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The DESI One-Percent Survey: Constructing Galaxy-Halo Connections for ELGs and LRGs Using Auto and Cross Correlations

Jiaxi Yu
2023
Journal paper
Abstract

In the current Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, emission line galaxies (ELGs) and luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are essential for mapping the dark matter distribution at < N(M)>. We measure the auto and cross correlation functions of ELGs and LRGs at 10(8.0) M-circle dot from the DESI One-Percent survey. Following Gao et al., we construct the galaxy-halo connections for ELGs and LRGs simultaneously. With the stellar-halo mass relation for the whole galaxy population (i.e., normal galaxies), LRGs can be selected directly by stellar mass, while ELGs can also be selected randomly based on the observed number density of each stellar mass, once the probability z similar to 0.2 of a satellite galaxy becoming an ELG is determined. We demonstrate that the observed small scale clustering prefers a halo mass-dependent z similar to 0.2 model rather than a constant. With this model, we can well reproduce the auto correlations of LRGs and the cross correlations between LRGs and ELGs at z similar to 0.7 z similar to 1. We can also reproduce the auto correlations of ELGs at deg(2) z similar to 1 (0.6 < z < 1.6 z similar to 1) in real (redshift) space. Although our model has only seven parameters, we show that it can be extended to higher redshifts and reproduces the observed auto correlations of ELGs in the whole range of similar to 10(12) M-circle dot, which enables us to generate a lightcone ELG mock for DESI. With the above model, we further derive halo occupation distributions for ELGs, which can be used to produce ELG mocks in coarse simulations without resolving subhalos.

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