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Correlations between intrinsic galaxy shapes on large-scales arise due to the effect of the tidal field of the large-scale structure. Anisotropic primordial non-Gaussianity induces a distinct scale-dependent imprint in these tidal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 Nora Elisa Chisari , Cora Dvorkin , Fabian Schmidt , David Spergel

Cosmology and galaxy evolution studies with LSST, \Euclid, and {\it Roman}, will require accurate redshifts for the detected galaxies. In this study, we present improved photometric redshift estimates for galaxies using a template library…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Bomee Lee , Ranga-Ram Chary

The TNG300-1 run of the IllustrisTNG simulations includes 1697 clusters of galaxies with $M_{200c}>10^{14}$M$_\odot$ covering the redshift range $0.01-1.04$. We build mock spectroscopic redshift catalogues of simulated galaxies within these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Michele Pizzardo , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon , Ivana Damjanov , Antonaldo Diaferio

Quantitative morphologies, such as asymmetry and concentration, have long been used as an effective way to assess the distribution of galaxy starlight in large samples. Application of such quantitative indicators to other data products…

During their formation, galaxies are subject to tidal forces, which create correlations between their shapes and the large-scale structure of the Universe, known as intrinsic alignment. This alignment is a contamination for cosmic-shear…

Intrinsic alignments of galaxies are recognised as one of the most important systematic in weak lensing surveys on small angular scales. In this paper we investigate ellipticity correlation functions that are measured separately on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Tim M. Tugendhat , Robert Reischke , Bjoern Malte Schaefer

We introduce the new TNG-Cluster project, an addition to the IllustrisTNG suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation. Our objective is to significantly increase the statistical sampling of the most massive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-08 Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Mohammadreza Ayromlou , Wonki Lee , Katrin Lehle , Eric Rohr , Nhut Truong

We use simulated cluster member galaxies from Illustris TNG300-1 to develop a technique for measuring the galaxy cluster mass accretion rate (MAR) that can be applied directly to observations. We analyze 1318 IllustrisTNG clusters of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Michele Pizzardo , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon , Ivana Damjanov , Antonaldo Diaferio

We show that the spatial correlation of the intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxies, measured in galaxy redshift surveys, offers a precision route to improve the geometrical and dynamical constraints on cosmology. The IA has been treated as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Atsushi Taruya , Teppei Okumura

We conduct a comparative analysis of galaxy kinematics using IllustrisTNG simulations and integral-field spectroscopy (IFS) observations. We identify 2,342 early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the TNG100 simulation and 236 ETGs from the TNG50…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-04 Wenyu Zhong , Min Du , Shengdong Lu , Yunpeng Jin , Kai Zhu

The well-developed separate universe technique enables accurate calibration of the response of any observable to an isotropic long-wavelength density fluctuation. The large-scale environment also hosts tidal modes that perturb all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-11 Kazuyuki Akitsu , Yin Li , Teppei Okumura

Based on independent shear measurements using the DECaLS/DR8 imaging data, we measure the weak lensing signals around isolated central galaxies (ICGs) from SDSS/DR7 at $z\sim0.1$. The projected stellar mass density profiles of surrounding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-19 Pedro Alonso , Wenting Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Shi Shao , Qi Guo , Yanqin He , Cai-Na Hao , Rui Shi

Investigating intrinsic alignments (IAs) of galaxy shapes is important not only to constrain cosmological parameters unbiasedly from gravitational lensing but also to extract cosmological information complimentary to galaxy clustering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

In this work, we compare large scale structure observables for stellar mass selected samples at $z=0$, as predicted by two galaxy models, the hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG and the Santa-Cruz semi-analytic model (SC-SAM). Although…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sonya Liu , Rachel S. Somerville , Austen Gabrielpillai , Sownak Bose , Daniel Eisenstein , Lars Hernquist

There is a growing interest of using the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy images as a tool to extract cosmological information complimentary to galaxy clustering analysis. Recently, Okumura & Taruya derived useful formulas for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-07 Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Nishimichi

Emission line galaxies (ELGs), more generally star-forming galaxies, are valuable tracers of large-scale structure and therefore main targets of upcoming wide-area spectroscopic galaxy surveys. We propose a fixed-aperture shape estimator of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Jingjing Shi , Ken Osato , Toshiki Kurita , Masahiro Takada

In this study, galaxy samples have been generated using mock observation techniques based on the results of TNG100-1 simulations to investigate three forms of intrinsic alignment: satellite-central alignment between the orientation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanyao Lan , Lin Tang , Weipeng Lin , Junyu Gong

We present a model for the intrinsic alignment contamination of the shear three-point correlation function and skewness of the mass aperture statistic using the tidal alignment and tidal torquing (TATT) formalism. We compute the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Rafael C. H. Gomes , Kyle Miller , Sunao Sugiyama , Jonathan Blazek , Thomas Bakx , Bhuvnesh Jain

Modern redshift surveys are tasked with mapping out the galaxy distribution over enormous distance scales. Existing hydrodynamical simulations, however, do not reach the volumes needed to match upcoming surveys. We present results for the…

An effective practical model with two characteristic parameters is presented to describe both of the tidally induced shape and spin alignments of the galactic halos with the large-scale tidal fields. We test this model against the numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Jounghun Lee