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Article Dans Une Revue JCAP Année : 2017

Relativistic N-body simulations with massive neutrinos

Ruth Durrer
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Martin Kunz
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Some of the dark matter in the Universe is made up of massive neutrinos. Their impact on the formation of large scale structure can be used to determine their absolute mass scale from cosmology, but to this end accurate numerical simulations have to be developed. Due to their relativistic nature, neutrinos pose additional challenges when one tries to include them in N-body simulations that are traditionally based on Newtonian physics. Here we present the first numerical study of massive neutrinos that uses a fully relativistic approach. Our N-body code, gevolution, is based on a weak-field formulation of general relativity that naturally provides a self-consistent framework for relativistic particle species. This allows us to model neutrinos from first principles, without invoking any ad-hoc recipes. Our simulation suite comprises some of the largest neutrino simulations performed to date. We study the effect of massive neutrinos on the nonlinear power spectra and the halo mass function, focusing on the interesting mass range between 0.06 eV and 0.3 eV and including a case for an inverted mass hierarchy.
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hal-01645746 , version 1 (12-07-2022)

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Julian Adamek, Ruth Durrer, Martin Kunz. Relativistic N-body simulations with massive neutrinos. JCAP, 2017, 11, pp.004. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2017/11/004⟩. ⟨hal-01645746⟩
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