Generating mock galaxy catalogues for flux-limited samples like the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey
(2024)
Journal Article
Smith, A., Grove, C., Cole, S., Norberg, P., Zarrouk, P., Yuan, S., Aguilar, J., Ahlen, S., Brooks, D., Claybaugh, T., de la Macorra, A., Doel, P., Forero-Romero, J. E., Gaztañaga, E., Gontcho, S. G. A., Hahn, C., Kehoe, R., Kremin, A., Levi, M. E., Manera, M., …Zhou, Z. (2024). Generating mock galaxy catalogues for flux-limited samples like the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532(1), 903-919. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stae1503
Accurate mock galaxy catalogues are crucial to validate analysis pipelines used to constrain dark energy models. We present a fast HOD-fitting method which we apply to the AbacusSummit simulations to create a set of mock catalogues for the DESI Brigh... Read More about Generating mock galaxy catalogues for flux-limited samples like the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey.