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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…

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We present a new and completely general technique for calculating the fine-grained phase-space structure of dark matter throughout the Galactic halo. Our goal is to understand this structure on the scales relevant for direct and indirect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Vogelsberger , Simon D. M. White , Amina Helmi , Volker Springel

Mock halo catalogues are indispensable data products for developing and validating cosmological inference pipelines. A major challenge in generating mock catalogues is modelling the halo or galaxy bias, which is the mapping from matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 Simon Ding , Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche

The properties of satellite halos provide a promising probe for dark matter (DM) physics. Observations have motivated current efforts to explain surprisingly compact DM halos. If DM is not collisionless, but has strong self-interactions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Moritz S. Fischer , Hai-Bo Yu , Klaus Dolag

We introduce the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Particle Swarm Optimizer (HMC-PSO), an optimization algorithm that reaps the benefits of both Exponentially Averaged Momentum PSO and HMC sampling. The coupling of the position and velocity of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Omatharv Bharat Vaidya , Rithvik Terence DSouza , Snehanshu Saha , Soma Dhavala , Swagatam Das

Analysis of large galaxy surveys requires confidence in the robustness of numerical simulation methods. The simulations are used to construct mock galaxy catalogs to validate data analysis pipelines and identify potential systematics. We…

Although high-resolution N-body simulations make robust empirical predictions for the density distribution within cold dark matter halos, these studies have yielded little physical insight into the origins of the distribution. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Liliya L. R. Williams , Arif Babul , Julianne J. Dalcanton

A simple model for a hot Local Group halo is constructed, using the standard beta-model for the halo density and by choosing model parameters based on all available observations of X-ray emission in other groups of galaxies and on optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jesper Rasmussen , Kristian Pedersen

Context: We present COSTA (COld STream finder Algorithm), a novel algorithm to search for cold kinematical substructures in the phase space of planetary nebulae (PNe) and globular clusters (GCs) in the halo of massive galaxies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 M. Gatto , N. R. Napolitano , C. Spiniello , G. Longo , M. Paolillo

Many real-world phenomena can be modelled as dynamic optimization problems. In such cases, the environment problem changes dynamically and therefore, conventional methods are not capable of dealing with such problems. In this paper, a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-01 Somayeh Nabizadeh , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammad Reza Meybodi

We use the halo occupation model to calibrate galaxy group finders in magnitude-limited redshift surveys. Since, according to the current scenario of structure formation, galaxy groups are associated with cold dark matter halos, we make use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , Y. P. Jing

Multi-swarm particle optimisation algorithms are gaining popularity due to their ability to locate multiple optimum points concurrently. In this family of algorithms, clustering-based multi-swarm algorithms are among the most effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yves Matanga , Yanxia Sun , Zenghui Wang

Discovering radio pulsars in compact binaries, whose orbital periods $P_{\rm b}$ satisfy $P_{\rm b} \lesssim 1 \, \rm{day}$, is computationally challenging, because the time-dependent pulse frequency $f_{\rm p}(t)$ is strongly Doppler…

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Artificial fragmentation of the matter density field causes the formation of spurious groups of particles in N-body simulations of non-standard Dark Matter (DM) models which are characterized by a small scale cut-off in the linear matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shankar Agarwal , Pier Stefano Corasaniti

We present the implementation of a halo based method for the reconstruction of the cosmic mass density field. The method employs the mass density distribution of dark matter haloes and its environments computed from cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 J. C. Muñoz-Cuartas , V. Mueller , J. Forero-Romero

We study the impact of numerical parameters on the properties of cold dark matter haloes formed in collisionless cosmological simulations. We quantify convergence in the median spherically-averaged circular velocity profiles for haloes of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-12 Aaron D. Ludlow , Joop Schaye , Richard Bower

Particle-Mesh (PM) codes are still very useful tools for testing predictions of cosmological models in cases when extra high resolution is not very important. We release for public use a cosmological PM N-body code. We provide a complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin , Jon Holtzman

In $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, galaxies form and evolve in their host dark matter (DM) halos. Halo mass is crucial for understanding the halo-galaxy connection. The abundance matching (AM) technique has been widely used to derive the halo…

We present astrophysical applications of the recently popular halo model to describe large scale structure clustering. We formulate the power spectrum, bispectrum and trispectrum of dark matter density field in terms of correlations within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Asantha Cooray

Cosmological N-body simulations have long suggested that the pseudo phase-space density (PPSD), $\rho/\sigma^3$, of cold dark matter haloes follows the universal relation $\rho/\sigma^3 \propto r^{\chi}$, with $\chi \approx -1.875$, as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Bocheng Feng , Ethan O. Nadler , S. Peng Oh , Suoqing Ji