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most citedCosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST

123 citations · 409 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Modeling the Galaxy Distribution in Clusters using Halo Cores

Danila Korytov, Esteban Rangel, Lindsey Bleem +5

The galaxy distribution in dark matter-dominated halos is expected to approximately trace the details of the underlying dark matter substructure. In this paper we introduce halo `c…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 18 cited

Validating Synthetic Galaxy Catalogs for Dark Energy Science in the LSST Era

Eve Kovacs, Yao-Yuan Mao, Michel Aguena +36

Large simulation efforts are required to provide synthetic galaxy catalogs for ongoing and upcoming cosmology surveys. These extragalactic catalogs are being used for many diverse…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 8 cited

DESC DC2 Data Release Note

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, Robert Armstrong +54

In preparation for cosmological analyses of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) has created…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 85 cited

The LSST DESC DC2 Simulated Sky Survey

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, David Alonso +77

We describe the simulated sky survey underlying the second data challenge (DC2) carried out in preparation for analysis of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 22 cited

The Last Journey. I. An Extreme-Scale Simulation on the Mira Supercomputer

Katrin Heitmann, Nicholas Frontiere, Esteban Rangel +10

The Last Journey is a large-volume, gravity-only, cosmological N-body simulation evolving more than 1.24 trillion particles in a periodic box with a side-length of 5.025Gpc. It was…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 23 cited

Generating Synthetic Cosmological Data with GalSampler

Andrew Hearin, Danila Korytov, Eve Kovacs +4

As part of the effort to meet the needs of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) for accurate, realistically complex mock galaxy catalog…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 123 cited

CosmoDC2: A Synthetic Sky Catalog for Dark Energy Science with LSST

Danila Korytov, Andrew Hearin, Eve Kovacs +27

This paper introduces cosmoDC2, a large synthetic galaxy catalog designed to support precision dark energy science with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). CosmoDC2 is the…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 104 cited

The Outer Rim Simulation: A Path to Many-Core Supercomputers

Katrin Heitmann, Hal Finkel, Adrian Pope +10

We describe the Outer Rim cosmological simulation, one of the largest high-resolution N-body simulations performed to date, aimed at promoting science to be carried out with large-…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 25 cited

HACC Cosmological Simulations: First Data Release

Katrin Heitmann, Thomas D. Uram, Hal Finkel +10

We describe the first major public data release from cosmological simulations carried out with Argonne's HACC code. This initial release covers a range of datasets from large gravi…