The SLICS (Scinet LIghtCone Simulations) are primarily designed to support cosmological analyses
based on combined probes involving weak gravitational lensing observations.

The simulation suite consists of more than 800 independent N-body simulations ran with CUBEP3M,
each post-processed into 100 sq.deg. light-cones, for which a number of observables are available.
These include mock weak lensing galaxy catalogues, spectroscopic galaxy surveys catalogues and
lensing maps reconstructed from the cosmological microwave background.

The different data products are described in detail in Paper 1 and Paper 2.

In addition to the data products described therein,
we also make available the mass maps, shear maps and dark matter halo catalogues upon request,
as well as some two-point function measurements such as dark matter power spectra,
cosmic shear power spectra and correlation functions, projected clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements.

README files are included in the download directory of each of these simulation products
and contain essential information about format and recommended usage.

References

Published papers are also a good place to find further information and validation tests,
as well as inspiration for diverse applications of this cosmological tool.
Here is a list of key papers that were enabled by the SLICS:


Linke et al (2022)
arXiv:2212.04485
"A roadmap to cosmological parameter analysis with third-order shear statistics II: Analytic covariance estimate"


Wu et al (2022)
arXiv:2211.15160
"Reducing the Impact of Weak-lensing Errors on Gravitational-wave Standard Sirens"


Balaguera-Antolınez et al (2022)
arXiv:2211.10640
"DESI Mock Challenge VII: halo and galaxy catalogs with the Bias Assignment Method"


Heydenreich et al (2022)
arXiv:2208.11686
"A roadmap to cosmological parameter analysis with third-order shear statistics I: Modelling and validation"


Davies et al (2022)
2022MNRAS:513.4729
"Cosmological forecasts with the clustering of weak lensing peaks"


Burger et al (2022)
arXiv:2208.02171
"KiDS-1000 Cosmology: Constraints from density split statistics"


Schneider et al (2022)
2022A&A.664.77
"Pure-mode correlation functions for cosmic shear and application to KiDS-1000"


Heydenreich et al (2022)
MNRAS accepted
"Persistent homology in cosmic shear II: A tomographic analysis of DES-Y1"


Harnois-Deraps et al (2022)
2022MNRAS.509.3868
"Cosmic shear beyond 2-point statistics: Accounting for galaxy intrinsic alignment with projected tidal fields"


Burger et al (2022)
2022A&A.661.137
"A revised density split statistic model for general filters"


Harnois-Deraps et al (2021)
2021MNRAS.506.1623
"Cosmic shear cosmology beyond two-point statistics: a combined peak count and correlation function analysis of DES-Y1"


Porth & Smith (2021)
2021MNRAS.508.3474
"Fast estimation of aperture mass statistics II: Detectability of higher order statistics in current and future surveys"


Davies et al (2021)
2021MNRAS.507.2267
"Constraining cosmology with weak lensing voids"


Martinet et al (2021b)
2021A&A...648A.115
"Impact of baryons in cosmic shear analyses with tomographic aperture mass statistics"


Martinet et al (2021a)
2021A&A...646A.62
"Probing dark energy with tomographic weak-lensing aperture mass statistics"


Heydenriech et al (2021)
2021A&A...648A..74
"Persistent homology in cosmic shear: constraining parameters with topological data analysis"


Upham et al (2021)
2021MNRAS.503.1999
"Sufficiency of a Gaussian power spectrum likelihood for accurate cosmology from upcoming weak lensing surveys"


Burger et al (2020)
2020A&A...642A.161
"An adapted filter function for density split statistics in weak lensing"


Louca and Sellentin (2020)
2020OJAp....3E..11
"The impact of signal-to-noise, redshift, and angular range on the bias of weak lensing 2-point functions"


Lin et al (2020)
2020MNRAS.499.2977
"Non-Gaussianity in the weak lensing correlation function likelihood - implications for cosmological parameter biases"


