The MillenniumTNG Project: high-precision predictions for matter clustering and halo statistics
(2023)
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Hernández-Aguayo, C., Springel, V., Pakmor, R., Barrera, M., Ferlito, F., White, S. D. M., Hernquist, L., Hadzhiyska, B., Delgado, A. M., Kannan, R., Bose, S., & Frenk, C. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: high-precision predictions for matter clustering and halo statistics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2556-2578. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1657
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The MillenniumTNG Project: an improved two-halo model for the galaxy–halo connection of red and blue galaxies (2023)
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Hadzhiyska, B., Eisenstein, D., Hernquist, L., Pakmor, R., Bose, S., Delgado, A. M., …Barrera, M. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: an improved two-halo model for the galaxy–halo connection of red and blue galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2507–2523. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad731Approximate methods to populate dark-matter haloes with galaxies are of great utility to galaxy surveys. However, the limitations of simple halo occupation models (HODs) preclude a full use of small-scale galaxy clustering data and call for more soph... Read More about The MillenniumTNG Project: an improved two-halo model for the galaxy–halo connection of red and blue galaxies.
The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at z ≥ 8 (2023)
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Kannan, R., Springel, V., Hernquist, L., Pakmor, R., Delgado, A. M., Hadzhiyska, B., Hernández-Aguayo, C., Barrera, M., Ferlito, F., Bose, S., White, S. D. M., Frenk, C., Smith, A., & Garaldi, E. (2023). The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at z ≥ 8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2594-2605. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3743The early release science results from JWST have yielded an unexpected abundance of high-redshift luminous galaxies that seems to be in tension with current theories of galaxy formation. However, it is currently difficult to draw definitive conclusio... Read More about The MillenniumTNG project: the galaxy population at z ≥ 8.
The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching (2023)
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Contreras, S., Angulo, R. E., Springel, V., White, S. D. M., Hadzhiyska, B., Hernquist, L., Pakmor, R., Kannan, R., Hernández-Aguayo, C., Barrera, M., Ferlito, F., Delgado, A. M., Bose, S., & Frenk, C. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2489-2506. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3699We introduce a novel technique for constraining cosmological parameters and galaxy assembly bias using non-linear redshift-space clustering of galaxies. We scale cosmological N-body simulations and insert galaxies with the SubHalo Abundance Matching... Read More about The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching.
The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters (2023)
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Pakmor, R., Springel, V., Coles, J. P., Guillet, T., Pfrommer, C., Bose, S., Barrera, M., Delgado, A. M., Ferlito, F., Frenk, C., Hadzhiyska, B., Hernández-Aguayo, C., Hernquist, L., Kannan, R., & White, S. D. M. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2539-2555. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac3620Cosmologicalsimulations are an important theoretical pillar for understanding non-linearstructure formation in our Universe and for relating it to observations on large scales. In several papers, we introduce our MillenniumTNG (MTNG) project that pro... Read More about The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters.
The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies (2023)
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Bose, S., Hadzhiyska, B., Barrera, M., Delgado, A. M., Ferlito, F., Frenk, C., Hernández-Aguayo, C., Hernquist, L., Kannan, R., Pakmor, R., Springel, V., & White, S. D. M. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524(2), 2579-2593. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1097Modern redshift surveys are tasked with mapping out the galaxy distribution over enormous distance scales. Existing hydrodynamical simulations, however, do not reach the volumes needed to match upcoming surveys. We present results for the clustering... Read More about The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies.
The MillenniumTNG Project: Intrinsic alignments of galaxies and halos (2023)
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Delgado, A. M., Hadzhiyska, B., Bose, S., Springel, V., Hernquist, L., Barrera, M., Pakmor, R., Ferlito, F., Kannan, R., Hernández-Aguayo, C., White, S. D., & Frenk, C. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: Intrinsic alignments of galaxies and halos. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(4), 5899–5914. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1781The intrinsic alignment (IA) of observed galaxy shapes with the underlying cosmic web is a source of contamination in weak lensing surveys. Sensitive methods to identify the IA signal will therefore need to be included in the upcoming weak lensing an... Read More about The MillenniumTNG Project: Intrinsic alignments of galaxies and halos.
