scholarly journals The completed SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: growth rate of structure measurement from anisotropic clustering analysis in configuration space between redshift 0.6 and 1.1 for the emission-line galaxy sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 499 (4) ◽  
pp. 5527-5546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie Tamone ◽  
Anand Raichoor ◽  
Cheng Zhao ◽  
Arnaud de Mattia ◽  
Claudio Gorgoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Correlation Function ◽  
Emission Line ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Linear Growth Rate ◽  
Angular Diameter Distance ◽  
Consensus Values ◽  
Galaxy Sample ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies ◽  
Anisotropic Clustering

ABSTRACT We present the anisotropic clustering of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 16 (DR16). Our sample is composed of 173 736 ELGs covering an area of 1170 deg2 over the redshift range 0.6 ≤ z ≤ 1.1. We use the convolution Lagrangian perturbation theory in addition to the Gaussian streaming redshift space distortions to model the Legendre multipoles of the anisotropic correlation function. We show that the eBOSS ELG correlation function measurement is affected by the contribution of a radial integral constraint that needs to be modelled to avoid biased results. To mitigate the effect from unknown angular systematics, we adopt a modified correlation function estimator that cancels out the angular modes from the clustering. At the effective redshift, zeff = 0.85, including statistical and systematical uncertainties, we measure the linear growth rate of structure fσ8(zeff) = 0.35 ± 0.10, the Hubble distance $D_ H(z_{\rm eff})/r_{\rm drag} = 19.1^{+1.9}_{-2.1}$, and the comoving angular diameter distance DM(zeff)/rdrag = 19.9 ± 1.0. These results are in agreement with the Fourier space analysis, leading to consensus values of: fσ8(zeff) = 0.315 ± 0.095, $D_H(z_{\rm eff})/r_{\rm drag} = 19.6^{+2.2}_{-2.1}$, and DM(zeff)/rdrag = 19.5 ± 1.0, consistent with ΛCDM model predictions with Planck parameters.

scholarly journals The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the luminous red galaxy sample from the anisotropic correlation function between redshifts 0.6 and 1

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (1) ◽  
pp. 736-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian E Bautista ◽  
Romain Paviot ◽  
Mariana Vargas Magaña ◽  
Sylvain de la Torre ◽  
Sebastien Fromenteau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Correlation Function ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Acoustic Oscillation ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Linear Growth Rate ◽  
Angular Diameter Distance ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Galaxy Sample ◽  
Red Galaxies

ABSTRACT We present the cosmological analysis of the configuration-space anisotropic clustering in the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 16 galaxy sample. This sample consists of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) spanning the redshift range 0.6 < $z$ < 1, at an effective redshift of $z$eff  = 0.698. It combines 174 816 eBOSS and 202 642 BOSS LRGs. We extract and model the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and redshift-space distortion (RSD) features from the galaxy two-point correlation function to infer geometrical and dynamical cosmological constraints. The adopted methodology is extensively tested on a set of realistic simulations. The correlations between the inferred parameters from the BAO and full-shape correlation function analyses are estimated. This allows us to derive joint constraints on the three cosmological parameter combinations: DM($z$)/rd, DH($z$)/rd, and fσ8($z$), where DM is the comoving angular diameter distance, DH is the Hubble distance, rd is the comoving BAO scale, f is the linear growth rate of structure, and σ8 is the amplitude of linear matter perturbations. After combining the results with those from the parallel power spectrum analysis of Gil-Marin et al., we obtain the constraints: DM/rd = 17.65 ± 0.30, DH/rd = 19.77 ± 0.47, and fσ8 = 0.473 ± 0.044. These measurements are consistent with a flat Lambda cold dark matter model with standard gravity.

scholarly journals The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from anisotropic clustering analysis of the quasar sample in configuration space between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (1) ◽  
pp. 1201-1221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiamin Hou ◽  
Ariel G Sánchez ◽  
Ashley J Ross ◽  
Alex Smith ◽  
Richard Neveux ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Configuration Space ◽  
Shape Analysis ◽  
Acoustic Oscillation ◽  
Matter Field ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Linear Growth Rate ◽  
Angular Diameter Distance ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Anisotropic Clustering

