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Numerical studies indicate that uncertainties in the treatment of baryonic physics can affect predictions for shear power spectra at a level that is significant for forthcoming surveys such as DES, SNAP, and LSST. Correspondingly, we show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrew R. Zentner , Douglas H. Rudd , Wayne Hu

The redistribution of baryonic matter in massive halos through processes like active galactic nuclei feedback and star formation leads to a suppression of the matter power spectrum on small scales. This redistribution can be measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Sebastian Grandis , Giovanni Arico' , Aurel Schneider , Laila Linke

We give a statistical interpretation of entropic optimal transport by showing that performing maximum-likelihood estimation for Gaussian deconvolution corresponds to calculating a projection with respect to the entropic optimal transport…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Philippe Rigollet , Jonathan Weed

We investigate the impact of baryonic physics on the subhalo population by analyzing the results of two recent hydrodynamical simulations (EAGLE and Illustris), which have very similar configuration, but a different model of baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Giulia Despali , Simona Vegetti

In order to derive unbiased cosmological parameters from Stage-IV surveys, we need models that can predict the matter power spectrum for at least $k\,\lesssim\,10\,h\mathrm{\,Mpc^{-1}}$ with percent-level accuracy. The main challenge in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Marcel P. van Daalen , Ioannis Koutalios , Jeger C. Broxterman , Bart J. H. Wolfs , John C. Helly , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

Forthcoming cosmic shear surveys will make precise measurements of the matter density field down to very small scales, scales which are dominated by baryon feedback. The modelling of baryon feedback is crucial to ensure unbiased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 Alessandro Maraio , Alex Hall , Andy Taylor

A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-11 Zichu Wang , Esteban G. Tabak

Satellite kinematics offers a powerful method to infer dynamical halo masses and has been demonstrated to yield tight constraints on the galaxy-halo connection. However, previous studies have assumed that the halos in which the satellites…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-24 Josephine F. W. Baggen , Frank C. van den Bosch , Kaustav Mitra

On the scale of galactic haloes, the distribution of matter in the cosmos is affected by energetic, non-gravitational processes; so-called baryonic feedback. A lack of knowledge about the details of how feedback processes redistribute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-23 A. J. Mead , T. Tröster , C. Heymans , L. Van Waerbeke , I. G. McCarthy

We study the problem of designing hard negative sampling distributions for unsupervised contrastive representation learning. We propose and analyze a novel min-max framework that seeks a representation which minimizes the maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Ruijie Jiang , Prakash Ishwar , Shuchin Aeron

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

We present constraints on the baryonic matter density parameter, $\Omega_b$, within the framework of the $\Lambda$CDM model. Our analysis utilizes observational data on the effective optical depth from high-redshift quasars. To parameterize…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-31 Wen-Fei Liu , Yuan-Bo Xie , Zhi-E Liu , Jin Qin , Kang Jiao , Dong-Yao Zhao , Tong-Jie Zhang

The cooling of baryons in the centers of dark matter halos leads to a more concentrated dark matter distribution. This effect has traditionally been calculated using the model of adiabatic contraction, which assumes spherical symmetry,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Oleg Y. Gnedin

We use a set of hydrodynamical (Hydro) and dark matter only (DMonly) simulations to calibrate the halo mass function (HMF). We explore the impact of baryons, propose an improved parametrization for spherical overdensity masses and identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Sebastian Bocquet , Alex Saro , Klaus Dolag , Joseph J. Mohr

Baryonic feedback effects lead to a suppression of the weak lensing angular power spectrum on small scales. The poorly constrained shape and amplitude of this suppression is an important source of uncertainties for upcoming cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Aurel Schneider , Nicola Stoira , Alexandre Refregier , Andreas J. Weiss , Mischa Knabenhans , Joachim Stadel , Romain Teyssier

We explore a function with two shape parameters for the dark-matter halo density profile subject to baryonic effects, which is a special case of the general Zhao family of models applied to simulated dark matter haloes by Dekel et al. This…

The goal of the present work is to study optimal transport on null hypersurfaces inside Lorentzian manifolds. The challenge here is that optimal transport along a null hypersurface is completely degenerate, as the cost takes only the two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Fabio Cavalletti , Davide Manini , Andrea Mondino

A framework is proposed that addresses both conditional density estimation and latent variable discovery. The objective function maximizes explanation of variability in the data, achieved through the optimal transport barycenter generalized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Hongkang Yang , Esteban G. Tabak

We study three cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way(MW)-sized halos including a comparison with the dark matter(DM)-only counterparts. We find one of our simulated galaxies with interesting MW-like features. Thanks to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Pol Mollitor , Emmanuel Nezri , Romain Teyssier

Upcoming 21cm surveys will map the spatial distribution of cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) over unprecedented volumes. Mock catalogues are needed to fully exploit the potential of these surveys. Standard techniques employed to create these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Digvijay Wadekar , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur