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We explore the galaxy-halo connection information that is available in low-redshift samples from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We model the halo occupation distribution (HOD) from z=0.1-0.3 using…

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

In this paper, we investigate whether galaxy assembly bias can reconcile the 20-40% disagreement between the observed galaxy projected clustering signal and the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal in the BOSS CMASS galaxy sample reported in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Sihan Yuan , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Alexie Leauthaud

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

We present a new method that simultaneously solves for cosmology and galaxy bias on non-linear scales. The method uses the halo model to analytically describe the (non-linear) matter distribution, and the conditional luminosity function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Frank van den Bosch , Surhud More , Marcello Cacciato , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

We investigate theoretical systematics caused by the application of the halo occupation distribution (HOD) to the study of galaxy clustering at non-linear scales. To do this, we repeat recent cosmological analyses using extended HOD models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Zhongxu Zhai , Will Percival

Analytical models of galaxy-halo connection such as the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model have been widely used over the past decades as a means to intensively test perturbative models on quasi-linear scales. However, these models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 R. Paviot , A. Rocher , S. Codis , A. de Mattia , E. Jullo , S. de la Torre

Secondary halo bias, commonly known as 'assembly bias,' is the dependence of halo clustering on a halo property other than mass. This prediction of the Lambda-Cold Dark Matter cosmology is essential to modelling the galaxy distribution to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Yao-Yuan Mao , Andrew R. Zentner , Risa H. Wechsler

We measure the projected galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing signals using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey and Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) to study galaxy bias. We use the concept of non-linear and stochastic galaxy biasing…

The galaxy bias parameters are crucial for modeling the large-scale structure in cosmology, yet uncertainties in these parameters often degrade the precision of cosmological constraints. In this work, we investigate how different Halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Kazuyuki Akitsu

We measure the void probability function (VPF) of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The VPF provides complementary information to standard two-point statistics in that it is sensitive to galaxy bias in the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-20 Kilian Walsh , Jeremy Tinker

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

We simultaneously constrain cosmology and galaxy bias using measurements of galaxy abundances, galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We use the conditional luminosity function (which describes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Marcello Cacciato , Frank C. van den Bosch , Surhud More , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

Assembly bias is the variation in the clustering of dark matter halos and galaxies that arises from correlations between the halo assembly history and the large-scale environment at fixed halo mass. In this work, we use the cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Yikun Wang , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras , Shaun Cole , Peder Norberg

The large-scale redshift-space distortion (RSD) in galaxy clustering can probe $f\sigma_8$, a combination of the cosmic structure growth rate and the matter fluctuation amplitude, which can constrain dark energy models and test theories of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Kevin Spencer McCarthy , Zheng Zheng , Hong Guo

We report evidence of galaxy assembly bias - the correlation between galaxy properties and biased secondary halo properties at fixed halo mass (M$_H$) - in the stellar-to-halo mass relation (SHMR) for red central galaxies from the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-04 Grecco A. Oyarzún , Jeremy L. Tinker , Kevin Bundy , Enia Xhakaj , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

Adopting the framework of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), we investigate the ability of galaxy clustering measurements to simultaneously constrain cosmological parameters and galaxy bias. Starting with a fiducial cosmological model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zheng Zheng , David H. Weinberg

Assembly bias, which is the variation in halo clustering at fixed mass driven by formation history, has long been predicted by numerical simulations but remains difficult to confirm observationally. Previous studies have reported evidence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Zhenjie Liu , Hironao Miyatake , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Keitaro Ishikawa , Tomomi Sunayama

(Abridged) We investigate the power of void statistics to constrain galaxy bias and the amplitude of dark matter fluctuations. We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to describe the relation between galaxies and dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Michael S. Warren

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