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In two recent papers, we developed a powerful technique to link the distribution of galaxies to that of dark matter haloes by considering halo occupation numbers as function of galaxy luminosity and type. In this paper we use these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Frank C. van den Bosch , YaoQuan Chu

We discuss the extension to redshift space of a rescaling algorithm, designed to alter the effective cosmology of a pre-existing simulated particle distribution or catalogue of dark matter haloes. The rescaling approach was initially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Alexander Mead , John Peacock

We present a fast numerical screened halo model algorithm (CHAM) for modeling non-linear power spectrum for the alternative models to LCDM. This method has three obvious advantages. First of all, it is not being restricted to a specific…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Bin Hu , Xue-Wen Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

Clustering properties and peculiar velocities of halos in large-scale structure carry a wealth of cosmological information over a wide range of scales from linear to nonlinear scales. We use halo catalogs in a suite of high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-22 Yosuke Kobayashi , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Ryuichi Takahashi

For many analyses in cosmology it is necessary to reconstruct the likely distribution of unobserved fields, such as dark matter or non-luminous baryons, from observed luminous tracers. The dominant approach in cosmology has been to use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jordan Krywonos , Yurii Kvasiuk , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer

Cosmological $N$-body simulations play a vital role in studying models for the evolution of the Universe. To compare to observations and make a scientific inference, statistic analysis on large simulation datasets, e.g., finding halos,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Nikita Ivkin , Zaoxing Liu , Lin F. Yang , Srinivas Suresh Kumar , Gerard Lemson , Mark Neyrinck , Alexander S. Szalay , Vladimir Braverman , Tamas Budavari

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are still limited by their spatial/mass resolution and cannot model from first principles some of the processes, like star formation, that are key in driving galaxy evolution. As a consequence they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-02 Andrea V. Macciò , Mohamad Ali-Dib , Pavle Vulanović , Hind Al Noori , Fabian Walter , Nico Krieger , Tobias Buck

The Dark Sky Simulations are an ongoing series of cosmological N-body simulations designed to provide a quantitative and accessible model of the evolution of the large-scale Universe. Such models are essential for many aspects of the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Samuel W. Skillman , Michael S. Warren , Matthew J. Turk , Risa H. Wechsler , Daniel E. Holz , P. M. Sutter

Understanding the galaxy-halo relationship is not only key for elucidating the interplay between baryonic and dark matter, it is essential for creating large mock galaxy catalogues from N-body simulations. High-resolution hydrodynamical…

For modern large-scale structure survey techniques it has become standard practice to test data analysis pipelines on large suites of mock simulations, a task which is currently prohibitively expensive for full N-body simulations. Instead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Philippe Berger , George Stein

We train a novel deep learning architecture to perform likelihood-free inference on the value of the cosmological parameters from halo catalogs of the Quijote N-body simulations. Our model takes as input a halo catalog where each halo is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-23 Atrideb Chatterjee , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Large-scale sky surveys require companion large volume simulated mock catalogs. To ensure precision cosmology studies are unbiased, the correlations in these mocks between galaxy properties and their large-scale environments must be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

The connection between galaxies and their host dark matter (DM) halos is critical to our understanding of cosmology, galaxy formation, and DM physics. To maximize the return of upcoming cosmological surveys, we need an accurate way to model…

Accurately predicting structural properties of dark matter halos is one of the fundamental goals of modern cosmology. We use the new suite of MultiDark cosmological simulations to study the evolution of dark matter halo density profiles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Anatoly Klypin , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober , Francisco Prada , Steffen Hess

Cosmological N-body simulations are crucial for understanding how the Universe evolves. Studying large-scale distributions of matter in these simulations and comparing them to observations usually involves detecting dense clusters of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-25 Aidan Reilly , Nikita Ivkin , Gerard Lemson , Vladimir Braverman , Alexander Szalay

Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to be an efficient alternative for generating…

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) inserts galaxies into dark matter only simulations of the growth of cosmic structure in a way that requires minimal assumptions about galaxy formation. A galaxy is placed at the potential minimum of each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qi Guo , Simon White

We present a galaxy catalog simulator which turns N-body simulations with subhalos into multiband photometric mocks. The simulator assigns galaxy properties to each subhalo to reproduce the observed cluster galaxy halo occupation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jeeseon Song , Joseph J. Mohr , Wayne A. Barkhouse , Michael S. Warren , Cody Rude

We present a scheme to extend the halo mass resolution of N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter. The method uses the density field of the simulation to predict the number of sub-resolution dark matter haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Raul E. Angulo , Carlton M. Baugh , Carlos S. Frenk , Cedric G. Lacey

A critical step to create realistic mock catalogs that support large-scale photometric and spectroscopic sky surveys is the production of cosmological simulations that accurately model the survey observables taking into account the…