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A {\it stochastic adhesion} model is introduced, with the purpose of describing the formation and evolution of mildly nonlinear structures, such as sheets and filaments, in the intergalactic medium (IGM), after hydrogen reionization. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sabino Matarrese , Roya Mohayaee

We present a field-level emulator for large-scale structure, capturing the cosmology dependence and the time evolution of cosmic structure formation. The emulator maps linear displacement fields to their corresponding nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-15 Drew Jamieson , Yin Li , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , David N. Spergel

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

We present a new method of finding cosmic voids using tomographic maps of Ly{\alpha} forest flux. We identify cosmological voids with radii of 2 - 12 $h^{-1}$Mpc in a large N-body simulation at $z = 2.5$, and characterize the signal of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Casey W. Stark , Andreu Font-Ribera , Martin White , Khee-Gan Lee

We study the evolution with redshift, from z=5 to z=0, of the Lyman-alpha forest in a CDM model using numerical simulations including collisionless particles only. The baryonic component is assumed to follow the dark matter distribution. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Riediger , P. Petitjean , J. P. Muecket

We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project to make predictions for the covering fractions of neutral hydrogen around galaxies at z=2-4. These simulations resolve the interstellar medium of galaxies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , P. F. Hopkins , D. Keres , A. L. Muratov , E. Quataert , N. Murray

Hydro cosmological simulations reveal that massive galaxies at high redshift are fed by long narrow streams of merging galaxies and a smoother component of cold gas. We post-process seven high-resolution simulated galaxies with radiative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Michele Fumagalli , J. Xavier Prochaska , Daniel Kasen , Avishai Dekel , Daniel Ceverino , Joel R. Primack

Lyman limit and damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems probe the distribution of collapsed, cold gas at high redshift. Numerical simulations that incorporate gravity and gas dynamics can predict the abundance of such absorbers in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeffrey P. Gardner , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist , David H. Weinberg

The understanding of the large-scale structure formation requires the resolution of coupled nonlinear equations describing the cosmic density and velocity fields. This is a complicated problem that, for the last decade, has been essentially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bernardeau

A convincing physical picture for the Lyman-alpha forest has emerged from simulations and related semi-analytic studies of structure formation models. Observations can be be used in the context of this picture to study cosmology using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rupert Croft , David Weinberg , Neal Katz , Lars Hernquist

We investigate the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) that forms within N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in a \LambdaCDM cosmology. When radiative cooling and a simple model for galactic feedback are included,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas , Adrian Jenkins , Frazer R. Pearce

We use an automated Voigt-profile fitting procedure to extract statistical properties of the Ly$\alpha$ forest in a numerical simulation of an $\Omega=1$, cold dark matter (CDM) universe. Our analysis method is similar to that used in most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Romeel Davé , Lars Hernquist , David H. Weinberg , Neal Katz

The cosmic web consists of a complex configuration of voids, walls, filaments, and clusters, which formed under the gravitational collapse of Gaussian fluctuations. Understanding under what conditions these different structures emerge from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-08 Job Feldbrugge , Rien van de Weygaert

We present results from the first high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of non-Gaussian cosmological models. We focus on the statistical properties of the transmitted Lyman-alpha flux in the high redshift intergalactic medium. Imprints…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-26 M. Viel , E. Branchini , K. Dolag , M. Grossi , S. Matarrese , L. Moscardini

We study the detailed structure of galaxies at redshifts z > 2 using cosmological simulations with improved modeling of the interstellar medium and star formation. The simulations follow the formation and dissociation of molecular hydrogen,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-21 Marcel Zemp , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

We present results for the cosmic non-linear density-fluctuation power spectrum based on the analytical formalism developed in [1] which allows us to study cosmic structure formation based on Newtonian particle dynamics in phase-space. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Tristan Daus , Elena Kozlikin

We use cosmological hydrodynamic simulations to investigate formation of galactic bulges within the framework of hierarchical clustering in a representative CDM cosmological model. We show that largest objects forming at cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Michael L. Norman , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We apply and test a field-level emulator for non-linear cosmic structure formation in a volume matching next-generation surveys. Inferring the cosmological parameters and initial conditions from which the particular galaxy distribution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Matthew T. Scoggins , Matthew Ho , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Drew Jamieson , Ludvig Doeser , Greg L. Bryan

Cosmological shock waves during structure formation not only play a decisive role for the thermalization of gas in virializing structures but also for the acceleration of relativistic cosmic rays (CRs) through diffusive shock acceleration.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Martin Jubelgas

We present a simulation of the cosmic evolution of the atomic and molecular phases of the cold hydrogen gas in about 3e7 galaxies, obtained by post-processing the virtual galaxy catalog produced by (De Lucia et al. 2007) on the Millennium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. Obreschkow , D. Croton , G. De Lucia , S. Khochfar , S. Rawlings