Topological Signatures of AGN Feedback in the Simba Simulations

arXiv:2609.19993 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-17 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Comments: 23 pages, 14 figures, 2 tables; submitted to Physical Review D

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• AGN — 100× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 34× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Wasserstein Distance — 20× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• 2-Wasserstein Distance — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Persistent Homology — 13× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aperture — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• alpha — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abundance — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Matter Power Spectrum — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Non-Gaussianity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Primordial non-Gaussianity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Data Analysis (TDA) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Galaxy Quenching — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Anisotropy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Baryonic Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Bispectrum — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Environmental Quenching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Inverse Problem — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Euclid Definition Study Report
• The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design
• Wasserstein Distance in Cosmological Structure Formation: An Optimal Transport Perspective

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