Breaking halo occupation degeneracies with marked statistics
Abstract
We show that a suitably defined marked correlation function can be used to break degeneracies in halo-occupation distribution modelling. The statistic can be computed on both three-dimensional and two-dimensional data sets and should be applicable to all upcoming galaxy surveys. A proof of principle, using mock catalogues created from N-body simulations, is given.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 2009
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0812.4288
- Bibcode:
- 2009MNRAS.395.2381W
- Keywords:
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- large-scale structure of Universe;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures, minor revisions to match version accepted by MNRAS