Bibcode
Kitaura, F.-S.; Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Zhao, Cheng; Prada, Francisco; Gil-Marín, Héctor; Guo, Hong; Yepes, Gustavo; Klypin, Anatoly; Scóccola, C. G.; Tinker, Jeremy; McBride, Cameron; Reid, Beth; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador; Grieb, Jan Niklas; Vargas-Magana, Mariana; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Neyrinck, Mark; Beutler, Florian; Comparat, Johan; Percival, Will J.; Ross, Ashley
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 456, Issue 4, p.4156-4173
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2016
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271
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241
Description
We reproduce the galaxy clustering catalogue from the SDSS-III Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Final Data Release (BOSS DR11&DR12)
with high fidelity on all relevant scales in order to allow a robust
analysis of baryon acoustic oscillations and redshift space distortions.
We have generated (6000) 12 288 MultiDark PATCHY BOSS (DR11) DR12 light
cones corresponding to an effective volume of ˜192 000
[h-1 Gpc]3 (the largest ever simulated volume),
including cosmic evolution in the redshift range from 0.15 to 0.75. The
mocks have been calibrated using a reference galaxy catalogue based on
the halo abundance matching modelling of the BOSS DR11&DR12 galaxy
clustering data and on the data themselves. The production follows three
steps. First, we apply the PATCHY code to generate a dark matter field
and an object distribution including non-linear stochastic galaxy bias.
Secondly, we run the halo/stellar distribution reconstruction HADRON
code to assign masses to the various objects. This step uses the mass
distribution as a function of local density and non-local indicators
(i.e. tidal field tensor eigenvalues and relative halo exclusion
separation for massive objects) from the reference simulation applied to
the corresponding patchy dark matter and galaxy distribution. Finally,
we apply the SUGAR code to build the light cones. The resulting
MultiDarkPATCHY mock light cones reproduce the number density, selection
function, survey geometry, and in general within 1σ, for arbitrary
stellar mass bins, the power spectrum up to k = 0.3 h Mpc-1,
the two-point correlation functions down to a few Mpc scales, and the
three-point statistics of the BOSS DR11&DR12 galaxy samples.