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Title: Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples

Abstract

In this work, we present the galaxy clustering measurements of the two DES lens galaxy samples: a magnitude-limited sample optimized for the measurement of cosmological parameters, maglim, and a sample of luminous red galaxies selected with the redmagic algorithm. maglim/redmagic sample contains over 10 million/2.5 million galaxies and is divided into six/five photometric redshift bins spanning the range z ϵ [0.20, 1.05]/z ϵ [0.15, 0.90]. Both samples cover 4143 $$\deg ^2$$ over which we perform our analysis blind, measuring the angular correlation function with an S/N ~ 63 for both samples. In a companion paper, these measurements of galaxy clustering are combined with the correlation functions of cosmic shear and galaxy–galaxy lensing of each sample to place cosmological constraints with a 3 × 2pt analysis. We conduct a thorough study of the mitigation of systematic effects caused by the spatially varying survey properties and we correct the measurements to remove artificial clustering signals. We employ several decontamination methods with different configurations to ensure the robustness of our corrections and to determine the systematic uncertainty that needs to be considered for the final cosmology analyses. Finally, we validate our fiducial methodology using lognormal mocks, showing that our decontamination procedure induces biases no greater than 0.5σ in the (Ωm, b) plane, where b is the galaxy bias.

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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Org.:
DES Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1845160
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1824180; OSTI ID: 1870811; OSTI ID: 1890306; OSTI ID: 1906919; OSTI ID: 1958528; OSTI ID: 1976145
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-=21-255-AE; arXiv:2105.13540
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; AC02-76SF00515; AC05-00OR22725; SC0010118; AC02-05CH11231; SC0019193
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: 511 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; cosmological parameters; cosmology: observations; dark energy; large-scale structure of the Universe

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Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Weaverdyck, N., Elvin-Poole, J., Crocce, M., Carnero Rosell, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Cawthon, R., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Friedrich, O., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., MacCrann, N., Mena-Fernández, J., Muir, J., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Sanchez Cid, D., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Tabbutt, M., To, C., Wagoner, E. L., Wechsler, R. H., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Amon, A., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Plazas Malagón, A. A., Roodman, A., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Varga, T. N., and DES Collaboration). Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples. United Kingdom: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac104.
Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Weaverdyck, N., Elvin-Poole, J., Crocce, M., Carnero Rosell, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Cawthon, R., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Friedrich, O., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., MacCrann, N., Mena-Fernández, J., Muir, J., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Sanchez Cid, D., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Tabbutt, M., To, C., Wagoner, E. L., Wechsler, R. H., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Amon, A., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Plazas Malagón, A. A., Roodman, A., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Varga, T. N., & DES Collaboration). Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac104
Rodríguez-Monroy, M., Weaverdyck, N., Elvin-Poole, J., Crocce, M., Carnero Rosell, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Avila, S., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, G. M., Blazek, J., Camacho, H., Cawthon, R., De Vicente, J., DeRose, J., Dodelson, S., Everett, S., Fang, X., Ferrero, I., Ferté, A., Friedrich, O., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruendl, R. A., Hartley, W. G., Herner, K., Huff, E. M., Jarvis, M., Krause, E., MacCrann, N., Mena-Fernández, J., Muir, J., Pandey, S., Park, Y., Porredon, A., Prat, J., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Sanchez Cid, D., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Tabbutt, M., To, C., Wagoner, E. L., Wechsler, R. H., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Amon, A., Annis, J., Bacon, D., Baxter, E., Bertin, E., Bhargava, S., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., da Costa, L. N., Pereira, M. E. S., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., Huterer, D., Jain, B., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Lima, M., Maia, M. A. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Morgan, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchón, F., Pieres, A., Plazas Malagón, A. A., Roodman, A., Scarpine, V., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Varga, T. N., and DES Collaboration). Fri . "Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: galaxy clustering and systematics treatment for lens galaxy samples". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac104.
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abstractNote = {In this work, we present the galaxy clustering measurements of the two DES lens galaxy samples: a magnitude-limited sample optimized for the measurement of cosmological parameters, maglim, and a sample of luminous red galaxies selected with the redmagic algorithm. maglim/redmagic sample contains over 10 million/2.5 million galaxies and is divided into six/five photometric redshift bins spanning the range z ϵ [0.20, 1.05]/z ϵ [0.15, 0.90]. Both samples cover 4143 $\deg ^2$ over which we perform our analysis blind, measuring the angular correlation function with an S/N ~ 63 for both samples. In a companion paper, these measurements of galaxy clustering are combined with the correlation functions of cosmic shear and galaxy–galaxy lensing of each sample to place cosmological constraints with a 3 × 2pt analysis. We conduct a thorough study of the mitigation of systematic effects caused by the spatially varying survey properties and we correct the measurements to remove artificial clustering signals. We employ several decontamination methods with different configurations to ensure the robustness of our corrections and to determine the systematic uncertainty that needs to be considered for the final cosmology analyses. Finally, we validate our fiducial methodology using lognormal mocks, showing that our decontamination procedure induces biases no greater than 0.5σ in the (Ωm, b) plane, where b is the galaxy bias.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/stac104},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 2,
volume = 511,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Fri Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2022},
month = {Fri Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2022}
}

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Mapping and Simulating Systematics due to Spatially Varying Observing Conditions in des Science Verification data
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Mitigating systematic errors in angular correlation function measurements from wide field surveys
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Analytic marginalization over CMB calibration and beam uncertainty
journal, October 2002


Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes
journal, August 2018


Bias and variance of angular correlation functions
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A unified pseudo- C ℓ framework
journal, January 2019

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Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
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The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: observational systematics and baryon acoustic oscillations in the correlation function
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The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale structure catalogues for cosmological analysis
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redMaGiC: selecting luminous red galaxies from the DES Science Verification data
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First Measurement of the Clustering Evolution of Photometrically Classified Quasars
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