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Life in the Cosmic Neighbourhood: Galactic Habitable Zones in the EAGLE Simulations
Luke A. Barnes, Geraint F. Lewis, Jaime Salcido +3
When and where is life most likely to form in the universe? We use the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the prevalence and properties of life-friendly c…
Cosmological constraining power of the redshifts, heights, and angular clustering of weak gravitational lensing peaks
Jeger C. Broxterman, Matthieu Schaller, Ian G. McCarthy +8
Weak gravitational lensing (WL) peaks probe non-Gaussian information of the large-scale distribution of matter that is not captured by two-point lensing statistics. We study the co…
FLAMINGO: The thermal history of the Universe from tSZ effect cross-correlations and its dependencies on cosmology and baryon physics
Jaime Salcido, Tianyi Yang, Ian G. McCarthy +9
The cross-correlation between tracers of large-scale structure, such as galaxies or quasars, and the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal yields a measure of the bias-weighted m…
The FLAMINGO simulations data release
John C. Helly, Robert J. McGibbon, Joop Schaye +15
We describe the public release of petabytes of data from the FLAMINGO cosmological simulations. The suite consists of hydrodynamical simulations that include radiative cooli…
Impact and interplay of CDM analysis choices for LSST cosmic shear
N. C. Robertson, C. Heymans, J. Zuntz +9
We forecast cosmological parameter constraints for a cosmic shear analysis of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), defining an analysis framework that can…
The kinetic Sunyaev Zeldovich effect as a benchmark for AGN feedback models in hydrodynamical simulations: insights from DESI + ACT
Leah Bigwood, Masaya Yamamoto, Jared Siegel +7
Baryonic feedback remains one of the largest uncertainties in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, with different prescriptions producing divergent predictions for the fraction…
Constraining baryonic feedback and cosmology from DES Y3 and Planck PR4 62pt data. I. CDM models
Jiachuan Xu, Tim Eifler, Elisabeth Krause +3
We combine weak lensing, galaxy clustering, cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing, and their cross-correlations (so-called 62pt) to constrain cosmology and baryonic fee…
FLAMINGO: Tracing the co-evolution of hot gas and black holes in galaxy groups and clusters
Emily E. Costello, Ian G. McCarthy, Jaime Salcido +4
The gas mass fraction of galaxy groups and clusters is a key physical quantity for constraining the impact of feedback processes on large-scale structure. While several modern cosm…
FLAMINGO: combining kinetic SZ effect and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements to gauge the impact of feedback on large-scale structure
Ian G. McCarthy, Alexandra Amon, Joop Schaye +13
Energetic feedback processes associated with accreting supermassive black holes can expel gas from massive haloes and significantly alter various measures of clustering on ~Mpc sca…
Implications of feedback solutions to the tension for the baryon fractions of galaxy groups and clusters
Jaime Salcido, Ian G. McCarthy
Recent large-scale structure (LSS) surveys have revealed a persistent tension in the value of compared to predictions from the standard cosmological model. This tension may s…
Weak lensing combined with the kinetic Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect: A study of baryonic feedback
L. Bigwood, A. Amon, A. Schneider +122
Extracting precise cosmology from weak lensing surveys requires modelling the non-linear matter power spectrum, which is suppressed at small scales due to baryonic feedback process…
The FLAMINGO project: the coupling between baryonic feedback and cosmology in light of the tension
Willem Elbers, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins +12
Large-scale structure surveys have reported measurements of the density of matter, , and the amplitude of clustering, , that are in tension with the values infer…
GODMAX: Modeling gas thermodynamics and matter distribution using JAX
Shivam Pandey, Jaime Salcido, Chun-Hao To +4
We introduce GODMAX (Gas thermODynamics and Matter distribution using jAX), a novel code designed to calculate correlations between the cosmological matter distribution and various…
The FLAMINGO project: Baryonic impact on weak gravitational lensing convergence peak counts
Jeger C. Broxterman, Matthieu Schaller, Joop Schaye +12
Weak gravitational lensing convergence peaks, the local maxima in weak lensing convergence maps, have been shown to contain valuable cosmological information complementary to commo…
The FLAMINGO Project: Galaxy clusters in comparison to X-ray observations
Joey Braspenning, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +10
Galaxy clusters are important probes for both cosmology and galaxy formation physics. We test the cosmological, hydrodynamical FLAMINGO simulations by comparing to observations of…
Inferring the dark matter splashback radius from cluster gas and observable profiles in the FLAMINGO simulations
Imogen Towler, Scott T. Kay, Joop Schaye +10
The splashback radius, coinciding with the minimum in the dark matter radial density gradient, is thought to be a universal definition of the edge of a dark matter halo. Observatio…
Revisiting the effects of baryon physics on small-scale redshift space distortions
Juliana Kwan, Ian G. McCarthy, Jaime Salcido
Redshift space distortions are an important probe of the growth of large-scale structure and for constraining cosmological parameters in general. As galaxy redshift surveys approac…
Cosmic-Enu: An emulator for the non-linear neutrino power spectrum
Amol Upadhye, Juliana Kwan, Ian G. McCarthy +4
Cosmology is poised to measure the neutrino mass sum and has identified several smaller-scale observables sensitive to neutrinos, necessitating accurate predictions of neutri…
The FLAMINGO project: revisiting the tension and the role of baryonic physics
Ian G. McCarthy, Jaime Salcido, Joop Schaye +12
A number of recent studies have found evidence for a tension between observations of large-scale structure (LSS) and the predictions of the standard model of cosmology with the cos…
Non-linear CMB lensing with neutrinos and baryons: FLAMINGO simulations vs. fast approximations
Amol Upadhye, Juliana Kwan, Ian G. McCarthy +11
Weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background is rapidly emerging as a powerful probe of neutrinos, dark energy, and new physics. We present a fast computation of the non-linear…
FLAMINGO: Calibrating large cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with machine learning
Roi Kugel, Joop Schaye, Matthieu Schaller +17
To fully take advantage of the data provided by large-scale structure surveys, we need to quantify the potential impact of baryonic effects, such as feedback from active galactic n…
The FLAMINGO project: cosmological hydrodynamical simulations for large-scale structure and galaxy cluster surveys
Joop Schaye, Roi Kugel, Matthieu Schaller +17
We introduce the Virgo Consortium's FLAMINGO suite of hydrodynamical simulations for cosmology and galaxy cluster physics. To ensure the simulations are sufficiently realistic for…
SP(k) -- A hydrodynamical simulation-based model for the impact of baryon physics on the non-linear matter power spectrum
Jaime Salcido, Ian G. McCarthy, Juliana Kwan +2
Upcoming large-scale structure surveys will measure the matter power spectrum to approximately percent level accuracy with the aim of searching for evidence for new physics beyond…
The BAHAMAS project: Evaluating the accuracy of the halo model in predicting the non-linear matter power spectrum
Alberto Acuto, Ian G. McCarthy, Juliana Kwan +3
The halo model formalism is widely adopted in cosmological studies for predicting the growth of large-scale structure in the Universe. However, to date there have been relatively f…