ABSTRACT We measure the anisotropic clustering of the quasar sample from Data Release 16 (DR16) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). A sample of 343 708 spectroscopically confirmed quasars between redshift 0.8 < z < 2.2 are used as tracers of the underlying dark matter field. In comparison with DR14 sample, the final sample doubles the number of objects as well as the survey area. In this paper, we present the analysis in configuration space by measuring the two-point correlation function and decomposing it using the Legendre polynomials. For the full-shape analysis of the Legendre multipole moments, we measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) distance and the growth rate of the cosmic structure. At an effective redshift of zeff = 1.48, we measure the comoving angular diameter distance DM(zeff)/rdrag = 30.66 ± 0.88, the Hubble distance DH(zeff)/rdrag = 13.11 ± 0.52, and the product of the linear growth rate and the rms linear mass fluctuation on scales of $8 \, h^{-1}\, {\rm Mpc}$, fσ8(zeff) = 0.439 ± 0.048. The accuracy of these measurements is confirmed using an extensive set of mock simulations developed for the quasar sample. The uncertainties on the distance and growth rate measurements have been reduced substantially (∼45 and ∼30 per cent) with respect to the DR14 results. We also perform a BAO-only analysis to cross check the robustness of the methodology of the full-shape analysis. Combining our analysis with the Fourier-space analysis, we arrive at $D^{{\bf c}}_{\rm M}(z_{\rm eff})/r_{\rm drag} = 30.21 \pm 0.79$, $D^{{\bf c}}_{\rm H}(z_{\rm eff})/r_{\rm drag} = 13.23 \pm 0.47$, and $f\sigma _8^{{\bf c}}(z_{\rm eff}) = 0.462 \pm 0.045$.

scholarly journals The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the emission line galaxy sample from the anisotropic power spectrum between redshift 0.6 and 1.1

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnaud de Mattia ◽  
Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider ◽  
Anand Raichoor ◽  
Ashley J Ross ◽  
Amélie Tamone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Power Spectrum ◽  
Emission Line ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Full Data ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Weak Preference ◽  
Galaxy Sample ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies

Abstract We analyse the large-scale clustering in Fourier space of emission line galaxies (ELG) from the Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. The ELG sample contains 173,736 galaxies covering 1,170 square degrees in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 1.1. We perform a BAO measurement from the post-reconstruction power spectrum monopole, and study redshift space distortions (RSD) in the first three even multipoles. Photometric variations yield fluctuations of both the angular and radial survey selection functions. Those are directly inferred from data, imposing integral constraints which we model consistently. The full data set has only a weak preference for a BAO feature (1.4σ). At the effective redshift zeff = 0.845 we measure $D_{\rm V}(z_{\rm eff})/r_{\rm drag} = 18.33_{-0.62}^{+0.57}$, with DV the volume-averaged distance and rdrag the comoving sound horizon at the drag epoch. In combination with the RSD measurement, at zeff = 0.85 we find $f\sigma _8(z_{\rm eff}) = 0.289_{-0.096}^{+0.085}$, with f the growth rate of structure and σ8 the normalisation of the linear power spectrum, $D_{\rm H}(z_{\rm eff})/r_{\rm drag} = 20.0_{-2.2}^{+2.4}$ and DM(zeff)/rdrag = 19.17 ± 0.99 with DH and DM the Hubble and comoving angular distances, respectively. These results are in agreement with those obtained in configuration space, thus allowing a consensus measurement of fσ8(zeff) = 0.315 ± 0.095, $D_{\rm H}(z_{\rm eff})/r_{\rm drag} = 19.6_{-2.1}^{+2.2}$ and DM(zeff)/rdrag = 19.5 ± 1.0. This measurement is consistent with a flat ΛCDM model with Planck parameters.

scholarly journals Spectral classification of emission-line galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2011 ◽  
Vol 531 ◽  
pp. A71 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Marocco ◽  
E. Hache ◽  
F. Lamareille
Keyword(s):  
Emission Line ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Spectral Classification ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies

scholarly journals Quasi-stellar objects acting as potential strong gravitational lenses in the SDSS-III BOSS survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 625 ◽  
pp. A56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romain A. Meyer ◽  
Timothée Delubac ◽  
Jean-Paul Kneib ◽  
Frédéric Courbin
Keyword(s):  
Emission Line ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Emission Lines ◽  
Gravitational Lenses ◽  
Stellar Objects ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Quasi Stellar Objects ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
Algorithmic Search ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies

