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2. guppy i: a code for reducing the storage requirements of cosmological simulations.
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Mansfield, Philip and Abel, Tom
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GUPPIES , *HIGH performance computing , *DARK matter , *RESEARCH personnel - Abstract
As cosmological simulations have grown in size, the permanent storage requirements of their particle data have also grown. Even modest simulations present a major logistical challenge for the groups which run these boxes and researchers without access to high performance computing facilities often need to restrict their analysis to lower quality data. In this paper, we present guppy , a compression algorithm and code base tailored to reduce the sizes of dark matter-only cosmological simulations by approximately an order of magnitude. guppy is a 'lossy' algorithm, meaning that it injects a small amount of controlled and uncorrelated noise into particle properties. We perform extensive tests on the impact that this noise has on the internal structure of dark matter haloes, and identify conservative accuracy limits which ensure that compression has no practical impact on single-snapshot halo properties, profiles, and abundances. We also release functional prototype libraries in C, Python, and Go for reading and creating guppy data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. A general method to reconstruct strong gravitational lenses based on the singular perturbative approach.
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Alard, C
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GRAVITATIONAL lenses , *DARK matter - Abstract
The number of gravitational arcs systems detected is increasing quickly and should even increase at a faster rate in the near future. This wealth of new gravitational arcs requires the development of a purely automated method to reconstruct the lens and source. A general reconstruction method based on the singular perturbative approach is proposed in this paper. This method generates a lens and source reconstruction directly from the gravitational arc image. The method is fully automated and works in two steps. The first step is to generate a guess solution based on the circular solution in the singular perturbative approach. The second step is to break the sign degeneracy and to refine the solution by using a general source model. The refinement of the solution is conducted step-by-step to avoid the source-lens degeneracy issue. One important asset of this automated method is that the lens solution is written in universal terms which allows the computation of statistics. Considering the large number of lenses which should be available in the near future this ability to compute unbiased statistics is an important asset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. The Merian survey: design, construction, and characterization of a filter set optimized to find dwarf galaxies and measure their dark matter halo properties with weak lensing.
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Luo, Yifei, Leauthaud, Alexie, Greene, Jenny, Huang, Song, Kado-Fong, Erin, Danieli, Shany, Li, Ting S, Li, Jiaxuan, Blanco, Diana, Wasleske, Erik J, Wick, Joseph, Mintz, Abby, Guan, Runquan, Peter, Annika H G, Baldassare, Vivienne, Brooks, Alyson, Banerjee, Arka, Bhattacharyya, Joy, Cai, Zheng, and Chen, Xinjun
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PROPERTIES of matter , *DWARF galaxies , *GRAVITATIONAL lenses , *DARK energy , *DARK matter , *GALACTIC redshift - Abstract
The Merian survey is mapping ∼ 850 deg2 of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Strategic Survey Program (HSC-SSP) wide layer with two medium-band filters on the 4-m Victor M. Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, with the goal of carrying the first high signal-to-noise (S/N) measurements of weak gravitational lensing around dwarf galaxies. This paper presents the design of the Merian filter set: N708 (λ c = 7080 Å, Δλ = 275 Å) and N540 (λ c = 5400 Å, Δλ = 210 Å). The central wavelengths and filter widths of N708 and N540 were designed to detect the |$\rm H\alpha$| and |$\rm [OIII]$| emission lines of galaxies in the mass range |$8\lt \rm \log M_*/M_\odot \lt 9$| by comparing Merian fluxes with HSC broad-band fluxes. Our filter design takes into account the weak lensing S/N and photometric redshift performance. Our simulations predict that Merian will yield a sample of ∼ 85 000 star-forming dwarf galaxies with a photometric redshift accuracy of σΔ z /(1 + z) ∼ 0.01 and an outlier fraction of |$\eta =2.8~{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$| over the redshift range 0.058 < z < 0.10. With 60 full nights on the Blanco/Dark Energy Camera (DECam), the Merian survey is predicted to measure the average weak lensing profile around dwarf galaxies with lensing S/N ∼32 within r < 0.5 Mpc and lensing S/N ∼90 within r < 1.0 Mpc. This unprecedented sample of star-forming dwarf galaxies will allow for studies of the interplay between dark matter and stellar feedback and their roles in the evolution of dwarf galaxies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. On the tension between the radial acceleration relation and Solar system quadrupole in modified gravity MOND.
