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Upcoming galaxy surveys will bring a wealth of information about the clustering of matter, but modeling small-scale structure beyond $\Lambda$CDM remains computationally challenging. While accurate N-body emulators exist to model the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 João Rebouças , Victoria Lloyd , Jonathan Gordon , Guilherme Brando , Vivian Miranda

We present a Gaussian-process (GP) emulator for the monopole of the redshift-space halo power spectrum in $\Lambda$CDM cosmologies with massive neutrinos. The emulator is trained on 1000 COLA simulations distributed in a Latin-hypercube…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Jixin Gan , Yonghao Feng , Gong-Bo Zhao

We present a new method for generating initial conditions for numerical cosmological simulations in which massive neutrinos are treated as an extra set of N-body (collisionless) particles. It allows us to accurately follow the density field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Arka Banerjee , Devon Powell , Tom Abel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

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

We introduce a new cosmic emulator for the matter power spectrum covering eight cosmological parameters. Targeted at optical surveys, the emulator provides accurate predictions out to a wavenumber k~5/Mpc and redshift z<=2. Besides covering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Earl Lawrence , Katrin Heitmann , Juliana Kwan , Amol Upadhye , Derek Bingham , Salman Habib , David Higdon , Adrian Pope , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere

The study of massive neutrinos and their interactions is a critical aspect of contemporary cosmology. Recent advances in parallel computation and high-performance computing provide new opportunities for accurately constraining Large-Scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Yu Chen , Chang-Zhi Lu , Juan Li , Siqi Liu , Tong-Jie Zhang , Tingting Zhang

We present MomentEmu, a general-purpose polynomial emulator for fast and interpretable mappings between theoretical parameters and observational features. The method constructs moment matrices to project simulation data onto polynomial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Zheng Zhang

Modern sky surveys are returning precision measurements of cosmological statistics such as weak lensing shear correlations, the distribution of galaxies, and cluster abundance. To fully exploit these observations, theorists must provide…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Juliana Kwan , Salman Habib , David Higdon

The power spectrum of density fluctuations is a foundational source of cosmological information. Precision cosmological probes targeted primarily at investigations of dark energy require accurate theoretical determinations of the power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-26 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Martin White , Salman Habib , Brian J. Williams , Christian Wagner

Precise and accurate predictions of the halo mass function for cluster mass scales in $w\nu{\rm CDM}$ cosmologies are crucial for extracting robust and unbiased cosmological information from upcoming galaxy cluster surveys. Here, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Delon Shen , Nickolas Kokron , Joseph DeRose , Jeremy Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Arka Banerjee , the Aemulus Collaboration

Interpreting observations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum requires interpolation between a small number of expensive simulations. We present a Gaussian process emulator modelling the 1D flux power spectrum as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Christian Pedersen , Andreu Font-Ribera , Keir K. Rogers , Patrick McDonald , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Anže Slosar

We present $24$ cosmological dark matter (DM)-only zoom-in simulations of a Milky Way analog with initial conditions appropriate for scenarios where non-cold dark matter (NCDM) is a fraction of the total DM abundance (f-NCDM models) as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Rui An , Ethan O. Nadler , Andrew Benson , Vera Gluscevic

N-body simulations are the most powerful method to study the non-linear evolution of large-scale structure. However, they require large amounts of computational resources, making unfeasible their direct adoption in scenarios that require…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Miguel Conceição , Alberto Krone-Martins , Antonio da Silva , Ángeles Moliné

Modern cosmological surveys are delivering datasets characterized by unprecedented quality and statistical completeness; this trend is expected to continue into the future as new ground- and space-based surveys come online. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Kelly R. Moran , Katrin Heitmann , Earl Lawrence , Salman Habib , Derek Bingham , Amol Upadhye , Juliana Kwan , David Higdon , Richard Payne

We compare and validate COLA (COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration) simulations against existing emulators in the literature, namely Bacco and Euclid Emulator 2. Our analysis focuses on the non-linear response function, i.e., the ratio between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Guilherme Brando , Bartolomeo Fiorini , Kazuya Koyama , Hans A. Winther

Future galaxy surveys will provide accurate measurements of the matter power spectrum across an unprecedented range of scales and redshifts. The analysis of these data will require one to accurately model the imprint of non-linearities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 Linda Blot , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Yann Rasera , Shankar Agarwal

Recent cosmological bounds on the sum of neutrino masses, M_nu = sum m_nu, are in tension with laboratory oscillation experiments, making cosmological tests of neutrino free-streaming imperative. In order to study the scale-dependent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Amol Upadhye , Yin Li

We present $\it{CosmoPower}$, a suite of neural cosmological power spectrum emulators providing orders-of-magnitude acceleration for parameter estimation from two-point statistics analyses of Large-Scale Structure (LSS) and Cosmic Microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 A. Spurio Mancini , D. Piras , J. Alsing , B. Joachimi , M. P. Hobson

Upcoming cosmological surveys have the potential to reach groundbreaking discoveries on multiple fronts, including the neutrino mass, dark energy, and inflation. Most of the key science goals require the joint analysis of datasets from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-12 Adrian E. Bayer , Yici Zhong , Zack Li , Joseph DeRose , Yu Feng , Jia Liu

Large sets of matter density simulations are becoming increasingly important in large-scale structure cosmology. Matter power spectra emulators, such as the Euclid Emulator and CosmicEmu, are trained on simulations to correct the non-linear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Timothy Wing Hei Yiu , Janis Fluri , Tomasz Kacprzak