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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 fact that the clustering of dark matter halos depends not only on their mass, but also the formation epoch, is a prominent, albeit subtle, feature of the cold dark matter structure formation theory, and is known as assembly bias. At low…

We use the Millennium Simulation, a 10 billion particle simulation of the growth of cosmic structure, to construct a new model of galaxy clustering. We adopt a methodology that falls midway between the traditional semi-analytic approach and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lan Wang , Cheng Li , Guinevere Kauffmann , Gabriella De Lucia

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

We make use of the IllustrisTNG cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations to test fundamental assumptions of the mass-based Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) approach to modelling the galaxy-halo connection. By comparing the clustering of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel Eisenstein , Lars Hernquist , David N. Spergel

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

We present a fully analytical halo model of colour-dependent clustering that incorporates the effects of galactic conformity in a halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework. The model, based on our previous numerical work, describes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-19 Isha Pahwa , Aseem Paranjape

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 investigate the variations in galaxy occupancy of the dark matter haloes with the large-scale environment and halo formation time, using two state-of-the-art hydrodynamical cosmological simulations, EAGLE and Illustris. For both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 M. Celeste Artale , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras , Peder Norberg

Self-calibration techniques for analyzing galaxy cluster counts utilize the abundance and the clustering amplitude of dark matter halos. These properties simultaneously constrain cosmological parameters and the cluster observable-mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Hao-Yi Wu , Eduardo Rozo , Risa H. Wechsler

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 use a very large simulation of structure growth in a LCDM universe -- the Millennium Simulation -- to study assembly bias, the fact that the large-scale clustering of haloes of given mass varies significantly with their assembly history.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

Most models for the connection between galaxies and their haloes ignore the possibility that galaxy properties may be correlated with halo properties other than mass, a phenomenon known as galaxy assembly bias. Yet, it is known that such…

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

We study halo assembly bias for cluster-sized halos. Previous work has found little evidence for correlations between large-scale bias and halo mass assembly history for simulated cluster-sized halos, in contrast to the significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Chun Yin Ricky Chue , Neal Dalal , Martin White

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 evidence for halo assembly bias as a function of geometric environment. By classifying GAMA galaxy groups as residing in voids, sheets, filaments or knots using a tidal tensor method, we find that low-mass haloes that reside in…

Galaxies come in different sizes and morphologies, and these differences are thought to correlate with properties of their underlying dark matter halos. However, identifying the specific halo property that controls the galaxy size is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-02 Joshua B. Hill , Yao-Yuan Mao

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

We explore the phenomenon commonly known as halo assembly bias, whereby dark matter halos of the same mass are found to be more or less clustered when a second halo property is considered, for halos in the mass range $3.7 \times 10^{11} \;…