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Desmond, Harry, Hees, Aurélien, and Famaey, Benoit
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MECHANICS (Physics) , *ACCELERATION (Mechanics) , *GRAVITY , *QUADRUPOLES , *GALACTIC bulges - Abstract
Modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), postulating a breakdown of Newtonian mechanics at low accelerations, has considerable success at explaining galaxy kinematics. However, the quadrupole of the gravitational field of the Solar system (SS) provides a strong constraint on the way in which Newtonian gravity can be modified. In this paper, we assess the extent to which the AQUAdratic Lagrangian (AQUAL) and QUasilinear MOND (QUMOND) modified gravity formulations of MOND are capable of accounting simultaneously for the radial acceleration relation (RAR), the Cassini measurement of the SS quadrupole and the kinematics of wide binaries in the Solar neighbourhood. We achieve this by inferring the location and sharpness of the MOND transition from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) RAR under broad assumptions for the behaviour of the interpolating function and external field effect. We constrain the same quantities from the SS quadrupole, finding that this requires a significantly sharper transition between the deep-MOND and Newtonian regimes than is allowed by the RAR (an 8.7σ tension under fiducial model assumptions). This may be relieved somewhat by allowing additional freedom in galaxies' mass-to-light ratios – which also improves the RAR fit – and more significantly (to 1.9σ) by removing galaxies with bulges. For the first time, we also apply to the SPARC RAR fit an AQUAL correction for flattened systems, obtaining similar results. Finally, we show that the SS quadrupole constraint implies, to high precision, no deviation from Newtonian gravity in nearby wide binaries, and speculate on possible resolutions of this tension between SS and galaxy data within the MOND paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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6. Project Dinos I: A joint lensing–dynamics constraint on the deviation from the power law in the mass profile of massive ellipticals.
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Tan, Chin Yi, Shajib, Anowar J, Birrer, Simon, Sonnenfeld, Alessandro, Treu, Tommaso, Wells, Patrick, Williams, Devon, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J, Drlica-Wagner, Alex, and Frieman, Joshua
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ELLIPTICAL galaxies , *DARK matter , *ASTROPHYSICS , *GALACTIC redshift , *SPACE telescopes , *STELLAR dynamics - Abstract
The mass distribution in massive elliptical galaxies encodes their evolutionary history, thus providing an avenue to constrain the baryonic astrophysics in their evolution. The power-law assumption for the radial mass profile in ellipticals has been sufficient to describe several observables to the noise level, including strong lensing and stellar dynamics. In this paper, we quantitatively constrained any deviation, or the lack thereof, from the power-law mass profile in massive ellipticals through joint lensing–dynamics analysis of a large statistical sample with 77 galaxy–galaxy lens systems. We performed an improved and uniform lens modelling of these systems from archival Hubble Space Telescope imaging using the automated lens modelling pipeline dolphin. We combined the lens model posteriors with the stellar dynamics to constrain the deviation from the power law after accounting for the line-of-sight lensing effects, a first for analyses on galaxy–galaxy lenses. We find that the Sloan Lens ACS Survey lens galaxies with a mean redshift of 0.2 are consistent with the power-law profile within 1.1σ (2.8σ) and the Strong Lensing Legacy Survey lens galaxies with a mean redshift of 0.6 are consistent within 0.8σ (2.1σ), for a spatially constant (Osipkov–Merritt) stellar anisotropy profile. We adopted the spatially constant anisotropy profile as our baseline choice based on previous dynamical observables of local ellipticals. However, spatially resolved stellar kinematics of lens galaxies are necessary to differentiate between the two anisotropy models. Future studies will use our lens models to constrain the mass distribution individually in the dark matter and baryonic components. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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7. Evidence for microlensing by primordial black holes in quasar broad emission lines.
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Hawkins, M R S
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BLACK holes , *QUASARS , *SEYFERT galaxies , *DARK matter , *GRAVITATIONAL waves , *MERGERS & acquisitions - Abstract
With the detection of black hole mergers by the LIGO gravitational wave telescope, there has been increasing interest in the possibility that dark matter may be in the form of solar mass primordial black holes. One of the predictions implicit in this idea is that compact clouds in the broad emission line regions of high-redshift quasars will be microlensed, leading to changes in line structure and the appearance of new emission features. In this paper, the effect of microlensing on the broad emission line region is reviewed by reference to gravitationally lensed quasar systems where microlensing of the emission lines can be unambiguously identified. It is then shown that although changes in Seyfert galaxy line profiles occur on time-scales of a few years, they are too nearby for a significant chance that they could be microlensed, and are plausibly attributed to intrinsic changes in line structure. In contrast, in a sample of 53 high-redshift quasars, 9 quasars show large changes in line profile at a rate consistent with microlensing. These changes occur on a time-scale an order of magnitude too short for changes associated with the dynamics of the emission line region. The main conclusion of the paper is that the observed changes in quasar emission line profiles are consistent with microlensing by a population of solar mass compact bodies making up the dark matter, although other explanations like intrinsic variability are possible. Such bodies are most plausibly identified as primordial black holes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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8. CSST large-scale structure analysis pipeline: I. Constructing reference mock galaxy redshift surveys.
