Breaking Halo Occupation Degeneracies with Marked Statistics

Abstract

We show that a suitably defined marked correlation function can be used to break degeneracies in halo-occupation distribution modeling. The statistic can be computed on both 3D and 2D data sets, and should be applicable to all upcoming galaxy surveys. A proof of principle, using mock catalogs created from N-body simulations, is given.

4 pages, 3 figures, minor revisions to match version accepted by MNRAS

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