The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Luminous Red Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects with AbacusSummit

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Title: The DESI One-Percent Survey: Exploring the Halo Occupation Distribution of Luminous Red Galaxies and Quasi-Stellar Objects with AbacusSummit
Authors: Yuan, Sihan, Zhang, Hanyu, Ross, Ashley J., Donald-McCann, Jamie, Hadzhiyska, Boryana, Wechsler, Risa H., Zheng, Zheng, Alam, Shadab, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Bianchi, Davide, Brooks, David, de la Macorra, Axel, Fanning, Kevin, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Honscheid, Klaus, Ishak, Mustapha, Kehoe, Robert, Lasker, James, Landriau, Martin, Manera, Marc, Martini, Paul, Meisner, Aaron, Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Nadathur, Seshadri, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nie, Jundan, Percival, Will, Poppett, Claire, Rocher, Antoine, Rossi, Graziano, Sanchez, Eusebio, Samushia, Lado, Schubnell, Michael, Seo, Hee-Jong, Tarle, Gregory, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Yu, Jiaxi, Zhou, Zhimin, Zou, Hu
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
More Details: We present the first comprehensive Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) analysis of the DESI One-Percent survey Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO) samples. We constrain the HOD of each sample and test possible HOD extensions by fitting the redshift-space galaxy 2-point correlation functions in 0.15 < r < 32 Mpc/h in a set of fiducial redshift bins. We use AbacusSummit cubic boxes at Planck 2018 cosmology as model templates and forward model galaxy clustering with the AbacusHOD package. We achieve good fits with a standard HOD model with velocity bias, and we find no evidence for galaxy assembly bias or satellite profile modulation at the current level of statistical uncertainty. For LRGs in 0.4 < z < 0.6, we infer a satellite fraction of fsat = 11+-1%, a mean halo mass of log10 Mh = 13.40+0.02-0.02, and a linear bias of blin = 1.93+0.06-0.04. For LRGs in 0.6 < z < 0.8, we find fsat = 14+-1%, log10 Mh = 13.24+0.02-0.02, and blin = 2.08+0.03-0.03. For QSOs, we infer fsat = 3+8-2%, log10 Mh = 12.65+0.09-0.04, and blin = 2.63+0.37-0.26 in redshift range 0.8 < z < 2.1. Using these fits, we generate a large suite of high-fidelity galaxy mocks. We also study the redshift-evolution of the DESI LRG sample from z = 0.4 up to z = 1.1, revealing significant and interesting trends in mean halo mass, linear bias, and satellite fraction.
Comment: Submitted to MNRAS, comments welcome
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06314
Accession Number: edsarx.2306.06314
Database: arXiv
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