Structure formation at the juncture of simulations and perturbation theory
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis investigates the formation of the largest-scale cosmic structures found in the Universe through time, on the scales of hundreds of millions of megaparsecs and ten billion years. Modern telescopes are currently probing this large-scale structure by observing the 3D distributions of tens of millions of galaxies, and the shapes of hundreds of millions to billions. The correlations between their spatial distribution in the sky, their shapes, and cross-correlations therein contain a vast treasure trove of hitherto untapped cosmological information. We focus on the problem of accurately modeling the correlations of galaxy properties, induced by clustering and weak lensing, in regimes where past models have failed to do so. The goal of analyzing these cross-correlations is to probe the nature of dark matter, dark energy, the sum of neutrino masses, the primordial fluctuations of the Universe, and many other pressing questions about our Universe at high precision. These high precision measurements beget high accuracy models, lest we risk being biased about our inferences of the fundamental properties of the Universe. The creation of high accuracy models is the goal of this thesis, and this is achieved by leveraging two disparate paradigms for structure formation that have their individual strengths and weaknesses -- perturbation theory-based models and supercomputer simulations of the formation of structures. The `hybrid models' discussed in this thesis combine aspects of these two paradigms, creating a description of the formation of large-scale structures that is more accurate than the sum of its parts. This model for structure formation, at the juncture of simulations and perturbation theory, is investigated in several facets in subsequent chapters.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kokron, Nickolas |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Wechsler, Risa H. (Risa Heyrman) |
| Thesis advisor | Wechsler, Risa H. (Risa Heyrman) |
| Thesis advisor | Abel, Tom G, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Senatore, Leonardo |
| Degree committee member | Abel, Tom G, 1970- |
| Degree committee member | Senatore, Leonardo |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nickolas Kokron. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nt182mx4149 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Nickolas Kokron
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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