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Super-resolution emulator of cosmological simulations using deep physical models

Doogesh Kodi Ramanah, Tom Charnock, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, B. D. Wandelt

2020Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society70 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

ABSTRACT We present an extension of our recently developed Wasserstein optimized model to emulate accurate high-resolution (HR) features from computationally cheaper low-resolution (LR) cosmological simulations. Our deep physical modelling technique relies on restricted neural networks to perform a mapping of the distribution of the LR cosmic density field to the space of the HR small-scale structures. We constrain our network using a single triplet of HR initial conditions and the corresponding LR and HR evolved dark matter simulations from the quijote suite of simulations. We exploit the information content of the HR initial conditions as a well-constructed prior distribution from which the network emulates the small-scale structures. Once fitted, our physical model yields emulated HR simulations at low computational cost, while also providing some insights about how the large-scale modes affect the small-scale structure in real space.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsCosmological modelCosmologyResolution (logic)AstrophysicsAstronomyStatistical physicsAerospace engineeringTheoretical physicsArtificial intelligenceComputer scienceEngineeringAdvanced Image Processing TechniquesAdvanced Vision and ImagingComputer Graphics and Visualization Techniques