COZMIC. I. Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Initial Conditions Beyond Cold Dark Matter

arXiv:2410.03635 · astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2024-10-04 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2024-10-04

Updated: 2026-10-12

Comments: 36 pages, 19 figures, 2 tables; updated to published version. Data is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14649137. Figure 13 replaced with correct version

Journal ref: ApJ, 986, 127 (2025)

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/adceef

Code: https://github.com/lesgourg/class_public

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Milky Way — 1× in this paper
• Warm Dark Matter (WDM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Astrophysical Tests of Dark Matter Self-Interactions
• COZMIC. II. Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Fractional non-CDM Initial Conditions
• Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Cosmological Simulations for Dark Matter Physics
• Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Dark Matter Physics from Halo Measurements
• Notes on the Missing Satellites Problem
• Snowmass2021 Cosmic Frontier White Paper: Observational Facilities to Study Dark Matter
• Not so fuzzy: excluding FDM with sizes and stellar kinematics of ultra-faint dwarf galaxies
• Introducing the AIDA-TNG project: galaxy formation in alternative dark matter models
• Probing the Fundamental Nature of Dark Matter with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
• No Catch-22 for Fuzzy Dark Matter: testing substructure counts and core sizes via high-resolution cosmological simulations
• A Stable Sexaquark: Overview and Discovery Strategies
• R2-D2: Roman and Rubin -- From Data to Discovery
• JWST Lensed quasar dark matter survey II: Strongest gravitational lensing limit on the dark matter free streaming length to date
• The Cosmic Linear Anisotropy Solving System (CLASS) I: Overview
• COZMIC. III. Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations of Self-interacting Dark Matter with Suppressed Initial Conditions
• Constraints on the properties of $\nu$MSM dark matter using the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way
• Introducing the DREAMS Project: DaRk mattEr and Astrophysics with Machine learning and Simulations
• Wide-Field InfrarRed Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets WFIRST-AFTA 2015 Report
• Predictions for the Detectability of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies and Outer-Halo Star Clusters with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory
• Strong gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter

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