The Abacus Cosmos: A Suite of Cosmological N-body Simulations
Abstract
We present a public data release of halo catalogs from a suite of 125 cosmological N-body simulations from the ABACUS project. The simulations span 40 wCDM cosmologies centered on the Planck 2015 cosmology at two mass resolutions, 4 × 1010 h -1 M ⊙ and 1 × 1010 h -1 M ⊙, in 1.1 h -1 Gpc and 720 h -1 Mpc boxes, respectively. The boxes are phase-matched to suppress sample variance and isolate cosmology dependence. Additional volume is available via 16 boxes of fixed cosmology and varied phase; a few boxes of single-parameter excursions from Planck 2015 are also provided. Catalogs spanning z = 1.5 to 0.1 are available for friends-of-friends and ROCKSTAR halo finders and include particle subsamples. All data products are available at https://lgarrison.github.io/AbacusCosmos.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- June 2018
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-4365/aabfd3
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1712.05768
- Bibcode:
- 2018ApJS..236...43G
- Keywords:
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- large-scale structure of universe;
- methods: numerical;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 13 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables. Additional figures added for mass resolution convergence tests, and additional redshifts added for existing tests. Matches ApJS accepted version