Terms of Use

These galaxy mock catalogs are licensed under:
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License

For proper attribution, we ask:

1. Any use must credit the LasDamas project and cite the SDSS mock galaxy paper which is currently in preparation
   McBride et al. 2009, in prep.
2. If used in a publication, inform us about your work before submission

By downloading the mocks, you implicitly agree to these terms.

Downloading Directions

Mocks will always be available from this root directory:
http://lss.phy.vanderbilt.edu/lasdamas/mocks/

Individual releases and samples are organized into sub-directories, and are easily obtained en masse using utilities such as wget or curl.

# Example wget commands 
# pull down all gamma mocks into current directory along with any .txt files
wget -r -nd -np -A 'txt,dat.gz'  http://lss.phy.vanderbilt.edu/lasdamas/mocks/gamma/
#
# only get 'ns' versions of gamma/main20 mocks
wget -r -nd -np -A 'ns.rdcz.dat.gz'  http://lss.phy.vanderbilt.edu/lasdamas/mocks/gamma/main20

Gamma Release (March 2009)

http://lss.phy.vanderbilt.edu/lasdamas/mocks/gamma/
For details, please see the gamma release description.

Bundled tarballs are available for each of the five samples in two versions:

1. “North + South” (denoted ‘ns’)
2. “North Only " (denoted ‘no’)

Some random catalogs that use the same footprint are at:
http://lss.phy.vanderbilt.edu/lasdamas/mocks/gamma/randoms

Beta Release (Dec 2008)

http://lss.phy.vanderbilt.edu/lasdamas/mocks/beta/
For details, please see the beta release description.

Bundled tarballs:

• All 82 Main Mr < -21 mock galaxy catalogs: 113 MB tar.gz
• All 30 Main Mr < -20 mock galaxy catalogs: 58 MB tar.gz

Some random catalogs that use the same footprint are at:
http://lss.phy.vanderbilt.edu/lasdamas/mocks/beta/randoms