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Gu, Yizhou, Yang, Xiaohu, Han, Jiaxin, Wang, Yirong, Li, Qingyang, Tan, Zhenlin, Jiang, Wenkang, Wang, Yaru, Wang, Jiaqi, Katsianis, Antonios, Xu, Xiaoju, Xu, Haojie, Hong, Wensheng, Mo, Houjun, Wen, Run, Zheng, Xianzhong, Shi, Feng, Zhang, Pengjie, Zhai, Zhongxu, and Liu, Chengze
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GALACTIC redshift , *GALAXY clusters , *REDSHIFT , *DARK matter , *DARK energy , *LARGE scale structure (Astronomy) - Abstract
In this paper, we set out to construct a set of reference mock galaxy redshift surveys (MGRSs) for the future Chinese Space-station Survey Telescope (CSST) observation, where subsequent survey selection effects can be added and evaluated. This set of MGRSs is generated using the dark matter subhaloes extracted from a high-resolution Jiutian N -body simulation of the standard lambda-cold dark matter cosmogony with Ω m = 0.3111, ΩΛ = 0.6889, and σ8 = 0.8102. The simulation has a box size of 1 h −1Gpc, and consists of 61443 particles with mass resolution |$3.723 \times 10^{8} \:h^{-1}\rm M_\odot$|. In order to take into account the effect of redshift evolution, we first use all 128 snapshots in the Jiutian simulation to generate a light-cone halo/subhalo catalogue. Next, galaxy luminosities are assigned to the main and subhalo populations using the subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) method with the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) z -band luminosity functions at different redshifts. Multiband photometries, as well as images, are then assigned to each mock galaxy using a 3D parameter space nearest-neighbour sampling of the DESI LS (Legacy Imaging Survey) observational galaxies and groups. Finally, the CSST and DESI LS survey geometry and magnitude limit cuts are applied to generate the required MGRSs. As we have checked, this set of MGRSs can generally reproduce the observed galaxy luminosity/mass functions within 0.1 dex for galaxies with L > 108 h -2 L⊙ (or M * > 108.5 h -2M⊙) and within 1σ level for galaxies with L < 108 h -2 L⊙ (or M * < 108.5 h -2 M⊙). Together with the CSST slitless spectra and redshifts for our DESI LS seed galaxies that are under construction, we will set out to test various slitless observational selection effects in subsequent probes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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9. Kinetically coupled scalar fields model and cosmological tensions.
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Liu, Gang, Zhou, Zhihuan, Mu, Yuhao, and Xu, Lixin
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MARKOV chain Monte Carlo , *SCALAR field theory , *MARKOV processes , *DARK matter , *TENSILE architecture , *DARK energy - Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the kinetically coupled early dark energy (EDE) and scalar field dark matter to address cosmological tensions. The EDE model presents an intriguing theoretical approach to resolving the Hubble tension, but it exacerbates the large-scale structure tension. We consider the interaction between dark matter and EDE, such that the drag of dark energy on dark matter suppresses structure growth, which can alleviate large-scale structure tension. We replace cold dark matter with scalar field dark matter, which has the property of suppressing structure growth on small scales. We employed the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to constrain the model parameters, our new model reveals a non-zero coupling constant of 0.030 ± 0.026 at a 68 per cent confidence level. The coupled model yields the Hubble constant value of |$72.38^{+0.71}_{-0.82}$| km s−1 Mpc−1, which resolves the Hubble tension. However, similar to the EDE model, it also obtains a larger S 8 value compared to the ΛCDM model, further exacerbating the large-scale structure tension. The EDE model and the new model yield the best-fitting values of 0.8316 and 0.8146 for S 8, respectively, indicating that the new model partially alleviates the negative effect of the EDE model. However, this signature disappears when comparing marginalized posterior probabilities, and both models produce similar results. The values obtained from the EDE model and the new model are |$0.822^{+0.011}_{-0.0093}$| and |$0.819^{+0.013}_{-0.0092}$| , respectively, at a 68 per cent confidence level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. Examining the self-interaction of dark matter through central cluster galaxy offsets.
