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We provide a simple toy model to elucidate the effects of baryonic cooling on predictions of the convergence power spectrum in weak gravitational lensing. Our model suggests that the effects of baryonic cooling on dark matter halo profiles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Martin White

The impact of feedback from galaxy formation on cosmological probes is typically quantified in terms of the suppression of the matter power spectrum in hydrodynamical compared to gravity-only simulations. In this paper, we instead study how…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-29 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Anik Halder , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , John Helly , Robert J. McGibbon , Willem Elbers

The large-scale clustering of matter is impacted by baryonic physics, particularly AGN feedback. Modelling or mitigating this impact will be essential for making full use of upcoming measurements of cosmic shear and other large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Simon Foreman , William Coulton , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Alexandre Barreira

We study the dissipative effects of baryon physics on cosmic statistics at small scales using a cosmological simulation of a (50 Mpc/h)^3 volume of the universe. The MareNostrum simulation was performed using the AMR code RAMSES, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Guillet , R. Teyssier , S. Colombi

Feedback from active galactic nuclei and stellar processes changes the matter distribution on small scales, leading to significant systematic uncertainty in weak lensing constraints on cosmology. We investigate how the observable properties…

The redistribution of baryonic matter in massive halos through processes like active galactic nuclei feedback and star formation leads to a suppression of the matter power spectrum on small scales. This redistribution can be measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Sebastian Grandis , Giovanni Arico' , Aurel Schneider , Laila Linke

Upcoming weak lensing (WL) surveys such as those by {\it Euclid}, LSST, and {\it Roman} require percent-level control over systematic effects. A common approach to mitigating baryonic effects uses semi-analytic baryon correction models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Max E. Lee , Zoltan Haiman , Shy Genel

Measurements of the shear induced by weak gravitational lensing around galaxy cluster lines of sight are the gold standard for calibrating cluster observable-mass relations, thereby enabling a robust and precise inference of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 S. Bocquet , A. Fumagalli , C. T. Davies , K. Dolag , S. Grandis , J. J. Mohr

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 use the small scales of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year-3 cosmic shear measurements, which are excluded from the DES Year-3 cosmological analysis, to constrain the baryonic feedback. To model the baryonic feedback, we adopt a baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 A. Chen , G. Aricò , D. Huterer , R. Angulo , N. Weaverdyck , O. Friedrich , L. F. Secco , C. Hernández-Monteagudo , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , G. M. Bernstein , J. Blazek , A. Brandao-Souza , S. L. Bridle , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , P. Chintalapati , A. Choi , J. Cordero , M. Crocce , M. E. S. Pereira , C. Davis , J. DeRose , E. Di Valentino , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , X. Fang , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , K. Hoffmann , H. Huang , E. M. Huff , B. Jain , M. Jarvis , N. Jeffrey , T. Kacprzak , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , P. -F. Leget , P. Lemos , A. R. Liddle , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , Y. Omori , S. Pandey , Y. Park , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Raveri , A. Refregier , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , J. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , M. Aguena , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , E. Sanchez , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To

We study the effect of baryons on the cosmic web -- halos, filaments, walls, and voids. To do so, we apply a modified version of NEXUS, a cosmic web morphological analysis algorithm, to the IllustrisTNG simulations. We find that halos lose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 James Sunseri , Zack Li , Jia Liu

Cosmology from weak gravitational lensing has been limited by astrophysical uncertainties in baryonic feedback and intrinsic alignments. By calibrating these effects using external data, we recover non-linear information, achieving a 2%…

Baryonic processes such as radiative cooling and feedback from massive stars and active galactic nuclei (AGN) directly redistribute baryons in the Universe but also indirectly redistribute dark matter due to changes in the gravitational…

Massive neutrinos, due to their free streaming, produce a suppression in the matter power spectrum at intermediate and small scales which could be probed by galaxy clustering and/or weak lensing observables. This effect happens at scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 Gabriele Parimbelli , Matteo Viel , Emiliano Sefusatti

Upcoming cosmic shear analyses will precisely measure the cosmic matter distribution at low redshifts. At these redshifts, the matter distribution is affected by galaxy formation physics, primarily baryonic feedback from star formation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-02 Chun-Hao To , Shivam Pandey , Elisabeth Krause , Nihar Dalal , Dhayaa Anbajagane , David H. Weinberg

We quantify two main pathways through which baryonic physics biases cluster count cosmology. We create mock cluster samples that reproduce the baryon content inferred from X-ray observations. We link clusters to their counterparts in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 Stijn N. B. Debackere , Joop Schaye , Henk Hoekstra

Baryon feedback redistributes gas relative to the underlying dark matter distribution and suppresses the matter power spectrum on small scales, but the amplitude and scale dependence of this effect are uncertain. We constrain the impact of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-03 Jared Siegel , Leah Bigwood , Alexandra Amon , Jamie McCullough , Masaya Yamamoto , Ian G. McCarthy , Matthieu Schaller , Aurel Schneider , Joop Schaye

We provide scaling relations and fitting formulae for adiabatic cold dark matter cosmologies that account for all baryon effects in the matter transfer function to better than 10% in the large-scale structure regime. They are based upon a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-15 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Wayne Hu

We study the effect of baryonic processes on the halo mass function in the galaxy cluster mass range using a catalogue of 153 high resolution cosmological hydrodynamical simulations performed with the AMR code ramses. We use the results of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Davide Martizzi , Irshad Mohammed , Romain Teyssier , Ben Moore

Accurate and parsimonious quantification of baryonic feedback on matter distribution is of crucial importance for understanding both cosmology and galaxy formation from observational data. This is, however, challenging given the large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Shurui Lin , Yin Li , Shy Genel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Biwei Dai , Wentao Luo , Yang Wang