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We apply machine learning, a powerful method for uncovering complex correlations in high-dimensional data, to the galaxy-halo connection of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. The mapping between galaxy and halo variables is stochastic…

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Cosmological simulations are a powerful tool to advance our understanding of galaxy formation and many simulations model key properties of real galaxies. A question that naturally arises for such simulations in light of high-quality…

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The halo model (HM) describes the inhomogeneous universe as a collection of halos. The full nonlinear power spectrum of the universe is well approximated by the HM, whose prediction can be easily computed without lengthy numerical…

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Strong gravitational lensing provides valuable insights into the mass distribution of galaxies and the nature of dark matter. However, its modeling is computationally demanding due to the large volume of strong lensing observations. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Juan J. Ancona-Flores , A. Hernández-Almada , V. Motta

We implement a model for the two-point statistics of biased tracers that combines dark matter dynamics from $N$-body simulations with an analytic Lagrangian bias expansion. Using Aemulus, a suite of $N$-body simulations built for emulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-23 Nickolas Kokron , Joseph DeRose , Shi-Fan Chen , Martin White , Risa H. Wechsler

We present a new method for measuring the scale dependence of the intrinsic alignment (IA) contamination to the galaxy-galaxy lensing signal, which takes advantage of multiple shear estimation methods applied to the same source galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-01 C. Danielle Leonard , Rachel Mandelbaum

In this study, galaxy samples have been generated using mock observation techniques based on the results of TNG100-1 simulations to investigate three forms of intrinsic alignment: satellite-central alignment between the orientation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Yanyao Lan , Lin Tang , Weipeng Lin , Junyu Gong

Precise and accurate predictions of the halo mass function for cluster mass scales in $w\nu{\rm CDM}$ cosmologies are crucial for extracting robust and unbiased cosmological information from upcoming galaxy cluster surveys. Here, we present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Delon Shen , Nickolas Kokron , Joseph DeRose , Jeremy Tinker , Risa H. Wechsler , Arka Banerjee , the Aemulus Collaboration

Analytical models of galaxy-halo connection such as the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model have been widely used over the past decades as a means to intensively test perturbative models on quasi-linear scales. However, these models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-16 R. Paviot , A. Rocher , S. Codis , A. de Mattia , E. Jullo , S. de la Torre

We develop a set of machine-learning based cosmological emulators, to obtain fast model predictions for the $C(\ell)$ angular power spectrum coefficients characterising tomographic observations of galaxy clustering and weak gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Marco Bonici , Luca Biggio , Carmelita Carbone , Luigi Guzzo

Extracting accurate cosmological information from galaxy-galaxy and galaxy-matter correlation functions on non-linear scales ($\lesssim 10 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$) requires cosmological simulations. Additionally, one has to marginalise over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Johannes U. Lange , Frank C. van den Bosch , Andrew R. Zentner , Kuan Wang , Andrew P. Hearin , Hong Guo

The complex physics governing nebular emission in galaxies, particularly in the early universe, often defy simple low-dimensional models. This has proven to be a significant barrier in understanding the (often diverse) ionizing sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-09 Yijia Li , Joel Leja , Benjamin D. Johnson , Sandro Tacchella , Rebecca Davies , Sirio Belli , Minjung Park , Razieh Emami

Disentangling the stellar population in the central galaxy from the intrahalo light can help us shed light on the formation history of the host halo, as the properties of the stellar components are expected to retain traces of its formation…

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During their formation, galaxies are subject to tidal forces, which create correlations between their shapes and the large-scale structure of the Universe, known as intrinsic alignment. This alignment is a contamination for cosmic-shear…

The correlations between the positions and shapes of galaxies, i.e. intrinsic alignments, have been measured in many observational studies and hydrodynamical simulations. The position-shape correlation measurements of disk galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 M. L. van Heukelum , N. E. Chisari

Quantifying the contribution of mergers to the stellar mass of galaxies is key for constraining the mechanisms of galaxy assembly across cosmic time. However, the mapping between observable galaxy properties and merger histories is not…

The alignments of galaxies across the large-scale structure of the Universe are known to be a source of contamination for gravitational lensing, but they can also probe cosmology and the physics of galaxy evolution in many ways. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Nora Elisa Chisari

Cosmological galaxy formation simulations are powerful tools to understand the complex processes that govern the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, evaluating the realism of these simulations remains a challenge. The two common…

There is a growing interest of using the intrinsic alignment (IA) of galaxy images as a tool to extract cosmological information complimentary to galaxy clustering analysis. Recently, Okumura & Taruya derived useful formulas for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-07 Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Nishimichi

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…

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