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We present a machine learning (ML) approach for the prediction of galaxies' dark matter halo masses that achieves an improved performance over conventional methods. We train three ML algorithms (\texttt{XGBoost}, Random Forests, and neural…

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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

As the second paper of a series on studying galaxy-galaxy lensing signals using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7), we present our measurement and modelling of the lensing signals around groups of galaxies. We divide the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 Wentao Luo , Xiaohu Yang , Tianhuan Lu , Feng Shi , Jun Zhang , H. J. Mo , Chenggang Shu , Liping Fu , Mario Radovich , Jiajun Zhang , Nan Li , Tomomi Sunayama , Lei Wang

We extend the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) framework to generate mock galaxy catalogs exhibiting varying levels of "galactic conformity", which has emerged as a potentially powerful probe of environmental effects in galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-23 Aseem Paranjape , Katarina Kovac , William G. Hartley , Isha Pahwa

A galaxy group catalog is constructed from the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) with the use of a halo-based group finder. The halo mass associated with a group is estimated using a `GAP' method based on the luminosity of the central galaxy and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Yi Lu , Xiaohu Yang , Feng Shi , H. J. Mo , Dylan Tweed , Huiyuan Wang , Youcai Zhang , Shijie Li , S. H. Lim

We develop a framework to study the relation between the stellar mass of a galaxy and the total mass of its host dark matter halo using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements. We model a wide range of scales, roughly from…

We combine data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA) to study the cold atomic gas content of galaxies in groups and clusters in local universe. A careful cross-matching of galaxies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-14 Ilsang Yoon , Jessica L. Rosenberg

We develop and implement two new methods for constraining the scatter in the relationship between galaxies and dark matter halos. These new techniques are sensitive to the scatter at low halo masses, making them complementary to previous…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Jun-zhi Cao , Jeremy L. Tinker , Yao-Yuan Mao , Risa H. Wechsler

The ubiquity of substructure in the stellar halo has already been demonstrated by the SDSS and 2MASS and future surveys promise to explore the halo in ever more detail. This paper examines what can be learnt from current and future…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Sanjib Sharma , Kathryn V Johnston , Steven R. Majewski , James Bullock , Ricardo R. Muñoz

We measure the clustering of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of the flat LCDM cosmology. Halos are identified using the spherical overdensity algorithm, which finds the mass around isolated peaks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy L. Tinker , Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Michael S. Warren , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober

We introduce a framework for describing the halo selection function of optical cluster finders. We treat the problem as being separable into a term that describes the intrinsic galaxy content of a halo (the Halo Occupation Distribution, or…

Aims. We wish to determine the distribution of dark matter halo masses as a function of the stellar mass and the stellar mass profile, for massive galaxies in the BOSS CMASS sample. Methods. We use grizy photometry from HSC to obtain…

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We study the stellar-to-halo mass relation of central galaxies in the range 9.7<log_10(M_*/h^-2 M_sun)<11.7 and z<0.4, obtained from a combined analysis of the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) and the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey. We use…

Based on galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and subhalos in the corresponding reconstructed region from the constrained simulation of ELUCID, we study the alignment of central galaxies relative to their host groups in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Youcai Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo

We measure the angular auto-correlation functions (w) of SDSS galaxies selected to have photometric redshifts 0.1 < z < 0.4 and absolute r-band magnitudes Mr < -21.2. We split these galaxies into five overlapping redshift shells of width…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Robert J. Brunner

We present significant evidence of halo assembly bias for SDSS redMaPPer galaxy clusters in the redshift range $[0.1, 0.33]$. By dividing the 8,648 clusters into two subsamples based on the average member galaxy separation from the cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Hironao Miyatake , Surhud More , Masahiro Takada , David N. Spergel , Rachel Mandelbaum , Eli S. Rykoff , Eduardo Rozo

Successful halo-model descriptions of the luminosity dependence of clustering distinguish between the central galaxy in a halo and all the others (satellites). To include colors, we provide a prescription for how the color-magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ramin A. Skibba , Ravi K. Sheth

We present a new suite of mock galaxy catalogs mimicking the low-redshift Universe, based on an updated halo occupation distribution (HOD) model and a scaling relation between optical properties and the neutral hydrogen (HI) content of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Aseem Paranjape , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Ravi K. Sheth