What Does Clustering Tell Us About the Buildup of the Red Sequence? (2009)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Wetzel, Andrew R.
We analyze the clustering of red and blue galaxies from four samples spanning a redshift range of 0.4
On the Redshift Evolution of MgII Absorption Systems (2009)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Chen, Hsiao-Wen
We use a halo occupation approach to connect MgII absorbers to dark matter halos as a function of redshift. Using the model constructed in Tinker & Chen (2008), we parameterize the conditional...
The Clustering of MgII Absorption Systems at z=0.5 and Detection of Cold Gas in Massive Halos (2009)
Gauthier, Jean-Rene, Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Tinker, Jeremy L.
We measure the large-scale clustering of Mg II \lambda\lambda 2796,2803 absorbers with respect to a population of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) at z \sim 0.5. From the cross-correlation measurements...
Interpreting the Clustering of Distant Red Galaxies (2009)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Wechsler, Risa H., Zheng, Zheng
We analyze the angular clustering of z~2.3 distant red galaxies (DRGs) measured by Quadri et al 2008. We find that, with robust estimates of the measurement errors and realistic halo occupation...
Extending Recovery of the Primordial Matter Power Spectrum (2008)
Yoo, Jaiyul, Weinberg, David H., Tinker, Jeremy L., Zheng, Zheng, Warren, Michael S.
The shape of the primordial matter power spectrum Plin(k) encodes critical information on cosmological parameters. At large scales, the observable galaxy power spectrum Pobs(k) is expected to follow...
The Void Phenomenon Explained (2008)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Conroy, Charlie
We use high-resolution N-body simulations, combined with a halo occupation model of galaxy bias, to investigate voids in the galaxy distribution. Our goal is to address the 'void phenomenon' of...
Toward a halo mass function for precision cosmology: the limits of universality (2008)
Tinker, Jeremy L, Kravtsov, Andrey V, Klypin, Anatoly, Abazajian, Kevork, Warren, Michael S, Yepes, Gustavo, ...
We measure the mass function of dark matter halos in a large set of collisionless cosmological simulations of flat LCDM cosmology and investigate its evolution at z
The Baryon Content of Dark Matter Halos: Empirical Constraints from MgII Absorbers (2008)
Chen, Hsiao-Wen, Tinker, Jeremy L.
We have initiated a survey of MgII 2796, 2803 absorbers near known galaxies at projected distances rho
The varied fates of z 2 star-forming galaxies (2008)
Conroy, Charlie, Shapley, Alice E., Tinker, Jeremy L., Santos, Michael R., Lemson, Gerard
The Varied Fates of z~2 Star-forming Galaxies (2007)
Conroy, Charlie, Shapley, Alice E., Tinker, Jeremy L., Santos, Michael R., Lemson, Gerard
Star-forming galaxies constitute the majority of galaxies with stellar masses >10^10 M_Sun/h^2 at z~2 and dominate the star-formation rate density of the Universe at this early epoch. It is thus...
On the Halo Occupation of Dark Baryons (2007)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Chen, Hsiao-Wen
We introduce a new technique that adopts the halo occupation framework for understanding the origin of QSO absorption-line systems. Our initial study focuses specifically on MgII absorbers. We...
Tinker, Jeremy L., Conroy, Charlie, Norberg, Peder, Patiri, Santiago G., Weinberg, David H., Warren, Michael S.
We use measurements of the projected galaxy correlation function w_p and galaxy void statistics to test whether the galaxy content of halos of fixed mass is systematically different in low density...
Redshift-Space Distortions with the Halo Occupation Distribution II: Analytic Model (2006)
We present an analytic model for the galaxy two-point correlation function in redshift space. The model is constructed within the framework of the Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD), which quantifies...
On the Luminosity Dependence of the Galaxy Pairwise Velocity Dispersion (2006)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Norberg, Peder, Weinberg, David H., Warren, Michael S.
(Abridged) We make predictions for the pairwise velocity dispersion (PVD) of galaxies with models that are constrained to match the projected correlation function and luminosity function of galaxies...
Cosmic Voids and Galaxy Bias in the Halo Occupation Framework (2006)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Weinberg, David H., Warren, Michael S.
(Abridged) We investigate the power of void statistics to constrain galaxy bias and the amplitude of dark matter fluctuations. We use the halo occupation distribution (HOD) framework to describe the...
From Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing to Cosmological Parameters (2005)
Yoo, Jaiyul, Tinker, Jeremy L., Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Katz, Neal, Davé, Romeel
Galaxy-galaxy lensing measures the mean excess surface density DS(r) around a sample of lensing galaxies. We develop a method for combining DS(r) with the galaxy correlation function xi_gg(r) to...
Redshift-Space Distortions with the Halo Occupation Distribution I: Numerical Simulations (2005)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng
We show how redshift-space distortions of the galaxy correlation function or power spectrum can constrain the matter density parameter Omega_m and the linear matter fluctuation amplitude sigma_8. We...
Constraining cosmology with the Halo occupation distribution (2005)
The bias of galaxies with respect to the underlying matter distribution has long been an obstacle to constraining cosmology from measurements of galaxy clustering. Recent advancements in quantifying...
Constraining cosmology with the Halo occupation distribution (2005)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.
On the Mass-to-Light Ratio of Large Scale Structure (2004)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Zehavi, Idit
We examine the dependence of the mass-to-light (M/L) ratio of large-scale structure on cosmological parameters, in models that are constrained to match observations of the projected galaxy...
The Influence of Triaxial Halos on Collisionless Galactic Disks (2002)
Tinker, Jeremy L., Ryden, Barbara S.
We investigate the effect of rotating, triaxial halos on disk galaxies through an extensive set of numerical N-body simulations. Our simulations use a rigid potential field for the halos and bulges...
Do Distinct Cosmological Models Predict Degenerate Halo Populations? (2002)
Zheng, Zheng, Tinker, Jeremy L., Weinberg, David H., Berlind, Andreas A.
Using cosmological N-body simulations, we investigate the influence of the matter density parameter Omega_m and the linear theory power spectrum P(k) on statistical properties of the dark matter halo...
Constraining cosmology with the Halo occupation distribution
The bias of galaxies with respect to the underlying matter distribution has long been an obstacle to constraining cosmology from measurements of galaxy clustering. Recent advancements in quantifying...