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We present a comparison of major methodologies of fast generating mock halo or galaxy catalogues. The comparison is done for two-point and the three-point clustering statistics. The reference catalogues are drawn from the BigMultiDark…

Aims. We present MAMBO, a flexible and efficient workflow to build empirical galaxy and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) mock catalogues that reproduce the physical and observational properties of these sources. Methods. We start from simulated…

We present 2000 mock galaxy catalogs for the analysis of baryon acoustic oscillations in the Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) sample of the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16 (eBOSS DR16). Each mock catalog has a…

We investigate various phenomenological schemes for the rapid generation of 3D mock galaxy catalogues with a given power spectrum and bispectrum. We apply the fast bispectrum estimator \MODALLSS{} to these mock galaxy catalogues and compare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Johnathan Hung , Marc Manera , E. P. S. Shellard

Context. Mock galaxy catalogues are essential for correctly interpreting current and future generations of galaxy surveys. Despite their significance in galaxy formation and cosmology, little to no work has been done to validate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-23 Sergio Contreras , Raul E. Angulo , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Roi Kugel , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye

We present cosmological results from a combined analysis of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational lensing, using 1321 deg$^2$ of $griz$ imaging data from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES Y1). We combine three two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , A. Alarcon , J. Aleksić , S. Allam , S. Allen , A. Amara , J. Annis , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , E. Balbinot , M. Banerji , N. Banik , W. Barkhouse , M. Baumer , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , A. Benoit-Lévy , B. A. Benson , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. L. Bridle , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , M. T. Busha , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , N. Chen , M. Childress , A. Choi , C. Conselice , R. Crittenden , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , R. Das , T. M. Davis , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , J. DeRose , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Elliott , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , Y. Fang , E. Fernandez , A. Ferté , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Garcia-Fernandez , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , M. S. S. Gill , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hamilton , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , M. W. G. Johnson , T. Kacprzak , S. Kent , A. G. Kim , A. King , D. Kirk , N. Kokron , A. Kovacs , E. Krause , C. Krawiec , A. Kremin , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , F. Lacasa , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , A. R. Liddle , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , N. MacCrann , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. Manera , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , V. Miranda , D. Mudd , J. Muir , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , J. Peacock , H. V. Peiris , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , D. Petravick , A. A. Plazas , A. Porredon , J. Prat , A. Pujol , M. M. Rau , A. Refregier , P. M. Ricker , N. Roe , R. P. Rollins , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , A. I. Salvador , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , D. Scolnic , L. F. Secco , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Smith , J. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , T. N. Varga , P. Vielzeuf , V. Vikram , A. K. Vivas , A. R. Walker , M. Wang , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , R. C. Wolf , B. Yanny , F. Yuan , A. Zenteno , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

The use of realistic mock galaxy catalogues is essential in the preparation of large galaxy surveys, in order to test and validate theoretical models and to assess systematics. We present an updated version of the mock catalogue constructed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Alex Smith , Shaun Cole , Cameron Grove , Peder Norberg , Pauline Zarrouk

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

We present the calibration of the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) weak lensing source galaxy redshift distributions from clustering measurements. By cross-correlating the positions of source galaxies with luminous red galaxies selected…

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y6 data. The definition is based on a color and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

We present improved modelling of the redshift-space distortions of galaxy clustering that arise from peculiar velocities. We create mock galaxy catalogues in the framework of the halo model, using data from the Bolshoi project. These mock…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-27 Shadab Alam , John A. Peacock , Daniel J. Farrow , J. Loveday , A. M. Hopkins

We constrain cosmological and galaxy-bias parameters using the combination of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year-3 data. We describe our modeling framework, and choice of scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 S. Pandey , E. Krause , J. DeRose , N. MacCrann , B. Jain , M. Crocce , J. Blazek , A. Choi , H. Huang , C. To , X. Fang , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Prat , A. Porredon , L. F. Secco , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , N. Weaverdyck , Y. Park , M. Raveri , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , G. M. Bernstein , C. Sánchez , M. Jarvis , M. A. Troxel , G. Zacharegkas , C. Chang , A. Alarcon , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Baxter , K. Bechtol , M. R. Becker , H. Camacho , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , P. Chintalapati , C. Davis , E. Di Valentino , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , T. F. Eifler , F. Elsner , S. Everett , A. Farahi , A. Ferté , P. Fosalba , O. Friedrich , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , P. -F. Leget , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , Y. Omori , R. P. Rollins , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , A. Troja , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , R. H. Wechsler , B. Yanny , B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , A. E. Evrard , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , J. Weller

We create a sample of spectroscopically identified galaxies with $z < 0.2$ from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7, covering 6813 deg$^2$. Galaxies are chosen to sample the highest mass haloes, with an effective bias of 1.5,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ashley J. Ross , Lado Samushia , Cullan Howlett , Will J. Percival , Angela Burden , Marc Manera

The scientific exploitation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey (DESI BGS) data requires the construction of mocks with galaxy population properties closely mimicking those of the actual DESI BGS targets. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Sasha Safonova , Peder Norberg , Shaun Cole

We use the full-sky ray-tracing weak lensing simulations to generate 2268 mock catalogues for the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey first-year shear catalogue. Our mock catalogues take into account various effects as in the real data:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Masato Shirasaki , Takashi Hamana , Masahiro Takada , Ryuichi Takahashi , Hironao Miyatake

We present a novel approach to extracting dwarf galaxies from photometric data to measure their average halo mass profile with weak lensing. We characterise their stellar mass and redshift distributions with a spectroscopic calibration…

We present a new technique for creating mock catalogues of the individual stars that make up the accreted component of stellar haloes in cosmological simulations and show how the catalogues can be used to test and interpret observational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-27 Ben Lowing , Wenting Wang , Andrew Cooper , Rachel Kennedy , John Helly , Carlos Frenk , Shaun Cole

We present a fast method of producing mock galaxy catalogues that can be used to compute covariance matrices of large-scale clustering measurements and test the methods of analysis. Our method populates a 2nd-order Lagrangian Perturbation…

We investigate if, for a fixed number density of targets and redshift, there is an optimal way to select a galaxy sample in order to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale, which is used as a standard ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 César Hernández-Aguayo , Marius Cautun , Alex Smith , Carlton M. Baugh , Baojiu Li