Clustering with general photo-z uncertainties: application to Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
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UAM. Departamento de Física TeóricaPublisher
Royal Astronomical Society; Oxford University PressDate
2022-02-10Citation
10.1093/mnras/stac340
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 511.3 (2022): 3965–3982
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0035-8711 (print); 1365-2966 (online)DOI
10.1093/mnras/stac340Project
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https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac340Subjects
Cosmology: Observations; (Cosmology:) Large-Scale Structure of Universe; FísicaNote
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© 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical SocietyAbstract
Photometric data can be analysed using the 3D correlation function ξp to extract cosmological information via e.g. measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Previous studies modeled ξp assuming a Gaussian photo-z approximation. In this work we improve the modeling by incorporating realistic photo-z distribution. We show that the position of the BAO scale in ξp is determined by the photo-z distribution and the Jacobian of the transformation. The latter diverges at the transverse scale of the separation s⊥, and it explains why ξp traces the underlying correlation function at s⊥, rather than s, when the photo-z uncertainty σz/(1+ z) ≳ 0.02. We also obtain the Gaussian covariance for ξp. Due to photo-z mixing, the covariance of ξp shows strong off-diagonal elements. The high correlation of the data causes some issues to the data fitting. None the less, we find that either it can be solved by suppressing the largest eigenvalues of the covariance or it is not directly related to the BAO. We test our BAO fitting pipeline using a set of mock catalogs. The data set is dedicated for Dark Energy Survey Year 3 (DES Y3) BAO analyses and includes realistic photo-z distributions. The theory template is in good agreement with mock measurement. Based on the DES Y3 mocks, ξp statistic is forecast to constrain the BAO shift parameter α to be 1.001 ± 0.023, which is well consistent with the corresponding constraint derived from the angular correlation function measurements. Thus, ξp offers a competitive alternative for the photometric data analyses
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Google Scholar:Chuen Chan, Kwan
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Ferrero, Ismael
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Ávila, Santiago
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Ross, Ashley J.
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Crocce, Martín
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Gaztañaga, Enrique
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