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We study the relation between halo mass and its environment from a probabilistic perspective. We find that halo mass depends not only on local dark matter density, but also on non-local quantities such as the cosmic web environment and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-23 Cheng Zhao , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Francisco Prada , Gustavo Yepes , Charling Tao

Primordial non-Gaussianity can lead to a scale-dependent bias in the density of collapsed halos relative to the underlying matter density. The galaxy power spectrum already provides constraints on local-type primordial non-Gaussianity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Matteo Tellarini , Ashley J. Ross , Gianmassimo Tasinato , David Wands

Accurate mock galaxy catalogues are crucial to validate analysis pipelines used to constrain dark energy models. We present a fast HOD-fitting method which we apply to the AbacusSummit simulations to create a set of mock catalogues for the…

Weak lensing mass-mapping is a useful tool to access the full distribution of dark matter on the sky, but because of intrinsic galaxy ellipticies and finite fields/missing data, the recovery of dark matter maps constitutes a challenging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Niall Jeffrey , Jia Liu , Jean-Luc Starck , Ken Osato , Tim Schrabback

We present a method to numerically estimate the densities of a discretely sampled data based on binary space partitioning tree. We start with a root node containing all the particles and then recursively divide each node into two nodes each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sanjib Sharma , Matthias Steinmetz

This paper presents a stochastic approach to the clustering evolution of dark matter haloes in the Universe. Haloes, identified by a Press-Schechter-type algorithm in Lagrangian space, are described in terms of `counting fields', acting as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Catelan , F. Lucchin , S. Matarrese , C. Porciani

With the halo catalog from the {\it Millennium Simulation}, we analyze the weak-lensing measured density profiles for clusters of galaxies, paying attention to the determination of the concentration-mass ($c$-$M$) relation which can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-08 Wei Du , Zuhui Fan

Current models of galaxy formation applied to understanding the large-scale structure of the universe have two parts. The first is an accurate solution of the equations of motion for the dark matter due to gravitational clustering. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth

We use N-body simulations to test the predictions of the redshift distortion in the power spectrum given by the halo model in which the clustering of dark matter particles is considered as a result both of the clustering of dark halos in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xi. Kang , Y. P. Jing , H. J. Mo , G. Borner

Semi-analytical models (SAMs) are currently the best way to understand the formation of galaxies within the cosmic dark-matter structures. While they fairly well reproduce the local stellar mass functions, correlation functions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-25 Morgane Cousin , Guilaine Lagache , Matthieu Bethermin , Jeremy Blaizot , Bruno Guiderdoni

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 present a set of mock redshift catalogs, constructed from N-body simulations, designed to mimic the DEEP2 survey. Galaxies with a range of luminosities are placed within virialized halos in the simulation using a variant of the halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Renbin Yan , Martin White , Alison L. Coil

We study the biasing relation between dark-matter halos or galaxies and the underlying mass distribution, using cosmological $N$-body simulations in which galaxies are modelled via semi-analytic recipes. The nonlinear, stochastic biasing is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 R. S. Somerville , G. Lemson , Y. Sigad , A. Dekel , G. Kauffmann , S. D. M. White

We extend current models of the halo occupation distribution (HOD) to include a flexible, empirical framework for the forward modeling of the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies. A primary goal of this work is to produce mock galaxy…

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) inserts galaxies into dark matter only simulations of the growth of cosmic structure in a way that requires minimal assumptions about galaxy formation. A galaxy is placed at the potential minimum of each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qi Guo , Simon White

The spatial distribution of massive and luminous galaxies have provided important constraints on the fundamental cosmological parameters and physical processes governing galaxy formation. In this work, we construct and compare independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Zhongxu Zhai , Andrew Benson , Yun Wang

SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) is an empirical method for constructing galaxy catalogues based on high-resolution $N$-body simulations. We apply SHAM on the UNIT simulation to simulate SDSS BOSS/eBOSS Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) within…

Galaxy peculiar velocities are excellent cosmological probes provided that biases inherent to their measurements are contained before any study. This paper proposes a new algorithm based on an object point process model whose probability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Jenny G. Sorce , Radu S. Stoica , Elmo Tempel

We present a mock catalogue for the Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS) and use it to quantify the competitiveness of the narrow band imaging for measuring spectral features and galaxy clustering. The mock agrees with…

We study whether the bias factors of galaxies can be unbiasedly recovered from their power spectra and bispectra. We use a set of numerical N-body simulations and construct large mock galaxy catalogs based upon the semi-analytical model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-17 Hong Guo , Y. P. Jing