PTHalos: A fast method for generating mock galaxy distributions

Abstract

Current models of galaxy formation applied to understanding the large-scale structure of the universe have two parts. The first is an accurate solution of the equations of motion for the dark matter due to gravitational clustering. The second consists of making physically reasonable approximations to the behavior of baryons inside dark matter halos. The first uses large, computationally intensive, $n$-body simulations. We argue that because the second step is, at least at present, uncertain, it is possible to obtain similar galaxy distributions without solving the first step exactly. We describe an algorithm which is several orders of magnitude faster than n-body simulations, but which is, nevertheless, rather accurate. The algorithm combines perturbation theory with virialized halo models of the nonlinear density and velocity fields. For two- and three-point statistics the resulting fields are exact on large scales, and rather accurate well into the nonlinear regime, particularly for two-point statistics in real and redshift space. We then show how to use this algorithm to generate mock galaxy distributions from halo occupation numbers. As a first application, we show that it provides a good description of the clustering of galaxies in the PSCz survey. We also discuss applications to the estimation of non-Gaussian contributions to error bars and covariance matrix of the power spectrum, in real and redshift space, for galaxies and dark matter. The results for the latter show good agreement with simulations, supporting the use of our method to constrain cosmological parameters from upcoming galaxy surveys.

13 pages, 10 figures. (references added)

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