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Mass estimators are a key tool to infer the dark matter content in pressure-supported systems like dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). We construct an estimator for enclosed masses based on the virial theorem which is insensitive to…

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We present an implicit likelihood approach to quantifying cosmological information over discrete catalogue data, assembled as graphs. To do so, we explore cosmological parameter constraints using mock dark matter halo catalogues. We employ…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 T. Lucas Makinen , Tom Charnock , Pablo Lemos , Natalia Porqueres , Alan Heavens , Benjamin D. Wandelt

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

Persistence diagrams provide stable, interpretable summaries of geometric and topological structure and are useful for simulation-based inference when low-order statistics miss key information. Yet persistence-based pipelines require…

The observable universe contains density perturbations on scales larger than any finite volume survey. Perturbations on scales larger than a survey can measure degrade its power to constrain cosmological parameters. The dependence of survey…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Matthew C. Digman , Joseph E. McEwen , Christopher M. Hirata

We present cosmological constraints from weak lensing with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year (Y1) data, using a simulation-based inference (SBI) method. % We explore the performance of a set of higher-order statistics (HOS)…

The large catalogues of galaxy clusters expected from the Euclid survey will enable cosmological analyses of cluster number counts that require accurate cosmological model predictions. One possibility is to use parametric fits calibrated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 T. Gayoux , P. -S. Corasaniti , T. R. G. Richardson , S. T. Kay , A. M. C. Le Brun , L. Moscardini , L. Pizzuti , S. Borgani , M. Costanzi , C. Giocoli , S. Grandis , A. Ragagnin , J. Rhodes , I. Saez-Casares , M. Sereno , E. Sarpa , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , A. Biviano , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , S. Camera , G. Canas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , G. De Lucia , H. Dole , F. Dubath , C. A. J. Duncan , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , S. Farrens , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Gillis , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , E. Keihanen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , B. Kubik , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , O. Lahav , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , D. Maino , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , S. Marcin , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , E. Munari , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , P. Simon , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , J. Steinwagner , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , G. Zamorani , E. Zucca , C. Burigana , M. Maturi , V. Scottez , M. Viel

We measure the Voronoi density probability distribution function (PDF) for both dark matter and halos in N-body simulations. For the dark matter, Voronoi densities represent the matter density field smoothed on a uniform mass scale, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

We study halo mass functions with high-resolution $N$-body simulations under a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Our simulations adopt the cosmological model that is consistent with recent measurements of the cosmic microwave backgrounds with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Masato Shirasaki , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Shin'ichiro Ando

Galaxy clusters and cosmic voids, the most extreme objects of our Universe in terms of mass and size, trace two opposite sides of the large-scale matter density field. By studying their abundance as a function of their mass and radius,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 Davide Pelliciari , Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Lauro Moscardini , Carlo Giocoli , Giorgio Francesco Lesci , Klaus Dolag

A robust finite volume method for viscoelastic flow analysis on general unstructured meshes is developed. It is built upon a general-purpose stabilization framework for high Weissenberg number flows. The numerical framework provides full…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-12-08 Matthias Niethammer , Holger Marschall , Christian Kunkelmann , Dieter Bothe

The simplest scheme for predicting real galaxy properties after performing a dark matter simulation is to rank order the real systems by stellar mass and the simulated systems by halo mass and then simply assume monotonicity - that the more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-22 Stephanie Tonnesen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Stochastic Galerkin methods can quantify uncertainty at a fraction of the computational expense of conventional Monte Carlo techniques, but such methods have rarely been studied for modelling shallow water flows. Existing stochastic shallow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-16 James Shaw , Georges Kesserwani

We re-examine a genuine power of weak lensing bispectrum tomography for constraining cosmological parameters, when combined with the power spectrum tomography, based on the Fisher information matrix formalism. To account for the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-21 Issha Kayo , Masahiro Takada

We present and test a method that dramatically reduces variance arising from the sparse sampling of wavemodes in cosmological simulations. The method uses two simulations which are fixed (the initial Fourier mode amplitudes are fixed to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Raul E. Angulo , Andrew Pontzen

The abundance of galaxy clusters can constrain both the geometry and growth of structure in our Universe. However, this probe could be significantly complicated by recent claims of nonuniversality -- non-trivial dependences with respect to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Giulia Despali , Carlo Giocoli , Raul E. Angulo , Giuseppe Tormen , Ravi K. Sheth , Giacomo Baso , Lauro Moscardini

The growth rate of large-scale structure provides a powerful consistency test of the standard cosmological model and a probe of possible deviations from general relativity. We use a Fisher analysis to forecast constraints on the growth rate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-02 Jan-Albert Viljoen , José Fonseca , Roy Maartens

Void size function (VSF) contains information of the cosmic large-scale structure (LSS), and can be used to derive the properties of dark energy and dark matter. We predict the VSFs measured from the spectroscopic galaxy survey operated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Yingxiao Song , Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Jiaxin Han , Guoliang Li , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Yu Luo , Wenxiang Pei , Chengliang Wei

The clustering of galaxies in ongoing and upcoming galaxy surveys contains a wealth of cosmological information, but extracting this information is a non-trivial task since galaxies and their host haloes are stochastic tracers of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Tobias Baldauf , Uroš Seljak , Robert E. Smith , Nico Hamaus , Vincent Desjacques

We present a novel high order semi-implicit hybrid finite volume/virtual element numerical scheme for the solution of compressible flows on Voronoi tessellations. The method relies on the flux splitting of the compressible Navier-Stokes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Walter Boscheri , Saray Busto , Michael Dumbser