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Julian Adamek

Adamek

As our advanced telescopes produce ever larger and deeper maps of our Universe we need to consider that observations are taken on our past light cone and on a spacetime geometry that is pervaded by small distortions. A precise understanding of the weak-field regime of General Relativity allows one to model these aspects consistently within N-body simulations of cosmic structure formation. The subtle relativistic effects in cosmic structure can tell us how gravity operates on the largest scales that we observe and may hold the key to unraveling the mystery of dark energy.

I am the lead developer of "gevolution" - a general-relativistic N-body code for cosmological simulations that was designed to study those relativistic aspects. To find out more, visit the public code repository linked below.

 

Code repository

https://github.com/gevolution-code/gevolution-1.2

 

Publications

https://inspirehep.net/authors/1057360