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In this series of papers, we present a simulation-based model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies based on separate modelling of clustering in real space and velocity statistics. In the first paper, we present an emulator for the…

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Milky Way Survey (DESI MWS) will explore the assembly history of the Milky Way by characterising remnants of ancient dwarf galaxy accretion events and improving constraints on the distribution of…

The Emission Line Galaxy survey made by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey will be created from five passes of the instrument on the sky. On each pass, the constrained mobility of the ends of the fibres in the DESI focal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-15 Davide Bianchi , Angela Burden , Will J. Percival , David Brooks , Robert N. Cahn , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Michael Levi , Ashley J. Ross , Gregory Tarle

Generating mocks for future sky surveys requires large volumes and high resolutions, which is computationally expensive even for fast simulations. In this work we try to develop numerical schemes to calibrate various halo and matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Biwei Dai , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak , Sukhdeep Singh

Measurements of the redshift-space galaxy clustering have been a prolific source of cosmological information in recent years. Accurate covariance estimates are an essential step for the validation of galaxy clustering models of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Jan Niklas Grieb , Ariel G. Sánchez , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

The scientific exploitation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Bright Galaxy Survey (DESI BGS) data requires the construction of mocks with galaxy population properties closely mimicking those of the actual DESI BGS targets. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Sasha Safonova , Peder Norberg , Shaun Cole

We present a set of mock redshift catalogs, constructed from N-body simulations, designed to mimic the DEEP2 survey. Galaxies with a range of luminosities are placed within virialized halos in the simulation using a variant of the halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Renbin Yan , Martin White , Alison L. Coil

Approximate N-body methods, such as FastPM and COLA, have been successful in modelling halo and galaxy clustering statistics, but their low resolution on small scales is a limitation for applications that require high precision. Full N-body…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Yiheng Wu , Hong Guo , Volker Springel

We present constraints on cosmic structure growth from the analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing with galaxies from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1. We analyze four samples drawn from the…

Sophisticated analysis of modern large-scale structure surveys requires mock catalogs. Mock catalogs are used to optimize survey design, test reduction and analysis pipelines, make theoretical predictions for basic observables and propagate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Martin White , Jeremy L Tinker , Cameron K McBride

Small- and intermediate-scale galaxy clustering can be used to establish the galaxy-halo connection to study galaxy formation and evolution and to tighten constraints on cosmological parameters. With the increasing precision of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Zheng Zheng , Hong Guo

We study galaxy clustering using halo models, where gravitational clustering is described in terms of dark matter halos. At small scales, clustering statistics are dominated by halo density profiles, whereas at large scales, correlations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth , Lam Hui , Bhuvnesh Jain

We explore the potential of cross-correlating galaxies and peculiar velocities on non-linear scales to enhance cosmological constraints. Leveraging the \textsc{AbacusSummit} simulation suite and the halo occupation distribution (HOD)…

We present a method to build mock galaxy catalogues starting from a halo catalogue that uses halo occupation distribution (HOD) recipes as well as the subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) technique. Combining both prescriptions we are able to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , E. Gaztanaga , M. Crocce , P. Fosalba

Upcoming and existing large-scale surveys of galaxies require accurate theoretical predictions of the dark matter clustering statistics for thousands of mock galaxy catalogs. We demonstrate that this goal can be achieve with our new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada

We present results from a set of mock lightcones for the DESI One-Percent Survey, created from the Uchuu simulation. This This 8 (Gpc/h)^3 N-body simulation comprises 2.1 trillion particles and provides high-resolution dark matter…

Interpreting the small-scale clustering of galaxies with halo models can elucidate the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos. Unfortunately, the modelling is typically not sufficiently accurate for ruling out models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Manodeep Sinha , Andreas A. Berlind , Cameron K. McBride , Roman Scoccimarro , Jennifer A. Piscionere , Benjamin D. Wibking