Modelling galaxy clustering: halo occupation distribution versus subhalo matching

Abstract

We model the luminosity-dependent projected and redshift-space two-point correlation functions (2PCFs) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 Main galaxy sample, using the halo occupation distribution (HOD) model and the subhalo abundance matching (SHAM) model and its extension. All the models are built on the same high-resolution $N$-body simulations. We find that the HOD model generally provides the best performance in reproducing the clustering measurements in both projected and redshift spaces. The SHAM model with the same halo-galaxy relation for central and satellite galaxies (or distinct haloes and subhaloes), when including scatters, has a best-fitting ${\chi }^2/\mathrm{dof}$ around $2$--$3$. We therefore extend the SHAM model to the subhalo clustering and abundance matching (SCAM) by allowing the central and satellite galaxies to have different galaxy--halo relations. We infer the corresponding halo/subhalo parameters by jointly fitting the galaxy 2PCFs and abundances and consider subhaloes selected based on three properties, the mass $M_{\mathrm{acc}}$ at the time of accretion, the maximum circular velocity $V_{\mathrm{acc}}$ at the time of accretion, and the peak maximum circular velocity $V_{\mathrm{peak}}$ over the history of the subhaloes. The three subhalo models work well for luminous galaxy samples (with luminosity above $L_{\ast }$). For low-luminosity samples, the $V_{\mathrm{acc}}$ model stands out in reproducing the data, with the $V_{\mathrm{peak}}$ model slightly worse, while the $M_{\mathrm{acc}}$ model fails to fit the data. We discuss the implications of the modeling results.

arXiv commentAccepted for publication in MNRAS

References in corpus (79)

• Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters
• The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
• The EAGLE project: Simulating the evolution and assembly of galaxies and their environments
• The broken hierarchy of galaxy formation
• Statistical Properties of X-ray Clusters: Analytic and Numerical Comparisons
• Introducing the Illustris Project: Simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe
• The Aquarius Project: the subhalos of galactic halos
• The Rockstar Phase-Space Temporal Halo Finder and the Velocity Offsets of Cluster Cores
• Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
• NYU-VAGC: a galaxy catalog based on new public surveys
• From dwarf spheroidals to cDs: Simulating the galaxy population in a LCDM cosmology
• Constraints on the relationship between stellar mass and halo mass at low and high redshift
• A Semi-Analytic Model for the Co-evolution of Galaxies, Black Holes, and Active Galactic Nuclei
• A Comprehensive Analysis of Uncertainties Affecting the Stellar Mass - Halo Mass Relation for 0<z<4
• Halo occupation numbers and galaxy bias
• MultiDark simulations: the story of dark matter halo concentrations and density profiles
• The Dark Side of the Halo Occupation Distribution
• The Halo Occupation Distribution: Towards an Empirical Determination of the Relation Between Galaxies and Mass
• Theoretical Models of the Halo Occupation Distribution: Separating Central and Satellite Galaxies
• Galaxy Clustering in the Completed SDSS Redshift Survey: The Dependence on Color and Luminosity
• Modeling Luminosity-Dependent Galaxy Clustering Through Cosmic Time
• How do galaxies populate Dark Matter halos?
• The age dependence of halo clustering
• Constraining Galaxy Formation and Cosmology with the Conditional Luminosity Function of Galaxies
• Galaxy Evolution from Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of DEEP2 and SDSS Galaxy Clustering
• The Dependence of Halo Clustering on Halo Formation History, Concentration, and Occupation
• New constraints on the evolution of the stellar-to-dark matter connection: a combined analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing, clustering, and stellar mass functions from z=0.2 to z=1
• Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters: star formation rates, red sequence fractions, and the persistent bimodality
• A Halo-Based Galaxy Group Finder: Calibration and Application to the 2dFGRS
• Spatial correlation function and pairwise velocity dispersion of galaxies: CDM models versus the Las Campanas Survey
• The Halo Occupation Distribution and the Physics of Galaxy Formation
• On the Mass-to-Light Ratio of Large Scale Structure
• The Connection between Galaxies and Dark Matter Structures in the Local Universe
• Evolution of the Galaxy - Dark Matter Connection and the Assembly of Galaxies in Dark Matter Halos
• The Non-Parametric Model for Linking Galaxy Luminosity with Halo/Subhalo Mass
• The Radial Distribution of Galaxies in LCDM clusters
• Cosmological Constraints from a Combination of Galaxy Clustering and Lensing -- I. Theoretical Framework
• Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies
• Bent by baryons: the low mass galaxy-halo relation
• Galaxy Assembly Bias: A Significant Source of Systematic Error in the Galaxy-Halo Relationship
• Structure Finding in Cosmological Simulations: The State of Affairs
• Mapping stellar content to dark matter halos using galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing in the SDSS DR7
• SubHaloes going Notts: The SubHalo-Finder Comparison Project
• The dependence of dark halo clustering on the formation epoch and the concentration parameter
• Galaxies and subhaloes in LCDM galaxy clusters
• Modelling galaxy clustering in a high resolution simulation of structure formation
• Subhalo abundance matching and assembly bias in the EAGLE simulation
• Redshift-Space Clustering of SDSS Galaxies --- Luminosity Dependence, Halo Occupation Distribution, and Velocity Bias
• A theoretical framework for combining techniques that probe the link between galaxies and dark matter
• The clustering of galaxies at z~0.5 in the SDSS-III Data Release 9 BOSS-CMASS sample: a test for the LCDM cosmology
• Velocity Bias from the Small Scale Clustering of SDSS-III BOSS Galaxies
• Beyond Halo Mass: Galactic Conformity as a Smoking Gun of Central Galaxy Assembly Bias
• Populating Dark Matter Haloes with Galaxies: Comparing the 2dFGRS with Mock Galaxy Redshift Surveys
• On Detecting Halo Assembly Bias with Galaxy Populations
• Interpreting the Observed Clustering of Red Galaxies at z~3
• The Dependence of the Occupation of Galaxies on the Halo Formation Time
• The subhalo - satellite connection and the fate of disrupted satellite galaxies
• The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: modeling of the luminosity and colour dependence in the Data Release 10
• The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminosity and Color Dependence and Redshift Evolution
• Satellite abundances around bright isolated galaxies II: radial distribution and environmental effects
• Baryon Dynamics, Dark Matter Substructure, and Galaxies
• The stellar-subhalo mass relation of satellite galaxies
• Constraining the Projected Radial Distribution of Galactic Satellites with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Correlating galaxy colour and halo concentration: A tunable Halo Model of galactic conformity
• The cross-correlation between galaxies of different luminosities and Colors
• Accurate and Efficient Halo-based Galaxy Clustering Modelling with Simulations
• Testing Subhalo Abundance Matching in Cosmological Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations
• The Galaxy-Halo/Subhalo connection: Mass relations and implications for some satellite occupational distributions
• The Strikingly Similar Relation between Satellite and Central Galaxies and Their Dark Matter Halos Since z=2
• Modelling The Redshift-Space Three-Point Correlation Function in SDSS-III
• Environmental Effects on Real-Space and Redshift-Space Galaxy Clustering
• Virial scaling of galaxies in clusters: bright to faint is cool to hot
• Dark Matter Halo Models of Stellar Mass-Dependent Galaxy Clustering in PRIMUS+DEEP2 at 0.2<z<1.2
• A tale of two populations: the stellar mass of central and satellite galaxies
• The galaxy - dark matter halo connection: which galaxy properties are correlated with the host halo mass?
• Linking haloes to galaxies: how many halo properties are needed?
• Subhaloes gone Notts: the clustering properties of subhaloes
• Testing subhalo abundance matching from redshift-space clustering

