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most citedCosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST

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14 papers

cs.DC2025

Cosmological Hydrodynamics at Exascale: A Trillion-Particle Leap in Capability

Nicholas Frontiere, J. D. Emberson, Michael Buehlmann +10

Resolving the most fundamental questions in cosmology requires simulations that match the scale, fidelity, and physical complexity demanded by next-generation sky surveys. To achie…

astro-ph.CO2025

Illuminating the Physics of Dark Energy with the Discovery Simulations

Gillian D. Beltz-Mohrmann, Adrian Pope, Alex Alarcon +10

In this paper, we present the Discovery simulations: a new pair of high-resolution N-body simulations motivated by the DESI Y1 BAO cosmological constraints on dark energy. The Disc…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Modeling the Galaxy Distribution in Clusters using Halo Cores

Danila Korytov, Esteban Rangel, Lindsey Bleem +5

The galaxy distribution in dark matter-dominated halos is expected to approximately trace the details of the underlying dark matter substructure. In this paper we introduce halo `c…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 19 cited

Modeling the Lyman- forest with Eulerian and SPH hydrodynamical methods

Solène Chabanier, J. D. Emberson, Zarija Lukić +6

We compare two state-of-the-art numerical codes to study the overall accuracy in modeling the intergalactic medium and reproducing Lyman- forest observables for DESI and high-re…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 14 cited

Farpoint: A High-Resolution Cosmology Simulation at the Gigaparsec Scale

Nicholas Frontiere, Katrin Heitmann, Esteban Rangel +7

In this paper we introduce the Farpoint simulation, the latest member of the Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC) gravity-only simulation family. The domain covers a v…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 8 cited

The Last Journey. II. SMACC -- Subhalo Mass-loss Analysis using Core Catalogs

Imran Sultan, Nicholas Frontiere, Salman Habib +4

This paper introduces SMACC -- Subhalo Mass-loss Analysis using Core Catalogs. SMACC adds a mass model to substructure merger trees based on halo "core tracking." Our approach avoi…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 3 cited

Building Halo Merger Trees from the Q Continuum Simulation

Esteban Rangel, Nicholas Frontiere, Salman Habib +4

Cosmological N-body simulations rank among the most computationally intensive efforts today. A key challenge is the analysis of structure, substructure, and the merger history for…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 22 cited

The Last Journey. I. An Extreme-Scale Simulation on the Mira Supercomputer

Katrin Heitmann, Nicholas Frontiere, Esteban Rangel +10

The Last Journey is a large-volume, gravity-only, cosmological N-body simulation evolving more than 1.24 trillion particles in a periodic box with a side-length of 5.025Gpc. It was…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 123 cited

CosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST

Danila Korytov, Andrew Hearin, Eve Kovacs +27

This paper introduces cosmoDC2, a large synthetic galaxy catalog designed to support precision dark energy science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). CosmoDC2 is the…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 104 cited

The Outer Rim Simulation: A Path to Many-Core Supercomputers

Katrin Heitmann, Hal Finkel, Adrian Pope +10

We describe the Outer Rim cosmological simulation, one of the largest high-resolution N-body simulations performed to date, aimed at promoting science to be carried out with large-…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 25 cited

HACC Cosmological Simulations: First Data Release

Katrin Heitmann, Thomas D. Uram, Hal Finkel +10

We describe the first major public data release from cosmological simulations carried out with Argonne's HACC code. This initial release covers a range of datasets from large gravi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 15 cited

The importance of secondary halos for strong lensing in massive galaxy clusters across redshift

Nan Li, Michael D. Gladders, Katrin Heitmann +6

Cosmological cluster-scale strong gravitational lensing probes the mass distribution of the dense cores of massive dark matter halos and the structures along the line of sight from…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 34 cited

PICS: Simulations of Strong Gravitational Lensing in Galaxy Clusters

Nan Li, Michael D. Gladders, Esteban M. Rangel +5

Gravitational lensing has become one of the most powerful tools available for investigating the 'dark side' of the universe. Cosmological strong gravitational lensing, in particula…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 13 cited

Efficient Construction of Mock Catalogs for Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Surveys

Tomomi Sunayama, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Katrin Heitmann +2

Precision measurements of the large scale structure of the Universe require large numbers of high fidelity mock catalogs to accurately assess, and account for, the presence of syst…