2 papers
astro-ph.CO2021
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.CO2019
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…