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Initial conditions for (Newtonian) cosmological N-body simulations are usually set by re-scaling the present-day power spectrum obtained from linear (relativistic) Boltzmann codes to the desired initial redshift of the simulation. This…

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We investigate the morphological properties of large-scale structure in the Universe and the physical processes that modify the excursion-set morphology of the three-dimensional matter density field. Using the Quijote N-body simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Priya Goyal , Stephen Appleby , Pravabati Chingangbam , Changbom Park

Primordial non-Gaussianities provide an important test of inflationary models. Although the Planck CMB experiment has produced strong limits on non-Gaussianity on scales of clusters, there is still room for considerable non-Gaussianity on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Mélanie Habouzit , Takahiro Nishimichi , Sébastien Peirani , Gary A. Mamon , Joseph Silk , Jacopo Chevallard

We investigate the amount of primordial information that can be reconstructed from spectroscopic galaxy surveys, as well as what sets the noise in reconstruction at low wavenumbers, by studying a simplified universe in which galaxies are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-23 Matthew McQuinn

We present $\texttt{MG-evolution}$, an $N$-body code simulating the cosmological structure formation for parametrised modifications of gravity. It is built from the combination of parametrised linear theory with a parametrisation of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-03 Farbod Hassani , Lucas Lombriser

Galaxy clusters are powerful probes of astrophysics and cosmology through gravitational lensing: the clusters' mass, dominated by 85% dark matter, distorts background light. Yet, mass reconstruction lacks the scalability and large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Diego Royo , Brandon Zhao , Adolfo Muñoz , Diego Gutierrez , Katherine L. Bouman

The set-up of the initial conditions in cosmological N-body simulations is usually implemented by rescaling the desired low-redshift linear power spectrum to the required starting redshift consistently with the Newtonian evolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Matteo Zennaro , Julien Bel , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Carmelita Carbone , Emiliano Sefusatti , Luigi Guzzo

Nonlinear approximation methods such as the Zeldovich approximation, and more recently the frozen flow and linear potential approximations, are sometimes used to simulate nonlinear gravitational instability in the expanding Universe. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Munshi , A. A. Starobinsky

We present a large-scale Bayesian inference framework to constrain cosmological parameters using galaxy redshift surveys, via an application of the Alcock-Paczy\'nski (AP) test. Our physical model of the non-linearly evolved density field,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Guilhem Lavaux , Jens Jasche , Benjamin D. Wandelt

[Abridged]: A detection or nondetection of primordial non-Gaussianity by using the CMB data is crucial not only to discriminate inflationary models but also to test alternative scenarios. Non-Gaussianity offers, therefore, a powerful probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-14 A. Bernui , M. J. Reboucas

If a magnetic field is frozen into a plasma that undergoes spherical compression then the magnetic field B varies with the plasma density \rho according to B \propto \rho^{2/3}. In the gravitational collapse of cosmological density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emma J. King , Peter Coles

Herein, we present a deep-learning technique for reconstructing the dark-matter density field from the redshift-space distribution of dark-matter halos. We built a UNet-architecture neural network and trained it using the COmoving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-21 Zitong Wang , Feng Shi , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li , Yanming Liu , Xiaoping Li

Geophysical and other natural processes often exhibit non-stationary covariances and this feature is important to take into account for statistical models that attempt to emulate the physical process. A convolution-based model is used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-23 Douglas Nychka , Dorit Hammerling , Mitchell Krock , Ashton Wiens

Among several analytic approximations for the growth of density fluctuations in the expanding Universe, Zel'dovich approximation in Lagrangian coordinate scheme is known to be unusually accurate even in mildly non-linear regime. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takahiko Matsubara , Ayako Yoshisato , Masahiro Morikawa

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm that infers the three-dimensional large-scale matter distribution from the weak gravitational lensing effects measured in the image shapes of galaxies. The algorithm is designed to also work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Vanessa Böhm , Stefan Hilbert , Maksim Greiner , Torsten A. Enßlin

Efficient assessment of convolved hidden Markov models is discussed. The bottom-layer is defined as an unobservable categorical first-order Markov chain, while the middle-layer is assumed to be a Gaussian spatial variable conditional on the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-10-19 Torstein Fjeldstad , Henning Omre

We obtain approximations for the CDM particle trajectories starting from Lagrangian Perturbation Theory. These estimates for the CDM trajectories result in approximations for the density in real and redshift space, as well as for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Svetlin Tassev , Matias Zaldarriaga

We investigate how well the 3D density field of neutral hydrogen in the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) can be reconstructed using the Lyman-alpha absorptions observed along lines of sight to quasars separated by arcmin distances in projection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-29 S. Caucci , S. Colombi , C. Pichon , E. Rollinde , P. Petitjean , T. Sousbie

Understanding the nature of dark matter in the Universe is an important goal of modern cosmology. A key method for probing this distribution is via weak gravitational lensing mass-mapping - a challenging ill-posed inverse problem where one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jessica J. Whitney , Tobías I. Liaudat , Matthew A. Price , Matthijs Mars , Jason D. McEwen

Potential features in the primordial power spectrum have been searched for in galaxy surveys in recent years since these features can assist in understanding the nature of inflation. The null detection to date suggests that any such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-01 Yuhao Li , Hong-Ming Zhu , Baojiu Li