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Satellite galaxy abundance dependency on cosmology in Magneticum simulations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2023-07-05 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies Machine Learning

Abstract

Context: Modelling satellite galaxy abundance NsN_s in Galaxy Clusters (GCs) is a key element in modelling the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), which itself is a powerful tool to connect observational studies with numerical simulations. Aims: To study the impact of cosmological parameters on satellite abundance both in cosmological simulations and in mock observations. Methods: We build an emulator (HODEmu, \url{https://github.com/aragagnin/HODEmu/}) of satellite abundance based on cosmological parameters Ωm,Ωb,σ8,h0\Omega_m, \Omega_b, \sigma_8, h_0 and redshift z.z. We train our emulator using \magneticum hydrodynamic simulations that span 15 different cosmologies, each over 44 redshift slices between 0<z<0.5,0<z<0.5, and for each setup we fit normalisation AA, log-slope β\beta and Gaussian fractional-scatter σ\sigma of the NsMN_s-M relation. The emulator is based on multi-variate output Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). Results: We find that AA and β\beta depend on cosmological parameters, even if weakly, especially on Ωm,\Omega_m, Ωb.\Omega_b. This dependency can explain some discrepancies found in literature between satellite HOD of different cosmological simulations (Magneticum, Illustris, BAHAMAS). We also show that satellite abundance cosmology dependency differs between full-physics (FP) simulations, dark-matter only (DMO), and non-radiative simulations. Conclusions: This work provides a preliminary calibration of the cosmological dependency of the satellite abundance of high mass halos, and we showed that modelling HOD with cosmological parameters is necessary to interpret satellite abundance, and we showed the importance of using FP simulations in modelling this dependency.

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@article{arxiv.2110.05498,
  title  = {Satellite galaxy abundance dependency on cosmology in Magneticum simulations},
  author = {Antonio Ragagnin and Alessandra Fumagalli and Tiago Castro and Klaus Dolag and Alexandro Saro and Matteo Costanzi and Sebastian Bocquet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05498},
  year   = {2023}
}

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15 pages, 13 figues, submitted to A&A