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The halo mass function (HMF) is fundamental for interpreting the number counts of galaxy clusters, serving as a pivotal theoretical tool in cosmology. With the advent of high-precision surveys such as LSST, eROSITA, DESI, and Euclid,…

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We propose a versatile and accurate method to estimate the halo mass and concentration from the kinematics of satellite galaxies. We construct the 6D phase-space distribution function of satellites from a cosmological simulation based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-02 Zhao-Zhou Li , Yong-Zhong Qian , Jiaxin Han , Wenting Wang , Y. P. Jing

The abundance and mass distribution of galaxy clusters is a sensitive probe of cosmological parameters, through the sensitivity of the high-mass end of the halo mass function to $\Omega_m$ and $\sigma_8$. While galaxy cluster surveys have…

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Excursion set theory is a powerful and widely used tool for describing the distribution of dark matter haloes, but it is normally applied with simplifying approximations. We use numerical sampling methods to study the mass functions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 M. Sten Delos

We perform an ensemble of $N$-body simulations with $2048^3$ particles for 101 flat $w$CDM cosmological models sampled based on a maximin-distance Sliced Latin Hypercube Design. By using the halo catalogs extracted at multiple redshifts in…

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

Galaxy clustering is an important probe in the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey to understand the structure growth and reveal the nature of the dark sector. However, it is a long-term challenge to model this biased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Shuren Zhou , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies is a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy structure. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will revolutionize this field by discovering up to $\sim$100,000 galaxy-scale strong lenses, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hengyu Wu , Yun Chen , Tonghua Liu , Xiaoyue Cao , Tian Li , Hui Li , Nan Li , Ran Li , Tengpeng Xu

Models of the spatial distribution of dark matter halos must achieve new levels of precision and accuracy in order to satisfy the requirements of upcoming experiments. In this work, we present a halo bias emulator for modeling the…

In this series of papers we present an emulator-based halo model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies in modified gravity cosmologies. In the first paper, we present emulators for the following halo properties: the halo mass function,…

We present a new method for emulating the halo mass function (HMF) and other distribution functions in large effective volumes, down to low halo masses, whilst simultaneously modifying large ranges of parameters, for a fraction of the cost…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Christopher C. Lovell , Max E. Lee , William J. Roper , Daniel Anglés-Alcázar , Shy Genel , Shivam Pandey , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The abundance of collapsed objects in the universe, or halo mass function, is an important theoretical tool in studying the effects of primordially generated non-Gaussianities on the large scale structure. The non-Gaussian mass function has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Guido D'Amico , Marcello Musso , Jorge Noreña , Aseem Paranjape

The nature of structure formation around the particle free streaming scale is still far from understood. Many attempts to simulate hot, warm, and cold dark matter cosmologies with a free streaming cutoff have been performed with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Aurel Schneider , Robert E. Smith , Darren Reed

Galaxy clusters are luminous tracers of the most massive dark matter haloes in the Universe. To use them as a cosmological probe, a detailed description of the properties of dark matter haloes is required. We characterize how the dynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 R. Seppi , J. Comparat , K. Nandra , E. Bulbul , F. Prada , A. Klypin , A. Merloni , P. Predehl , J. Ider Chitham

Modern cosmological inference increasingly relies on differentiable models to enable efficient, gradient-based parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification. Here, we present a novel approach for predicting the abundance of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jim Buisman , Florian List , Oliver Hahn

We use an array of high-resolution N-body simulations to determine the mass function of dark matter haloes at redshifts 10-30. We develop a new method for compensating for the effects of finite simulation volume that allows us to find an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Darren Reed , Richard Bower , Carlos Frenk , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns

The dark matter halo mass function is a key repository of cosmological information over a wide range of mass scales, from individual galaxies to galaxy clusters. N-body simulations have established that the friends-of-friends (FOF) mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Zarija Lukić , Darren Reed , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann

We perform a series of high-resolution N-body simulations of cosmological structure formation starting from Gaussian and non-Gaussian initial conditions. We adopt the best-fitting cosmological parameters of WMAP (3rd- and 5th-year) and we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Annalisa Pillepich , Cristiano Porciani , Oliver Hahn

We investigate the dependence of the mass function of dark-matter haloes on their environment within the cosmic web of large-scale structure. A dependence of the halo mass function on large-scale mean density is a standard element of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 David Alonso , Elizabeth Eardley , John A. Peacock

The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) is China's upcoming next-generation ultraviolet and optical survey telescope, with imaging resolution capabilities comparable to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). In this study, we utilized a…

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