The progenitor galaxies of stellar haloes as ‘failed’ Milky Ways (2023)
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Bose, S., & Deason, A. J. (2023). The progenitor galaxies of stellar haloes as ‘failed’ Milky Ways. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(4), 5013-5021. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1123The stellar halo of the Milky Way records the history of its interactions with dwarf galaxies, whose subsequent destruction results in the formation of an extended stellar component. Recent works have suggested that galaxies with masses comparable to... Read More about The progenitor galaxies of stellar haloes as ‘failed’ Milky Ways.
Galaxy clustering from the bottom up: A Streaming Model emulator I (2023)
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Cuesta-Lazaro, C., Nishimichi, T., Kobayashi, Y., Ruan, C.-Z., Eggemeier, A., Miyatake, H., Takada, M., Yoshida, N., Zarrouk, P., Baugh, C. M., Bose, S., & Li, B. (2023). Galaxy clustering from the bottom up: A Streaming Model emulator I. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523(3), 3219–3238. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad1207In this series of papers, we present a simulation-based model for the non-linear clustering of galaxies based on separate modelling of clustering in real space and velocity statistics. In the first paper, we present an emulator for the real-space cor... Read More about Galaxy clustering from the bottom up: A Streaming Model emulator I.
Cosmological structure formation and soliton phase transition in fuzzy dark matter with axion self-interactions (2023)
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Mocz, P., Fialkov, A., Vogelsberger, M., Boylan-Kolchin, M., Chavanis, P.-H., Amin, M. A., Bose, S., Dome, T., Hernquist, L., Lancaster, L., Notis, M., Painter, C., Robles, V. H., & Zavala, J. (2023). Cosmological structure formation and soliton phase transition in fuzzy dark matter with axion self-interactions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(2), 2608-2615. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad694We investigate cosmological structure formation in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) with the attractive self-interaction (SI) with numerical simulations. Such a SI would arise if the FDM boson were an ultra-light axion, which has a strong CP symmetry-breaking... Read More about Cosmological structure formation and soliton phase transition in fuzzy dark matter with axion self-interactions.
The feasibility of constraining DM interactions with high-redshift observations by JWST (2022)
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Kurmus, A., Bose, S., Lovell, M., Cyr-Racine, F.-Y., Vogelsberger, M., Pfrommer, C., & Zavala, J. (2022). The feasibility of constraining DM interactions with high-redshift observations by JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516(1), 1524-1538. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2195Observations of the high redshift universe provide a promising avenue for constraining the nature of the dark matter (DM). This will be even more true with the advent of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). We run cosmological simulations of galaxy... Read More about The feasibility of constraining DM interactions with high-redshift observations by JWST.
Modelling the galaxy–halo connection with machine learning (2022)
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Delgado, A. M., Wadekar, D., Hadzhiyska, B., Bose, S., Hernquist, L., & Ho, S. (2022). Modelling the galaxy–halo connection with machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 515(2), 2733-2746. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1951To extract information from the clustering of galaxies on non-linear scales, we need to model the connection between galaxies and haloes accurately and in a flexible manner. Standard halo occupation distribution (HOD) models make the assumption that... Read More about Modelling the galaxy–halo connection with machine learning.
Illustrating galaxy–halo connection in the DESI era with illustrisTNG (2022)
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Yuan, S., Hadzhiyska, B., Bose, S., & Eisenstein, D. J. (2022). Illustrating galaxy–halo connection in the DESI era with illustrisTNG. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(4), 5793-5811. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac830We employ the hydrodynamical simulation ILLUSTRISTNG to inform the galaxy–halo connection of the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) samples of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey at redshift z ∼ 0.8. Specifica... Read More about Illustrating galaxy–halo connection in the DESI era with illustrisTNG.
