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We analyze the public DESI full-shape clustering data using simulation-based priors (SBPs). Our priors are obtained by fitting normalizing flows to the distribution of EFT parameters measured from field-level simulations, themselves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Anton Chudaykin , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Oliver H. E. Philcox

We use giga-particle N-body simulations to study galaxy cluster populations in Hubble Volumes of LCDM (Omega_m=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7) and tCDM (Omega_m=1) world models. Mapping past light-cones of locations in the computational space, we…

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…

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In cosmology numerical simulations of structure formation are now of central importance, as they are the sole instrument for providing detailed predictions of current cosmological models for a whole class of important constraining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Joyce

We present the largest collisionless $N$-body cosmological simulations in a MOdified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) cosmology to date. Our 4 simulations cover $\Lambda$CDM as a baseline, a MOND with hot dark matter model known as $\nu$HDM, and 2…

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We simulate the formation and evolution of the local galaxy population starting from initial conditions with a smoothed linear density field which matches that derived from the IRAS 1.2 Jy galaxy survey. Our simulations track the formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Mathis , G. Lemson , V. Springel , G. Kauffmann , S. D. M. White , A. Eldar , A. Dekel

The standard model of cosmology, the $\Lambda$CDM model, describes the evolution of the Universe since the Big Bang with just a few parameters, six in its basic form. Despite being the simplest model, direct late-time measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Lavinia Heisenberg , Hector Villarrubia-Rojo

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

We compute the constraints on a ``standard'' 10 parameter cold dark matter (CDM) model from the most recent CMB and data and other observations, exploring 30 million discrete models and two continuous parameters. Our parameters are the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Max Tegmark , Matias Zaldarriaga

We use the physically-consistent tilted spatially-flat and untilted non-flat $\Lambda$CDM inflation models to constrain cosmological parameter values with the Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data and recent Type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-19 Chan-Gyung Park , Bharat Ratra

We study the clustering of the mass distribution in COBE-normalized open and flat CDM models using large N-body simulations. With an age of the universe of 14 Gyr (12 Gyr) for the flat (open) models and a baryon density fixed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shaun Cole , David H. Weinberg , Carlos S. Frenk , Bharat Ratra

A computer code to simulate temporal evolution of overdensities in a one-dimensional Universe is presented for didactic purposes. The formation of large scale structures in this one-dimensional universe can be studied both in matter or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Costantino Sigismondi

We present $24$ cosmological dark matter (DM)-only zoom-in simulations of a Milky Way analog with initial conditions appropriate for scenarios where non-cold dark matter (NCDM) is a fraction of the total DM abundance (f-NCDM models) as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Rui An , Ethan O. Nadler , Andrew Benson , Vera Gluscevic

We investigate a phenomenological extension of the standard $\Lambda$CDM framework, the $\Omega_1\Omega_2$-$\Lambda$CDM model, in which the total energy density of the universe is expanded in powers of $1+z$. This parameterization recovers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Suresh Kumar

An analysis of cosmological models in spatially flat Friedmann Universe with cosmic gravitational wave background and zero $\Lambda$-term is presented. The number of free parameters is equal to 5, they are $\sigma_8$, $n$, $\Omega_\nu$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. V. Mikheeva , V. N. Lukash , N. A. Arkhipova , A. M. Malinovsky

Small-scale discrepancies in the standard Lambda cold dark matter paradigm have motivated the exploration of alternative dark matter (DM) models, such as warm dark matter (WDM). We investigate the constraining power of galaxy scaling…

We exmaine the distribution of hot gas in a standard CDM model of the universe using high resolution hydrodynamic simulations. Adopting standard parameters determined from COBE and light element nucleosynthesis, $\sigma_8=1.05$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Hyesung Kang , Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Dongsu Ryu

The status of the standard cosmological model, also known as "LCDM" is described. With some simple assumptions, this model fits a wide range of data, with just six (or seven) free parameters. One should be skeptical about this claim, since…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Douglas Scott

We investigate the claim that the largest subhaloes in high resolution dissipationless cold dark matter (CDM) simulations of the Milky Way are dynamically inconsistent with observations of its most luminous satellites. We find that the…

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