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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

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

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

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

Upcoming imaging surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), will enable high signal-to-noise measurements of galaxy clustering. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) is a widely used framework to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 P. Cataldi , V. Cristiani , F. Rodriguez , A. Taverna , M. C. Artale , B. Levine , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

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

We investigate the stochastic properties of typical red galaxy samples in a controlled numerical environment. We use Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modelling to create mock realizations of three separate bright red galaxy samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Nickolas Kokron , Joseph DeRose , Shi-Fan Chen , Martin White , Risa H. Wechsler

The galaxy-halo connection traces processes by which galaxies form and evolve. The halo occupation distribution (HOD) describes the relationship between galaxies and their host dark matter haloes. Measurements of the galaxy two-point…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jacob Kennedy , Eric Gawiser , Kartheik G. Iyer , L. Y. Aaron Yung

We extend current models of the halo occupation distribution (HOD) to include a flexible, empirical framework for the forward modeling of the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxies. A primary goal of this work is to produce mock galaxy…

The mapping between the distributions of the observed galaxy stellar mass and the underlying dark matter halos provides the crucial link from theories of large-scale structure formation to interpreting the complex phenomena of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Ying Zu , Rachel Mandelbaum

We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to characterise the predictions from two independent galaxy formation models for the galactic content of dark matter haloes and its evolution with redshift. Our galaxy samples…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-16 S. Contreras , I. Zehavi , C. M. Baugh , N. Padilla , P. Norberg

The joint probability distribution of matter overdensity and galaxy counts in cells is a powerful probe of cosmology, and the extent to which variance in galaxy counts at fixed matter density deviates from Poisson shot noise is not fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-18 Dylan Britt , Daniel Gruen , Oliver Friedrich , Sihan Yuan , Bernardita Ried Guachalla

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

Modern cosmological inference increasingly relies on differentiable models to enable efficient, gradient-based parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification. Here, we present a novel approach for predicting the abundance of dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jim Buisman , Florian List , Oliver Hahn

The halo occupation distribution (HOD) approach has proven to be an effective method for modeling galaxy clustering and bias. In this approach, galaxies of a given type are probabilistically assigned to individual halos in N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Juliana Kwan , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Hal Finkel , Nick Frontiere , Adrian Pope

Recent efforts to identify secondary variations in the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) have primarily focused on simulations examining the role of large-scale cosmic environments such as superclusters, filaments, and underdense regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Vicente Izzo Dominguez , Facundo Rodriguez , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

We model the luminosity-dependent projected and redshift-space two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 Main galaxy sample, using the halo occupation distribution (HOD) model and the subhalo…

We investigate galaxy bias in the framework of the ``Halo Occupation Distribution'' (HOD), which defines the bias of a population of galaxies by the conditional probability P(N|M) that a dark matter halo of virial mass M contains N…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas A. Berlind , David H. Weinberg

The galaxy bias parameters are crucial for modeling the large-scale structure in cosmology, yet uncertainties in these parameters often degrade the precision of cosmological constraints. In this work, we investigate how different Halo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-14 Kazuyuki Akitsu

Context. Halo occupation distribution (HOD) is a powerful statistic that allows the study of several aspects of the matter distribution in the Universe, such as evaluating semi-analytic models of galaxy formation or imposing constraints on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-12 Facundo Rodriguez , Manuel Merchán , Mario Agustín Sgró
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