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A lightcone catalogue from the Millennium-XXL simulation

Smith, A.; Cole, S.; Baugh, C.; Zheng, Z.; Angulo, R.; Norberg, P.; Zehavi, I.

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A. Smith

Z. Zheng

R. Angulo

I. Zehavi



Abstract

Future galaxy surveys require realistic mock catalogues to understand and quantify systematics in order to make precise cosmological measurements. We present a halo lightcone catalogue and halo occupation distribution (HOD) galaxy catalogue built using the Millennium-XXL simulation. The halo catalogue covers the full sky, extending to z = 2.2 with a mass resolution of ∼1011 h−1 M⊙. We use this to build a galaxy catalogue, which has an r-band magnitude limit of r < 20.0, with a median redshift of z ∼ 0.2. A Monte Carlo HOD method is used to assign galaxies to the halo lightcone catalogue, and we evolve the HODs to reproduce a target luminosity function; by construction, the luminosity function of galaxies in the mock is in agreement with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at low redshifts and the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey at high redshifts. A Monte Carlo method is used to assign a 0.1(g − r) colour to each galaxy, and the colour distribution of galaxies at different redshifts agrees with measurements from GAMA. The clustering of galaxies in the mock for galaxies in different magnitude and redshift bins is in good agreement with measurements from SDSS and GAMA, and the colour-dependent clustering is in reasonable agreement. We show that the baryon acoustic oscillation can be measured in the mock catalogue, and the redshift-space distortions are in agreement with measurements from SDSS illustrating that this catalogue will be useful for upcoming surveys.

Citation

Smith, A., Cole, S., Baugh, C., Zheng, Z., Angulo, R., Norberg, P., & Zehavi, I. (2017). A lightcone catalogue from the Millennium-XXL simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 470(4), 4646-4661. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1432

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 7, 2017
Online Publication Date Jun 12, 2017
Publication Date Oct 1, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 29, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Print ISSN 0035-8711
Electronic ISSN 1365-2966
Publisher Royal Astronomical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 470
Issue 4
Pages 4646-4661
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1432

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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2017. The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.





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