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We use a set of numerical N-body simulations to study the large-scale behavior of the reduced bispectrum of dark matter and compare the results with the second-order perturbation theory and the halo models for different halo mass functions.…

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Gravitational softening length is one of the key parameters to properly set up a cosmological $N$-body simulation. In this paper, we perform a large suit of high-resolution $N$-body simulations to revise the optimal softening scheme…

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We train a machine learning algorithm to learn cosmological structure formation from N-body simulations. The algorithm infers the relationship between the initial conditions and the final dark matter haloes, without the need to introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Michelle Lochner

We present numerical N-body simulation studies of large-scale structure formation. The main purpose of these studies is to analyze the several models of dark matter and the role they played in the process of large-scale structure formation.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 M. A. Rodriguez-Meza

Cosmological neutrinos strongly affect the evolution of the largest structures in the Universe, i.e. galaxies and galaxy clusters. We use large box-size full hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the non-linear effects that massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-16 Federico Marulli , Carmelita Carbone , Matteo Viel , Lauro Moscardini , Andrea Cimatti

By using a suite of large box-size N-body simulations that incorporate massive neutrinos as an extra set of particles, we investigate the impact of neutrino masses on the spatial distribution of dark matter haloes and galaxies. We compute…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Federico Marulli , Matteo Viel , Enzo Branchini , Emanuele Castorina , Emiliano Sefusatti , Shun Saito

Adaptive SPH and N-body simulations were carried out to study the effect of gasdynamics on the structure of dark matter halos that result from the gravitational instability and fragmentation of cosmological pancakes. Such halos resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcelo Alvarez , Paul R. Shapiro , Hugo Martel

N-Body simulations are a very important tool in the study of formation of large scale structures. Much of the progress in understanding the physics of high redshift universe and comparison with observations would not have been possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. S. Bagla , Suryadeep Ray

We have investigated structure formation in the $\gamma$ gravity $f(R)$ model with {\it N}-body simulations. The $\gamma$ gravity model is a proposal which, unlike other viable $f(R)$ models, not only changes the gravitational dynamics, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Hans A. Winther , David F. Mota , Ioav Waga

We investigate how different cosmological parameters, such as those delivered by the WMAP and Planck missions, affect the nature and evolution of dark matter halo substructure. We use a series of flat $\Lambda$ cold dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Gregory A. Dooley , Brendan F. Griffen , Phillip Zukin , Alexander P. Ji , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars E. Hernquist , Anna Frebel

Modeling galaxy formation in a cosmological context presents one of the greatest challenges in astrophysics today, due to the vast range of scales and numerous physical processes involved. Here we review the current status of models that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Rachel S. Somerville , Romeel Davé

We train graph neural networks on halo catalogues from Gadget N-body simulations to perform field-level likelihood-free inference of cosmological parameters. The catalogues contain $\lesssim$5,000 halos with masses $\gtrsim…

Understanding the large-scale structure of the universe remains a fundamental challenge in cosmology, with computational simulations providing critical insights into non-linear structure growth. Particularly, computational simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Nitish Yadav

Theoretical models for structure formation with Gaussian initial fluctuations have been worked out in considerable detail and compared with observations on various scales. It is on nonlinear scales $\lsim 10 \ h^{-1}\ {\rm Mpc}$ that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joel R. Primack

In Hot or Warm Dark Matter universes the density fluctuations at early times contain very little power below a characteristic wavelength related inversely to the particle mass. We study how discreteness noise influences the growth of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-23 Jie Wang , Simon D. M. White

The standard numerical tools for studying non-linear collapse of matter are Newtonian $N$-body simulations. Previous work has shown that these simulations are in accordance with General Relativity (GR) up to first order in perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-07 Christian Fidler , Thomas Tram , Cornelius Rampf , Robert Crittenden , Kazuya Koyama , David Wands

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

We compare a large suite of theoretical cosmological models to observational data from the cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillation measurements of expansion, Type Ia SNe measurements of expansion, redshift space distortion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Zhongxu Zhai , Michael Blanton , Anže Slosar , Jeremy Tinker

N-body simulations were conducted of pairs of galaxies with a 3:1 mass ratio on parabolic orbits, in order to quantify the effect of dynamical friction. The effects of varying the ratio of the dark matter halo size to the distance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Roger E. Bartlett , Jane C. Charlton

We quantify the degree of nonlinearity and stochasticity of the clustering of biased objects, using cosmological N-body simulations. Adopting the peaks and the halos as representative biasing models, we focus on the two-point correlation of…

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