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- W7877961 abstract "We present a method for constructing end-to-end mock galaxy catalogues using a semi-analytical model of galaxy formation, applied to the halo merger trees extracted from a cosmological N-body simulation. These mocks are lightcone catalogues, which incorporate the evolution of galaxy properties with cosmic time. Interpolation is used to determine the epoch at which a galaxy will appear in the past lightcone of the observer. We discuss several applications of mock catalogues. Firstly, we consider the effectiveness of the BzK colour selection technique. The mock catalogue predictions are in reasonable agreement with the observed number counts of BzK galaxies. We predict that over 75 per cent of the model galaxies with K≤23, and redshift 1.4<z<2.5, are selected by the BzK technique. Interloper galaxies, outside the target redshift range, are predicted to dominate bright samples of BzK galaxies (i.e. with K≤21). Fainter K-band cuts are necessary to reduce the predicted interloper fraction. Secondly, we use a mock catalogue to calibrate a galaxy group-finding algorithm, via an objective method based upon the recovery of the distributions of several, easily measurable group properties. We find that it is extremely difficult to determine unique values for the linking lengths by minimising the χ^2 statistic for individual properties, and that it is necessary to combine χ^2 for more than one group property to reduce the parameter space. However, based upon our calibration, we conclude that the optimal linking lengths depend upon the multiplicity of the groups and the group property that one wishes to recover. For our final application, we use a lightcone catalogue to estimate the cosmology-independent angular correlation function, ω(θ), for samples of galaxies, selected in bins of apparent magnitude, in a thin redshift slice comparable to the size of photometric redshift errors. We compare our estimates of ω(θ) with the GALFORM predictions of the 3-dimensional real-space and redshift-space correlation functions. The amplitude of the real-space and redshift-space correlation functions display a trend with increasing luminosity. However, this trend is less clear in ω(θ) due to noisy estimates for the brightest two apparent magnitudes bins." @default.
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- W7877961 title "Mock galaxy catalogues and their application to future galaxy surveys" @default.
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