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We develop a new and simple method to model baryonic effects at the field level relevant for weak lensing analyses. We analyze thousands of state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations from the CAMELS project, each with different cosmology and…

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High resolution cosmological N-body simulations of four galaxy-scale dark matter halos are compared to corresponding N-body/hydrodynamical simulations containing dark matter, stars and gas. The simulations without baryons share features…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Gustafsson , Malcolm Fairbairn , Jesper Sommer-Larsen

We examine the impact of baryonic physics on the halo distribution in hydrodynamic simulations (Illustris, IllustrisTNG, and EAGLE), particularly with regards to how it differs from that in dark matter only (DMO) simulations. We find that,…

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We quantify the cosmological spread of baryons relative to their initial neighboring dark matter distribution using thousands of state-of-the-art simulations from the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS)…

The next generation of cosmology surveys will probe the matter distribution of the universe to unparalleled precision. To match this level of precision in cosmological parameter estimation, we need to use information at small scales of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Nihar Dalal , Chun-Hao To , Chris Hirata , Tae Hyeon-Shin , Matt Hilton , Shivam Pandey , J. Richard Bond

Baryonic feedback is a leading contaminant in studying dark matter and cosmology using cosmic shear. This has meant omitting much of the data during cosmological inference, or forward-modeling the spatial distribution of gas around dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Calvin Leung , Josh Borrow , Kiyoshi W. Masui , Shion Andrew , Kai-Feng Chen , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller

We critically examine how the evolution of the matter density field in cosmological simulations is affected by details of setting up initial conditions. We show that it is non-trivial to realise an initial distribution of matter in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Naoki Yoshida , Naoshi Sugiyama , Lars Hernquist

We present a new method for modeling inhomogeneous cosmic reionization on large scales. Utilizing high-resolution radiation-hydrodynamic simulations with 2048^3 dark matter particles, 2048^3 gas cells, and 17 billion adaptive rays in a L =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Nick Battaglia , Hy Trac , Renyue Cen , Abraham Loeb

Dark matter (DM) particles can interact with particles of the standard model. Although there are a number of constraints derived from direct and indirect detection experiments, the evolution of astrophysical objects could offer a promising…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Moritz S. Fischer , Klaus Dolag , Mathias Garny , Vera Gluscevic , Frederick Groth , Ethan O. Nadler

We study three cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way(MW)-sized halos including a comparison with the dark matter(DM)-only counterparts. We find one of our simulated galaxies with interesting MW-like features. Thanks to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Pol Mollitor , Emmanuel Nezri , Romain Teyssier

The back-reaction of baryons on the dark matter halo density profile is of great interest, not least because it is an important systematic uncertainty when attempting to detect the dark matter. Here, we draw on a large suite of high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-01 Alan R. Duffy , Joop Schaye , Scott T. Kay , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Richard A. Battye , C. M. Booth

The role of baryonic physics, star formation, and stellar feedback, in shaping the galaxies and their host halos is an evolving topic. The dark matter aspects are illustrated in this work by showing distribution features in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 A. Núñez-Castiñeyra , E. Nezri , P. Mollitor , J. Devriendt , R. Teyssier

Baryonic feedback effects consist of a major systematic for upcoming weak-lensing and galaxy-clustering surveys. In this paper, we present an emulator for the baryonic suppression of the matter power spectrum. The emulator is based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-05 Sambit K. Giri , Aurel Schneider

We recently developed a generalization of the halo model in order to describe the spatial clustering properties of each mass component in the Universe, including hot gas and stars. In this work we discuss the complementarity of the model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 C. Fedeli , E. Semboloni , M. Velliscig , M. Van Daalen , J. Schaye , H. Hoekstra

We present an analysis of the effects of baryon physics on the halo mass function. The analysis is based on simulations of a cosmological volume. Besides a Dark Matter (DM) only simulation, we also carry out two other hydrodynamical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Weiguang Cui , Stefano Borgani , Klaus Dolag , Giuseppe Murante , Luca Tornatore

We study the baryon mass fraction in a set of hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters performed using the Tree+SPH code GADGET-2. We investigate the dependence of the baryon fraction upon the radiative cooling, star formation,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Ettori , K. Dolag , S. Borgani , G. Murante

Baryonic physical processes could leave non-negligible imprint on cosmic matter distribution pattern. Series of high precision simulation data sets with identical initial condition are employed for count-in-cell (CIC) analysis, including…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiaojun Zhu , Jun Pan

We present a new analytical description of cosmic structure formation in a mixture of dark and baryonic matter, using the framework of Kinetic Field Theory (KFT) -- a statistical field theory for classical particle dynamics. So far, KFT has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Daniel Geiss , Ivan Kostyuk , Robert Lilow , Matthias Bartelmann

We investigate the influence of dark energy on structure formation, within five different cosmological models, namely a concordance $\Lambda$CDM model, two models with dynamical dark energy, viewed as a quintessence scalar field (using a RP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cristiano De Boni , Klaus Dolag , Stefano Ettori , Lauro Moscardini , Valeria Pettorino , Carlo Baccigalupi

We present the first set of high-resolution, hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of galaxy formation in a Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) framework. These simulations were performed with a new version of the GASOLINE2 code, known as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-18 Matteo Nori , Shubhan Bhatia , Andrea V. Macciò