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Cosmic voids are effective cosmological probes to discriminate among competing world models. Their identification is generally based on density or geometry criteria that, because of their very nature, are prone to shot noise. We propose two…

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Current and upcoming radio interferometric experiments are aiming to make a statistical characterization of the high-redshift 21cm fluctuation signal spanning the hydrogen reionization and X-ray heating epochs of the universe. However,…

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A major aim of cosmological surveys is to test deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, but the full scientific value of these surveys will only be realised through efficient simulation methods that keep up with the increasing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Yash Gondhalekar , Sownak Bose , Baojiu Li , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro

We develop a method to identify cosmic voids from the matter density field by adopting a physically-motivated concept that voids are the counterpart of massive clusters. To prove the concept we use a pair of $\Lambda$CDM simulations, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Junsup Shim , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim , Ho Seong Hwang

I present a large set of high resolution simulations, called CosmicGrowth Simulations, which were generated with either 8.6 billion or 29 billion particles. As the nominal cosmological model that can match nearly all observations on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Y. P. Jing

We demonstrate a GPU-accelerated nested sampling framework for efficient high-dimensional Bayesian inference in cosmology. Using JAX-based neural emulators and likelihoods for cosmic microwave background and cosmic shear analyses, our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-08 Toby Lovick , David Yallup , Davide Piras , Alessio Spurio Mancini , Will Handley

We explore linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction techniques for statistical inference of parameters in cosmology. Given the importance of compressing the increasingly complex data vectors used in cosmology, we address questions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Minsu Park , Marco Gatti , Bhuvnesh Jain

Measuring the sum of the three active neutrino masses, $M_\nu$, is one of the most important challenges in modern cosmology. Massive neutrinos imprint characteristic signatures on several cosmological observables in particular on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Elena Giusarma , Mauricio Reyes Hurtado , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Siyu He , Shirley Ho , ChangHoon Hahn

We develop a set of machine-learning based cosmological emulators, to obtain fast model predictions for the $C(\ell)$ angular power spectrum coefficients characterising tomographic observations of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Marco Bonici , Luca Biggio , Carmelita Carbone , Luigi Guzzo

We demonstrate that the output of a cosmological N-body simulation can, to remarkable accuracy, be scaled to represent the growth of large-scale structure in a cosmology with parameters similar to but different from those originally…

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Many different studies have shown that a wealth of cosmological information resides on small, non-linear scales. Unfortunately, there are two challenges to overcome to utilize that information. First, we do not know the optimal estimator…

In these lecture notes, we describe the current state-of-the-art for numerical simulations of large-scale structure and galaxy formation. Numerical simulations play a central role in the preparation and the exploitation of large-scale…

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Taking N-body simulations with volumes and particle densities tuned to match the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic main sample, we assess the ability of current void catalogs (e.g., Sutter et al. 2012b) to distinguish a model of coupled dark…

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The sizes and shapes of voids in a galaxy survey depend not only on the physics of structure formation, but also on the sampling density of the survey and on the algorithm used to define voids. Using an N-body simulation with a CDM power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason D. Schmidt , Barbara S. Ryden , Adrian L. Melott

Topological analysis of galaxy distributions has gathered increasing attention in cosmology, as they are able to capture non-Gaussian features of large-scale structures (LSS) that are overlooked by conventional two-point clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Jiayi Li , Cheng Zhao

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) studies based on the clustering of voids and matter tracers provide important constraints on cosmological parameters related to the expansion of the Universe. However, modelling the void exclusion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Andrei Variu , Cheng Zhao , Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Charling Tao , Amélie Tamone , Jean-Paul Kneib

We use analytic covariance matrices to carry out a full-shape analysis of the galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We obtain parameter estimates that agree well with those based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 Digvijay Wadekar , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Roman Scoccimarro

With an aim towards modeling cosmologies beyond the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm, we demonstrate the automatic construction of recombination history emulators while enforcing a prior of causal dynamics. These methods are particularly useful in the…

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