2022/07/12 by Denise Lanzieri, Lanzieri, Denise, François Lanusse +3 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Scientific Research and Discoveries
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.05509
openalex publication_date 2022/07/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
We present a new scheme to compensate for the small-scales approximations resulting from Particle-Mesh (PM) schemes for cosmological N-body simulations. This kind of simulations are fast and low computational cost realizations of the large scale structures, but lack resolution on small scales. To improve their accuracy, we introduce an additional effective force within the differential equations of the simulation, parameterized by a Fourier-space Neural Network acting on the PM-estimated gravitational potential. We compare the results for the matter power spectrum obtained to the ones obtained by the PGD scheme (Potential gradient descent scheme). We notice a similar improvement in term of power spectrum, but we find that our approach outperforms PGD for the cross-correlation coefficients, and is more robust to changes in simulation settings (different resolutions, different cosmologies).