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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

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

We use the {\sc Illustris TNG300} magneto-hydrodynamic simulation, the {\sc SAGE} semi-analytical model, and the subhalo abundance matching technique (SHAM) to examine the diversity in predictions for galaxy assembly bias (i.e. the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Sergio Contreras , Raul Angulo , Matteo Zennaro

The large-scale linear halo bias encodes the relation between the clustering of dark-matter (DM) halos and that of the underlying matter density field. Although the primary dependence of bias on halo mass is well understood in the context…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Sergio Contreras , M. Celeste Artale , Facundo Rodriguez , Ginevra Favole

The two-point clustering of dark matter halos is influenced by halo properties besides mass, a phenomenon referred to as halo assembly bias. Using the depth of the gravitational potential well, $V_{\rm max}$, as our secondary halo property,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Tomomi Sunayama , Andrew P. Hearin , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Alexie Leauthaud

We investigate the origin of halo assembly bias, the dependence of halo clustering on assembly history. We relate halo assembly to peak properties measured in the Lagrangian space of the initial linear Gaussian random density field, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 Neal Dalal , Martin White , J. Richard Bond , Alexander Shirokov

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

Halo assembly bias is a phenomenon whereby the clustering of dark matter halos is dependent on halo properties, such as age, at fixed mass. Understanding the origin of assembly bias is important for interpreting the clustering of galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 William Smith , Andreas Berlind , Manodeep Sinha

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

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

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 clustering of galaxies encodes key information about the structure and assembly history of their host dark matter (DM) haloes, providing a powerful probe of the origin of extreme high-redshift systems. While halo assembly bias has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Zihao Wang , Fangzhou Jiang , Haonan Zheng , Xuejian Shen , Zixiang Jia , Luis C. Ho , Kohei Inayoshi , Linhua Jiang

We use a very large simulation of structure growth in a LCDM universe -- the Millennium Simulation -- to study assembly bias, the fact that the large-scale clustering of haloes of given mass varies significantly with their assembly history.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

Voids have emerged as a novel probe of cosmology and large-scale structure. These regions of extreme underdensity are sensitive to physics beyond the standard model of cosmology, and can potentially be used as a testing ground to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

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 build a deep learning framework that connects the local formation process of dark matter halos to the halo bias. We train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the final mass and concentration of dark matter halos from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-12 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Alexandre Barreira , Fabian Schmidt

Constraints on local primordial non-Gaussianity (LPnG) obtained from galaxy power spectra are limited by the perfect degeneracy between the LPnG parameter $f_{\rm NL}$ and the bias parameter $b_{\phi}$ which encodes the response of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-19 Charuhas Shiveshwarkar , Marilena Loverde , Christopher M. Hirata , Drew Jamieson

For low-mass haloes, the physical origins of halo assembly bias have been linked to the slowdown of accretion due to tidal forces, which are expected to be more dominant in some cosmic-web environments as compared to others. In this work,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-25 Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Facundo Rodriguez

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

We address the question of whether or not assembly bias arises in the absence of highly non-linear effects such as tidal stripping of halos near larger mass concentrations. Therefore, we use a simplified dynamical scheme where these effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose Ariel Keselman , Adi Nusser