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For the joint analysis of second-order weak lensing and galaxy clustering statistics, so-called $3{\times}2$ analyses, the selection and characterization of optimal galaxy samples is a major area of research. One promising choice is to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Andrés N. Salcedo , Tim Eifler , Peter Behroozi

The halo model (HM) describes the inhomogeneous universe as a collection of halos. The full nonlinear power spectrum of the universe is well approximated by the HM, whose prediction can be easily computed without lengthy numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-07 Kimmo Kainulainen , Valerio Marra

To extract information from the clustering of galaxies on non-linear scales, we need to model the connection between galaxies and halos accurately and in a flexible manner. Standard halo occupation distribution (HOD) models make the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-22 Ana Maria Delgado , Digvijay Wadekar , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Lars Hernquist , Shirley Ho

Existing models for the dependence of the halo mass function on cosmological parameters will become a limiting source of systematic uncertainty for cluster cosmology in the near future. We present a halo mass function emulator and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Thomas McClintock , Eduardo Rozo , Matthew R. Becker , Joseph DeRose , Yau-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Jeremy L. Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Zhongxu Zhai

Accurate predictions for the non-linear matter power spectrum are needed to confront theory with observations in current and near future weak lensing and galaxy clustering surveys. We propose a computationally cheap method to create an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Hans Winther , Santiago Casas , Marco Baldi , Kazuya Koyama , Baojiu Li , Lucas Lombriser , Gong-Bo Zhao

We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to characterise the predictions from two independent galaxy formation models for the galactic content of dark matter haloes and its evolution with redshift. Our galaxy samples…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-16 S. Contreras , I. Zehavi , C. M. Baugh , N. Padilla , P. Norberg

We present the results obtained from the full-shape cosmology analysis of the redshift-space power spectra for 4 galaxy samples of the SDSS-III BOSS DR12 galaxy catalog over $0.2 < z < 0.75$. For the theoretical template, we use an emulator…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Yosuke Kobayashi , Takahiro Nishimichi , Masahiro Takada , Hironao Miyatake

We use the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) of a volume-limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main galaxy redshift catalogue to measure the halo occupation distribution (HOD) of the galaxies of the sample.…

In this work, we demonstrate how differentiable stochastic sampling techniques developed in the context of deep Reinforcement Learning can be used to perform efficient parameter inference over stochastic, simulation-based, forward models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Benjamin Horowitz , ChangHoon Hahn , Francois Lanusse , Chirag Modi , Simone Ferraro

Effective field theory (EFT)-based full-shape analysis with simulation-based priors (SBPs) is a novel approach to galaxy clustering data analysis, which significantly boosts the constraining power by efficiently incorporating field-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Mikhail M. Ivanov

Context: Modelling satellite galaxy abundance $N_s$ 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.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Antonio Ragagnin , Alessandra Fumagalli , Tiago Castro , Klaus Dolag , Alexandro Saro , Matteo Costanzi , Sebastian Bocquet

Predicting the spatial distribution of objects as a function of cosmology is an essential ingredient for the exploitation of future galaxy surveys. In this paper we show that a specially-designed suite of gravity-only simulations together…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 S. Contreras , R. E. Angulo , M. Zennaro , G. Aricó , M. Pellejero-Ibañez

(Abridged) We investigate the power of void statistics to constrain galaxy bias and the amplitude of dark matter fluctuations. We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to describe the relation between galaxies and dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Michael S. Warren

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

We make use of the IllustrisTNG cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations to test fundamental assumptions of the mass-based Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) approach to modelling the galaxy-halo connection. By comparing the clustering of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel Eisenstein , Lars Hernquist , David N. Spergel

Recently, hybrid bias expansions have emerged as a powerful approach to modelling the way in which galaxies are distributed in the Universe. Similarly, field-level emulators have recently become possible thanks to advances in machine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Marcos Pellejero Ibanez , Raul E. Angulo , Drew Jamieson , Yin Li

The concentration-mass relation for dark matter-dominated halos is one of the essential results expected from a theory of structure formation. We present a simple prediction scheme, a cosmic emulator, for the c-M relation as a function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Juliana Kwan , Suman Bhattacharya , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib

To improve the performance of full-shape analyses of large-scale structure, we consider using a halo occupation distribution (HOD)-informed prior for the effective field theory (EFT) nuisance parameters. We generate 320 000 mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Hanyu Zhang , Marco Bonici , Guido D'Amico , Simone Paradiso , Will J. Percival

I review recent progress in understanding and modeling galaxy clustering in cosmological simulations, with emphasis on models based on high-resolution dissipationless simulations. During the last decade, significant advances in our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey V. Kravtsov

It is common practice for methods that use galaxy clustering to constrain the galaxy-halo relationship, such as the halo occupation distribution (HOD) and/or conditional luminosity function (CLF), to assume that halo mass alone suffices to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-11 Andrew R. Zentner , Andrew P. Hearin , Frank C. van den Bosch