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The properties of the galaxies are tightly connected to their host halo mass and halo assembly history. Accurate measurement of the halo assembly history in observation is challenging but crucial to the understanding of galaxy formation and…

We explore the interrelationships between the galaxy group halo mass and various observable group properties. We propose a simple scenario that describes the evolution of the central galaxies and their host dark matter halos. Star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 Zhong-yi Man , Ying-jie Peng , Jing-jing Shi , Xu Kong , Cheng-peng Zhang , Jing Dou , Ke-xin Guo

We investigate machine learning (ML) techniques for predicting the number of galaxies (N_gal) that occupy a halo, given the halo's properties. These types of mappings are crucial for constructing the mock galaxy catalogs necessary for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Xiaoying Xu , Shirley Ho , Hy Trac , Jeff Schneider , Barnabas Poczos , Michelle Ntampaka

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

Understanding how galaxies trace the underlying matter density field is essential for characterizing the influence of the large-scale structure on galaxy formation, being therefore a key ingredient in observational cosmology. This…

The properties of the matter density field in the initial conditions have a decisive impact on the features of the large-scale structure of the Universe as observed today. These need to be studied via $N$-body simulations, which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jazhiel Chacón , Isidro Gómez-Vargas , Ricardo Menchaca Méndez , José Alberto Vázquez

The connection between galaxies and dark matter halos encompasses a range of processes and play a pivotal role in our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this link has been established through physical or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Natália V. N. Rodrigues , Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta

A dark matter halo is said to have formed when at least half its mass hass been assembled into a single progenitor. With this definition, it is possible to derive a simple but useful analytic estimate of the distribution of halo formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Carlo Giocoli , Jorge Moreno , Ravi K. Sheth , Giuseppe Tormen

Motivated by previous findings that the magnitude gap between certain satellite galaxy and the central galaxy can be used to improve the estimation of halo mass, we carry out a systematic study of the information content of different member…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Yanrui Zhou , Jiaxin Han

In our modern understanding of galaxy formation, every galaxy forms within a dark matter halo. The formation and growth of galaxies over time is connected to the growth of the halos in which they form. The advent of large galaxy surveys as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Risa H. Wechsler , Jeremy L. Tinker

In $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, galaxies form and evolve in their host dark matter (DM) halos. Halo mass is crucial for understanding the halo-galaxy connection. The abundance matching (AM) technique has been widely used to derive the halo…

We develop a novel approach in exploring the joint dependence of halo bias on multiple halo properties using Gaussian process regression. Using a $\Lambda$CDM $N$-body simulation, we carry out a comprehensive study of the joint bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Jiaxin Han , Yin Li , Yipeng Jing , Takahiro Nishimichi , Wenting Wang , Chunyan Jiang

The clustering of galaxies encodes key information about the structure and assembly history of their host dark matter (DM) haloes, providing a powerful probe of the origin of extreme high-redshift systems. While halo assembly bias has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Zihao Wang , Fangzhou Jiang , Haonan Zheng , Xuejian Shen , Zixiang Jia , Luis C. Ho , Kohei Inayoshi , Linhua Jiang

The evolution of a dark matter halo in a dark matter only simulation is governed purely byNewtonian gravity, making a clean testbed to determine what halo properties drive its fate.Using machine learning, we predict the survival, mass loss,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Abigail Petulante , Andreas A. Berlind , J. Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Manodeep Sinha

We train a machine learning algorithm to learn cosmological structure formation from N-body simulations. The algorithm infers the relationship between the initial conditions and the final dark matter haloes, without the need to introduce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-02 Luisa Lucie-Smith , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew Pontzen , Michelle Lochner

We develop a machine learning (ML) framework to populate large dark matter-only simulations with baryonic galaxies. Our ML framework takes input halo properties including halo mass, environment, spin, and recent growth history, and outputs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-16 Shankar Agarwal , Romeel Davé , Bruce A. Bassett

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

We investigate the potential of machine learning (ML) methods to model small-scale galaxy clustering for constraining Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) parameters. Our analysis reveals that while many ML algorithms report good statistical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Abhishek Jana , Lado Samushia

Galaxies grow and evolve in dark matter halos. Because dark matter is not visible, galaxies' halo masses ($\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$) must be inferred indirectly. We present a graph neural network (GNN) model for predicting $\rm{M}_{\rm{halo}}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-20 Nikhil Garuda , John F. Wu , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

The most commonly used definition of halo formation is the time when a halo's most massive progenitor first contains at least half the final mass of its parent. Reasonably accurate formulae for the distribution of formation times of haloes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ravi K. Sheth , Giuseppe Tormen