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A recently-proposed algorithm identifies voids in simulations as the regions associated with halos when the initial overdensity field is negated. We apply this method to the real Universe by running a suite of constrained simulations of the…

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Numerical simulations are a key tool to decipher the dynamics of gravitation. Yet, they fail to spatially reproduce the Universe we observe, limiting comparison between observations and simulations to a statistical level. This is highly…

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Among the most important goals in cosmology is detecting and quantifying small ($M_{\rm halo}\simeq10^{6-9}~\mathrm{M}_\odot$) dark matter (DM) subhalos. Current probes around the Milky Way (MW) are most sensitive to such substructure…

Cosmological simulations are a powerful tool to advance our understanding of galaxy formation and many simulations model key properties of real galaxies. A question that naturally arises for such simulations in light of high-quality…

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We use properties of void populations identified in $N$-body simulations to forecast the ability of upcoming galaxy surveys to differentiate models of f(R) gravity from \lcdm~cosmology. We analyze multiple simulation realizations, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul Zivick , P. M. Sutter , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Baojiu Li , Tsz Yan Lam

Cosmological covariance matrices are fundamental for parameter inference, since they are responsible for propagating uncertainties from the data down to the model parameters. However, when data vectors are large, in order to estimate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo

Context: Modelling satellite galaxy abundance $N_s$ in Galaxy Clusters (GCs) is a key element in modelling the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), which itself is a powerful tool to connect observational studies with numerical simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Antonio Ragagnin , Alessandra Fumagalli , Tiago Castro , Klaus Dolag , Alexandro Saro , Matteo Costanzi , Sebastian Bocquet

A signature of the dark energy equation of state may be observed in the shape of voids. We estimate the constraints on cosmological parameters that would be determined from the ellipticity distribution of voids from future spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Rahul Biswas , Esfandiar Alizadeh , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We report novel cosmological constraints obtained from cosmic voids in the final BOSS DR12 dataset. They arise from the joint analysis of geometric and dynamic distortions of average void shapes (i.e., the stacked void-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Nico Hamaus , Alice Pisani , Jin-Ah Choi , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Jochen Weller

We present measurements of the number density of voids in the dark matter distribution from a series of N-body simulations of a \Lambda CDM cosmology. We define voids as spherical regions of \rho_v = 0.2\rho_m around density minima in order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-28 Elise Jennings , Yin Li , Wayne Hu

We present CosmoGridV1: a large set of lightcone simulations for map-level cosmological inference with probes of large scale structure. It is designed for cosmological parameter measurement based on Stage-III photometric surveys with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Tomasz Kacprzak , Janis Fluri , Aurel Schneider , Alexandre Refregier , Joachim Stadel

Inferring the values and uncertainties of cosmological parameters in a cosmology model is of paramount importance for modern cosmic observations. In this paper, we use the simulation-based inference (SBI) approach to estimate cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-02 Moonzarin Reza , Yuanyuan Zhang , Brian Nord , Jason Poh , Aleksandra Ciprijanovic , Louis Strigari

Over the next decade, improvements in cosmological parameter constraints will be driven by surveys of large-scale structure. Its inherent non-linearity suggests that significant information will be embedded in higher correlations beyond the…

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The small-scale linear information in galaxy samples typically lost during non-linear growth can be restored to a certain level by the density field reconstruction, which has been demonstrated for improving the precision of the baryon…

The new generation of galaxy surveys will provide unprecedented data allowing us to test gravity at cosmological scales. A robust cosmological analysis of the large-scale structure demands exploiting the nonlinear information encoded in the…

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Uncertain feedback processes in galaxies affect the distribution of matter, currently limiting the power of weak lensing surveys. If we can identify cosmological statistics that are robust against these uncertainties, or constrain these…

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

As the next generation of large galaxy surveys come online, it is becoming increasingly important to develop and understand the machine learning tools that analyze big astronomical data. Neural networks are powerful and capable of probing…

As weak lensing surveys are becoming deeper and cover larger areas, information will be available on small angular scales down to the arcmin level. To extract this extra information, accurate modelling of baryonic effects is necessary. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Tianhuan Lu , Zoltán Haiman

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation are limited by finite computational resources. We draw from the ongoing rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (specifically Deep Learning) to address this problem. Neural networks have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-10 Yin Li , Yueying Ni , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tiziana Di Matteo , Simeon Bird , Yu Feng