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

123 citations · 803 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Measuring the Clustering of tSZ-Selected Galaxy Clusters with SPT-3G

E. S. Martsen, D. Anbajagane, L. E. Bleem +96

We present a measurement of the spatial clustering of galaxy clusters selected via the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal. Using a cluster catalog derived from five years of S…

astro-ph.IM2026

OpenCosmo: Community Portal and Analysis Framework for Flagship Cosmological Simulations

Patrick R. Wells, Michael Buelhmann, Michael Buehlmann +12

Cosmology is a precision observational science, and large simulations are necessary components of many analyses. These simulations are computationally expensive and produce massive…

astro-ph.CO2026

Optimization of Weak Lensing Lightcone Simulations for Higher-Order Statistics in the LSST era

J. Mena-Fernández, C. Doux, J. Harnois-Déraps +9

We present a framework for generating lightcone simulations tailored to the analysis of Stage-IV cosmic shear data using Higher-Order Statistics (HOS). We revisit key design choice…

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

Non-linear infusion of intrinsic alignment and source clustering: impact on non-Gaussian cosmic shear statistics

J. Harnois-Déraps, N. Šarčević, L. Medina Varela +15

Intrinsic alignments (IA) of galaxies is one of the key secondary signals to cosmic shear measurements, and must be modeled to interpret weak lensing data and infer the correct cos…

astro-ph.CO2024

Impact of survey spatial variability on galaxy redshift distributions and the cosmological -point statistics for the Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)

Qianjun Hang, Benjamin Joachimi, Eric Charles +7

We investigate the impact of spatial survey non-uniformity on the galaxy redshift distributions for forthcoming data releases of the Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Ti…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

The picasso gas model: Painting intracluster gas on gravity-only simulations

F. Kéruzoré, L. E. Bleem, N. Frontiere +5

We introduce picasso, a model designed to predict thermodynamic properties of the intracluster medium based on the properties of halos in gravity-only simulations. The predictions…

astro-ph.CO2024

Exploring the Core-galaxy Connection

Isabele Souza Vitório, Michael Buehlmann, Eve Kovacs +3

Halo core tracking is a novel concept designed to efficiently follow halo substructure in large simulations. We have recently developed this concept in gravity-only simulations to…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Optimization and Quality Assessment of Baryon Pasting for Intracluster Gas using the Borg Cube Simulation

F. Kéruzoré, L. E. Bleem, M. Buehlmann +5

Synthetic datasets generated from large-volume gravity-only simulations are an important tool in the calibration of cosmological analyses. Their creation often requires accurate in…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 15 cited

Transitioning from Stage-III to Stage-IV: Cosmology from galaxyCMB lensing and shearCMB lensing

Zhuoqi Zhang, Chihway Chang, Patricia Larsen +3

We examine the cosmological constraining power from two cross-correlation probes between galaxy and CMB surveys: the cross-correlation of lens galaxy density with CMB lensing conve…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 18 cited

Validating Synthetic Galaxy Catalogs for Dark Energy Science in the LSST Era

Eve Kovacs, Yao-Yuan Mao, Michel Aguena +36

Large simulation efforts are required to provide synthetic galaxy catalogs for ongoing and upcoming cosmology surveys. These extragalactic catalogs are being used for many diverse…

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.CO2021★ 8 cited

DESC DC2 Data Release Note

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, Robert Armstrong +54

In preparation for cosmological analyses of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) has created…

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.IM2020★ 85 cited

The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, David Alonso +77

We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and…

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★ 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★ 94 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Constraints on Intrinsic Alignments and their Colour Dependence from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing

S. Samuroff, J. Blazek, M. A. Troxel +70

We perform a joint analysis of intrinsic alignments and cosmology using tomographic weak lensing, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from Year 1 (Y1) of the D…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 17 cited

The Borg Cube Simulation: Cosmological Hydrodynamics with CRK-SPH

J. D. Emberson, Nicholas Frontiere, Salman Habib +4

A challenging requirement posed by next-generation observations is a firm theoretical grasp of the impact of baryons on structure formation. Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations m…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 68 cited

Demonstration of cosmic microwave background delensing using the cosmic infrared background

Patricia Larsen, Anthony Challinor, Blake D. Sherwin +1

Delensing is an increasingly important technique to reverse the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and thus reveal primordial signals the lensing may ob…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 58 cited

Cross-correlation of gravitational lensing from DES Science Verification data with SPT and Planck lensing

D. Kirk, Y. Omori, A. Benoit-Lévy +89

We measure the cross-correlation between weak lensing of galaxy images and of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of gravitational lensing on different sources will…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 32 cited

Intrinsic alignment contamination to CMB lensing-galaxy weak lensing correlations from tidal torquing

Patricia Larsen, Anthony Challinor

Correlations of galaxy ellipticities with large-scale structure, due to galactic tidal interactions, provide a potentially significant contaminant to measurements of cosmic shear.…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 116 cited

A Terrestrial Planet in a ~1 AU Orbit Around One Member of a ~15 AU Binary

A. Gould, A. Udalski, I. -G. Shin +61

We detect a cold, terrestrial planet in a binary-star system using gravitational microlensing. The planet has low mass (2 Earth masses) and lies projected at ~ 0.8 a…