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Cross, D, Thoron, G, Jeltema, T E, Swart, A, Hollowood, D L, Adhikari, S, Bocquet, S, Eiger, O, Everett, S, Jobel, J, Laubner, D, McDaniel, A, Aguena, M, Alves, O, Andrade-Oliveira, F, Bacon, D, Bertin, E, Brooks, D, Burke, D L, and Carnero Rosell, A
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DARK matter , *DARK energy , *GALAXY clusters , *ASTRONOMICAL surveys , *GALACTIC redshift , *CLUSTER sampling , *X-rays - Abstract
While collisionless cold dark matter models have been largely successful in explaining a wide range of observational data, some tensions still exist, and it remains possible that dark matter possesses a non-negligible level of self-interactions. In this paper, we investigate a possible observable consequence of self-interacting dark matter: offsets between the central galaxy and the centre of mass of its parent halo. We examine 23 relaxed galaxy clusters in a redshift range of 0.1–0.3 drawn from clusters in the Dark Energy Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey which have archival Chandra X-ray data of sufficient depth for centre and relaxation determination. We find that most clusters in our sample show non-zero offsets between the X-ray centre, taken to be the centroid within the cluster core, and the central galaxy position. All of the measured offsets are larger, typically by an order of magnitude, than the uncertainty in the X-ray position due to Poisson noise. In all but six clusters, the measured offsets are also larger than the estimated, combined astrometric uncertainties in the X-ray and optical positions. A more conservative cut on concentration to select relaxed clusters marginally reduces but does not eliminate the observed offset. With our more conservative sample, we find an estimated median X-ray to central galaxy offset of |$\mu = 6.0 ^{+ 1.4}_{- 1.5}$| kpc. Comparing to recent simulations, this distribution of offsets is consistent with some level of dark matter self-interaction, though further simulation work is needed to place constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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11. Optimal 1D Ly α forest power spectrum estimation – III. DESI early data.
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Karaçaylı, Naim Göksel, Martini, Paul, Guy, Julien, Ravoux, Corentin, Abdul Karim, Marie Lynn, Armengaud, Eric, Walther, Michael, Aguilar, J, Ahlen, S, Bailey, S, Bautista, J, Beltran, S F, Brooks, D, Cabayol-Garcia, L, Chabanier, S, Chaussidon, E, Chaves-Montero, J, Dawson, K, de la Cruz, R, and de la Macorra, A
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POWER spectra , *INTERSTELLAR medium , *FAST Fourier transforms , *MAXIMUM likelihood statistics , *NEUTRINOS , *INSTRUMENTAL variables (Statistics) , *DARK matter - Abstract
The 1D power spectrum P 1D of the Ly α forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on warm dark matter models, the sum of the masses of the three neutrino species, and the thermal state of the intergalactic medium. We present the first measurement of P 1D with the quadratic maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey early data sample. This early sample of 54 600 quasars is already comparable in size to the largest previous studies, and we conduct a thorough investigation of numerous instrumental and analysis systematic errors to evaluate their impact on DESI data with QMLE. We demonstrate the excellent performance of the spectroscopic pipeline noise estimation and the impressive accuracy of the spectrograph resolution matrix with 2D image simulations of raw DESI images that we processed with the DESI spectroscopic pipeline. We also study metal line contamination and noise calibration systematics with quasar spectra on the red side of the Ly α emission line. In a companion paper, we present a similar analysis based on the Fast Fourier Transform estimate of the power spectrum. We conclude with a comparison of these two approaches and discuss the key sources of systematic error that we need to address with the upcoming DESI Year 1 analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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12. Are odd radio circles virial shocks around massive galaxies? Implications for cosmic-ray diffusion in the circumgalactic medium.
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Yamasaki, Shotaro, Sarkar, Kartick C, and Li, Zhaozhou
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PARTICLE acceleration , *COSMIC rays , *GALAXIES , *DARK matter , *DIFFUSION coefficients , *ACTINIC flux - Abstract
Recently, a new population of circular radio (∼GHz) objects has been discovered at high Galactic latitudes, called the odd radio circles (ORCs). A fraction of the ORCs encircles massive galaxies in the sky with stellar mass ∼1011 M⊙ situated at z = 0.2–0.6, suggesting a possible physical connection. In this paper, we explore the possibility that these radio circles originate from the accretion shocks/virial shocks around massive (|${\gtrsim} 10^{13}\, \ {\rm M}_\odot$|) dark matter halo at z ∼ 0.5. We found that the radio flux density of the emitting shell is marginally consistent with the ORCs. We also find that pure advection of electrons from the shock results in a radio-emitting shell that is considerably narrower than the observed one due to strong inverse-Compton cooling of electrons. Instead, we show that the diffusion of cosmic-ray (CR) electrons plays a significant role in increasing the width of the shell. We infer a diffusion coefficient, |$D_{\rm cr} \sim 10^{30}\ {\rm cm^2\, s^{-1}}$| , consistent with the values expected for low-density circumgalactic medium (CGM). If ORCs indeed trace virial shocks, then our derived CR diffusion coefficient represents one of the few estimations available for the low-density CGM. Finally, we show that the apparent discrepancy between ORC and halo number density can be mitigated by considering an incomplete halo virialization and the limited radiation efficiency of shocks. This study therefore opens up new avenues to study such shocks and non-thermal particle acceleration within them. Furthermore, our results suggest that low-mass galaxies (≲1013 M⊙) may not show ORCs due to their significantly lower radio surface brightness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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13. Angular complexity in strong lens substructure detection.
