmologies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Jens Stücker , Oliver Hahn , Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White

We study the impact of warm dark matter (WDM) particle mass on galaxy properties using 1,024 state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations from the DREAMS project. We begin by using a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) coupled with a…

The development of numerical N -body simulations have allowed to study formation process and evolution of galaxies at different scales. This paper presents the fundamental concepts of N-body systems applied to the cosmological evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jazhiel Chacon , J. Alberto Vazquez , Ruslan Gabbasov

Dark matter (DM) halos form hierarchically in the Universe through a series of merger events. Cosmological simulations can represent this series of mergers as a graph-like ``tree'' structure. Previous work has shown these merger trees are…

Drilling and Extraction Automated System (DREAMS) is a fully automated prototype-drilling rig that can drill, extract water and assess subsurface density profiles from simulated lunar and Martian subsurface ice. DREAMS system is developed…

LCDM is remarkably successful in predicting the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure, and LCDM parameters have been determined with only mild tensions between different types of observations. Hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Joel R. Primack

Much progress has been made in recent years by the galaxy simulation community in making realistic galaxies, mostly by more accurately capturing the effects of baryons on the structural evolution of dark matter halos at high resolutions.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Alyson M. Brooks

Dark sector theories naturally lead to multi-component scenarios for dark matter where a sub-component can dissipate energy through self-interactions, allowing it to efficiently cool inside galaxies. We present the first cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-21 Sandip Roy , Xuejian Shen , Mariangela Lisanti , David Curtin , Norman Murray , Philip F. Hopkins

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, while the current state-of-the art methodology for generating theoretical predictions for the large scale structures of the Universe, are among the most expensive simulation tools, requiring upwards…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-05 Antoine Bourdin , Ronan Legin , Matthew Ho , Alexandre Adam , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

In this "Invisible Universe" proceedings, we introduce the Dark Energy Universe Simulation Series (DEUSS) which aim at investigating the imprints of realistic dark energy models on cosmic structure formation. It represents the largest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. Rasera , J-M. Alimi , J. Courtin , F. Roy , P-S. Corasaniti , A. Fuzfa , V. Boucher

We report some results from one of the largest hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of large scale structures that has been done up to date. The MareNostrum Universe SPH simulation consists of 2 billion particles (2 times 1024^3) in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Gottloeber , G. Yepes , A. Khalatyan , R. Sevilla , V. Turchaninov

In this paper, we use hydrodynamic zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-type haloes to explore using dust as an observational tracer to discriminate between cold and warm dark matter (WDM) universes. Comparing a cold and 3.5 keV WDM particle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-28 Adam Ussing , Robert Mostoghiu Paun , Darren Croton , Celine Boehm , Alan Duffy , Chris Power

Recent high-resolution simulations that include Cold Dark Matter (CDM) and baryons have shown that baryonic physics can dramatically alter the dark matter structure of galaxies. These results modify our predictions for observed galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 Alyson Brooks