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20192026
most citedThe Quijote simulations

340 citations · 978 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

How to Craft the Right Language AI Policy For Your Research Group (Some Assembly Required)

Michelle Ntampaka, S. Burke-Spolaor, Ioana Ciucă +14

Language AI is rapidly becoming part of the astronomy research ecosystem, prompting research teams to develop policies governing its use. But resources and advice for AI adoption a…

astro-ph.CO2025

Estimating the triaxiality of massive clusters from 2D observables in MillenniumTNG with machine learning

Ana Maria Delgado, Michelle Ntampaka, Sownak Bose +7

Properties of massive galaxy clusters, such as mass abundance and concentration, are sensitive to cosmology, making cluster statistics a powerful tool for cosmological studies. How…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Importance of Being Adaptable: An Exploration of the Power and Limitations of Domain Adaptation for Simulation-Based Inference with Galaxy Clusters

Michelle Ntampaka, A. Ciprijanovic, Ana Maria Delgado +4

The application of deep machine learning methods in astronomy has exploded in the last decade, with new models showing remarkably improved performance on benchmark tasks. Not nearl…

astro-ph.CO2025

Fully non-linear simulations of galaxy intrinsic alignments for weak lensing with the MillenniumTNG lightcone

Fulvio Ferlito, Volker Springel, Christopher T. Davies +4

We present a complete forward model of a realistic weak lensing galaxy catalogue based on the 740 Mpc hydrodynamical MillenniumTNG (MTNG) simulation. Starting with a complete parti…

astro-ph.CO2024

A Multi-Wavelength Technique for Estimating Galaxy Cluster Mass Accretion Rates

John Soltis, Michelle Ntampaka, Benedikt Diemer +7

The mass accretion rate of galaxy clusters is a key factor in determining their structure, but a reliable observational tracer has yet to be established. We present a state-of-the-…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 2 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: Impact of massive neutrinos on the cosmic large-scale structure and the distribution of galaxies

César Hernández-Aguayo, Volker Springel, Sownak Bose +10

We discuss the cold dark matter plus massive neutrinos simulations of the MillenniumTNG (MTNG) project, which aim to improve understanding of how well ongoing and future large-scal…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Ray-tracing vs. Born approximation in full-sky weak lensing simulations of the MillenniumTNG project

Fulvio Ferlito, Christopher T. Davies, Volker Springel +7

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for precision tests of cosmology. As the expected deflection angles are small, predictions based on non-linear N-body simulations are…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Zooming by in the CARPoolGP lane: new CAMELS-TNG simulations of zoomed-in massive halos

Max E. Lee, Shy Genel, Benjamin D. Wandelt +10

Galaxy formation models within cosmological hydrodynamical simulations contain numerous parameters with non-trivial influences over the resulting properties of simulated cosmic str…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 2 cited

Evolution of cosmic filaments in the MTNG simulation

Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa, Corentin Cadiou, Céline Gouin +11

We present a study of the evolution of cosmic filaments across redshift with an emphasis on some important properties: filament lengths, growth rates, and radial profiles of galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2023

Interpreting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observations with MillenniumTNG: Mass and environment scaling relations

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Simone Ferraro, Rüdiger Pakmor +7

In the coming years, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) measurements can dramatically improve our understanding of the Intergalactic Medium (IGM) and the role of feedback processes on galaxy…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 35 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: Intrinsic alignments of galaxies and halos

Ana Maria Delgado, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Sownak Bose +9

The intrinsic alignment (IA) of observed galaxy shapes with the underlying cosmic web is a source of contamination in weak lensing surveys. Sensitive methods to identify the IA sig…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 32 cited

Inferring the impact of feedback on the matter distribution using the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect: Insights from CAMELS simulations and ACT+DES data

Shivam Pandey, Kai Lehman, Eric J. Baxter +6

Feedback from active galactic nuclei and stellar processes changes the matter distribution on small scales, leading to significant systematic uncertainty in weak lensing constraint…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Predicting the impact of feedback on matter clustering with machine learning in CAMELS

Ana Maria Delgado, Daniel Angles-Alcazar, Leander Thiele +7

Extracting information from the total matter power spectrum with the precision needed for upcoming cosmological surveys requires unraveling the complex effects of galaxy formation…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 43 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: An improved two-halo model for the galaxy-halo connection of red and blue galaxies

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Daniel Eisenstein, Lars Hernquist +11

Approximate methods to populate dark matter halos with galaxies are of great utility to large galaxy surveys. However, the limitations of simple halo occupation models (HODs) precl…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 35 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: Refining the one-halo model of red and blue galaxies at different redshifts

Boryana Hadzhiyska, Lars Hernquist, Daniel Eisenstein +11

Luminous red galaxies (LRGs) and blue star-forming emission-line galaxies (ELGs) are key tracers of large-scale structure used by cosmological surveys. Theoretical predictions for…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 25 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: Semi-analytic galaxy formation models on the past lightcone

Monica Barrera, Volker Springel, Simon White +9

Upcoming large galaxy surveys will subject the standard cosmological model, CDM, to new precision tests. These can be tightened considerably if theoretical models of galaxy form…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 30 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: Inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching

Sergio Contreras, Raul E. Angulo, Volker Springel +11

We introduce a novel technique for constraining cosmological parameters and galaxy assembly bias using non-linear redshift-space clustering of galaxies. We scale cosmological N-bod…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 91 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: The galaxy population at

Rahul Kannan, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist +11

The early release science results from have yielded an unexpected abundance of high-redshift luminous galaxies that seems to be in tension with current theories of…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 27 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: The large-scale clustering of galaxies

Sownak Bose, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Monica Barrera +9

Modern redshift surveys are tasked with mapping out the galaxy distribution over enormous distance scales. Existing hydrodynamical simulations, however, do not reach the volumes ne…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 159 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: The hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters

Ruediger Pakmor, Volker Springel, Jonathan P. Coles +12

Cosmological simulations are an important theoretical pillar for understanding nonlinear structure formation in our Universe and for relating it to observations on large scales. In…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 79 cited

The MillenniumTNG Project: High-precision predictions for matter clustering and halo statistics

César Hernández-Aguayo, Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor +9

Cosmological inference with large galaxy surveys requires theoretical models that combine precise predictions for large-scale structure with robust and flexible galaxy formation mo…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 67 cited

The CAMELS project: public data release

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés-Alcázar +44

The Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS) project was developed to combine cosmology with astrophysics through thousands of cosmological hydrodynami…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 5 cited

Modeling the galaxy-halo connection with machine learning

Ana Maria Delgado, Digvijay Wadekar, Boryana Hadzhiyska +3

To extract information from the clustering of galaxies on non-linear scales, we need to model the connection between galaxies and halos accurately and in a flexible manner. Standar…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 340 cited

The Quijote simulations

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, ChangHoon Hahn, Elena Massara +26

The Quijote simulations are a set of 44,100 full N-body simulations spanning more than 7,000 cosmological models in the hyperplane.…