We present a sample of 12 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) that potentially act as strong gravitational lenses on background emission line galaxies (ELG) or Lyman-α emitters (LAEs) selected through a systematic search of the 297 301 QSOs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III Data Release 12. Candidates were identified by looking for compound spectra, where emission lines at a redshift larger than that of the quasar can be identified in the residuals after a QSO spectral template is subtracted from the observed spectra. The narrow diameter of BOSS fibers (2″) then ensures that the object responsible for the additional emission lines must lie close to the line of sight of the QSO and hence provides a high probability of lensing. Among the 12 candidates identified, nine have definite evidence for the presence of a background ELG identified by at least four higher-redshift nebular emission lines. The remaining three probable candidates present a strong asymmetrical emission line attributed to a background Lyman-α emitter (LAE). The QSO-ELG (QSO-LAE) lens candidates have QSO lens redshifts in the range 0.24 ≲ zQSO ≲ 0.66 (0.75 ≲ zQSO ≲ 1.23 ) and background galaxy redshifts in the range 0.48 ≲ zS, ELG ≲ 0.94 (2.17 ≲ zS, LAE ≲ 4.48). We show that the algorithmic search is complete at > 90% for QSO-ELG systems, whereas it falls at 40−60% for QSO-LAE, depending on the redshift of the source. Upon confirmation of the lensing nature of the systems, this sample may quadruple the number of known QSOs acting as strong lenses. We have determined the completeness of our search, which allows future studies to compute lensing probabilities of galaxies by QSOs and differentiate between different QSO models. Future imaging of the full sample and lens modelling offers a unique approach to study and constrain key properties of QSOs.

scholarly journals MMT Observations of New Extremely Metal‐poor Emission‐Line Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2007 ◽  
Vol 665 (2) ◽  
pp. 1115-1128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri I. Izotov ◽  
Trinh X. Thuan
Keyword(s):  
Emission Line ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies

scholarly journals Validating the methodology for constraining the linear growth rate from clustering anisotropies

2020 ◽  
Vol 494 (2) ◽  
pp. 1658-1674
Author(s):  
Jorge Enrique García-Farieta ◽  
Federico Marulli ◽  
Lauro Moscardini ◽  
Alfonso Veropalumbo ◽  
Rigoberto A Casas-Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Correlation Function ◽  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Linear Growth ◽  
Dispersion Model ◽  
Linear Growth Rate ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Point Correlation ◽  
Point Correlation Function ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT Redshift-space clustering distortions provide one of the most powerful probes to test the gravity theory on the largest cosmological scales. We perform a systematic validation study of the state-of-the-art statistical methods currently used to constrain the linear growth rate from redshift-space distortions in the galaxy two-point correlation function. The numerical pipelines are tested on mock halo catalogues extracted from large N-body simulations of the standard cosmological framework. We consider both the monopole and quadrupole multipole moments of the redshift-space two-point correlation function, as well as the radial and transverse clustering wedges, in the comoving scale range 10 < r[$h^{-1}\, \mbox{Mpc}$] < 55. Moreover, we investigate the impact of redshift measurement errors on the growth rate and linear bias measurements due to the assumptions in the redshift-space distortion model. Considering both the dispersion model and two widely used models based on perturbation theory, we find that the linear growth rate is underestimated by about $5\!-\! 10\, {\rm {per\ cent}}$ at $z$ < 1, while limiting the analysis at larger scales, r > 30 $h^{-1}\, \mbox{Mpc}$, the discrepancy is reduced below $5\, {\rm {per\ cent}}$. At higher redshifts, we find instead an overall good agreement between measurements and model predictions. Though this accuracy is good enough for clustering analyses in current redshift surveys, the models have to be further improved not to introduce significant systematics in RSD constraints from next-generation galaxy surveys. The effect of redshift errors is degenerate with the one of small-scale random motions, and can be marginalized over in the statistical analysis, not introducing any statistically significant bias in the linear growth constraints, especially at $z$ ≥ 1.

scholarly journals Removing imaging systematics from galaxy clustering measurements with Obiwan: application to the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey emission-line galaxy sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 499 (3) ◽  
pp. 3943-3960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Kong ◽  
Kaylan J Burleigh ◽  
Ashley Ross ◽  
John Moustakas ◽  
Chia-Hsun Chuang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emission Line ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Selection Function ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Galaxy Sample ◽  
Systematic Biases ◽  
Redshift Survey ◽  
Emission Line Galaxies

