The connection between galaxies and their dark matter halos

RH Wechsler, JL Tinker - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Large-scale galaxy bias

V Desjacques, D Jeong, F Schmidt - Physics reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This review presents a comprehensive overview of galaxy bias, that is, the statistical relation
between the distribution of galaxies and matter. We focus on large scales where cosmic …

A cosmological framework for the co-evolution of quasars, supermassive black holes, and elliptical galaxies. I. Galaxy mergers and quasar activity

PF Hopkins, L Hernquist, TJ Cox… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a model for the cosmological role of mergers in the evolution of starbursts,
quasars, and spheroidal galaxies. By combining theoretically well-constrained halo and …

Galaxy clustering in the completed SDSS redshift survey: the dependence on color and luminosity

I Zehavi, Z Zheng, DH Weinberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the luminosity and color dependence of galaxy clustering in the largest-ever
galaxy redshift survey, the main galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data …

How do galaxies populate dark matter haloes?

Q Guo, S White, C Li… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
For any assumed standard stellar initial mass function, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
gives a precise determination of the abundance of galaxies as a function of their stellar mass …

Scaling relations for galaxy clusters in the Millennium-XXL simulation

RE Angulo, V Springel, SDM White… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We present a very large high-resolution cosmological N-body simulation, the Millennium-
XXL or MXXL, which uses 303 billion particles to represent the formation of dark matter …

Core cosmology library: Precision cosmological predictions for LSST

NE Chisari, D Alonso, E Krause… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Core Cosmology Library (CCL) provides routines to compute basic
cosmological observables to a high degree of accuracy, which have been verified with an …

Dark matter and cosmic structure

CS Frenk, SDM White - Annalen der Physik, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Dark matter and cosmic structure Page 1 Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 524, No. 9–10, 507–534 (2012) /
DOI 10.1002/andp.201200212 Review Article Dark matter and cosmic structure Carlos S. Frenk …

Consistent lensing and clustering in a low-S8 Universe with BOSS, DES Year 3, HSC Year 1, and KiDS-1000

A Amon, NC Robertson, H Miyatake… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We evaluate the consistency between lensing and clustering based on measurements from
Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey combined with galaxy–galaxy lensing from Dark …

Stringent σ8 constraints from small-scale galaxy clustering using a hybrid MCMC + emulator framework

S Yuan, LH Garrison, DJ Eisenstein… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a novel simulation-based hybrid emulator approach that maximally derives
cosmological and Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) information from non-linear galaxy …