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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…

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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

We employ the hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG-300-1 to explore the halo occupation distribution (HOD) and environmental dependence of luminous star-forming emission-line galaxies (ELGs) at $z \sim 1$. Such galaxies are key targets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Sandro Tacchella , Sownak Bose , Daniel J. Eisenstein

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 apply machine learning, a powerful method for uncovering complex correlations in high-dimensional data, to the galaxy-halo connection of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The mapping between galaxy and halo variables is stochastic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Richard Stiskalek , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond , Dhayaa Anbajagane

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…

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Abhishek Jana , Lado Samushia

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos encompasses a range of processes and play a pivotal role in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this link has been established through physical or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

Upcoming 21cm surveys will map the spatial distribution of cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) over unprecedented volumes. Mock catalogues are needed to fully exploit the potential of these surveys. Standard techniques employed to create these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 Digvijay Wadekar , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

Halo models provide a simple and computationally inexpensive way to investigate the connection between galaxies and their dark matter haloes. However, these models rely on the assumption that the role of baryons can be easily parametrized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Gillian D. Beltz-Mohrmann , Andreas A. Berlind , Adam O. Szewciw

We use the IllustrisTNG (TNG) simulations to explore the galaxy-halo connection as inferred from state-of-the-art cosmological, magnetohydrodynamical simulations. With the high mass resolution and large volume achieved by combining the 100…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Sownak Bose , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Lars Hernquist , Annalisa Pillepich , Dylan Nelson , Federico Marinacci , Volker Springel , Mark Vogelsberger

We present a modification of the standard halo model with the goal of providing an improved description of galaxy clustering. Recent surveys, like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Anglo-Australian Two-degree survey (2dF), have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Héctor Gil-Marín , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

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

Applying halo models to analyze the small-scale clustering of galaxies is a proven method for characterizing the connection between galaxies and their host halos. Such works are often plagued by systematic errors or are limited to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Adam O. Szewciw , Gillian D. Beltz-Mohrmann , Andreas A. Berlind , Manodeep Sinha

Clustering of dark matter halos has been shown to depend on halo properties beyond mass such as halo concentration, a phenomenon referred to as halo assembly bias. Standard halo occupation models (HOD) in large scale structure studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-05 Mohammadjavad Vakili , ChangHoon Hahn

The halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework is an empirical method to describe the connection between dark matter halos and galaxies, which is constrained by small scale clustering data. Efficient fitting procedures are required to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Antoine Rocher , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Etienne Burtin , Arnaud de Mattia

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

The standard paradigm for the formation of the Universe suggests that large structures are formed from hierarchical clustering by the continuous accretion of less massive galaxy systems through filaments. In this context, filamentary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Noelia R. Perez , Luis A. Pereyra , Georgina Coldwell , Facundo Rodriguez , Ignacio G. Alfaro , Andrés N. Ruiz

We test different implementations of the halo occupation distribution (HOD) model to reconstruct the spatial distribution of galaxies as predicted by a publicly available semi-analytical model (SAM). We compare the measured two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Esteban Jiménez , Sergio Contreras , Nelson Padilla , Idit Zehavi , Carlton M. Baugh , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez

We investigate theoretical systematics caused by the application of the halo occupation distribution (HOD) to the study of galaxy clustering at non-linear scales. To do this, we repeat recent cosmological analyses using extended HOD models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Zhongxu Zhai , Will Percival
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