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We present a fully analytical halo model of colour-dependent clustering that incorporates the effects of galactic conformity in a halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework. The model, based on our previous numerical work, describes…

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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

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

We present a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) analysis of the luminosity- and colour-dependent galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A novelty of our technique is that it uses a combination of clustering measurements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Niladri Paul , Isha Pahwa , Aseem Paranjape

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

The large-scale redshift-space distortion (RSD) in galaxy clustering can probe $f\sigma_8$, a combination of the cosmic structure growth rate and the matter fluctuation amplitude, which can constrain dark energy models and test theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Kevin Spencer McCarthy , Zheng Zheng , Hong Guo

We simultaneously constrain cosmology and galaxy bias using measurements of galaxy abundances, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We use the conditional luminosity function (which describes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Marcello Cacciato , Frank C. van den Bosch , Surhud More , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

Interpreting the small-scale clustering of galaxies with halo models can elucidate the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos. Unfortunately, the modelling is typically not sufficiently accurate for ruling out models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Manodeep Sinha , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , Roman Scoccimarro , Jennifer A. Piscionere , Benjamin D. Wibking

We present significant evidence of halo assembly bias for SDSS redMaPPer galaxy clusters in the redshift range $[0.1, 0.33]$. By dividing the 8,648 clusters into two subsamples based on the average member galaxy separation from the cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Hironao Miyatake , Surhud More , Masahiro Takada , David N. Spergel , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eli S. Rykoff , Eduardo Rozo

Context. Galaxies in the Universe show a conformity in the fraction of quenched galaxies out to large distances, being much larger around quenched central galaxies than for star-forming ones. On the other hand, simulations have shown that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-19 Ivan Lacerna , Nelson Padilla , Daniela Palma

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

We examine the evolution of assembly bias using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation implemented in the Millennium-WMAP7 N-body simulation. We consider fixed number density galaxy samples ranked by stellar mass or star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-15 Sergio Contreras , Idit Zehavi , Nelson Padilla , Carlton Baugh , Esteban Jiménez , Ivan Lacerna

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

The next generation of galaxy surveys will provide more precise measurements of galaxy clustering than have previously been possible. The 21-cm radio signals that are emitted from neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas will be detected by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Fei Qin , Cullan Howlett , Adam R. H. Stevens , David Parkinson

Assembly bias is the variation in the clustering of dark matter halos and galaxies that arises from correlations between the halo assembly history and the large-scale environment at fixed halo mass. In this work, we use the cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Yikun Wang , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras , Shaun Cole , Peder Norberg

Context. Halo occupation distribution (HOD) is a powerful statistic that allows the study of several aspects of the matter distribution in the Universe, such as evaluating semi-analytic models of galaxy formation or imposing constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-12 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán , Mario Agustín Sgró

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 study how well we can reconstruct the 2-point clustering of galaxies on linear scales, as a function of mass and luminosity, using the halo occupation distribution (HOD) in several semi-analytical models (SAMs) of galaxy formation from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-20 Arnau Pujol , Enrique Gaztanaga

We place constraints on the average density (Omega_m) and clustering amplitude (sigma_8) of matter using a combination of two measurements from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the galaxy two-point correlation function, w_p, and the…