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We investigate the dependence of dark matter halo clustering on halo formation time, density profile concentration, and subhalo occupation number, using high-resolution numerical simulations of a LCDM cosmology. We confirm results that halo…

The properties of dark matter halos, including mass growth, correlate with larger scale environment at fixed mass, an effect known as assembly bias. However, whether this environmental dependence manifests itself in galaxy properties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-27 Jeremy Tinker , Andrew Wetzel , Charlie Conroy

We investigate a conceptual modification of the halo occupation distribution approach, using the halos' present-day maximal circular velocity, $\vmax$, as an alternative to halo mass. In particular, using a semi-analytic galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Idit Zehavi , Stephen E. Kerby , Sergio Contreras , Esteban Jiménez , Nelson Padilla , Carlton M. Baugh

Galaxy assembly bias, the correlation between galaxy properties and halo properties at fixed halo mass, could be an important ingredient in halo-based modelling of galaxy clustering. We investigate the central galaxy assembly bias by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-09 Xiaoju Xu , Zheng Zheng

We investigate possible signatures of halo assembly bias for spectroscopically selected galaxy groups from the GAMA survey using weak lensing measurements from the spatially overlapping regions of the deeper, high-imaging-quality…

We critically examine the methodology behind the claimed observational detection of halo assembly bias using optically selected galaxy clusters by Miyatake et al. (2016) and More et al. (2016). We mimic the optical cluster detection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 Tomomi Sunayama , Surhud More

In the standard excursion set model for the growth of structure, the statistical properties of halos are governed by the halo mass and are independent of the larger scale environment in which the halos reside. Numerical simulations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jun Zhang , Chung-Pei Ma , Antonio Riotto

Galaxy properties primarily depend on their host halo mass. Halo mass, in turn, depends on the cosmic web environment. We explore if the effect of the cosmic web on galaxy properties is entirely transitive via host halo mass, or if the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Kuan Wang , Camille Avestruz , Hong Guo , Wei Wang , Peng Wang

We present a new proxy for the overdensity peak height for which the large-scale clustering of haloes of a given mass does not vary significantly with the assembly history. The peak height, usually taken to be well represented by the virial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-01 Ivan Lacerna , Nelson Padilla

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

The properties of the galaxies are tightly connected to their host halo mass and halo assembly history. Accurate measurement of the halo assembly history in observation is challenging but crucial to the understanding of galaxy formation and…

Halo bias is the main link between the matter distribution and dark matter halos. In its simplest form, halo bias is determined by halo mass, but there are known additional dependencies on other halo properties which are of consequence for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Gabriela Sato-Polito , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , L. Raul Abramo , Francisco Prada , Anatoly Klypin

We propose a novel method to quantify the assembly histories of dark matter halos with the redshift evolution of the mass-weighted spatial variance of their progenitor halos, i.e. the protohalo size history. We find that the protohalo size…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-17 Kai Wang , H. J. Mo , Yangyao Chen , Huiyuan Wang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Yingjie Peng , Zheng Cai

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

Galaxy assembly bias (GAB) is the dependence of galaxy clustering on secondary properties beyond halo mass. In this work, we study the connections between GAB and baryonic processes using the Galacticus semi-analytic model (SAM) for galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-20 Zilan Xiao , Junyu Hua , Zhongxu Zhai , Andrew Benson , Yun Wang

Building accurate and flexible galaxy-halo connection models is crucial in modeling galaxy clustering on non-linear scales. Recent studies have found that halo concentration by itself cannot capture the full galaxy assembly bias effect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sihan Yuan , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Hong Guo

The stellar mass assembly of galaxies can be affected by both secular and environmental processes. In this study, for the first time, we investigate the stellar mass assembly of $\sim90,000$ low redshift, central galaxies selected from SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-13 Thomas M. Jackson , A. Pasquali , C. Pacifici , C. Engler , A. Pillepich , E. K. Grebel

This paper represents an effort to provide robust constraints on the galaxy-halo connection and simultaneously test the Planck LCDM cosmology using a fully numerical model of small-scale galaxy clustering. We explore two extensions to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Gillian D. Beltz-Mohrmann , Adam O. Szewciw , Andreas A. Berlind , Manodeep Sinha

Using dark matter simulations we show how halo bias is determined by local density and not by halo mass. This is not totally surprising, as according to the peak-background split model, local density is the property that constraints bias at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Arnau Pujol , Kai Hoffmann , Noelia Jiménez , Enrique Gaztañaga

We use group size haloes identified with a ``friends of friends'' (FOF) algorithm in a concordance $\Lambda \rm{CDM}$ GADGET2 (dark matter only) simulation to investigate the dependence of halo properties on the environment at $z=0$. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa , Manolis Plionis