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We introduce GalaxyGenius, a Python package designed to produce synthetic galaxy images tailored to different telescopes based on hydrodynamical simulations. Its implementation will support and advance research on galaxies in the era of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Xingchen Zhou , Hang Yang , Nan Li , Qi Xiong , Furen Deng , Xian-Min Meng , Renhao Ye , Shiyin Shen , Peng Wei , Qifan Cui , Zizhao He , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Chengliang Wei , Yuedong Fang

Context: Several observations of the local Universe (LU) point towards the existence of very prominent structures. The presence of massive galaxy clusters and local super clusters on the one hand, but also large local voids and…

As part of the effort to meet the needs of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) for accurate, realistically complex mock galaxy catalogs, we have developed GalSampler, an open-source python…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 Andrew Hearin , Danila Korytov , Eve Kovacs , Andrew Benson , Han Aung , Christopher Bradshaw , Duncan Campbell

We present a comprehensive set of mock 2dF and SDSS galaxy redshift surveys constructed from a set of large, high-resolution cosmological N-body simulations. The radial selection functions and geometrical limits of the catalogues mimic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-16 Shaun Cole , Steve Hatton , David H. Weinberg , Carlos S. Frenk

State-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulations have star particles with typical mass between $\sim 10^8$ and $\sim 10^3$ M$_{\odot}$ according to resolution, and treat them as simple stellar populations. On the other hand,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-31 Milena Valentini , Alessandro Bressan , Stefano Borgani , Giuseppe Murante , Léo Girardi , Luca Tornatore

The clustering of matter on cosmological scales is an essential probe for studying the physical origin and composition of our Universe. To date, most of the direct studies have focused on shear-shear weak lensing correlations, but it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-26 Tobias Baldauf , Robert E. Smith , Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum

We present a novel approach to the construction of mock galaxy catalogues for large-scale structure analysis based on the distribution of dark matter halos obtained with effective bias models at the field level. We aim to produce mock…

We simulate the assembly of a massive rich cluster and the formation of its constituent galaxies in a flat, low-density universe. Our most accurate model follows the collapse, the star-formation history and the orbital motion of all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Volker Springel , Simon White , Giuseppe Tormen , Guinevere Kauffmann

We present validation tests of emulator-based halo model method for cosmological parameter inference, assuming hypothetical measurements of the projected correlation function of galaxies, $w_{\rm p}(R)$, and the galaxy-galaxy weak lensing,…

We investigate the feasibility of using COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) technique to efficiently generate galaxy mock catalogues that can accurately reproduce the statistical properties of observed galaxies. Our proposed scheme…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Jiacheng Ding , Shaohong Li , Yi Zheng , Xiaolin Luo , Le Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li

We present a realistic 2000 deg$^{2}$ H$\alpha$ galaxy mock catalog with $1<z<2$ for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope galaxy redshift survey, the High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey (HLSS), created using Galacticus, a semi-analytical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Zhongxu Zhai , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Yun Wang , Andrew Benson , Gustavo Yepes

Hydrodynamical simulations play a fundamental role in modern cosmological research, serving as a crucial bridge between theoretical predictions and observational data. However, due to their computational intensity, these simulations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-12 Andrés Caro , Daniel de Andres , Weiguang Cui , Gustavo Yepes , Marco De Petris , Antonio Ferragamo , Félicien Schiltz , Amélie Nef

We create mock X-ray observations of hot gas in galaxy clusters with a new extension of L-Galaxies semi-analytic model of galaxy formation, which includes the radial distribution of hot gas in each halo. Based on the model outputs, we first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-01 Wenxin Zhong , Jian Fu , Shiyin Shen , Feng Yuan

Halo merger trees are constructed from ELUCID, a constrained $N$-body simulation in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) volume. These merger trees are used to populate dark matter halos with galaxies according to an empirical model of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Yangyao Chen , Houjun Mo , Cheng Li , Huiyuan Wang , Xiaohu Yang , Shuang Zhou , Youcai Zhang

With galaxy groups constructed from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we analyze the expected galaxy-galaxy lensing signals around satellite galaxies residing in different host haloes and located at different halo-centric distances. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-04 Ran Li , Houjun Mo , Zuhui Fan , Xiaohu Yang , Frank C. van den Bosch

The void power spectrum is related to the clustering of low-density regions in the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, and can be used as an effective cosmological probe to extract the information of the LSS. We generate the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Yingxiao Song , Qi Xiong , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Kwan Chuen Chan , Xuelei Chen , Qi Guo , Guoliang Li , Ming Li , Yun Liu , Yu Luo , Wenxiang Pei , Chengliang Wei

Ground and space-based sky surveys enable powerful cosmological probes based on measurements of galaxy properties and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe. These probes include weak lensing, baryon acoustic oscillations, abundance…

We introduce the LOCal Universe Screening Test Suite (LOCUSTS) project, an effort to create 'screening maps' in the nearby Universe to identify regions in our neighbourhood which are screened, i.e., regions where deviations from General…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-18 Shi Shao , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun , Huiyuan Wang , Jie Wang

We present a new suite of mock galaxy catalogs mimicking the low-redshift Universe, based on an updated halo occupation distribution (HOD) model and a scaling relation between optical properties and the neutral hydrogen (HI) content of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Aseem Paranjape , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Ravi K. Sheth

We present MASSCLEAN, a new, sophisticated and robust stellar cluster image and photometry simulation package. This visualization tool is able to create color-magnitude diagrams and standard FITS images in any of the traditional optical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bogdan Popescu , M. M. Hanson