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O'Riordan, Conor M and Vegetti, Simona
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GRAVITATIONAL lenses , *DARK matter , *SPACE telescopes - Abstract
Strong gravitational lensing can be used to find otherwise invisible dark matter subhaloes. In such an analysis, the lens galaxy mass model is a significant source of systematic uncertainty. In this paper, we analyse the effect of angular complexity in the lens model. We use multipole perturbations that introduce low-order deviations from pure ellipticity in the isodensity contours, keeping the radial density profile fixed. We find that, in Hubble Space Telescope -like data, multipole perturbations consistent with those seen in galaxy isophotes are very effective at causing false positive substructure detections. We show that the effectiveness of this degeneracy depends on the deviation from a pure ellipse and the lensing configuration. We find that, when multipoles of 1 per cent are allowed in the lens model, the area in the observation where a subhalo could be detected drops by a factor of 3. Sensitivity away from the lensed images is mostly lost. However, the mass limit of detectable objects on or close to the lensed images does not change. We do not expect the addition of multipole perturbations to lens models to have a significant effect on the ability of strong lensing to constrain the underlying dark matter model. However, given the high rate of false positive detections, angular complexity beyond the elliptical power law should be included for such studies to be reliable. We discuss implications for previous detections and future work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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14. A convenient approach to characterizing model uncertainty with application to early dark energy solutions of the Hubble tension.
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Paradiso, S, DiMarco, M, Chen, M, McGee, G, and Percival, W J
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MARKOV chain Monte Carlo , *TYPE I supernovae , *HUBBLE constant , *DARK matter , *BAYESIAN analysis , *COSMIC background radiation , *DARK energy - Abstract
Despite increasingly precise observations and sophisticated theoretical models, the discrepancy between measurements of H 0 from the cosmic microwave background or from baryon acoustic oscillations combined with big bang nucleosynthesis versus those from local distance ladder probes – commonly known as the ' H 0 tension' – continues to perplex the scientific community. To address this tension, early dark energy (EDE) models have been proposed as alternatives to Lambda cold dark matter, as they can change the observed sound horizon and the inferred Hubble constant from measurements based on this. In this paper, we investigate the use of Bayesian model averaging (BMA) to evaluate EDE as a solution to the H 0 tension. BMA consists of assigning a prior to the model and deriving a posterior as for any other unknown parameter in a Bayesian analysis. BMA can be computationally challenging in that one must approximate the joint posterior of both model and parameters. Here, we present a computational strategy for BMA that exploits existing Markov chain Monte Carlo software and combines model-specific posteriors post hoc. In application to a comprehensive analysis of cosmological data sets, we quantify the impact of EDE on the H 0 discrepancy. We find an EDE model probability of |${\sim} 90~{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$| whenever we include the H 0 measurement from Type Ia supernovae in the analysis, whereas the other data show a strong preference for the standard cosmological model. We finally present constraints on common parameters marginalized over both cosmological models. For reasonable priors on models with and without EDE, the H 0 tension is reduced by at least 20 per cent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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15. The dark matter profile of the Milky Way inferred from its circular velocity curve.
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Ou, Xiaowei, Eilers, Anna-Christina, Necib, Lina, and Frebel, Anna
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DARK matter , *MILKY Way , *VELOCITY , *PARALLAX , *MASS measurement , *GALACTIC halos - Abstract
In this paper, we construct the circular velocity curve of the Milky Way out to ∼30 kpc, providing an updated model of the dark matter density profile. We derive precise parallaxes for 120 309 stars with a data-driven model, using APOGEE DR17 spectra combined with Gaia DR3, 2MASS , and WISE photometry. At outer galactic radii up to 30 kpc, we find a significantly faster decline in the circular velocity curve compared to the inner parts. This decline is better fit with a cored Einasto profile with a slope parameter |$0.91^{+0.04}_{-0.05}$| than a generalized Navarro–Frenk–White (NFW) profile. The virial mass of the best-fitting dark matter halo profile is only |$1.81^{+0.06}_{-0.05}\times 10^{11}$| M⊙, significantly lower than what a generalized NFW profile delivers. We present a study of the potential systematics, affecting mainly large radii. Such a low mass for the Galaxy is driven by the functional forms tested, given that it probes beyond our measurements. It is found to be in tension with mass measurements from globular clusters, dwarf satellites, and streams. Our best-fitting profile also lowers the expected dark matter annihilation signal flux from the galactic centre by more than an order of magnitude, compared to an NFW profile-fit. In future work, we will explore profiles with more flexible functional forms to more fully leverage the circular velocity curve and observationally constrain the properties of the Milky Way's dark matter halo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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16. Cosmology from weak lensing, galaxy clustering, CMB lensing, and tSZ – I. 10 × 2pt modelling methodology.
