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Applying halo models to analyze the small-scale clustering of galaxies is a proven method for characterizing the connection between galaxies and their host halos. Such works are often plagued by systematic errors or are limited to…

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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

Recent efforts to identify secondary variations in the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) have primarily focused on simulations examining the role of large-scale cosmic environments such as superclusters, filaments, and underdense regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Vicente Izzo Dominguez , Facundo Rodriguez , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

We investigate galaxy bias in the framework of the ``Halo Occupation Distribution'' (HOD), which defines the bias of a population of galaxies by the conditional probability P(N|M) that a dark matter halo of virial mass M contains N…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas A. Berlind , David H. Weinberg

The spatial clustering properties of HI galaxies can be studied using the formalism of the halo occupation distribution (HOD). The resulting parameter constraints describe properties like gas richness verses environment. Unfortunately,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stuart Wyithe , Michael J. I. Brown

Upcoming imaging surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will enable high signal-to-noise measurements of galaxy clustering. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) is a widely used framework to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 P. Cataldi , V. Cristiani , F. Rodriguez , A. Taverna , M. C. Artale , B. Levine , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We present diffHOD-IA, a fully differentiable implementation of a halo occupation distribution (HOD) model that incorporates galaxy intrinsic alignments (IA). Motivated by the diffHOD framework, we create a new implementation that extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sneh Pandya , Jonathan Blazek

We explore two widely used empirical models for the galaxy-halo connection, subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) and the halo occupation distribution (HOD) and compare their predictions with the hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG (TNG) for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel Eisenstein , Lars Hernquist

We present a configuration-space model of the large-scale galaxy 3-point correlation function (3PCF) based on leading-order perturbation theory and including redshift space distortions (RSD). This model should be useful in extracting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Zachary Slepian , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We investigate the potential of machine learning (ML) methods to model small-scale galaxy clustering for constraining Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) parameters. Our analysis reveals that while many ML algorithms report good statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Abhishek Jana , Lado Samushia

We perform a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modeling of the projected two-point correlation function (2PCF) of quasars that are observed in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope with counter-parts in the Sloan Digital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-02 Kaustav Mitra

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

The popular halo model predicts that the power spectrum of the galaxy fluctuations is simply the sum of the large scale linear halo-halo power spectrum and the weighted power spectrum of the halo profile. Previous studies have derived halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adrian A. Collister , Ofer Lahav

The standard Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) models were originally developed based on results from semi-analytic and hydrodynamical galaxy formation models. Those models have since progressed, in particular to include AGN feedback to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-08 Nuala McCullagh , Peder Norberg , Shaun Cole , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Carlton Baugh , John Helly

Conventional studies of galaxy clustering within the framework of halo models typically assume that the density profile of all dark matter haloes can be approximated by the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) spherically symmetric profile. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-09 Anna Durkalec , Agnieszka Pollo , Ummi Abbas

We construct halo occupation distribution (HOD) models of high redshift ($z \gtrsim 7.5$) galaxies with $M_{*}>10^8~M_{\odot}/h$ using the BlueTides hydrodynamic simulation suite, with a particular emphasis on modelling the small scale /…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Aklant Kumar Bhowmick , Duncan Campbell , Tiziana DiMatteo , Yu Feng

In the present work, we extend the classic halo model for the large-scale matter distribution including a triaxial model for the halo profiles and their alignments. In particular, we derive general expressions for the halo-matter cross…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-21 M. A. Sgró , D. J. Paz , M. E. Merchán

Small- and intermediate-scale galaxy clustering can be used to establish the galaxy-halo connection to study galaxy formation and evolution and to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters. With the increasing precision of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Zheng Zheng , Hong Guo