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A modular simulator of CMASS-NGC galaxy clustering
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Implement better HOD prior fitting #33

Open maho3 opened 6 months ago

maho3 commented 6 months ago

We are currently using SimBIG-like wide HOD priors. However, there are lot of unphysical prior regions, affecting our sampling efficiency. We can be smarter about how we constrain these HOD priors.

Things to look into:

Also, it is unclear whether we need to take into account HOD redshift dependence. Things to consider:

maho3 commented 2 months ago

From Chirag:

So this is the code that evaluates the mean of the 2 mass dependent HOD priors given a halo catalog, mean \nbar and fiducial values of other HOD parameters https://github.com/modichirag/contrastive_cosmology/blob/main/src/hodtools.py#L9 This function then samples the prior to generate HOD values https://github.com/modichirag/contrastive_cosmology/blob/main/src/hodtools.py#L54 These are used in this file https://github.com/modichirag/contrastive_cosmology/blob/main/scripts/hod_scripts/make_hod.py#L103 and line 117.