Cited by in corpus (89)

• Small-Scale Challenges to the $\Lambda$CDM Paradigm
• The Galaxy-Halo Connection Over The Last 13.3 Gyrs
• The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Modeling the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS-CMASS galaxies in the Final Data Release
• The Concentration Dependence of the Galaxy-Halo Connection: Modeling Assembly Bias with Abundance Matching
• Low Redshift Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurement from the Reconstructed 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey
• NIHAO XIV: Reproducing the observed diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curve shapes in LCDM
• Connecting massive galaxies to dark matter halos in BOSS - I. Is galaxy color a stochastic process in high-mass halos?
• Dissecting and Modelling Galaxy Assembly Bias
• Scalar Field Dark Matter: Helping or Hurting Small-Scale Problems in Cosmology?
• Five-percent measurements of the growth rate from simulation-based modelling of redshift-space clustering in BOSS LOWZ
• The Galaxy Clustering Crisis in Abundance Matching
• The galaxy-halo connection of emission-line galaxies in IllustrisTNG
• Accurate and Efficient Halo-based Galaxy Clustering Modelling with Simulations
• A flexible subhalo abundance matching model for galaxy clustering in redshift space
• Constraining the HI-Halo Mass Relation From Galaxy Clustering
• Dark matter spike around Bumblebee black holes
• Extensions to models of the galaxy-halo connection
• Accurate mass and velocity functions of dark matter halos
• The dependence of the galaxy stellar-to-halo mass relation on galaxy morphology
• Deformed black hole immersed in dark matter spike
• 3\%-accurate predictions for the clustering of dark matter, haloes and subhaloes, over a wide range of cosmologies and scales
• The MillenniumTNG Project: An improved two-halo model for the galaxy-halo connection of red and blue galaxies
• The galaxy-halo connection in the VIDEO Survey at 0.5<z<1.7
• Updated Results on the Galaxy-Halo Connection from Satellite Kinematics in SDSS
• The Incomplete Conditional Stellar Mass Function: Unveiling the Stellar Mass Functions of Galaxies at 0.1 < Z < 0.8 from BOSS Observations
• Relating the structure of dark matter halos to their assembly and environment
• How are galaxies assigned to halos? Searching for assembly bias in the SDSS galaxy clustering
• The MillenniumTNG Project: Refining the one-halo model of red and blue galaxies at different redshifts
• Brightest Cluster Galaxies: the centre can(not?) hold
• Properties and Origin of Galaxy Velocity Bias in the Illustris Simulation
• nIFTy Cosmology: the clustering consistency of galaxy formation models
• Galaxy assembly bias of central galaxies in the Illustris simulation
• Probing sub-galactic mass structure with the power spectrum of surface-brightness anomalies in high-resolution observations of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses. II.Observational constraints on the sub-galactic matter power spectrum
• Cosmological Evidence Modelling: a new simulation-based approach to constrain cosmology on non-linear scales
• A Parameter-Masked Mock Data Challenge for Beyond-Two-Point Galaxy Clustering Statistics
• Brightest galaxies as halo centre tracers in SDSS DR7
• On the prospect of using the maximum circular velocity of halos to encapsulate assembly bias in the galaxy-halo connection
• Clustering with JWST: Constraining Galaxy Host Halo Masses, Satellite Quenching Efficiencies, and Merger Rates at z=4-10
• The Galaxy-Halo Connection for $1.5\lesssim z\lesssim 5$ as revealed by the \emph{Spitzer} Matching survey of the UltraVISTA ultra-deep Stripes
• The Three Hundred Project: Substructure in hydrodynamical and dark matter simulations of galaxy groups around clusters
• An accurate method to determine the systematics due to the peculiar velocities of galaxies in measuring the Hubble constant from gravitational wave standard sirens
• The dark side of galaxy stellar populations I: The stellar-to-halo mass relation and the velocity dispersion - halo mass relation
