The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the low-redshift sample

Marc Manera; Lado Samushia; Rita Tojeiro; Cullan Howlett; Ashley J. Ross; Will J. Percival; Hector Gil-Marín; Joel R. Brownstein; Angela Burden; Francesco Montesano

doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2465

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the low-redshift sample

Marc Manera, Lado Samushia, Rita Tojeiro, Cullan Howlett, Ashley J. Ross, Will J. Percival, Hector Gil-Marín, Joel R. Brownstein, Angela Burden, Francesco Montesano

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Abstract

We present 1000 mock galaxy catalogues (mocks) for the analysis of the low-redshift sample (LOWZ; effective redshift z ˜ 0.32) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Releases 10 and 11. These mocks have been created following the PTHalos method revised to include new developments. The main improvement is the introduction of a redshift dependence in the halo occupation distribution in order to account for the change of the galaxy number density with redshift. These mock galaxy catalogues are used in the analyses of the LOWZ galaxy clustering by the BOSS collaboration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	437-445
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	447
Issue number	1
Early online date	18 Dec 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2465
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2015

Keywords

Galaxies: haloes
Galaxies: statistics
Large-scale structure of Universe

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Manera, M., Samushia, L., Tojeiro, R., Howlett, C., Ross, A. J., Percival, W. J., Gil-Marín, H., Brownstein, J. R., Burden, A., & Montesano, F. (2015). The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the low-redshift sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(1), 437-445. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2465

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Manera, M, Samushia, L, Tojeiro, R, Howlett, C, Ross, AJ, Percival, WJ, Gil-Marín, H, Brownstein, JR, Burden, A & Montesano, F 2015, 'The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the low-redshift sample', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 447, no. 1, pp. 437-445. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2465

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The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the low-redshift sample

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