Dark energy survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15312, USA
- Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), UTIAS, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
- Department of Astronomy, University of California, 501 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
- Département de Physique Théorique and Center for Astroparticle Physics, Université de Genève, 24 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
- Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany;Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany;Universitäts-Sternwarte, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr 1, D-81679 München, Germany
- Department of Physics, Duke University Durham, NC 27708, USA
- Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK
- Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
- Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP - 05314-970, Brazil;Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
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- Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
- CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014 Paris, France;Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, F-75014 Paris, France
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Beyond ΛCDM, physics or systematic errors may cause subsets of a cosmological data set to appear inconsistent when analysed assuming ΛCDM. Here, we present an application of internal consistency tests to measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) joint probes analysis. Our analysis relies on computing the posterior predictive distribution (PPD) for these data under the assumption of ΛCDM. We find that the DES Y1 data have an acceptable goodness of fit to ΛCDM, with a probability of finding a worse fit by random chance of p = 0.046. Using numerical PPD tests, supplemented by graphical checks, we show that most of the data vector appears completely consistent with expectations, although we observe a small tension between large- and small-scale measurements. A small part (roughly 1.5 per cent) of the data vector shows an unusually large departure from expectations; excluding this part of the data has negligible impact on cosmological constraints, but does significantly improve the p-value to 0.10. The methodology developed here will be applied to test the consistency of DES Year 3 joint probes data sets.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); MICINN; European Research Council (ERC); e Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- Contributing Organization:
- DES Collaboration
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-07CH11359; AC02-06CH11357; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-76SF00515; AST-1138766; AST-1536171; ESP2017-89838; PGC2018-094773; PGC2018-102021; SEV-2016-0588; SEV-2016-0597; MDM-2015-0509; 240672; 291329; 306478; 465376/2014-2; SC0019193
- OSTI ID:
- 1764074
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1812015; OSTI ID: 1814287; OSTI ID: 1834615; OSTI ID: 1872529
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-20-547-AE; arXiv:2011.03410; oai:inspirehep.net:1828837; TRN: US2206138
- Journal Information:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 503, Issue 2; ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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