Constructing high-fidelity halo merger trees in abacussummit (2022)
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Bose, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Hadzhiyska, B., Garrison, L. H., & Yuan, S. (2022). Constructing high-fidelity halo merger trees in abacussummit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 512(1), 837-854. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac555Tracking the formation and evolution of dark matter haloes is a critical aspect of any analysis of cosmological N-body simulations. In particular, the mass assembly of a halo and its progenitors, encapsulated in the form of its merger tree, serves as... Read More about Constructing high-fidelity halo merger trees in abacussummit.
Dynamics of intermediate-mass black holes wandering in the milky way galaxy using the illustris TNG50 simulation (2022)
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Weller, E. J., Pacucci, F., Hernquist, L., & Bose, S. (2022). Dynamics of intermediate-mass black holes wandering in the milky way galaxy using the illustris TNG50 simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(2), 2229-2238. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac179The detection of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (IMBHs) in dwarf galaxies is crucial to closing the gap in the wide mass distribution of black holes (∼3M⊙ to ∼5×1010M⊙). IMBHs originally located at the centre of dwarfs that later collide with the Mi... Read More about Dynamics of intermediate-mass black holes wandering in the milky way galaxy using the illustris TNG50 simulation.
Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small-scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter (2021)
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Deason, A. J., Bose, S., Fattahi, A., Amorisco, N. C., Hellwing, W., & Frenk, C. S. (2022). Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small-scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 511(3), 4044-4059. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3524We use N-body cosmological simulations and empirical galaxy models to study the merger history of dwarf-mass galaxies (with Mhalo∼1010M⊙). Our input galaxy models describe the stellar mass–halo mass relation, and the galaxy occupation fraction. The... Read More about Dwarf stellar haloes: a powerful probe of small-scale galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter.
AbacusHOD: a highly efficient extended multitracer HOD framework and its application to BOSS and eBOSS data (2021)
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Yuan, S., Garrison, L. H., Hadzhiyska, B., Bose, S., & Eisenstein, D. J. (2022). AbacusHOD: a highly efficient extended multitracer HOD framework and its application to BOSS and eBOSS data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 510(3), 3301-3320. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3355We introduce the ABACUSHOD model and present two applications of ABACUSHOD and the ABACUSSUMMIT simulations to observations. ABACUSHOD is a Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) framework written in PYTHON that is particle-based, multitracer, highly gen... Read More about AbacusHOD: a highly efficient extended multitracer HOD framework and its application to BOSS and eBOSS data.
The halo light cone catalogues of AbacusSummit (2021)
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Hadzhiyska, B., Garrison, L. H., Eisenstein, D., & Bose, S. (2022). The halo light cone catalogues of AbacusSummit. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(2), 2194-2208. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3066We describe a method for generating halo catalogues on the light-cone using the ABACUSSUMMIT suite of N-body simulations. The main application of these catalogues is the construction of realistic mock galaxy catalogues and weak lensing maps on the sk... Read More about The halo light cone catalogues of AbacusSummit.
compaso: A new halo finder for competitive assignment to spherical overdensities (2021)
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Hadzhiyska, B., Eisenstein, D., Bose, S., Garrison, L. H., & Maksimova, N. (2022). compaso: A new halo finder for competitive assignment to spherical overdensities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 509(1), 501-521. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2980We describe a new method (COMPASO) for identifying groups of particles in cosmological N-body simulations. COMPASO builds upon existing spherical overdensity (SO) algorithms by taking into consideration the tidal radius around a smaller halo before c... Read More about compaso: A new halo finder for competitive assignment to spherical overdensities.
Galaxy assembly bias and large-scale distribution: a comparison between IllustrisTNG and a semi-analytic model (2021)
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Hadzhiyska, B., Liu, S., Somerville, R. S., Gabrielpillai, A., Bose, S., Eisenstein, D., & Hernquist, L. (2021). Galaxy assembly bias and large-scale distribution: a comparison between IllustrisTNG and a semi-analytic model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 508(1), 698-718. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab2564In this work, we compare large scale structure observables for stellar mass selected samples at z = 0, as predicted by two galaxy models, the hydrodynamical simulation IllustrisTNG and the Santa-Cruz semi-analytic model (SC-SAM). Although both models... Read More about Galaxy assembly bias and large-scale distribution: a comparison between IllustrisTNG and a semi-analytic model.