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We investigate the potential of machine learning (ML) methods to model small-scale galaxy clustering for constraining Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) parameters. Our analysis reveals that while many ML algorithms report good statistical…

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We develop a new, simple, fast and parameter-free method to construct dark matter halo catalogues. This method requires as inputs only the linear matter power spectrum and the threshold density for halo formation in linear theory. It…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-18 Rodrigo Voivodic , Marcos Lima , Luis Raul Abramo

The hydrodynamical cosmological simulation \eagle{} is used to model the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) of moderate X-ray luminosity active galactic nuclei (mXAGN), extending previous work using only dark matter simulations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Liliana Altamiran-Dévora , Hector Aceves , Angel Castro , Takamitsu Miyaji

Although the theoretical understanding of the nonlinear gravitational clustering has greatly advanced in the last decades, in particular by the outstanding improvement on numerical N-body simulations, the physics behind this process is not…

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 investigate the effect of modified gravity on the specific angular momentum of galactic halos by analyzing the halo catalogs at z=0 from high-resolution N-body simulations for a f(R) gravity model that meets the solar-system constraint.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jounghun Lee , Gong-Bo Zhao , Baojiu Li , Kazuya Koyama

We show how redshift-space distortions of the galaxy correlation function or power spectrum can constrain the matter density parameter Omega_m and the linear matter fluctuation amplitude sigma_8. We improve on previous treatments by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jeremy L. Tinker , David H. Weinberg , Zheng Zheng

We present an end-to-end description of the formation process of globular clusters (GCs) which combines a treatment for their formation and dynamical evolution within galaxy haloes with a state-of-the-art semi-analytic simulation of galaxy…

We study the halo mass function (HMF) in modified gravity (MG) models using a set of large $N$-body simulations -- the ELEPHANT suite. We consider two popular beyond-general relativity scenarios: the Hu-Sawicki chameleon $f(R)$ model and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Suhani Gupta , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki , Jorge Enrique García-Farieta

We construct an emulator for the halo mass function over group and cluster mass scales for a range of cosmologies, including the effects of dynamical dark energy and massive neutrinos. The emulator is based on the recently completed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-06 Sebastian Bocquet , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Earl Lawrence , Thomas Uram , Nicholas Frontiere , Adrian Pope , Hal Finkel

We present sCOLA -- an extension of the N-body COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) method to the spatial domain. Similar to the original temporal-domain COLA, sCOLA is an N-body method for solving for large-scale structure in a frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-02 Svetlin Tassev , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present the Mock Map Facility, a powerful tool to generate mock catalogues or images from semi-analytically post-processed snapshots of cosmological N-body simulations. The paper describes in detail an efficient technique to create such…

(Abridged) We present a semi-analytic model for Cold Dark Matter halo substructure that can be used as a framework for studying galaxy formation and an ingredient in halo models of galaxy clustering. We perform a comprehensive comparison of…

We have studied the galaxy-group cross-correlations in redshift space for the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) Survey. We use a set of mock GAMA galaxy and group catalogues to develop and test a novel 'halo streaming' model for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Qianjun Hang , John A. Peacock , Shadab Alam , Yan-Chuan Cai , Katarina Kraljic , Marcel van Daalen , M. Bilicki , B. W. Holwerda , J. Loveday

[abridged] We present a detailed comparison of fundamental dark matter halo properties retrieved by a substantial number of different halo finders. These codes span a wide range of techniques including friends-of-friends (FOF),…

Upcoming spectroscopic redshift surveys use emission line galaxies (ELGs) to trace the three-dimensional matter distributions with wider area coverage in the deeper Universe. Since the halos hosting ELGs are young and undergo infall towards…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-04 Ken Osato , Teppei Okumura

For the joint analysis of second-order weak lensing and galaxy clustering statistics, so-called $3{\times}2$ analyses, the selection and characterization of optimal galaxy samples is a major area of research. One promising choice is to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-10 Andrés N. Salcedo , Tim Eifler , Peter Behroozi

This work investigates the connection between the cosmic web and the halo distribution through the gravitational potential at the field level. We combine three fields of research, cosmic web classification, perturbation theory expansions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez , Francesco Sinigaglia , Marcos Pellejero-Ibáñez

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

We present diffHOD-IA, a fully differentiable implementation of a halo occupation distribution (HOD) model that incorporates galaxy intrinsic alignments (IA). Motivated by the diffHOD framework, we create a new implementation that extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Sneh Pandya , Jonathan Blazek