Accelerated calibration of semi-analytic galaxy formation models - Galacticus Catalogues

Overview Galacticus catalogues that were generated for the paper "Accelerated calibration of semi-analytic galaxy formation models". The associated GitHub repository contains scripts that generate the figures in the paper, some of which require this data. Note that files associated with running the MCMCs (configuration files, the resulting MCMC chains, etc.) are not included here, but are instead in the GitHub repository. If interested in rerunning similar or related models with Galacticus, you can find both the explicit version of Galactcicus (with a git hash) and the Galacticus parameters used in the catalogue hdf5 files. The information about the Galacticus version is stored in the Version group, with attributes such as gitHash. The parameters group contains the Galacticus model choices and parameter values used. Note that the Galacticus code has a script that can be used to extract these parameter values into a parameter file that can be read by Galacticus. So to re-run the Galacticus run that produced galacticusCatalog.hdf5 one could do: $GALACTICUS_EXEC_PATH/scripts/parameters/parametersExtract.py galacticusCatalog.hdf5 galacticusParameterFile.xml $GALACTICUS_EXEC_PATH/galacticus.exe galacticusParameterFile.xml which would first create the parameter file galacticusParameterFile.xml, and then use this parameter file to run Galacticus. Data Description What each catalogue corresponds to is probably most easily understood by inspecting the associated GitHub repository, which shows which files are used by which plotting scripts. In brief, there are two directories Low-z and Low-z_High-z_Sizes. The first of these used Galacticus parameters that were calibrated only to the low-z stellar-to-halo-mass relation (SHMR), while the latter used Galacticus parameters calibrated to both low and high redshift SHMRs, as well as low-redshift galaxy sizes. Within each of these directories there are then maximumPosterior runs (that use the MAP parameters from the associated MCMC chains) and posteriorDraws runs, that use random draws from the MCMC chains. There are additional runs that are slight variations on these: Low-z_High-z_Sizes/maximumPosterior/sobralComparison: a re-run of Low-z_High-z_Sizes/maximumPosterior with the calculation of emission lines for comparison with the observed luminosity functions Low-z_High-z_Sizes/maximumPosterior/vanDerWelComparison: a re-run of Low-z_High-z_Sizes/maximumPosterior with the additional information on star formation rate stored to allow galaxies to be classified as active or quiescent Low-z/maximumPosterior_matchSingleLikelihood: similar to Low-z/maximumPosterior, but using a single output time at z=0.29 to match what is done for the likelihood evaluations used in the MCMC