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Halos and galaxies are tracers of the underlying dark matter structures. While their bias is well understood in the case of a simple Universe composed dominantly of dark matter, the relation becomes more complex in the presence of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Christian Fidler , Nils Sujata , Maria Archidiacono

Large surveys of the local Universe have shown that galaxies with different intrinsic properties, such as colour, luminosity and morphological type display a range of clustering amplitudes. Galaxies are therefore not faithful tracers of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 C. M. Baugh

We use a very large simulation of structure growth in a LCDM universe -- the Millennium Simulation -- to study assembly bias, the fact that the large-scale clustering of haloes of given mass varies significantly with their assembly history.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

The two-point clustering of dark matter halos is influenced by halo properties besides mass, a phenomenon referred to as halo assembly bias. Using the depth of the gravitational potential well, $V_{\rm max}$, as our secondary halo property,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Tomomi Sunayama , Andrew P. Hearin , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Alexie Leauthaud

We use a large suite of N-body simulations to study departures from universality in halo abundances and clustering in cosmologies with non-vanishing neutrino masses. To this end, we study how the halo mass function and halo bias factors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 E. Castorina , E. Sefusatti , R. K. Sheth , F. Villaescusa-Navarro , M. Viel

Constraining primordial non-Gaussianities (PNG) is one of the main goals of new-generation large-scale galaxy surveys. It had been proposed that unclustered tracers (with bias $b_1=0$) could be optimal for PNG studies, and that these could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Celia Merino , Santiago Avila , A. G. Adame , A. Anguren , V. Gonzalez-Perez , J. Meneses-Rizo

One of the key factors influencing galaxy clustering in the nonlinear regime is galaxy assembly bias, which describes the dependence of galaxy clustering on halo properties beyond halo mass. We study this effect by analyzing galaxy samples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Sergio García-Moreno , Jonás Chaves-Montero

The clustering of dark halos depends not only on their mass but also on their assembly history, a dependence we term `assembly bias'. Using a galaxy formation model grafted onto the Millennium Simulation of the LCDM cosmogony, we study how…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Darren J. Croton , Liang Gao , Simon D. M. White

Recent studies have shown that the primordial non-Gaussianity affects clustering of dark matter halos through a scale-dependent bias and various constraints on the non-Gaussianity through this scale-dependent bias have been placed. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-02 Yoshitaka Takeuchi , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Takahiko Matsubara

We explore the phenomenon commonly known as halo assembly bias, whereby dark matter halos of the same mass are found to be more or less clustered when a second halo property is considered, for halos in the mass range $3.7 \times 10^{11} \;…

Assembly bias describes the finding that the clustering of dark matter haloes depends on halo formation time at fixed halo mass. In this paper, we analyse the influence of assembly bias on galaxy clustering using both semi-analytical models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lan Wang , Simone M. Weinmann , Gabriella De Lucia , Xiaohu Yang

We measure the clustering of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of the flat LCDM cosmology. Halos are identified using the spherical overdensity algorithm, which finds the mass around isolated peaks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremy L. Tinker , Brant E. Robertson , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Anatoly Klypin , Michael S. Warren , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottlober

We measure the projected galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing signals using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey and Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) to study galaxy bias. We use the concept of non-linear and stochastic galaxy biasing…

It has long been known how to analytically relate the clustering properties of the collapsed structures (halos) to those of the underlying dark matter distribution for Gaussian initial conditions. Here we apply the same approach to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Sabino Matarrese , Licia Verde

We investigate the effect of primordial non-Gaussianities on halo number counts using N-body simulations with different values of $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc}$. We show how current theoretical models fail to adequately describe the non-Gaussian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Luca Fiorino , Sofia Contarini , Federico Marulli , Ariel G. Sanchez , Marco Baldi , Andrea Fiorilli , Lauro Moscardini

The fact that the clustering of dark matter halos depends not only on their mass, but also the formation epoch, is a prominent, albeit subtle, feature of the cold dark matter structure formation theory, and is known as assembly bias. At low…

Clustering of dark matter halos has been shown to depend on halo properties beyond mass such as halo concentration, a phenomenon referred to as halo assembly bias. Standard halo occupation models (HOD) in large scale structure studies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-05 Mohammadjavad Vakili , ChangHoon Hahn

Understanding the physical connection between cluster galaxies and massive haloes is key to mitigating systematic uncertainties in next-generation cluster cosmology. We develop a novel method to infer the level of conformity between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-25 Ying Zu , Yunjia Song , Zhiwei Shao , Xiaokai Chen , Yun Zheng , Hongyu Gao , Yu Yu , Huanyuan Shan , Yipeng Jing

We use the IllustrisTNG300-ODM simulation to investigate the spin bias of low-mass halos and its connection to the strong clustering of ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs) reported by Zhang et al. (2025). By comparing two halo spin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-14 Qinglin Ma , Cheng Li , Yangyao Chen , Houjun Mo

On large scales galaxies and their halos are usually assumed to trace the dark matter with a constant bias and dark matter is assumed to trace the linear density field. We test these assumption using several large N-body simulations with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Uros Seljak , Michael S. Warren