BAM: Bias Assignment Method to generate mock catalogs

Abstract

We present BAM: a novel Bias Assignment Method envisaged to generate mock catalogs. Combining the statistics of dark matter tracers from a high resolution cosmological $N$-body simulation and the dark matter density field calculated from down-sampled initial conditions using efficient structure formation solvers, we extract the halo-bias relation on a mesh of a $3h^{-1}$ Mpc cell side resolution as a function of properties of the dark matter density field (e.g. local density, cosmic web type), automatically including stochastic, deterministic, local and non-local components. We use this information to sample the halo density field, accounting for ignored dependencies through an iterative process. By construction, our approach reaches $\sim 1\%$ accuracy in the majority of the $k$-range up to the Nyquist frequency without systematic deviations for power spectra (about $k\sim 1h$ Mpc${}^{-1}$) using either particle mesh or Lagrangian perturbation theory based solvers. When using phase-space mapping to compensate the low resolution of the approximate gravity solvers, our method reproduces the bispectra of the reference within $10\%$ precision studying configurations tracing the quasi-nonlinear regime. BAM has the potential to become a standard technique to produce mock halo and galaxy catalogs for future galaxy surveys and cosmological studies being highly accurate, efficient and parameter free.

6 pages. 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS letters

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