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#       HALOGEN Y1-BAO DES mock catalogues     	#
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			        by Santiago Avila
		     santiagoavilaperez@gmail.com



#      	** WHAT are they? **


These products are part of the science-release of the Dark Energy Survey Year-1 data. 
Here you can find 1800 mock catalogues reproducing the following properties if the DES Y1-BAO sample:

	- Angular footprint
	- Redshift distributions and redshift uncertainties
	- Abundance of galaxies
	- Clustering amplitude as a function of redshift

For details, see Avila et al. 2018, MNRAS, 479, p.94 (arXiv:1712.06232)


#  * Please, if you make use of these mocks for a publication, acknowledge it by citing the above publication. *


We also include a random catalogue that contains unclustered objects sampling the same footprint and redshift distribution with 20 times as many objects as the average of the mock catalogues.  



#     	** WHAT do they contain? **

You will find:

	- 18 tar.gz files with 100 mocks each. To unpack, follow this example:
tar -zxvf 0to99.tar.gz

  	- 1 random catalogue.


Each mock contains 6 columns: 
	(1) RA.  Right Ascension in degrees. 
	(2) DEC. Declination in degrees
	(3) zph. Photometric redshift
	(4) L.   A proxy for luminosity in arbitrary units 
	(5) zsp. True redshift including contribution from peculiar velocities, 
	(6) Mh.	 Halo mass in Msun/h units. 
	(7) if central: number of satellies; if satellite: -1

For most purposses one would only need (1), (2), (3) and possibly (5). For details, refer to Avila et al. 2018.

The random catalogue "randoms_for_mocks.dat" contains three colums: 
	(1) RA.  Right Ascension in degrees.
        (2) DEC. Declination in degrees
        (3) zph. Photometric redshift


#     	** HOW to download them? **

If you want to use the Europe-based server, you can get them by typing: 

	wget ftp://honda.ift.uam-csic.es/../randoms_for_mocks.dat

	wget ftp://honda.ift.uam-csic.es/../mock_catalogues/0to99.tar.gz
	wget ftp://honda.ift.uam-csic.es/../mock_catalogues/100to199.tar.gz
		...
	wget ftp://honda.ift.uam-csic.es/../mock_catalogues/1700to1799.tar.gz