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mocks
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``${DESI_ROOT}/survey/catalogs/RELEASE/mocks`` hosts the large-scale structure (LSS) mock catalogs used to validate analyses and estimate covariance matrices for both dark and bright tracers.

More details can be found in `DESI 2024 II (2025)`_

.. _DESI 2024 II (2025): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2025/07/017

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   EZmock : 1000 low-resolution realizations used to estimate covariance matrices. <EZmock/index>
   AbacusSummit : 25 high-resolution N-body simulation realizations for validation, divided into dark and bright programs, followed by the internal version <AbacusSummit/index>