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In $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, galaxies form and evolve in their host dark matter (DM) halos. Halo mass is crucial for understanding the halo-galaxy connection. The abundance matching (AM) technique has been widely used to derive the halo…

We present a machine learning (ML) approach for the prediction of galaxies' dark matter halo masses that achieves an improved performance over conventional methods. We train three ML algorithms (\texttt{XGBoost}, Random Forests, and neural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 Victor F. Calderon , Andreas A. Berlind

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is widely used for connecting galaxies to dark matter haloes. In SHAM, galaxies and (sub-)haloes are sorted according to their mass (or mass proxy) and matched by their rank order. In this work, we show…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Silvan Fischbacher , Tomasz Kacprzak , Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle , Alexandre Refregier

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.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 George Stein , Marcelo A. Alvarez , J. Richard Bond

We present a machine-learning framework, Machine Inferred Galaxy (MIG), to populate dark-matter haloes with galaxies in N-body simulations. MIG predicts stellar mass ($M_\ast$), star-formation rate (SFR), atomic and molecular gas masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Pratyush Kumar Das , Romeel Davé , Weiguang Cui

This is the second in a series of three papers in which we present an end-to-end simulation from the MICE collaboration, the MICE Grand Challenge (MICE-GC) run. The N-body contains about 70 billion dark-matter particles in a $(3 \, h^{-1}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-26 M. Crocce , F. J. Castander , E. Gaztanaga , P. Fosalba , J. Carretero

Upcoming 21cm surveys will map the spatial distribution of cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) over unprecedented volumes. Mock catalogues are needed to fully exploit the potential of these surveys. Standard techniques employed to create these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Digvijay Wadekar , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We develop a galaxy assignment scheme that populates dark matter halos with galaxies by tracing the most bound member particles (MBPs) of simulated halos. Several merger-timescale models based on analytic calculations and numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-11 Sungwook E. Hong , Changbom Park , Juhan Kim

We introduce a mock galaxy catalog built for the CSST extragalactic surveys using the primary runs of the Jiutian $N$-body simulation suites. The catalogs are built by coupling the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) semi-analytical model…

We develop a new method to reconstruct the cosmic density field from the distribution of dark matter haloes above a certain mass threshold. Our motivation is that well-defined samples of galaxy groups/clusters, which can be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Y. Wang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Y. C. Guo , Frank C. van den Bosch , X. H. Yang

This paper is the first in a series in which we perform an extensive comparison of various galaxy-based cluster mass estimation techniques that utilise the positions, velocities and colours of galaxies. Our primary aim is to test the…

We develop a hybrid galaxy formation model which uses outputs from an N-body simulation to follow the merger histories (or ``merger trees'') of dark matter halos and treats baryonic processes, such as the cooling of gas within halos and…

We discuss the extension to redshift space of a rescaling algorithm, designed to alter the effective cosmology of a pre-existing simulated particle distribution or catalogue of dark matter haloes. The rescaling approach was initially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Alexander Mead , John Peacock

Estimating a reliable covariance matrix for correlation functions of galaxies is a crucial task to obtain accurate cosmological constraints from galaxy surveys. We generate 2,000 independent lightcone mock luminous red galaxy (LRGs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-04 Shogo Ishikawa , Teppei Okumura , Takahiro Nishimichi

Precision measurements of the large scale structure of the Universe require large numbers of high fidelity mock catalogs to accurately assess, and account for, the presence of systematic effects. We introduce and test a scheme for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Tomomi Sunayama , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Esteban Rangel

The mapping between the distributions of the observed galaxy stellar mass and the underlying dark matter halos provides the crucial link from theories of large-scale structure formation to interpreting the complex phenomena of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Ying Zu , Rachel Mandelbaum

According to the lambda CDM scenario, galaxies are formed through the hierarchical accretion of building blocks. Our Galaxy is a privileged place to look for the remnants of accretion events through the study of the chemical and kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-19 Leda Berni

Halo models provide a simple and computationally inexpensive way to investigate the connection between galaxies and their dark matter haloes. However, these models rely on the assumption that the role of baryons can be easily parametrized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Gillian D. Beltz-Mohrmann , Andreas A. Berlind , Adam O. Szewciw

A forward modelling approach provides simple, fast and realistic simulations of galaxy surveys, without a complex underlying model. For this purpose, galaxy clustering needs to be simulated accurately, both for the usage of clustering as…

We present 108 full-sky gravitational lensing simulation data sets generated by performing multiple-lens plane ray-tracing through high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data sets include full-sky convergence and shear maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takashi Hamana , Masato Shirasaki , Toshiya Namikawa , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ken Osato , Kosei Shiroyama