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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 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 propose a heuristic model that displays the main features of realistic theories for galaxy bias. We show that the low-order clustering statistics of the dark-matter distribution depend almost entirely on the locations and density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. A. Peacock , R. E. Smith

In this paper we study the applicability of a set of supervised machine learning (ML) models specifically trained to infer observed related properties of the baryonic component (stars and gas) from a set of features of dark matter only…

Adopting the framework of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), we investigate the ability of galaxy clustering measurements to simultaneously constrain cosmological parameters and galaxy bias. Starting with a fiducial cosmological model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zheng Zheng , David H. Weinberg

In this work, we demonstrate how differentiable stochastic sampling techniques developed in the context of deep Reinforcement Learning can be used to perform efficient parameter inference over stochastic, simulation-based, forward models.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Benjamin Horowitz , ChangHoon Hahn , Francois Lanusse , Chirag Modi , Simone Ferraro

We analyze the clustering of photometrically selected galaxy pairs by using the halo-occupation distribution (HOD) model. We measure the angular two-point auto-correlation function, $\omega(\theta)$, for galaxies and galaxy pairs in three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Yiran Wang , R. J. Brunner

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

We present a novel simulation-based hybrid emulator approach that maximally derives cosmological and Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) information from non-linear galaxy clustering, with sufficient precision for DESI Year 1 (Y1) analysis.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Sihan Yuan , Lehman H. Garrison , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Risa H. Wechsler

We study how well we can reconstruct the 2-point clustering of galaxies on linear scales, as a function of mass and luminosity, using the halo occupation distribution (HOD) in several semi-analytical models (SAMs) of galaxy formation from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-20 Arnau Pujol , Enrique Gaztanaga

Galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing probe the connection between galaxies and their dark matter haloes in complementary ways. On one hand, the halo occupation statistics inferred from the observed clustering properties of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Marcello Cacciato , Frank C. van den Bosch , Surhud More , Ran Li , H. J. Mo , Xiaohu Yang

We present a method that uses observations of galaxies to simultaneously constrain cosmological parameters and the galaxy-dark matter connection (aka halo occupation statistics). The latter describes how galaxies are distributed over dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-05 Surhud More , Frank van den Bosch , Marcello Cacciato , Anupreeta More , Houjun Mo , Xiaohu Yang

The cosmic web plays a major role in the formation and evolution of galaxies and defines, to a large extent, their properties. However, the relation between galaxies and environment is still not well understood. Here we present a machine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-11 Jianan Hui , Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo , Xinping Cui , James M. Flegal

We introduce methods which allow observed galaxy clustering to be used together with observed luminosity or stellar mass functions to constrain the physics of galaxy formation. We show how the projected two-point correlation function of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-02 Marcel P. van Daalen , Bruno M. B. Henriques , Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White

We present a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) analysis of the luminosity- and colour-dependent galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A novelty of our technique is that it uses a combination of clustering measurements in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Niladri Paul , Isha Pahwa , Aseem Paranjape

We investigate the connection between galaxies, dark matter halos, and their large-scale environments at $z=0$ with Illustris TNG300 hydrodynamic simulation data. We predict stellar masses from subhalo properties to test two types of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-07 John F. Wu , Christian Kragh Jespersen , Risa H. Wechsler

Context. Machine-Learning (ML) solves problems by learning patterns from data, with limited or no human guidance. In Astronomy, it is mainly applied to large observational datasets, e.g. for morphological galaxy classification. Aims. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Mario Pasquato , Chul Chung

[Abridged] Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally-bound systems in the universe and are widely considered to be an effective cosmological probe. We propose the first Machine Learning method using galaxy cluster properties to…

We present a deep machine learning (ML)-based technique for accurately determining $\sigma_8$ and $\Omega_m$ from mock 3D galaxy surveys. The mock surveys are built from the AbacusCosmos suite of $N$-body simulations, which comprises 40…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 Michelle Ntampaka , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Sihan Yuan , Lehman H. Garrison

The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) with galaxy clustering is one of the most promising routes to determining the amplitude of matter clustering at low redshifts. We show that extending clustering+GGL analyses from the linear…