Constraining the baryon-dark matter relative velocity with the large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies
Abstract
We search for a galaxy clustering bias due to a modulation of galaxy number with the baryon-dark matter relative velocity resulting from recombination-era physics. We find no detected signal and place the constraint bv <0.01 on the relative velocity bias for the CMASS galaxies. This bias is an important potential systematic of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) method measurements of the cosmic distance scale using the 2-point clustering. Our limit on the relative velocity bias indicates a systematic shift of no more than 0.3% rms in the distance scale inferred from the BAO feature in the BOSS 2-point clustering, well below the 1% statistical error of this measurement. In conclusion, this constraint is the most stringent currently available and has important implications for the ability of upcoming large-scale structure surveys such as DESI to self-protect against the relative velocity as a possible systematic.
- Authors:
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- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
- Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
- Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France); Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam (Germany)
- Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
- Sejong Univ., Seoul (Korea)
- Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
- Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF); UK Science and Technology Facilities Research Council; UK Space Agency; European Research Council (ERC); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1324263
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-112474-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711; KA2301020
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; SC0013718; DGE-1144152; ST/N00180X/1
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 474; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
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Slepian, Zachary, Slosar, Anze, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blazek, Jonathan A., Brownstein, Joel R., Gil-Martin, Hector, Chia -Hsun Chuang, Ho, Shirley, Kitaura, Francisco -Shu, McEwen, Joseph E., Percival, Will J., Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Seo, Hee -Jong, and Vargas-Magana, Mariana. Constraining the baryon-dark matter relative velocity with the large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2723.
Slepian, Zachary, Slosar, Anze, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blazek, Jonathan A., Brownstein, Joel R., Gil-Martin, Hector, Chia -Hsun Chuang, Ho, Shirley, Kitaura, Francisco -Shu, McEwen, Joseph E., Percival, Will J., Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Seo, Hee -Jong, & Vargas-Magana, Mariana. Constraining the baryon-dark matter relative velocity with the large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2723
Slepian, Zachary, Slosar, Anze, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blazek, Jonathan A., Brownstein, Joel R., Gil-Martin, Hector, Chia -Hsun Chuang, Ho, Shirley, Kitaura, Francisco -Shu, McEwen, Joseph E., Percival, Will J., Ross, Ashley J., Rossi, Graziano, Seo, Hee -Jong, and Vargas-Magana, Mariana. Tue .
"Constraining the baryon-dark matter relative velocity with the large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2723. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1324263.
@article{osti_1324263,
title = {Constraining the baryon-dark matter relative velocity with the large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies},
author = {Slepian, Zachary and Slosar, Anze and Eisenstein, Daniel J. and Blazek, Jonathan A. and Brownstein, Joel R. and Gil-Martin, Hector and Chia -Hsun Chuang and Ho, Shirley and Kitaura, Francisco -Shu and McEwen, Joseph E. and Percival, Will J. and Ross, Ashley J. and Rossi, Graziano and Seo, Hee -Jong and Vargas-Magana, Mariana},
abstractNote = {We search for a galaxy clustering bias due to a modulation of galaxy number with the baryon-dark matter relative velocity resulting from recombination-era physics. We find no detected signal and place the constraint bv <0.01 on the relative velocity bias for the CMASS galaxies. This bias is an important potential systematic of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) method measurements of the cosmic distance scale using the 2-point clustering. Our limit on the relative velocity bias indicates a systematic shift of no more than 0.3% rms in the distance scale inferred from the BAO feature in the BOSS 2-point clustering, well below the 1% statistical error of this measurement. In conclusion, this constraint is the most stringent currently available and has important implications for the ability of upcoming large-scale structure surveys such as DESI to self-protect against the relative velocity as a possible systematic.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stx2723},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 2,
volume = 474,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Oct 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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