Pursuing Dark Energy with Large Galaxy Redshift Surveys: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Beyond (Final Technical Report)

Eisenstein, Daniel James

doi:10.2172/1845377

Pursuing Dark Energy with Large Galaxy Redshift Surveys: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Beyond (Final Technical Report)

Technical Report · 04 May 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1845377· OSTI ID:1845377

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Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

We have developed and applied methods of large-scale structure from galaxy redshift surveys to the study of dark energy. This program supported my group's development of the baryon acoustic method and our participation in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. In addition to my leadership role in the DESI collaboration, my group at Harvard focused on several topics addressing key needs of the DESI science program. 1) We continued our design, validation, and documentation of DESI target selection of the luminous red galaxy and emission-line galaxy samples. 2) We applied simulations from our novel and extremely fast N-body code to make DESI catalogs. With these, we will search for possible systematic shifts in the acoustic scale due to clustering bias with an unprecedented volume of simulations. 3) We extended our method for the fast construction of covariance matrices for correlation functions. 4) We developed new large-scale structure methods, including density-field reconstruction and three-point function analysis.

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Research Organization:: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

DOE Contract Number:: SC0013718

OSTI ID:: 1845377

Report Number(s):: DOE-Harvard-0013718; TRN: US2302861

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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Tests of acoustic scale shifts in halo-based mock galaxy catalogues Duan, Yutong; Eisenstein, Daniel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 490, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2578	journal	September 2019
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Validation of emission-line galaxies target selection algorithms for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument using the MMT Binospec Karim, Tanveer; Lee, Jae H.; Eisenstein, Daniel J. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 497, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2270	journal	August 2020
Constraining the baryon–dark matter relative velocity with the large-scale three-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies Slepian, Zachary; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Blazek, Jonathan A. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 474, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2723	journal	October 2017
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An iterative reconstruction of cosmological initial density fields Hada, Ryuichiro; Eisenstein, Daniel J. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 478, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1203	journal	May 2018
Quantifying the colour-dependent stochasticity of large-scale structure Patej, Anna; Eisenstein, Daniel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 460, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw635	journal	March 2016
Good and proper: self-similarity of N -body simulations with proper force softening Garrison, Lehman H.; Joyce, Michael; Eisenstein, Daniel J. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 504, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1096	journal	April 2021
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Testing dark matter halo properties using self-similarity Leroy, M.; Garrison, L.; Eisenstein, D. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 501, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3435	journal	November 2020
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Quantifying resolution in cosmological N- body simulations using self-similarity Joyce, Michael; Garrison, Lehman; Eisenstein, Daniel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 501, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3434	journal	November 2020
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Extensions to models of the galaxy–halo connection Hadzhiyska, Boryana; Bose, Sownak; Eisenstein, Daniel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 501, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3776	journal	December 2020
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