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Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a technique for populating simulated dark matter distributions with galaxies, assuming a monotonic relation between a galaxy's stellar mass or luminosity and the mass of its parent dark matter halo or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Vimal Simha , David Weinberg , Romeel Dave , Mark Fardal , Neal Katz , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a popular technique for assigning galaxy mass or luminosity to haloes produced in N-body simulations. The method works by matching the cumulative number functions of the galaxy and halo properties, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-02 Richard Stiskalek , Harry Desmond , Thomas Holvey , Michael G. Jones

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) has played an important role in improving our understanding of how galaxies populate their host dark matter halos. In essence, the SHAM framework is to find a dark matter halo property that best correlates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 Chen-Yu Chuang , Yen-Ting Lin

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) is a widely-used method to connect galaxies with dark matter structures in numerical simulations. SHAM predictions agree remarkably well with observations, yet they still lack strong theoretical support. We…

Subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) inserts galaxies into dark matter only simulations of the growth of cosmic structure in a way that requires minimal assumptions about galaxy formation. A galaxy is placed at the potential minimum of each…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qi Guo , Simon White

Models of the galaxy-halo connection are needed to understand both galaxy clusters and large scale structure. To make said models, we need a robust method that assigns galaxies to halos and matches the observed and simulated stellar-halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-13 F. L. Davidson , D. Bacon , A. Amara , K. Koyama , W. G. Hartley , L. F. de la Bella , S. I. Tam , K. Umetsu , J. Noller

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

We develop an extension of subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) capable of accurately reproducing the real and redshift-space clustering of galaxies in a state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulation. Our method uses a low-resolution gravity-only…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Sergio Contreras , Raul Angulo , Matteo Zennaro

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

In simulation-based models of the galaxy-halo connection, theoretical predictions for galaxy clustering and lensing are typically made based on Monte Carlo realizations of a mock universe. In this paper, we use Subhalo Abundance Matching…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-23 Andrew P. Hearin , Nesar Ramachandra , Matthew R. Becker , Joseph DeRose

Galaxy clustering on small scales is significantly under-predicted by sub-halo abundance matching (SHAM) models that populate (sub-)haloes with galaxies based on peak halo mass, $M_{\rm peak}$. SHAM models based on the peak maximum circular…

We provide new constraints on the connection between galaxies in the local universe, identified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and dark matter halos and their constituent substructures in the $\Lambda$CDM model using WMAP7…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-20 Rachel M. Reddick , Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker , Peter S. Behroozi

We construct mock catalogs of galaxy groups using subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) and undertake several new tests of the SHAM prescription for the galaxy-dark matter connection. All SHAM models we studied exhibit significant tension with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrew P. Hearin , Andrew R. Zentner , Andreas A. Berlind , Jeffrey A. Newman

Accurate predictions of the abundance and clustering of dark matter haloes play a key role in testing the standard cosmological model. Here, we investigate the accuracy of one of the leading methods of connecting the simulated dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-15 Anatoly Klypin , Francisco Prada , Gustavo Yepes , Steffen Hess , Stefan Gottlober

We propose a novel approach based on optimal transport (OT) for tackling the problem of highly mixed data in blind hyperspectral unmixing. Our method constrains the distribution of the estimated abundance matrix to resemble a targeted…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 D. Doutsas , B. Figliuzzi

With the advent of several galaxy surveys targeting star-forming galaxies, it is important to have models capable of interpreting their spatial distribution in terms of astrophysical and cosmological parameters. To address this need, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Sara Ortega-Martinez , Sergio Contreras , Raul Angulo

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…

Optimal Transport, a theory for optimal allocation of resources, is widely used in various fields such as astrophysics, machine learning, and imaging science. However, many applications impose elementwise constraints on the transport plan…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Zixuan Cang , Qing Nie , Yanxiang Zhao

The spatial distribution of galaxies and their gravitational lensing signal offer complementary tests of galaxy formation physics and cosmology. However, their synergy can only be fully exploited if both probes are modelled accurately and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Sergio Contreras , Raul E. Angulo , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Simon D. M. White , Giovanni Aricò

We propose a novel subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) model that uses the virial mass of the main progenitor of each (sub)halo $M_{\rm prog}$ as a proxy of the galaxy stellar mass $M_*$ at the time of observation. This $M_{\rm prog}$ model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Shogo Masaki , Daichi Kashino , Shogo Ishikawa , Yen-Ting Lin
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