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Precision cosmology requires accurate galaxy redshifts, but next generation optical surveys will observe unprecedented numbers of resolved galaxies, placing strain on the amount of spectroscopic follow-up required. We show how useful…

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The halo model, combined with halo occupation distribution (HOD) prescriptions, is widely used to interpret cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies and connect star-forming galaxies to large-scale structure. Recent implementations…

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We present cosmological constraints from weak lensing with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) first-year (Y1) data, using a simulation-based inference (SBI) method. % We explore the performance of a set of higher-order statistics (HOS)…

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)…

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

I review recent progress in understanding and modeling galaxy clustering in cosmological simulations, with emphasis on models based on high-resolution dissipationless simulations. During the last decade, significant advances in our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey V. Kravtsov

Galaxy clustering is an important probe in the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST) survey to understand the structure growth and reveal the nature of the dark sector. However, it is a long-term challenge to model this biased…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Shuren Zhou , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a commonly used framework for modeling the galaxy-halo connection. Yet, its standard implementation has difficulty reproducing the observed galaxy clustering with high accuracy (e.g.,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Xiaoju Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Zhongxu Zhai , Yiyang Guo , Yizhou Gu , Yirong Wang , Jiaxin Han , Zhenlin Tan , Junde Li

Together with larger spectroscopic surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the precision of large scale structure studies and thus the constraints on the cosmological parameters are rapidly improving. Therefore, one…

Analysis of large galaxy surveys requires confidence in the robustness of numerical simulation methods. The simulations are used to construct mock galaxy catalogs to validate data analysis pipelines and identify potential systematics. We…

We develop a novel method to explore the galaxy-halo connection using the galaxy imaging surveys by modeling the projected two-point correlation function measured from the galaxies with reasonable photometric redshift measurements. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Zhaoyu Wang , Haojie Xu , Xiaohu Yang , Y. P. Jing , Hong Guo , Zheng Zheng , Ying Zu , Zhigang Li , Chengze Liu

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

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

We present a joint analysis of galaxy clustering and galaxy--galaxy lensing measurements from BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulation method combined with a halo occupation distribution model. Our emulators are constructed with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Wenhao Gao , Zhenjie Liu , Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Jun Zhang , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

We introduce Synference, a new, flexible Python framework for galaxy SED fitting using simulation-based inference (SBI). Synference leverages the Synthesizer package for flexible forward-modelling of galaxy SEDs and integrates the LtU-ILI…

We present validation tests of emulator-based halo model method for cosmological parameter inference, assuming hypothetical measurements of the projected correlation function of galaxies, $w_{\rm p}(R)$, and the galaxy-galaxy weak lensing,…

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) and galaxy clustering is a powerful probe of low redshift matter clustering, especially if it is extended to the non-linear regime. To this end, we extend the N-body and halo occupation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Andrés N. Salcedo , David H. Weinberg , Hao-Yi Wu , Benjamin D. Wibking

Precise cosmological inference from next-generation weak lensing surveys requires extracting non-Gaussian information beyond standard two-point statistics. We present a hybrid machine-learning (ML) framework that integrates field-level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiacheng Ding , Chen Su , Ji Yao , Le Zhang , Huanyuan Shan

We present an analysis of the evolution of galaxy clustering in the redshift interval 0<z<4.5 in the HDF-S. The HST optical data are combined with infrared ISAAC/VLT observations, and photometric redshifts are used for all the galaxies…

We present a simulation-based inference (SBI) cosmological analysis of cosmic shear two-point statistics from the fourth weak gravitational lensing data release of the ESO Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS-1000). KiDS-SBI efficiently performs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta , Kiyam Lin , Nicolas Tessore , Benjamin Joachimi , Arthur Loureiro , Robert Reischke , Angus H. Wright