CLUSTERING OF SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY III PHOTOMETRIC LUMINOUS GALAXIES: THE MEASUREMENT, SYSTEMATICS, AND COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

We present a study of galaxy clustering using 900,000 luminous galaxies with photometric redshifts, spanning between z = 0.45 and z = 0.65, constructed from the SDSS using methods described in Ross et al. We describe in detail the construction of the survey window function and various systematics af...

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Published in:The Astrophysical journal 2012-12, Vol.761 (1), p.1-24
Main Authors: HO, Shirley, CUESTA, Antonio, SELJAK, Uros, HERNANDEZ-MONTEAGUDO, Carlos, SANCHEZ, Ariel G, PERCIVAL, Will J, BLANTON, Michael, SKIBBA, Ramin, SCHNEIDER, Don, REID, Beth, MENA, Olga, VIEL, Matteo, SEO, Hee-Jong, EISENSTEIN, Daniel J, PRADA, Francisco, WEAVER, Benjamin A, BAHCALL, Neta, BIZYAEV, Dimitry, BREWINTON, Howard, BRINKMAN, Jon, DA COSTA, Luiz Nicolaci, GOTT, John R, MALANUSHENKO, Elena, DE PUTTER, Roland, MALANUSHENKO, Viktor, NICHOL, Bob, ORAVETZ, Daniel, KAIKE PAN, PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE, Nathalie, P ROSS, Nicholas, SIMMONS, Audrey, DE SIMONI, Fernando, SNEDDEN, Stephanie, YECHE, Christophe, ROSS, Ashley J, WHITE, Martin, PADMANABHAN, Nikhil, SAITO, Shun, SCHLEGEL, David J, SCHLAFLY, Eddie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ANISOTROPY
Astronomy
ASTROPHYSICS
ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
BARYONS
CAMERAS
CEPHEIDS
Clustering
Construction
CORRECTIONS
COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS
COSMOLOGY
DISTANCE
Earth, ocean, space
ENERGY SPECTRA
Exact sciences and technology
GALAXIES
GALAXY CLUSTERS
MASS
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
OSCILLATIONS
Photometry
Power spectra
PROBES
RED SHIFT
RELICT RADIATION
Sky surveys (astronomy)
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Summary:We present a study of galaxy clustering using 900,000 luminous galaxies with photometric redshifts, spanning between z = 0.45 and z = 0.65, constructed from the SDSS using methods described in Ross et al. We describe in detail the construction of the survey window function and various systematics affecting our measurement. We present a novel treatment of the observational systematics and its applications to the clustering signals from the data set. We also apply corrections to the power spectra due to systematics and derive cosmological constraints using the full shape of the power spectra. We also find that systematic-corrected power spectra give consistent constraints on cosmological models when compared with pre-systematic correction power spectra in the angular scales of interest.
ISSN:0004-637X
1538-4357
DOI:10.1088/0004-637x/761/1/14