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We address the question of whether or not assembly bias arises in the absence of highly non-linear effects such as tidal stripping of halos near larger mass concentrations. Therefore, we use a simplified dynamical scheme where these effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose Ariel Keselman , Adi Nusser

A longstanding open question in the field of dense disordered matter is how precisely structure and dynamics are related to each other. With the advent of machine learning, it has become possible to agnostically predict the dynamic…

We report a series of high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations designed to explore the formation and properties of dark matter halos with masses close to the damping scale of the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Colin , O. Valenzuela , V. Avila-Reese

We build a simple analytical model for the bias of dark matter halos that applies to objects defined by an arbitrary density threshold, $200\leq\deltas\leq 1600$, and that provides accurate predictions from low-mass to high-mass halos. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Patrick Valageas

With the ever increasing resolution of N-body simulations, accurate subhalo detection is becoming essential in the study of the formation of structure, the production of merger trees and the seeding of semi-analytic models. To investigate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stuart I. Muldrew , Frazer R. Pearce , Chris Power

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation often rely on prescriptions for star formation and feedback that depend on halo properties such as halo mass, central over-density, and virial temperature. In this paper we address the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Trenti , B. D. Smith , E. J. Hallman , S. W. Skillman , J. M. Shull

We propose a new numerical procedure to simulate a single dark halo of any size and mass in a hierarchical framework coupling the extended Press-Schechter formalism (EPSF) to N-body simulations. The procedure consists of assigning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elena D'Onghia , Claudio Firmani , Guido Chincarini

The evolution of a dark matter halo in a dark matter only simulation is governed purely byNewtonian gravity, making a clean testbed to determine what halo properties drive its fate.Using machine learning, we predict the survival, mass loss,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Abigail Petulante , Andreas A. Berlind , J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Manodeep Sinha

This paper extends boolean particle swarm optimization to a multi-objective setting, to our knowledge for the first time in the literature. Our proposed new boolean algorithm, MBOnvPSO, is notably simplified by the omission of a velocity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Wei Quan , Denise Gorse

For many analyses in cosmology it is necessary to reconstruct the likely distribution of unobserved fields, such as dark matter or non-luminous baryons, from observed luminous tracers. The dominant approach in cosmology has been to use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jordan Krywonos , Yurii Kvasiuk , Matthew C. Johnson , Moritz Münchmeyer

Context. New-generation cosmological simulations are providing huge amounts of data, whose analysis becomes itself a cutting-edge computational problem. In particular, the identification of gravitationally bound structures, known as halo…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-10 David Vallés-Pérez , Susana Planelles , Vicent Quilis

The nature of dark matter is one of the most thrilling riddles for both cosmology and particle physics nowadays. While in the typical models the dark sector is composed only by weakly interacting massive particles, an arguably more natural…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-26 Urbano Franca , Roberto A. Lineros , Joaquim Palacio , Sergio Pastor

We present a model for the structure of the particle phase space average density ($P^2SAD$) in galactic haloes, introduced recently as a novel measure of the clustering of dark matter. Our model is based on the stable clustering hypothesis…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-05 Jesus Zavala , Niayesh Afshordi

Cosmological neutral hydrogen (HI) surveys provide a promising tomographic probe of the post-reionization era and of the standard model of cosmology. Simulations of this signal are crucial for maximizing the utility of these surveys. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Pascal Hitz , Pascale Berner , Devin Crichton , John Hennig , Alexandre Refregier

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

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

Comparing clustering of differently biased tracers of the dark matter distribution offers the opportunity to reduce the cosmic variance error in the measurement of certain cosmological parameters. We develop a formalism that includes bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-08 H. Gil-Marín , C. Wagner , L. Verde , R. Jimenez , A. F. Heavens

Cosmic voids provide a powerful probe of the origin and evolution of structures in the Universe because their dynamics can remain near-linear to the present day. As a result they have the potential to connect large scale structure at late…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stephen Stopyra , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen

In the realm of household robotics, the Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) task empowers agents to adeptly traverse unfamiliar environments and locate objects from novel categories without prior explicit training. This paper introduces…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Bingxian Wu , Yi Hou , Ji Ma , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

Navarro, Frenk, and White have suggested that the density profiles of simulated dark matter halos have a ``universal'' shape so that a given halo can be characterized by a single free parameter which fixes its mass. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Richard N. Henriksen , Lawrence M. Widrow