ELUCID -- Exploring the Local Universe with the reConstructed Initial Density field. II: Reconstruction diagnostics, applied to numerical halo catalogs

Understand

The ELUCID project aims to build a series of realistic cosmological simulations that reproduce the spatial and mass distribution of the galaxies as observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS).

• This requires powerful reconstruction techniques to create constrained initial conditions.
• We test the reconstruction method by applying it to several $N$-body simulations.
• We use 2 medium resolution simulations from each of which three additional constrained $N$-body simulations were produced.