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Fang, Xiao, Krause, Elisabeth, Eifler, Tim, Ferraro, Simone, Benabed, Karim, Pranjal, R S, Ayçoberry, Emma, Dubois, Yohan, and Miranda, Vivian
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PHYSICAL cosmology , *COSMIC background radiation , *GALAXY clusters , *DARK matter , *LARGE scale structure (Astronomy) - Abstract
The overlap of galaxy surveys and cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments presents an ideal opportunity for joint cosmological data set analyses. In this paper we develop a halo model-based method for the first joint analysis combining these two experiments using 10 correlated two-point functions (10 × 2pt) derived from galaxy position, galaxy shear, CMB lensing convergence, and Compton- y fields. We explore this method using the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and the Simons Observatory (SO) as examples. We find such LSS × CMB joint analyses lead to significant improvement in Figure-of-Merit of Ωm and S 8 over the constraints from using LSS-only probes within Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) model. We identify that the shear– y and y–y correlations are the most valuable additions when thermal Sunyaev–Zel'dolvich (tSZ) is included. We further identify the dominant sources of halo model uncertainties in the small-scale modelling, and investigate the impact of halo self-calibration due to the inclusion of small-scale tSZ information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. The two-point correlation function covariance with fewer mocks.
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Trusov, Svyatoslav, Zarrouk, Pauline, Cole, Shaun, Norberg, Peder, Zhao, Cheng, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Brooks, David, de la Macorra, Axel, Doel, Peter, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Honscheid, Klaus, Kisner, Theodore, Landriau, Martin, Magneville, Christophe, Miquel, Ramon, Nie, Jundan, Poppett, Claire, Schubnell, Michael, and Tarlé, Gregory
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STATISTICAL correlation , *DARK energy , *COVARIANCE matrices , *LARGE scale structure (Astronomy) , *POCKETKNIVES - Abstract
We present fitcov an approach for accurate estimation of the covariance of two-point correlation functions that requires fewer mocks than the standard mock-based covariance. This can be achieved by dividing a set of mocks into jackknife regions and fitting the correction term first introduced in Mohammad & Percival (2022), such that the mean of the jackknife covariances corresponds to the one from the mocks. This extends the model beyond the shot-noise limited regime, allowing it to be used for denser samples of galaxies. We test the performance of our fitted jackknife approach, both in terms of accuracy and precision, using lognormal mocks with varying densities and approximate EZmocks mimicking the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument LRG and ELG samples in the redshift range of z = [0.8, 1.1]. We find that the Mohammad–Percival correction produces a bias in the two-point correlation function covariance matrix that grows with number density and that our fitted jackknife approach does not. We also study the effect of the covariance on the uncertainty of cosmological parameters by performing a full-shape analysis. We demonstrate that our fitted jackknife approach based on 25 mocks can recover unbiased and as precise cosmological parameters as the ones obtained from a covariance matrix based on 1000 or 1500 mocks, while the Mohammad–Percival correction produces uncertainties that are twice as large. The number of mocks required to obtain an accurate estimation of the covariance for the two-point correlation function is therefore reduced by a factor of 40–60. The fitcov code that accompanies this paper is available at this GitHub repository. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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18. Neutron star mass in dark matter clumps.
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Deliyergiyev, Maksym, Popolo, Antonino Del, and Le Delliou, Morgan
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STELLAR mass , *DARK matter , *STELLAR evolution , *STELLAR parallax , *GALAXIES , *NEUTRON stars - Abstract
This paper investigates a hypothesis proposed in previous research relating neutron star (NS) mass and its dark matter (DM) accumulation. As DM accumulates, NS mass decreases, predicting lower NS masses toward the Galactic centre. Due to limited NSs data near the Galactic centre, we examine NSs located within DM clumps. Using the CLUMPY code simulations, we determine the DM clumps distribution, with masses from 10 to 108 M⊙ and scales from 10−3 to 10 kpc. These clumps' DM exhibit a peak at the centre, tapering toward the outskirts, resembling our Galaxy's DM distribution. We analyse these DM clumps' NS mass variations, considering diverse DM particle masses and galaxy types. We find relatively stable NS mass within 0.01 – 5 kpc from the clump centre. This stability supports the initial hypothesis, particularly for NSs located beyond 0.01 kpc from the clump centre, where NS mass reaches a plateau around 0.1 kpc. Nevertheless, NS mass near the clump's periphery reveals spatial dependence: NS position within DM clumps influences its mass in Milky Way-type galaxies. Moreover, this dependence varies with the DM model considered. In summary, our study investigates the proposed link between NS mass and DM accumulation by examining NSs within DM clumps. While NS mass remains stable at certain distances from the clump centre, spatial dependencies arise near the clump's outer regions, contingent on the specific DM model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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19. Physics-informed neural networks in the recreation of hydrodynamic simulations from dark matter.
