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Diagnosing satellite-profile systematics in simplified DESI LRG HOD models using public Abacus full-box mocks.

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Τίτλος: Diagnosing satellite-profile systematics in simplified DESI LRG HOD models using public Abacus full-box mocks.
Συγγραφείς: Kang, Dong-Biao1 (AUTHOR)
Πηγή: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Sep2026, Vol. 551 Issue 3, p1-5. 5p.
Περίληψη: LRG HOD analyses infer satellite fraction and velocity bias using high-fidelity mocks, but simplified public-box analyses can reveal which observables drive these parameters. Using the public AbacusSummit base simulation at z = 0.8 ⁠ , a compact halo/subhalo-like candidate catalogue, and a DESI DR1 LRG clustering vector over 0.6 < z < 0.8 ⁠ , we fit exact-number-density SHAM-like and minimal-HOD samples to w p + ξ 0 + ξ 2 ⁠. The baseline minimal-HOD grid favours a low satellite fraction, f s a t = 0.04 ⁠ , with α s = 1.1 ⁠ , while observable splits show that this preference is driven mainly by small-scale w p ⁠ , not by the full vector uniformly. A phenomenological radial-dilution stress test improves the diagnostic score from χ h e u r 2 = 282.6 to 222.3 ⁠ , but direct radial diagnostics show that q = 4.0 moves 0.723 of satellites beyond an estimated R 200 m ⁠ , so it is not a physical profile model. An occupation-control test varying the satellite host-mass power shifts the selected host masses but leaves the median satellite radius nearly unchanged, and an NFW remapping gives only modest improvement. The low- f s a t preference should therefore not be interpreted as a physical low satellite fraction without matched occupation freedom, profile freedom, selection and covariance. This is not a replacement for full DESI AbacusHOD inference, but a diagnostic study of satellite-profile systematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Βάση Δεδομένων: Academic Search Index
Περιγραφή
ISSN:00358711
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stag1588