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To extract information from the clustering of galaxies on non-linear scales, we need to model the connection between galaxies and halos accurately and in a flexible manner. Standard halo occupation distribution (HOD) models make the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-22 Ana Maria Delgado , Digvijay Wadekar , Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Lars Hernquist , Shirley Ho

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

Large-scale sky surveys require companion large volume simulated mock catalogs. To ensure precision cosmology studies are unbiased, the correlations in these mocks between galaxy properties and their large-scale environments must be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Sujatha Ramakrishnan , Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

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

Upcoming 21cm surveys will map the spatial distribution of cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) over very large cosmological volumes. In order to maximize the scientific return of these surveys, accurate theoretical predictions are needed.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Digvijay Wadekar , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) and galaxy clustering is a promising route to measuring the amplitude of matter clustering and testing modified gravity theories of cosmic acceleration. Halo occupation distribution (HOD)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Joseph E. McEwen , David H. Weinberg

Assembly bias is the variation in the clustering of dark matter halos and galaxies that arises from correlations between the halo assembly history and the large-scale environment at fixed halo mass. In this work, we use the cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-17 Yikun Wang , Idit Zehavi , Sergio Contreras , Shaun Cole , Peder Norberg

Elucidating the connection between the properties of galaxies and the properties of their hosting haloes is a key element in galaxy formation. When the spatial distribution of objects is also taken under consideration, it becomes very…

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

We use the {\sc Illustris TNG300} magneto-hydrodynamic simulation, the {\sc SAGE} semi-analytical model, and the subhalo abundance matching technique (SHAM) to examine the diversity in predictions for galaxy assembly bias (i.e. the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 Sergio Contreras , Raul Angulo , Matteo Zennaro

We explore two widely used empirical models for the galaxy-halo connection, subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) and the halo occupation distribution (HOD) and compare their predictions with the hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG (TNG) for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sownak Bose , Daniel Eisenstein , Lars Hernquist

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

We present a pipeline to estimate baryonic properties of a galaxy inside a dark matter (DM) halo in DM-only simulations using a machine trained on high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations. As an example, we use the IllustrisTNG hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-03 Yongseok Jo , Ji-hoon Kim

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

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

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 investigate the influence of environment on the cold-gas properties of galaxies at z=0 within the TNG100 cosmological, magnetohydrodynamic simulation, part of the IllustrisTNG suite. We extend previous post-processing methods for…

Modelling of large-scale structure is increasingly concerned with galaxy assembly bias (GAB), the dependence of galaxy clustering on quantities other than halo mass. We investigate how baryonic physics affects the strength and redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Hong-Gang Yang , Marcos Pellejero , John Peacock , Romeel Davé

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

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
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