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Dai, Zhenyu, Moews, Ben, Vilalta, Ricardo, and Davé, Romeel
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DARK matter , *PROPERTIES of matter , *REPRODUCTION , *MACHINE learning , *GALAXY formation , *PREDICTION models , *RECREATION , *GALACTIC evolution - Abstract
Physics-informed neural networks have emerged as a coherent framework for building predictive models that combine statistical patterns with domain knowledge. The underlying notion is to enrich the optimization loss function with known relationships to constrain the space of possible solutions. Hydrodynamic simulations are a core constituent of modern cosmology, while the required computations are both expensive and time-consuming. At the same time, the comparatively fast simulation of dark matter requires fewer resources, which has led to the emergence of machine learning algorithms for baryon inpainting as an active area of research; here, recreating the scatter found in hydrodynamic simulations is an ongoing challenge. This paper presents the first application of physics-informed neural networks to baryon inpainting by combining advances in neural network architectures with physical constraints, injecting theory on baryon conversion efficiency into the model loss function. We also introduce a punitive prediction comparison based on the Kullback–Leibler divergence, which enforces scatter reproduction. By simultaneously extracting the complete set of baryonic properties for the simba suite of cosmological simulations, our results demonstrate improved accuracy of baryonic predictions based on dark matter halo properties and successful recovery of the fundamental metallicity relation, and retrieve scatter that traces the target simulation's distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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20. Solving the inverse cosmological calibration problem of gamma-ray bursts.
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Shirokov, S I, Gainutdinov, R I, Lovyagin, N Yu, and Gorokhov, V L
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MONTE Carlo method , *DARK matter , *HUBBLE constant , *CALIBRATION , *GRAVITATIONAL lenses , *GAMMA ray bursts - Abstract
We have received a new physical characteristics fitting based on actual observational data from the Swift mission's long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs). We considered such characteristics as the Amati parameters for linear correlation (E iso– E p, i ) and the k -correction for gravitational lensing and Malmquist bias (GLMB) effect. We used the Pantheon SN Ia catalogue and the standard Lambda cold dark matter model with a fixed Hubble constant of H 0 = 70 km s−1 Mpc−1 as the baseline for the Hubble function μ(z). In our paper, we formulated the inverse cosmological calibration problem (ICCP) in the non-parametric statistics framework. The ICCP involves fitting non-observable physical characteristics while assuming a fixed cosmological model. To solve this problem, we developed a new method that is resistant to non-Gaussian processes. This method is based on error propagation through the Monte Carlo method and the Theil–Sen method for linear regression estimate. We have demonstrated the stability and robustness of this assessment method. The parameter estimates are as follows: |$a=0.92^{+0.12}_{-0.12}$| , |$b=50.32^{+0.33}_{-0.32}$| without considering the GLMB effect, and |$a=0.63^{+0.13}_{-0.14}$| , |$b=50.12^{+0.33}_{-0.31}$| , and |$k=1.98^{+0.25}_{-0.24}$| with the effect included. The proposed method can be applied to any other calibration sample of known standard candles, a calibrated sample of LGRBs, and the Hubble function μ(z). In the future, the ICCP idea can be used as an alternative cosmological test for estimating cosmological parameters, including the GLMB effect, or even for the selection of models, providing new information about the Universe. This can be done by analysing the residual values of observational data within the Bayesian statistics paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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21. EDGE: The direct link between mass growth history and the extended stellar haloes of the faintest dwarf galaxies.
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Goater, Alex, Read, Justin I, Noël, Noelia E D, Orkney, Matthew D A, Kim, Stacy Y, Rey, Martin P, Andersson, Eric P, Agertz, Oscar, Pontzen, Andrew, Vieliute, Roberta, Kataria, Dhairya, and Jeneway, Kiah
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SPIRAL galaxies , *GALAXY clusters , *MILKY Way , *STELLAR mass , *DWARF galaxies , *GALAXY formation , *DARK matter - Abstract
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs) are commonly found in close proximity to the Milky Way and other massive spiral galaxies. As such, their projected stellar ellipticity and extended light distributions are often thought to owe to tidal forces. In this paper, we study the projected stellar ellipticities and faint stellar outskirts of tidally isolated ultra-faints drawn from the 'Engineering Dwarfs at Galaxy Formation's Edge' (EDGE) cosmological simulation suite. Despite their tidal isolation, our simulated dwarfs exhibit a wide range of projected ellipticities (0.03 < ε < 0.85), with many possessing anisotropic extended stellar haloes that mimic tidal tails, but owe instead to late-time accretion of lower mass companions. Furthermore, we find a strong causal relationship between ellipticity and formation time of a UFD, which is robust to a wide variation in the feedback model. We show that the distribution of projected ellipticities in our suite of simulated EDGE dwarfs matches well with a sample of 19 Local Group dwarf galaxies and a sample of 11 isolated dwarf galaxies. Given ellipticity in EDGE arises from an ex-situ accretion origin, the agreement in shape indicates the ellipticities of some observed dwarfs may also originate from a non-tidal scenario. The orbital parameters of these observed dwarfs further support that they are not currently tidally disrupting. If the baryonic content in these galaxies is still tidally intact, then the same may be true for their dark matter content, making these galaxies in our Local Group pristine laboratories for testing dark matter and galaxy formation models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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22. The X-ray invisible Universe. A look into the haloes undetected by eROSITA.
