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Clustering of dark matter halos has been shown to depend on halo properties beyond mass such as halo concentration, a phenomenon referred to as halo assembly bias. Standard halo occupation models (HOD) in large scale structure studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-05 Mohammadjavad Vakili , ChangHoon Hahn

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) and galaxy clustering is a promising route to measuring the amplitude of matter clustering and testing modified gravity theories of cosmic acceleration. Halo occupation distribution (HOD)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Joseph E. McEwen , David H. Weinberg

The clustering of dark halos depends not only on their mass but also on their assembly history, a dependence we term `assembly bias'. Using a galaxy formation model grafted onto the Millennium Simulation of the LCDM cosmogony, we study how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Darren J. Croton , Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos is often inferred from data using probabilistic models, such as the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD). Conventional HOD formulations assume that only halo mass governs the galaxy-halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner , Frank C. van den Bosch , Duncan Campbell , Erik Tollerud

Most models for the connection between galaxies and their haloes ignore the possibility that galaxy properties may be correlated with halo properties other than mass, a phenomenon known as galaxy assembly bias. Yet, it is known that such…

Understanding the galaxy-halo connection is fundamental for contemporary models of galaxy clustering. The extent to which the haloes' assembly history and environment impact galaxy clustering (a.k.a. galaxy assembly bias; GAB), remains a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-06 Xiaoju Xu , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras

If the formation of central galaxies in dark matter haloes traces the assembly history of their host haloes, in haloes of fixed mass, central galaxy clustering may show dependence on properties indicating their formation history. Such a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 Kevin S. McCarthy , Zheng Zheng , Hong Guo , Wentao Luo , Yen-Ting Lin

We investigate theoretical systematics caused by the application of the halo occupation distribution (HOD) to the study of galaxy clustering at non-linear scales. To do this, we repeat recent cosmological analyses using extended HOD models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Zhongxu Zhai , Will Percival

The halo assembly bias, a phenomenon referring to dependencies of the large-scale bias of a dark matter halo other than its mass, is a fundamental property of the standard cosmological model. First discovered in 2005 from the Millennium Run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yen-Ting Lin , Hironao Miyatake , Hong Guo , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Kai-Feng Chen , Ting-Wen Lan , Yu-Yen Chang

We extend the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) framework to generate mock galaxy catalogs exhibiting varying levels of "galactic conformity", which has emerged as a potentially powerful probe of environmental effects in galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-23 Aseem Paranjape , Katarina Kovac , William G. Hartley , Isha Pahwa

Understanding the impact of halo properties beyond halo mass on the clustering of galaxies (namely galaxy assembly bias) remains a challenge for contemporary models of galaxy clustering. We explore the use of machine learning to predict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Xiaoju Xu , Saurabh Kumar , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras

The galaxy bias parameters are crucial for modeling the large-scale structure in cosmology, yet uncertainties in these parameters often degrade the precision of cosmological constraints. In this work, we investigate how different Halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Kazuyuki Akitsu

Building accurate and flexible galaxy-halo connection models is crucial in modeling galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. Recent studies have found that halo concentration by itself cannot capture the full galaxy assembly bias effect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sihan Yuan , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Hong Guo

Galaxy assembly bias, the correlation between galaxy properties and halo properties at fixed halo mass, could be an important ingredient in halo-based modelling of galaxy clustering. We investigate the central galaxy assembly bias by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-09 Xiaoju Xu , Zheng Zheng

Secondary halo bias, commonly known as 'assembly bias,' is the dependence of halo clustering on a halo property other than mass. This prediction of the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter cosmology is essential to modelling the galaxy distribution to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Yao-Yuan Mao , Andrew R. Zentner , Risa H. Wechsler

The fact that the clustering of dark matter halos depends not only on their mass, but also the formation epoch, is a prominent, albeit subtle, feature of the cold dark matter structure formation theory, and is known as assembly bias. At low…

Assembly bias describes the finding that the clustering of dark matter haloes depends on halo formation time at fixed halo mass. In this paper, we analyse the influence of assembly bias on galaxy clustering using both semi-analytical models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lan Wang , Simone M. Weinmann , Gabriella De Lucia , Xiaohu Yang

We constrain the newly-introduced decorated Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model using SDSS DR7 measurements of projected galaxy clustering or r-band luminosity threshold samples. The decorated HOD is a model for the galaxy-halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-22 Andrew R. Zentner , Andrew Hearin , Frank C. van den Bosch , Johannes U. Lange , Antonia Villarreal

The clustering of dark matter halos depends on the assembly history of halos at fixed halo mass; a phenomenon referred to as \textit{halo assembly bias}. Halo assembly bias is readily observed in cosmological simulations of dark matter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-08 Tomomi Sunayama , Surhud More , Hironao Miyatake

One of the key factors influencing galaxy clustering in the nonlinear regime is galaxy assembly bias, which describes the dependence of galaxy clustering on halo properties beyond halo mass. We study this effect by analyzing galaxy samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sergio García-Moreno , Jonás Chaves-Montero
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