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The future astronomical imaging surveys are set to provide precise constraints on cosmological parameters, such as dark energy. However, production of synthetic data for these surveys, to test and validate analysis methods, suffers from a…

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We present a new suite of mock galaxy catalogs mimicking the low-redshift Universe, based on an updated halo occupation distribution (HOD) model and a scaling relation between optical properties and the neutral hydrogen (HI) content of…

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We investigate various phenomenological schemes for the rapid generation of 3D mock galaxy catalogues with a given power spectrum and bispectrum. We apply the fast bispectrum estimator \MODALLSS{} to these mock galaxy catalogues and compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Johnathan Hung , Marc Manera , E. P. S. Shellard

We present a fast method of producing mock galaxy catalogues that can be used to compute covariance matrices of large-scale clustering measurements and test the methods of analysis. Our method populates a 2nd-order Lagrangian Perturbation…

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

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The galaxy luminosity function and galaxy stellar mass function are fundamental statistics in the testing of galaxy formation models. Theoretical predictions based on cosmological simulations can deviate from observations, especially at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Lin Tang , Weipeng Lin , Yang Wang , N. R. Napolitano

Accurate mock galaxy catalogues are crucial to validate analysis pipelines used to constrain dark energy models. We present a fast HOD-fitting method which we apply to the AbacusSummit simulations to create a set of mock catalogues for the…

We describe a method for generating halo catalogues on the light cone using the \Abacus{AbacusSummit} suite of $N$-body simulations. The main application of these catalogues is the construction of realistic mock galaxy catalogues and weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-25 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel Eisenstein , Sownak Bose

The clustering of matter on cosmological scales is an essential probe for studying the physical origin and composition of our Universe. To date, most of the direct studies have focused on shear-shear weak lensing correlations, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-26 Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith , Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum

In two recent papers, we developed a powerful technique to link the distribution of galaxies to that of dark matter haloes by considering halo occupation numbers as function of galaxy luminosity and type. In this paper we use these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Frank C. van den Bosch , YaoQuan Chu

We investigate the feasibility of using COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) technique to efficiently generate galaxy mock catalogues that can accurately reproduce the statistical properties of observed galaxies. Our proposed scheme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Jiacheng Ding , Shaohong Li , Yi Zheng , Xiaolin Luo , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

Accurate modeling of galaxy distributions is paramount for cosmological analysis using galaxy redshift surveys. However, this endeavor is often hindered by the computational complexity of resolving the dark matter halos that host these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-07 J. M. Coloma-Nadal , F. -S. Kitaura , J. E. García-Farieta , F. Sinigaglia , G. Favole , D. Forero Sánchez

We develop a novel method to explore the galaxy-halo connection using the galaxy imaging surveys by modeling the projected two-point correlation function measured from the galaxies with reasonable photometric redshift measurements. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Y. P. Jing , Hong Guo , Zheng Zheng , Ying Zu , Zhigang Li , Chengze Liu

We present and test a method for modifying the catalogue of dark matter haloes produced from a given cosmological simulation, so that it resembles the result of a simulation with an entirely different set of parameters. This extends the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-02 Alexander Mead , John Peacock

We present a method for generating suites of dark-matter halo catalogs with only a few $N$-body simulations, focusing on making small changes to the underlying cosmology of a simulation with high precision. In the context of blind…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-26 Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Dynamically cold stellar streams from tidally dissolved globular clusters (GCs) serve as excellent tools to measure the Galactic mass distribution and show promise to probe the nature of dark matter. For successful application of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-30 Colin Holm-Hansen , Yingtian Chen , Oleg Y. Gnedin

We explore a variety of statistics of clusters selected with cosmic shear measurement by utilizing both analytic models and large numerical simulations. We first develop a halo model to predict the abundance and the clustering of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Naoki Yoshida

We present a detailed description and validation of our massively-parallel update to the mass-Peak Patch method, a fully predictive initial-space algorithm to quickly generate dark matter halo catalogues in very large cosmological volumes.…

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