English
Related papers

Related papers: Generating Synthetic Cosmological Data with GalSam…

200 papers

Photometric data from the Xuyi Schmidt Telescope Photometric Survey of the Galactic Anticentre (XSTPS-GAC) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are used to derive the global structure parameters of the smooth components of the Milky Way.…

Understanding the halo-galaxy connection is fundamental in order to improve our knowledge on the nature and properties of dark matter. In this work we build a model that infers the mass of a halo given the positions, velocities, stellar…

The Stripe 82 Massive Galaxy Catalog (S82-MGC) is the largest-volume stellar mass-limited sample of galaxies beyond z~1 constructed to date. Spanning 139.4 deg2, the S82-MGC includes a mass-limited sample of 41,770 galaxies with log Mstar >…

We present a new cosmological galaxy formation model, $\nu^2$GC, as an updated version of our previous model $\nu$GC. We adopt the so-called "semi-analytic" approach, in which the formation history of dark matter halos is computed by ${\it…

Exoplanet science often involves using the system parameters of real exoplanets for tasks such as simulations, fitting routines, and target selection for proposals. Several exoplanet catalogues are already well established but often lack a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Ryan Varley

We present a method to simulate deep sky images, including realistic galaxy morphologies and telescope characteristics. To achieve a wide diversity of simulated galaxy morphologies, we first use the shapelets formalism to parametrize the…

LCDM is remarkably successful in predicting the cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure, and LCDM parameters have been determined with only mild tensions between different types of observations. Hydrodynamical simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Joel R. Primack

We construct the Numerical Galaxy Catalog ($\nu$GC), based on a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation combined with high-resolution N-body simulations in a $\Lambda$-dominated flat cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Masahiro Nagashima , Hideki Yahagi , Motohiro Enoki , Yuzuru Yoshii , Naoteru Gouda

Small-scale discrepancies in the standard Lambda cold dark matter paradigm have motivated the exploration of alternative dark matter (DM) models, such as warm dark matter (WDM). We investigate the constraining power of galaxy scaling…

Sombrero-like galaxies exhibit unique structural properties that challenge traditional photometric decomposition methods. In this study, we investigate their structural differences using both photometric and kinematic approaches to assess…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-08 Wu-Tao He , Min Du , Zhao-Yu Li , Yuan Li

The Dark Sky Simulations are an ongoing series of cosmological N-body simulations designed to provide a quantitative and accessible model of the evolution of the large-scale Universe. Such models are essential for many aspects of the study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Samuel W. Skillman , Michael S. Warren , Matthew J. Turk , Risa H. Wechsler , Daniel E. Holz , P. M. Sutter

The scale of ongoing and future electromagnetic surveys pose formidable challenges to classify astronomical objects. Pioneering efforts on this front include citizen science campaigns adopted by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-09 Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Sibo Wang , Robert Gruendl , Elise Jennings , Huihuo Zheng

We present a method to constrain galaxy parameters directly from three-dimensional data cubes. The algorithm compares directly the data with a parametric model mapped in $x,y,\lambda$ coordinates. It uses the spectral lines-spread function…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-01 N. Bouché , H. Carfantan , I. Schroetter , L. Michel-Dansac , T. Contini

We present 108 full-sky gravitational lensing simulation data sets generated by performing multiple-lens plane ray-tracing through high-resolution cosmological $N$-body simulations. The data sets include full-sky convergence and shear maps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 Ryuichi Takahashi , Takashi Hamana , Masato Shirasaki , Toshiya Namikawa , Takahiro Nishimichi , Ken Osato , Kosei Shiroyama

Stellar population synthesis is a crucial methodology in astrophysics, enabling the interpretation of the integrated light of galaxies and stellar clusters. By combining empirical and/or theoretical libraries of the spectral energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Pablo Corcho-Caballero , Yago Ascasibar , Daniel Jiménez-López

Systematic surveys of massive clumps have been carried out to study the conditions leading to the formation of massive stars. These clumps are typically at large distances and unresolved, so their physical properties cannot be reliably…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Zu-Jia Lu , Veli-Matti Pelkonen , Mika Juvela , Paolo Padoan , Troels Haugbølle , Åke Nordlund

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 present FORECAST, a new flexible and adaptable software package that performs forward modeling of the output of any cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to create a wide range of realistic synthetic astronomical images. With…

Future dark energy space missions such as JDEM and EUCLID are being designed to survey the galaxy population to trace the geometry of the universe and the growth of structure, which both depend on the cosmological model. To reach the goal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Jouvel , J-P. Kneib , O. Ilbert , G. Bernstein , S. Arnouts , T. Dahlen , A. Ealet , B. Milliard , H. Aussel , P. Capak , A. Koekemoer , V. Le Brun , H. McCracken , M. Salvato , N. Scoville

In this work, we develop a simulation-based model to predict the excess surface mass density (ESD) depending on the local density environment. Using a conditional stellar mass function, our foreground galaxies are tailored toward the bright…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Pierre A. Burger , Darshak A. Patel , Michael J. Hudson