ABSTRACT This work presents the application of a new tool, Obiwan, which uses image simulations to determine the selection function of a galaxy redshift survey and calculate three-dimensional (3D) clustering statistics. Obiwan relies on a forward model of the process by which images of the night sky are transformed into a 3D large-scale structure catalogue, and offers several advantages over more traditional map-based techniques – such as operating on individual exposures and adopting a maximum likelihood approach. The photometric pipeline automatically detects and models galaxies and then generates a catalogue of such galaxies with detailed information for each one of them, including their location, redshift, and so on. Systematic biases in the imaging data are therefore imparted into the catalogues and must be accounted for in any scientific analysis of their information content. Obiwan simulates this process for samples selected from the Legacy Surveys imaging data. This imaging data will be used to select target samples for the next-generation Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) experiment. Here, we apply Obiwan to a portion of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey emission-line galaxies (ELGs). Systematic biases in the data are clearly identified and removed. We compare the 3D clustering results to those obtained by the map-based approach applied to the complete eBOSS Data Release 16 (DR16) sample. We find the results are consistent, thereby validating the eBOSS DR16 ELG catalogues, which is used to obtain cosmological results.

scholarly journals Baryon acoustic oscillations at z = 2.34 from the correlations of Lyα absorption in eBOSS DR14

2019 ◽  
Vol 629 ◽  
pp. A85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria de Sainte Agathe ◽  
Christophe Balland ◽  
Hélion du Mas des Bourboux ◽  
Nicolás G. Busca ◽  
Michael Blomqvist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Function ◽  
Cross Correlation ◽  
Companion Paper ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
Angular Diameter Distance ◽  
Quasar Spectra ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations ◽  
First Time

We measure the imprint of primordial baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) in the correlation function of Lyα absorption in quasar spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and the extended BOSS (eBOSS) in Data Release 14 (DR14) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-IV. In addition to 179 965 spectra with absorption in the Lyman-α (Lyα) region, we use Lyα absorption in the Lyman-β region of 56 154 spectra for the first time. We measure the Hubble distance, DH, and the comoving angular diameter distance, DM, relative to the sound horizon at the drag epoch rd at an effective redshift z = 2.34. Using a physical model of the correlation function outside the BAO peak, we find DH(2.34)/rd = 8.86 ± 0.29 and DM(2.34)/rd = 37.41 ± 1.86, within 1σ from the flat-ΛCDM model consistent with CMB anisotropy measurements. With the addition of polynomial “broadband” terms, the results remain within one standard deviation of the CMB-inspired model. Combined with the quasar-Lyα cross-correlation measurement presented in a companion paper, the BAO measurements at z = 2.35 are within 1.7σ of the predictions of this model.

scholarly journals The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey DR16 luminous red galaxy and emission-line galaxy samples: cosmic distance and structure growth measurements using multiple tracers in configuration space

2020 ◽  
Vol 498 (3) ◽  
pp. 3470-3483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuting Wang ◽  
Gong-Bo Zhao ◽  
Cheng Zhao ◽  
Oliver H E Philcox ◽  
Shadab Alam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emission Line ◽  
Configuration Space ◽  
Cross Correlation ◽  
Acoustic Oscillation ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Joint Measurement ◽  
Angular Diameter Distance ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Space Distortion ◽  
Line Galaxy

ABSTRACT We perform a multitracer analysis using the complete Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) DR16 luminous red galaxy (LRG) and the DR16 emission-line galaxy (ELG) samples in the configuration space, and successfully detect a cross-correlation between the two samples, and find the growth rate to be fσ8=0.342 ± 0.085 (∼25 per cent accuracy) from the cross-sample alone. We perform a joint measurement of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) and redshift space distortion (RSD) parameters at a single effective redshift of zeff = 0.77, using the autocorrelation and cross-correlation functions of the LRG and ELG samples, and find that the comoving angular diameter distance DM(zeff)/rd = 18.85 ± 0.38, the Hubble distance DH(zeff)/rd = 19.64 ± 0.57, and fσ8(zeff) = 0.432 ± 0.038, which is consistent with a ΛCDM model at $68{\ \rm per\ cent}$ CL. Compared to the single-tracer analysis on the LRG sample, the Figure of Merit of α⊥, α∥, andfσ8 is improved by a factor of 1.11 in our multitracer analysis, and in particular, the statistical uncertainty of fσ8 is reduced by $11.6{\ \rm per\ cent}$.

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