We show that a suitably defined marked correlation function can be used to break degeneracies in halo-occupation distribution modeling. The statistic can be computed on both 3D and 2D data sets, and should be applicable to all upcoming galaxy surveys. A proof of principle, using mock catalogs created from N-body simulations, is given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.4288,
title = {Breaking Halo Occupation Degeneracies with Marked Statistics},
author = {Martin White and Nikhil Padmanabhan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.4288},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, minor revisions to match version accepted by MNRAS