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Cold dark matter (CDM) constitutes most of the matter in the Universe. The interplay between dark and luminous matter in dense cosmic environments like galaxy clusters is studied theoretically using cosmological simulations. Observed…

We analyze a new large-scale ($100h^{-1}$Mpc) numerical hydrodynamic simulation of the popular $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model, including in our treatment dark matter, gas and star-formation, on the basis of standard physical processes. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Alex Laguë , Bodo Schwabe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers

New simulations are presented which investigate the formation of smaller groups of galaxies in a CDM like universe. The simulations follow the evolution of dark matter and gas and are performed with an SPH code adapted for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Matthias Steinmetz

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

Six challenges for the standard cosmological model $\Lambda$CDM are listed, which arise when comparing theoretical predictions with observational data on scales of ~1 Mpc. Different parameters of luminous and dwarf galaxies in the local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-29 I. D. Karachentsev

We analyze the effect of dissipation on the shapes of dark matter (DM) halos using high-resolution cosmological gasdynamics simulations of clusters and galaxies in the LCDM cosmology. We find that halos formed in simulations with gas…

The structural and dynamic properties of the dark matter halos, though an important ingredient in understanding large-scale structure formation, require more conservative particle resolution than those required by halo mass alone in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-23 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Premvijay Velmani

In this paper, we present the Discovery simulations: a new pair of high-resolution N-body simulations motivated by the DESI Y1 BAO cosmological constraints on dark energy. The Discovery simulations were run with identical initial…

We perform a set of high-resolution, dissipationless N-body simulations to investigate the influence of cold dark matter (CDM) substructure on the dynamical evolution of thin galactic disks. Our method combines cosmological simulations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Stelios Kazantzidis , Andrew R. Zentner , James S. Bullock

We explore the impact of a LWDM cosmological scenario on the clustering properties of large-scale structure in the Universe. We do this by extending the halo model. The new development is that we consider two components to the mass density:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Robert E. Smith , Katarina Markovic

Observations of multiple-image gravitational lens systems suggest that the projected mass distributions of galaxy haloes may contain substantial inhomogeneities. The fraction of the halo mass in dense substructure is still highly uncertain,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James E. Taylor , Arif Babul

In this study we show how errors due to finite box size affect formation and destruction rate for haloes in cosmological N-body simulations. In an earlier study we gave an analytic prescription of finding the corrections in the mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jayanti Prasad

I present a large set of high resolution simulations, called CosmicGrowth Simulations, which were generated with either 8.6 billion or 29 billion particles. As the nominal cosmological model that can match nearly all observations on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-28 Y. P. Jing

We study cosmological structure formation with ultralight axion dark matter, or "fuzzy dark matter (FDM), using a particle-mesh scheme to account for the quantum pressure arising in the Madelung formulation of the Schr\"odinger-Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 Jan Veltmaat , Jens C. Niemeyer

The cold dark matter (CDM) model faces persistent challenges on small scales. In particular, taken at face value, the model significantly overestimates the number of satellite galaxies around the Milky Way. Attempts to solve this problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 C. Boehm , J. A. Schewtschenko , R. J. Wilkinson , C. M. Baugh , S. Pascoli

I review cosmological simulations of X-ray clusters. Simulations have increased in resolution dramatically and the effects of radiative cooling, star formation feedback, and chemical enrichment on the ICM are being simulated. The structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Norman

Cosmological $N$-body simulations of the dark matter component of the universe typically use initial conditions with a fixed power spectrum and random phases of the density field, leading to structure consistent with the local distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Maxwell L. Hutt , Harry Desmond , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz

The bias of dark matter halos and galaxies is a crucial quantity in many cosmological analyses. In this work, using large cosmological simulations, we explore the halo mass function and halo bias within cosmic voids. For the first time to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Giovanni Verza , Carmelita Carbone , Alessandro Renzi

State-of-the-art cosmological simulations on classical computers are limited by time, energy, and memory usage. Quantum computers can perform some calculations exponentially faster than classical computers, using exponentially less energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Philip Mocz , Aaron Szasz