TY - RPRT TI - Optical galaxy cluster mock catalogs with realistic projection effects: Validations with the SDSS clusters AU - Lee, Andy [Boise State University, ID (United States); The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (United States)] AU - Wu, Hao-Yi [Boise State University, ID (United States); Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (United States)] (ORCID:0000000279041707) AU - Salcedo, Andrés N. [University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)] AU - Sunayama, Tomomi [University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)] AU - Costanzi, Matteo [Università di Trieste (Italy); INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (Italy); IFPU—Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Trieste (Italy)] (ORCID:0000000181581449) AU - Myles, Justin [Princeton University, NJ (United States)] AU - Cao, Shulei [Boise State University, ID (United States); Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (United States)] (ORCID:0000000324217071) AU - Rozo, Eduardo [University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)] (ORCID:0000000216666275) AU - To, Chun-Hao [The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (United States); University of Chicago, IL (United States)] AU - Weinberg, David H. [The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (United States)] AU - Yang, Lei [Boise State University, ID (United States); Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (United States)] (ORCID:0000000182970868) AU - Zhou, Conghao [University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)] (ORCID:0000000228976326) PY - 2025 DO - 10.1103/physrevd.111.063502 UR - https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3009902 ID - 3009902 ER -