Indra: a public computationally accessible suite of cosmological N-body simulations
| Autor: | Bridget Falck, Dmitry Medvedev, Jie Wang, Mark C. Neyrinck, Adrian Jenkins, Alexander S. Szalay, Gerard Lemson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) Matter power spectrum Halo mass function Dark matter Petabyte FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astronomical survey 01 natural sciences Measure (mathematics) Correlation function (statistical mechanics) Space and Planetary Science 0103 physical sciences Halo Statistical physics 010306 general physics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, Vol.506(2), pp.2659-2670 [Peer Reviewed Journal] |
| Popis: | Indra is a suite of large-volume cosmological $N$-body simulations with the goal of providing excellent statistics of the large-scale features of the distribution of dark matter. Each of the 384 simulations is computed with the same cosmological parameters and different initial phases, with 1024$^3$ dark matter particles in a box of length 1 Gpc/h, 64 snapshots of particle data and halo catalogs, and 505 time steps of the Fourier modes of the density field, amounting to almost a petabyte of data. All of the Indra data are immediately available for analysis via the SciServer science platform, which provides interactive and batch computing modes, personal data storage, and other hosted data sets such as the Millennium simulations and many astronomical surveys. We present the Indra simulations, describe the data products and how to access them, and measure ensemble averages, variances, and covariances of the matter power spectrum, the matter correlation function, and the halo mass function to demonstrate the types of computations that Indra enables. We hope that Indra will be both a resource for large-scale structure research and a demonstration of how to make very large datasets public and computationally accessible. matches published version. Indra is available on SciServer at http://sciserver.org |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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