Xia et al (2020)
2020A&A...633A..894
"A gravitational lensing detection of filamentary structures connecting luminous red galaxies"


Hall and Taylor (2019)
2019MNRAS.483..189
"A Bayesian method for combining theoretical and simulated covariance matrices for large-scale structure surveys"


Troester et al (2019)
2019MNRAS.487L..24
"Painting with baryons: augmenting N-body simulations with gas using deep generative models"


Asgari et al (2019)
2019A&A...624A.134
"Consistent cosmic shear in the face of systematics: a B-mode analysis of KiDS-450, DES-SV and CFHTLenS"


JHD et al (2018, Paper 2)
2018MNRAS.481.1337
"Cosmological Simulations for Combined-Probe Analyses: Covariance and Neighbour-Exclusion Bias"


Giblin et al (2018)
2018MNRAS.480.5529
"KiDS-450: enhancing cosmic shear with clipping transformations"


Brouwer et al (2018)
2018MNRAS.481.5189
"Studying galaxy troughs and ridges using Weak Gravitational Lensing with the Kilo-Degree Survey"


Sellentin, Heymans & JHD (2018)
2018MNRAS.477.4879
"The skewed weak lensing likelihood: why biases arise, despite data and theory being sound."


Martinet et al (2018)
2018MNRAS.474..712
"KiDS-450: cosmological constraints from weak-lensing peak statistics - II: Inference from shear peaks using N-body simulations"


Joudaki et al (2018)
2018MNRAS.474.4894
"KiDS-450 + 2dFLenS: Cosmological parameter constraints from weak gravitational lensing tomography and overlapping redshift-space galaxy clustering"


van Uitert et al (2018)
2018MNRAS.476.4662
"KiDS+GAMA: cosmology constraints from a joint analysis of cosmic shear, galaxy-galaxy lensing, and angular clustering"


Amon et al (2018)
2018MNRAS.479.3422
"KiDS+2dFLenS+GAMA: Testing the cosmological model with the E_G statistic"


Troester et al (2017)
2017MNRAS.467.2706
"Cross-correlation of weak lensing and gamma rays: implications for the nature of dark matter"


Hildebrandt et al (2017)
2017MNRAS.465.1454
"KiDS-450: cosmological parameter constraints from tomographic weak gravitational lensing"


Johnson et al (2017)
2017MNRAS.465.4118
"2dFLenS and KiDS: determining source redshift distributions with cross-correlations"


Joudaki et al (2017)
2017MNRAS.465.2033
"CFHTLenS revisited: assessing concordance with Planck including astrophysical systematics"


Asgari et al (2017)
2017MNRAS.464.1676
"Revisiting CFHTLenS cosmic shear: optimal E/B mode decomposition using COSEBIs and compressed COSEBIs"


Hildebrandt et al (2016)
2016MNRAS.463..635
"RCSLenS: The Red Cluster Sequence Lensing Survey"


Blake et al (2016)
2016MNRAS.462.4240
"The 2-degree Field Lensing Survey: design and clustering measurements"


JHD et al (2016)
2016MNRAS.460..434
"CFHTLenS and RCSLenS cross-correlation with Planck lensing detected in fourier and configuration space"


Buddendiek et al (2016)
2016MNRAS.456.3886
"RCSLenS: a new estimator for large-scale galaxy-matter correlations"


Blake et al (2016)
2016MNRAS.456.2806
"RCSLenS: testing gravitational physics through the cross-correlation of weak lensing and large-scale structure"


JHD et al (2015)
2015MNRAS.454.2722
"Testing modified gravity with cosmic shear"


JHD et al (2015)
2015MNRAS.450.1212
"Baryons, neutrinos, feedback and weak gravitational lensing"


JHD & van Waerbeke (2015, Paper 1)
2015MNRAS.450.2857
"Simulations of weak gravitational lensing - II. Including finite support effects in cosmic shear covariance matrices"