Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

P Dayal, A Ferrara - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Galaxy formation is at the heart of our understanding of cosmic evolution. Although there is a
consensus that galaxies emerged from the expanding matter background by gravitational …

Beyond ΛCDM: Problems, solutions, and the road ahead

P Bull, Y Akrami, J Adamek, T Baker, E Bellini… - Physics of the Dark …, 2016 - Elsevier
Despite its continued observational successes, there is a persistent (and growing) interest in
extending cosmology beyond the standard model, Λ CDM. This is motivated by a range of …

Simulating cosmic structure formation with the gadget-4 code

V Springel, R Pakmor, O Zier… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Numerical methods have become a powerful tool for research in astrophysics, but their utility
depends critically on the availability of suitable simulation codes. This calls for continuous …

UniverseMachine: The correlation between galaxy growth and dark matter halo assembly from z = 0−10

P Behroozi, RH Wechsler, AP Hearin… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a method to flexibly and self-consistently determine individual galaxies' star
formation rates (SFRs) from their host haloes' potential well depths, assembly histories, and …

MultiDark simulations: the story of dark matter halo concentrations and density profiles

A Klypin, G Yepes, S Gottlöber… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Predicting structural properties of dark matter haloes is one of the fundamental goals of
modern cosmology. We use the suite of MultiDark cosmological simulations to study the …

A forward modeling approach to analyzing galaxy clustering with SimBIG

CH Hahn, M Eickenberg, S Ho, J Hou… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We present cosmological constraints from a simulation-based inference (SBI) analysis of
galaxy clustering from the SimBIG forward modeling framework. SimBIG leverages the …

Physical models of galaxy formation in a cosmological framework

RS Somerville, R Davé - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Dark matter substructure in numerical simulations: a tale of discreteness noise, runaway instabilities, and artificial disruption

FC van den Bosch, G Ogiya - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
To gain understanding of the complicated, non-linear, and numerical processes associated
with the tidal evolution of dark matter subhaloes in numerical simulation, we perform a large …

The rockstar phase-space temporal halo finder and the velocity offsets of cluster cores

PS Behroozi, RH Wechsler, HY Wu - The Astrophysical Journal, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new algorithm for identifying dark matter halos, substructure, and tidal
features. The approach is based on adaptive hierarchical refinement of friends-of-friends …

An accurate halo model for fitting non-linear cosmological power spectra and baryonic feedback models

AJ Mead, JA Peacock, C Heymans… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present an optimized variant of the halo model, designed to produce accurate matter
power spectra well into the non-linear regime for a wide range of cosmological models. To …