• SHAM through the lens of a hydrodynamical simulation
• Tidal effects of dark matter halo around a galactic black hole
• Construct the emission line galaxy-host halo connection through auto and cross correlations
• The Clustering of Galaxies in the Completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmic Flows and Cosmic Web from Luminous Red Galaxies
• The Effects of Galaxy Assembly Bias on the Inference of Growth Rate from Redshift-Space Distortions
• The environment and host haloes of the brightest z~6 Lyman-break galaxies
• Maturing Satellite Kinematics into a Competitive Probe of the Galaxy-Halo Connection
• Reignited star formation in dwarf galaxies quenched during reionization
• Modeling Redshift-Space Clustering with Abundance Matching
• Analytical halo model of galactic conformity
• Rosella: A mock catalogue from the P-Millennium simulation
• Galaxy Three-Point Correlation Functions and Halo/Subhalo Models
• On the small scale clustering of quasars: constraints from the MassiveBlack II simulation
• Constraining Dark Energy With Stacked Concave Lenses
• MAHGIC: A Model Adapter for the Halo-Galaxy Inter-Connection
• The Uchuu-GLAM BOSS and eBOSS LRG lightcones: Exploring clustering and covariance errors
• High-fidelity reproduction of central galaxy joint distributions with Neural Networks
• Rapid Simulations of Halo and Subhalo Clustering
• BASILISK: Bayesian Hierarchical Inference of the Galaxy-Halo Connection using Satellite Kinematics--I. Method and Validation
• Using the Modified Nearest Neighbor Method to Correct Fiber-collision Effects on Galaxy Clustering
• How to empirically model star formation in dark matter halos: I. Inferences about central galaxies from numerical simulations
• The XMM Cluster Survey: The Halo Occupation Number of BOSS galaxies in X-ray clusters
• Toward Accurate Modeling of Galaxy Clustering on Small Scales: Halo Model Extensions and Lingering Tension
• Validating the clustering predictions of empirical models with the FLAMINGO simulations
• Computing 3 point correlation function randoms counts without the randoms catalogue
• Constraining galaxy-halo connection with high-order statistics
• Accurate Modeling of the Projected Galaxy Clustering in Photometric Surveys: I. Tests with Mock Catalogs
• Multi-wavelength consensus of large-scale linear bias
• Fast Forward Modelling of Galaxy Spatial and Statistical Distributions
• Galaxy-halo size relation from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 and the ELUCID simulation
• Modified Kerr black holes surrounded by dark matter spike
• Towards a Model-Independent Measurement of the Halo Mass Function with Observables
• Star-forming and Quiescent Central Galaxies Cluster Similarly: Implications for the Galaxy-Halo Connection
• A two-phase model of galaxy formation: III. The formation of globular clusters
• Exploring the physical origins of halo assembly bias from early times
• New insight into the variability of the Be star $\pi$ Aquarii: Determination of stellar and disk parameters
• ScamPy -- A sub-halo clustering & abundance matching based Python interface for painting galaxies on the dark matter halo/sub-halo hierarchy
• Inferring Cosmological Parameters on SDSS via Domain-Generalized Neural Networks and Lightcone Simulations
• Galaxy assembly bias and large-scale distribution: a comparison between IllustrisTNG and a semi-analytic model
• Conditional Colour-Magnitude Distribution of Central Galaxies in Galaxy Formation Models
• Modelling the tightest relation between galaxy properties and dark matter halo properties from hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation
• ELG$\times$LRG distribution through dark matter halo dynamics
• A Conditional Abundance Matching Method of Extending Simulated Halo Merger Trees to Resolve Low-Mass Progenitors and Sub-halos
• Observing galaxy mergers at the epoch of reionization
• Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Galaxy-halo connection from galaxy-galaxy lensing
• Predicting halo occupation and galaxy assembly bias with machine learning
• Mimicking the halo-galaxy connection using machine learning