Galaxy and some other Mock Catalogues available online

EAGLE simulations

• galaxy and halo catalogues in cosmological hydronamical simulations (enhanced GADGET), volues 25-100 Mpc/h per side.
• Release paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01320>, McAlpine et al, 2016

• LSST-DESC
  The LSST DESC catalog and simulated sky survey from the DESC Data Challenge 2 (DC2) based on the HACC Outer Rim simulation are here:
  https://lsstdesc-portal.nersc.gov/
  • Korytov et al, ApJS 2019 for the sky catalog
  • Abolfathi et al, ApJS 2021 Abolfathi et al, ApJS 2021 for the simulated sky survey
  • Abolfathi et al (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04855) for the DC2 data release note
  • The validation framework is described in Mao et al ApJS 2018
  • The validation paper is 9Kovacs et al 2021
• Data products are publicly available from HACC simulations. The main site is: https://cosmology.alcf.anl.gov/
  Results are available from a subset of the Mira-Titan simulation suite (subset of 11 cosmologies out of 110+), and the Outer Rim, QContinuum, Last Journey, and Farpoint simulations. The associated papers are:
  • Habib et al, New Astron 2016 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016NewA...42...49H/abstract) for HACC
  • Heitmann et al, ApJ 2016 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...820..108H/abstract) for the Mira-Titan Universe
  • Heitmann et al ApJS 2019 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJS..244...17H/abstract) is the data release paper
  • Heitmann et al ApJS 2019 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019ApJS..245...16H/abstract) for Outer Rim
  • Heitmann et al ApJS 2019 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJS..219...34H/abstract) for QContinuum
  • Heitmann et al ApJS 2021 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJS..252...19H/abstract) for Last Journey
  • Frontiere et al 2021 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210901956F/abstract) for Farpoint
• A set of large-volume mocks that were done a while ago from a HACC run and are available here: https://www.hep.anl.gov/cosmology/mock.html
  The associated paper is Sunayama et al JCAP 2016 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016JCAP...05..051S/abstract)
• Full-sky simulated SZ maps are here: https://www.hep.anl.gov/cosmology/ksz.html
  They were based on the Mira-Tita Universe runs.
  The associated paper is Flender et al ApJ 2016 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...823...98F/abstract)

Illustris project, including TNG

• need to get account
• TNG:
  • The first, TNG100, is a "re-do" of Illustris, using the same initial conditions and with the new TNG model for galaxy formation physics. TNG300 (~300 Mpc) is the large-volume, with ~20x more objects in any given mass range (including ~300 clusters above 10^14). Please find more information here:
  • data http://www.tng-project.org/data/
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.05609, TNG release paper
• First release:
  • At illustris-project.org
  • Gas and Dark matter, and Dark matter only, AREPO code, WMAP9 cosmology, 106.5 Mpc side boxes with different resolution.
  • properties of gas (per cell), dark matter particles, wind/stars particles, tracers, black holes, galaxies (with sunrise, stellar images, 13 redshifts), morphologies, stellar mass histories, black hole histories, etc, see list here.
  • release papers: Vogelsberger et al, 2014 and Genel et al, 2014.

JWST Extragalactic mock

• Paper describing mock (arxiv.org/abs.1802.05272)
• 11'x11' Mock, z = 0.2 - 15.0, log(M*) = 6 - 12
• RA,DEC, redshift, stellar mass, MUV, beta, sfr, specific sfr, flux in HST filters, axis ratio, sersic index, semi-major half-light radius, etc

Magneticum Pathfinder

• Not clear how public it is.
• Boxes in a wide range of sizes (2688, 896, 640 ,352, 128, 48, 18 Mpc/h), with hydro, different resolutions.
• also some reference dark matter runs
• Galaxies, SZ, Xray

MICE

• Dark matter halos, light cones.
• Refs: P.Fosalba, E.Gaztanaga, F.Castander, M.Manera. MNRAS 391, 435 (2008) M.Crocce, P.Fosalba, F.Castander, E.Gaztanaga. MNRAS 403, 1353 (2010)
• served at cosmohub.pic.es which has observational and simulated data

Millennium Database

• To get to full database, need to get account
• Several different semi-analytic models grafted onto DM simulations
  • 62.5,100,100,500,500,521,104³ (Mpc/h)³ boxes with different cosmologies; 521 and 104 boxes are with most recent Planck cosmologies
  • models here
  • models include halo/galaxy merger trees and rich list of galaxy properties, depending on particular model choice (includes intrinsic properties such as halo spin, central/sat, etc and observables including sdss bands, dust, plus many other things)
  • Recent detailed models include L Galaxies model

QPM mocks

• The mockFactory is a collection of public code to help create mock galaxy catalogs for BOSS (and other surveys). This includes populating simulation halo catalogs (galaxy bias) and adding survey realism. Data at NERSC and generally available.

Quijote

• 43100 full N-body simulations spanning more than 7000 cosmological models in the {Omega_m,Omega_b,h,ns,sigma_8,M_nu,w} hyperplane
• At a single redshift the simulations contain more than 8.5 trillions of particles over a combined volume of 43100 (Gpc/h)³
• Billions of dark matter halos and cosmic voids have been identified in the simulations
• Release of the Petabyte of data generated, comprising hundreds of thousands of simulation snapshots at multiple redshifts, halo and void catalogs, together with millions of summary statistics such as power spectra, bispectra, correlation functions, marked power spectra, and estimated probability density functions.

SIDES (Simulated Infrared Dusty Extragalactic Sky)

• This is a simulation of the extragalactic sky including clustering based on empirical prescriptions. The method used to build this simulated catalog is described in Bethermin, Wu, Lagache, et al. , (sub. to A&A). Please refer to this paper if you use this catalog.
• Based on Bolshoi (DM, in below), lightcone 1.4deg x 1.4deg from 0 < z < 10, comoving volume of 0.17 Gpc³
• Includes ra, dec, mhalo, mstar, sfr, magnification from lensing, and what is found in a wide range of various filters for each halo.
• info (readme) is here

Skies and Universes

• Home for many simulations: GLAM, MultiDark, Bolshoi, and guest simulations.
• Release paper at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01453.

SLICS (Scinet LIghtCone Simulations)

• >800 independent N-body simulations ran with CUBEP3M, each post-processed into 100 sq.deg. light-cones. Many observables available including:
  • mock weak lensing galaxy catalogues
  • spectroscopic galaxy surveys catalogues
  • lensing maps reconstructed from the cosmological microwave background.
  • Also available on request: mass maps, shear maps and dark matter halo catalogues, as well as some two-point correlation function measurements such as P(k,z=0), xi+/-, C_ell^kappa, w(theta), Delta(Sigma).
• https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04511

21SSD: a public database of simulated 21-cm signals from the epoch of reionization

• The 21cm Simulated Signal Database is a publicly available repository of 21cm signal lightcones produced with a number of large radiative-hydrodynamics simulations.
• The simulations are described in 21SSD: a public database of simulated 21-cm signals from the epoch of reionization, Semelin, Eames, Bolgar and Caillat, 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02073.

WebCMB

• Mocks of nside=2048 of CIB (in MJy/sr) intensity, Compton-y, CMB lensing convergence, and lensed and unlensed CMB temperature, all from the same 8192^3 16 Gpc simulation. The minimum halo mass used was 2.62e13 M200,M.
• Higher resolution maps and different frequencies are available upon request.