Title: Linear systematics mitigation in galaxy clustering in the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Data

Abstract

ABSTRACT We implement a linear model for mitigating the effect of observing conditions and other sources of contamination in galaxy clustering analyses. Our treatment improves upon the fiducial systematics treatment of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1) cosmology analysis in four crucial ways. Specifically, our treatment (1) does not require decisions as to which observable systematics are significant and which are not, allowing for the possibility of multiple maps adding coherently to give rise to significant bias even if no single map leads to a significant bias by itself, (2) characterizes both the statistical and systematic uncertainty in our mitigation procedure, allowing us to propagate said uncertainties into the reported cosmological constraints, (3) explicitly exploits the full spatial structure of the galaxy density field to differentiate between cosmology-sourced and systematics-sourced fluctuations within the galaxy density field, and (4) is fully automated, and can therefore be trivially applied to any data set. The updated correlation function for the DES Y1 redMaGiC catalogue minimally impacts the cosmological posteriors from that analysis. Encouragingly, our analysis does improve the goodness-of-fit statistic of the DES Y1 3 × 2pt data set (Δχ2 = −6.5 with no additional parameters). This improvement is due in nearly equal partsmore » to both the change in the correlation function and the added statistical and systematic uncertainties associated with our method. We expect the difference in mitigation techniques to become more important in future work as the size of cosmological data sets grows.« less

Authors:

Wagoner, Erika L.  ^[1];

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Rozo, Eduardo ^[1]; Fang, Xiao  ^[2];

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Crocce, Martín  ^[3];

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Elvin-Poole, Jack ^[4]; Weaverdyck, Noah  ^[5];

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DES Collaboration) ^[6]

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1. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, 1118 E. Fourth Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
2. Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, 933 N Cherry Ave, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA
3. Institut de Ciénces de l’Espai, IEEC-CSIC, Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
4. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
5. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA, Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, 450 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040, USA
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Publication Date:

Wed Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2021

Research Org.:

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

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

Contributing Org.:

DES Collaboration

OSTI Identifier:

1774983

Alternate Identifier(s):

OSTI ID: 1693448

Report Number(s):

FERMILAB-PUB-20-480-AE; DES-2020-0563; arXiv:2009.10854
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711

Grant/Contract Number:  

SC0015975; AC02-07CH11359

Resource Type:

Published Article

Journal Name:

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Volume: 503 Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Country of Publication:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Subject:

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; methods: data analysis; cosmology: observations; galaxies: photometry; dark energy; methods: statistical