The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey : mock galaxy catalogues for the low-redshift sample
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.
Citation
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 , vol. 447 , no. 1 , pp. 437-445 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2465
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0035-8711Type
Journal article
Rights
Copyright 2014 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Description
MM and WJP acknowledge support from European Research Council, through grant ‘MDEPUGS’.Collections
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