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Popesso, P, Biviano, A, Bulbul, E, Merloni, A, Comparat, J, Clerc, N, Igo, Z, Liu, A, Driver, S, Salvato, M, Brusa, M, Bahar, Y E, Malavasi, N, Ghirardini, V, Robotham, A, Liske, J, and Grandis, S
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GALACTIC halos , *SURFACE brightness (Astronomy) , *ACTIVE galactic nuclei , *X-rays , *GAS distribution , *X-ray detection ,UNIVERSE - Abstract
The paper presents the analysis of optically selected GAMA groups and clusters in the SRG/eROSITA X-ray map of eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey, in the halo mass range 1013−5 × 1014 M⊙ and at z < 0.2. All X-ray detections have a clear GAMA counterpart, but most of the GAMA groups in the halo mass range 1013−1014 M⊙ remain undetected. We compare the X-ray surface brightness profiles of the eROSITA detected groups with the mean stacked profile of the undetected low-mass haloes at fixed halo mass. Overall, we find that the undetected groups exhibit less concentrated X-ray surface brightness, dark matter, and galaxy distributions with respect to the X-ray-detected haloes. The mean gas mass fraction profiles are consistent in the two samples within 1.5σ, indicating that the gas follows the dark matter profile. The low-mass concentration and the magnitude gap indicate that these systems are young. They reside with a higher probability in filaments while X-ray-detected groups favour the nodes of the Cosmic Web. Because of the lower central emission, the undetected systems tend to be X-ray underluminous at fixed halo mass and to lie below the LX − M halo relation. Interestingly, the X-ray-detected systems inhabiting the nodes scatter the less around the relation, while those in filaments tend to lie below it. We do not observe any strong relationship between the system X-ray appearance and the active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity. We cannot exclude the role of the past AGN feedback in affecting the gas distribution over the halo lifetime. However, the data suggests that the observed differences might be related to the halo assembly bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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23. MaNGA DynPop – IV. Stacked total density profile of galaxy groups and clusters from combining dynamical models of integral-field stellar kinematics and galaxy–galaxy lensing.
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Wang, Chunxiang, Li, Ran, Zhu, Kai, Shan, Huanyuan, Xu, Weiwei, Cappellari, Michele, Gao, Liang, Li, Nan, Lu, Shengdong, Mao, Shude, Yao, Ji, and Xie, Yushan
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STELLAR initial mass function , *GALAXY clusters , *DARK matter , *STELLAR mass , *KINEMATICS , *DENSITY - Abstract
We present the measurement of total and stellar/dark matter decomposed mass density profile around a sample of galaxy groups and clusters with dynamical masses derived from integral-field stellar kinematics from the MaNGA survey in Paper I and weak lensing derived from the DECaLS imaging survey. Combining the two data sets enables accurate measurement of the radial density distribution from several kpc to Mpc scales. Intriguingly, we find that the excess surface density derived from stellar kinematics in the inner region cannot be explained by simply adding an NFW dark matter halo extrapolated from lensing measurement at a larger scale to a stellar mass component derived from the NASA-Sloan Atlas (NSA) catalogue. We find that a good fit to both data sets requires a stellar mass normalization about three times higher than that derived from the NSA catalogue, which would require an unrealistically too-heavy initial mass function for stellar mass estimation. If we keep the stellar mass normalization to that of the NSA catalogue but allow a varying inner dark matter density profile, we obtain an asymptotic slope of γgnfw = |$1.82_{-0.25}^{+0.15}$| and γgnfw = |$1.48_{-0.41}^{+0.20}$| for the group bin and the cluster bin, respectively, significantly steeper than the NFW case. We also compare the total mass inner density slopes with those from TNG300 and find that the values from the simulation are lower than the observation by about 2σ level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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24. Correction to: Redshift drift and strong gravitational lensing.
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Helbig, Phillip
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GRAVITATIONAL lenses , *REDSHIFT , *DARK matter , *GALAXY clusters , *PHYSICAL cosmology , *HUBBLE constant - Abstract
The article titled "Correction to: Redshift drift and strong gravitational lensing" acknowledges a mistake made in a recent paper by the author. The mistake relates to the measurement of the Hubble constant using the difference in redshift between images of a gravitational-lens system. The author clarifies that the redshift difference can still be used to measure other cosmological parameters without knowledge of the Hubble constant. The rest of the paper remains unaffected, discussing various aspects of standard cosmology and gravitational lensing. No new data is associated with the article. [Extracted from the article]
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