Starting Cosmological Simulations from the Big Bang

Autor(en)
Florian List, Oliver Hahn, Cornelius Rampf
Abstrakt

The cosmic large-scale structure (LSS) provides a unique testing ground for connecting fundamental physics to astronomical observations. Modelling the LSS requires numerical $N$-body simulations or perturbative techniques that both come with distinct shortcomings. Here we present the first unified numerical approach, enabled by new time integration and discreteness reduction schemes, and demonstrate its convergence at the field level. In particular, we show that our simulations (1) can be initialised directly at time zero, and (2) can be made to agree with high-order Lagrangian perturbation theory in the fluid limit. This allows fast, self-consistent, and UV-complete forward modelling of LSS observables.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Astrophysik, Institut für Mathematik
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Band
132
Anzahl der Seiten
15
ISSN
0031-9007
Publikationsdatum
09-2023
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
103004 Astrophysik, 103043 Computational Physics, 103044 Kosmologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/d636bdaf-ab67-49f5-b6fa-7861e9ea6218