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AI-assisted super-resolution cosmological simulations II: Halo substructures, velocities and higher order statistics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Submitted 3 May 2021
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The authors' main claim The SR technique can be a powerful and promising tool for modelling small-scale galaxy formation physics in large cosmological volumes.
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In this work, we expand and test the capabilities of our recently developed super-resolution (SR) model to generate high-resolution (HR) realizations of the full phase-space matter distribution, including both displacement and velocity, from computationally cheap low-resolution (LR) cosmological N-body simulations. The SR model enhances the simulation resolution by generating 512 times more tracer particles, extending into the deeply non-linear regime where complex structure formation processes take place. We validate the SR model by deploying the model in 10 test simulations of box size 100 Mpc/h, and examine the matter power spectra, bispectra and 2D power spectra in redshift space. We find the generated SR field matches the true HR result at percent level down to scales of k ~ 10 h/Mpc. We also identify and inspect dark matter halos and their substructures. Our SR model generate visually authentic small-scale structures, that cannot be resolved by the LR input, and are in good statistical agreement with the real HR results. The SR model performs satisfactorily on the halo occupation distribution, halo correlations in both real and redshift space, and the pairwise velocity distribution, matching the HR results with comparable scatter, thus demonstrating its potential in making mock halo catalogs. The SR technique can be a powerful and promising tool for modelling small-scale galaxy formation physics in large cosmological volumes.
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| s0 | In this work, we expand and test the capabilities of our recently developed super-resolution (SR) model to generate high-resolution (HR) realizations of the full phase-space matter distribution, including both displacement and velocity, from computationally cheap low-resolution (LR) cosmological N-body simulations. | contribution 0.98 | 0.88 | 0.07 | asserted 0.93 |
| s1 | The SR model enhances the simulation resolution by generating 512 times more tracer particles, extending into the deeply non-linear regime where complex structure formation processes take place. | method 0.89 | 0.84 | 0.06 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | We validate the SR model by deploying the model in 10 test simulations of box size 100 Mpc/h, and examine the matter power spectra, bispectra and 2D power spectra in redshift space. | method 0.97 | 0.96 | 0.04 | asserted 0.93 |
| s3 | We find the generated SR field matches the true HR result at percent level down to scales of k ~ 10 h/Mpc. | result 1.00 | 0.97 | 0.26 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | We also identify and inspect dark matter halos and their substructures. | contribution 0.76 | 0.95 | 0.03 | asserted 0.96 |
| s5 | Our SR model generate visually authentic small-scale structures, that cannot be resolved by the LR input, and are in good statistical agreement with the real HR results. | result 0.98 | 0.92 | 0.20 | asserted 1.00 |
| s6 | The SR model performs satisfactorily on the halo occupation distribution, halo correlations in both real and redshift space, and the pairwise velocity distribution, matching the HR results with comparable scatter, thus demonstrating its potential in making mock halo catalogs. | result 0.88 | 0.96 | 0.22 | asserted 0.99 |
| s7 | The SR technique can be a powerful and promising tool for modelling small-scale galaxy formation physics in large cosmological volumes. | interpretation 0.97 | 0.20 | 0.70 | hedged possibility 0.92 |
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In this work, we expand and test the capabilities of our recently developed super-resolution (SR) model to generate high-resolution (HR) realizations of the full phase-space matter distribution, including both displacement and velocity, from computationally cheap low-resolution (LR) cosmological N-body simulations. The SR model enhances the simulation resolution by generating 512 times more tracer particles, extending into the deeply non-linear regime where complex structure formation processes take place. We validate the SR model by deploying the model in 10 test simulations of box size 100 Mpc/h, and examine the matter power spectra, bispectra and 2D power spectra in redshift space. We find the generated SR field matches the true HR result at percent level down to scales of k ~ 10 h/Mpc. We also identify and inspect dark matter halos and their substructures. Our SR model generate visually authentic small-scale structures, that cannot be resolved by the LR input, and are in good statistical agreement with the real HR results. The SR model performs satisfactorily on the halo occupation distribution, halo correlations in both real and redshift space, and the pairwise velocity distribution, matching the HR results with comparable scatter, thus demonstrating its potential in making mock halo catalogs. The SR technique can be a powerful and promising tool for modelling small-scale galaxy formation physics in large cosmological volumes.
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9 arXiv papers cite this in 10 sentences
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These include error corrections for fast particle-mesh-based simulations [ref] , interpolation between two simulation snapshots [ref] , generative methods for super-resolution simulations [ref] along with their redshift dependence [ref] , normalizing flows [ref] , and mapping between standard $Λ$CDM and modified gravity cosmologies [ref] .
Field-level Emulation of Cosmic Structure Formation with Cosmology and Redshift Dependence · Introduction · 0.95
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There are efforts trying to speed-up the process of producing high-resolution N-body simulations, by starting from lower-resolution ones, and letting the ML fill in the detailed structures on small scales [ref] .
Improving cosmological covariance matrices with machine learning · Introduction · 0.92
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Applications include parameter inference [ref] , superresolution [ref] , generation of mock data [ref] , painting hydrodynamic properties on N-body simulations [ref] , improving the halo-galaxy connection [ref] , removing/cleaning astrophysical effects [ref] , emulating non-linear evolution and speeding up numerical simulations [ref] , learning functions to interpolate among simulation properties [ref] , estimating masses of dark matter halos [ref] and galaxy clusters [ref] , finding universal relations in subhalo properties [ref] , generating realistic galaxy images [ref] , model selection and classification [ref] , and improving SED fitting techniques [ref] , among many others (see [ref] [<https://github.com/georgestein/ml-in-cosmology>] for a comprehensive compilation).
The CAMELS project: public data release · Introduction · 0.87
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The architecture of our GAN model follows those used in [ref] .
AI-assisted super-resolution cosmological simulations · Details of the architecture · 0.93
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The brown dashed line in Figure [ref] shows the test set power spectrum from the model of [ref] which only generates the displacement field of tracer particles.
AI-assisted super-resolution cosmological simulations · Matter power spectrum · 0.89
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One of the most promising DL approaches so far to SR use Generative Adversarial Nets (GAN) [ref] .
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network · Introduction · 0.80
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Recently, [ref] have started the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS), a set of over 4000 hydrodynamical simulations run with different hydrodynamic solvers and subgrid models for galaxy formation, providing a large training set to study baryonic effects with machine learning applications.
The CAMELS project: Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations · Introduction · 0.91
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Recently, [ref] have started the Cosmology and Astrophysics with MachinE Learning Simulations (CAMELS), a set of over 4000 hydrodynamical simulations run with different hydrodynamic solvers and subgrid models for galaxy formation, providing a large training set to study baryonic effects with machine learning applications.
Neural networks as optimal estimators to marginalize over baryonic effects · Introduction · 0.91
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