The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation
  Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the BOSS Final Data Release
  We reproduce the galaxy clustering catalogue from the SDSS-III Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Final Data Release (BOSS DR11&DR12) with high
fidelity on all relevant scales in order to allow a robust analysis of baryon
acoustic oscillations and redshift space distortions. We have generated (6,000)
12,288 MultiDark PATCHY BOSS (DR11) DR12 light-cones corresponding to an
effective volume of $\sim192,000\,[h^{-1}\,{\rm Gpc}]^3$ (the largest ever
simulated volume), including cosmic evolution in the redshift range from 0.15
to 0.75. The mocks have been calibrated using a reference galaxy catalogue
based on the halo abundance matching modelling of the BOSS DR11&DR12 galaxy
clustering data and on the data themselves. The production follows three steps.
First, we apply the PATCHY code to generate a dark matter field and an object
distribution including nonlinear stochastic galaxy bias. Secondly, we run the
halo/stellar distribution reconstruction HADRON code to assign masses to the
various objects. This step uses the mass distribution as a function of local
density and non-local indicators (i.e., tidal field tensor eigenvalues and
relative halo exclusion separation for massive objects) from the reference
simulation applied to the corresponding PATCHY dark matter and galaxy
distribution. Finally, we apply the SUGAR code to build the light cones. The
resulting MultiDark PATCHY mock light cones reproduce the number density,
selection function, survey geometry, and in general within 1 $\sigma$, for
arbitrary stellar mass bins, the power spectrum up to $k=0.3\,h\,{\rm
Mpc}^{-1}$, the two-point correlation functions down to a few Mpc scales, and
the three-point statistics of the BOSS DR11&DR12 galaxy samples.
