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We report the first direct measurement of galaxy assembly bias, a critical systematic in cosmology, from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Bright Galaxy Survey. We introduce a novel, cosmology-independent method to measure the…

We use subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) to model the stellar mass function (SMF) and clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) "CMASS" sample at $z\sim0.5$. We introduce a novel method which accounts for the stellar…

One of the main predictions of excursion set theory is that the clustering of dark matter haloes only depends on halo mass. However, it has been long established that the clustering of haloes also depends on other properties, including…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Sergio Contreras , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Matteo Zennaro , Raul E. Angulo

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

The clustering of dark halos depends not only on their mass but also on their assembly history, a dependence we term `assembly bias'. Using a galaxy formation model grafted onto the Millennium Simulation of the LCDM cosmogony, we study how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Darren J. Croton , Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

We present a new approach for quantifying the abundance of galaxy clusters and constraining cosmological parameters using dynamical measurements. In the standard method, galaxy line-of-sight (LOS) velocities, $v$, or velocity dispersions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 M. Ntampaka , H. Trac , J. Cisewski , L. C. Price

We analyze clustering measurements of BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulator of two-point statistics. We focus on the monopole and quadrupole of the redshift-space correlation function, and the projected correlation function, at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

The halo assembly bias, a phenomenon referring to dependencies of the large-scale bias of a dark matter halo other than its mass, is a fundamental property of the standard cosmological model. First discovered in 2005 from the Millennium Run…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Yen-Ting Lin , Hironao Miyatake , Hong Guo , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Kai-Feng Chen , Ting-Wen Lan , Yu-Yen Chang

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 present results on the clustering of 282,068 galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) sample of massive galaxies with redshifts 0.4<z<0.7 which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III project. Our results cover…

Dynamical Dark Energy (DE) is a viable alternative to the cosmological constant. Yet, constructing tests to discriminate between Lambda and dynamical DE models is difficult because the differences are not large. In this paper we explore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Solevi , R. Mainini , S. A. Bonometto , A. V. Maccio' , A. Klypin , S. Gottloeber

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

We present a public catalogue of voids in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 11 LOWZ and CMASS galaxy surveys. This catalogue contains information on the location, sizes, densities, shapes and bounding surfaces…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-02 Seshadri Nadathur

We measure the void size function (VSF) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS DR16) and perform the cosmological constraints. The BOSS DR16 galaxy sample is selected in the redshift range from $z = 0.2$ to 0.8, considering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Yingxiao Song , Yan Gong , Xingchen Zhou , Haitao Miao , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen

We present observational constraints on the galaxy-halo connection, focusing particularly on galaxy assembly bias, from a novel combination of counts-in-cylinders statistics, $P(N_{\rm{CIC}})$, with the standard measurements of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-22 Kuan Wang , Yao-Yuan Mao , Andrew R. Zentner , Hong Guo , Johannes U. Lange , Frank C. van den Bosch , Lorena Mezini

We have investigated the dependence of galaxy clustering on their stellar mass at z~1, using the data from the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey (VVDS). We have measured the projected two-point correlation function of galaxies, wp(rp) for a set of…

Empirical methods for connecting galaxies to their dark matter halos have become essential for interpreting measurements of the spatial statistics of galaxies. In this work, we present a novel approach for parameterizing the degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Yao-Yuan Mao , Matthew R. Becker , Samuel W. Skillman , Risa H. Wechsler

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos is often inferred from data using probabilistic models, such as the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD). Conventional HOD formulations assume that only halo mass governs the galaxy-halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner , Frank C. van den Bosch , Duncan Campbell , Erik Tollerud

Understanding the galaxy-halo connection is fundamental for contemporary models of galaxy clustering. The extent to which the haloes' assembly history and environment impact galaxy clustering (a.k.a. galaxy assembly bias; GAB), remains a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-06 Xiaoju Xu , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras

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