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1. Mitigating the noise of DESI mocks using analytic control variates

Author: Boryana Hadzhiyska, Martin J. White, Xinyi Chen, Lehman H. Garrison, Joseph DeRose, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Cristhian Garcia-Quintero, Juan Mena-Fernández, Shi-Fan Chen, Hee-Jong Seo, Patrick McDonald, Jessica Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Ramon Miquel, Jundan Nie, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, and Zhimin Zhou
Subjects: Astronomy, QB1-991, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: In order to address fundamental questions related to the expansion history of the Universe and its primordial nature with the next generation of galaxy experiments, we need to model reliably large-scale structure observables such as the correlation function and the power spectrum. Cosmological $N$-body simulations provide a reference through which we can test our models, but their output suffers from sample variance on large scales. Fortunately, this is the regime where accurate analytic approximations exist. To reduce the variance, which is key to making optimal use of these simulations, we can leverage the accuracy and precision of such analytic descriptions using Control Variates (CV). The power of control variates stems from utilizing inexpensive but highly correlated surrogates of the statistics one wishes to measure. The stronger the correlation between the surrogate and the statistic of interest, the larger the variance reduction delivered by the method. We apply two control variate formulations to mock catalogs generated in anticipation of upcoming data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) to test the robustness of its analysis pipeline. Our CV-reduced measurements, of the power spectrum and correlation function, both pre- and post-reconstruction, offer a factor of 5-10 improvement in the measurement error compared with the raw measurements from the DESI mock catalogs. We explore the relevant properties of the galaxy samples that dictate this reduction and comment on the improvements we find on some of the derived quantities relevant to Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) analysis. We also provide an optimized package for computing the power spectra and other two-point statistics of an arbitrary galaxy catalog as well as a pipeline for obtaining CV-reduced measurements on any of the \textsc{AbacusSummit} cubic box outputs. We make our scripts, notebooks, and benchmark tests against existing software publicly available and report a speed improvement of a factor of $\sim$ 10 for a grid size of $N_{\rm mesh} = 256^3$ compared with \texttt{nbodykit}.
Published: 2023
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2. Measuring the Conditional Luminosity and Stellar Mass Functions of Galaxies by Combining the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9, Survey Validation 3, and Year 1 Data

Author: Yirong Wang, Xiaohu Yang, Yizhou Gu, Xiaoju Xu, Haojie Xu, Yuyu Wang, Antonios Katsianis, Jiaxin Han, Min He, Yunliang Zheng, Qingyang Li, Yaru Wang, Wensheng Hong, Jiaqi Wang, Zhenlin Tan, Hu Zou, Johannes Ulf Lange, ChangHoon Hahn, Peter Behroozi, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Shaun Cole, Axel de la Macorra, Biprateep Dey, Peter Doel, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Andrew Lambert, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, and Zhimin Zhou
Subjects: Dark matter, Large-scale structure of the universe, Galaxies, Galaxy groups, Galaxy dark matter halos, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: In this investigation, we leverage the combination of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 9, Survey Validation 3, and Year 1 data sets to estimate the conditional luminosity functions and conditional stellar mass functions (CLFs and CSMFs) of galaxies across various halo mass bins and redshift ranges. To support our analysis, we utilize a realistic DESI mock galaxy redshift survey (MGRS) generated from a high-resolution Jiutian simulation. An extended halo-based group finder is applied to both MGRS catalogs and DESI observation. By comparing the r - and z -band luminosity functions (LFs) and stellar mass functions (SMFs) derived using both photometric and spectroscopic data, we quantified the impact of photometric redshift (photo- z ) errors on the galaxy LFs and SMFs, especially in the low-redshift bin at the low-luminosity/mass end. By conducting prior evaluations of the group finder using MGRS, we successfully obtain a set of CLF and CSMF measurements from observational data. We find that at low redshift, the faint-end slopes of CLFs and CSMFs below ∼10 ^9 h ^−2 L _⊙ (or h ^−2 M _⊙ ) evince a compelling concordance with the subhalo mass functions. After correcting the cosmic variance effect of our local Universe following Chen et al., the faint-end slopes of the LFs/SMFs turn out to also be in good agreement with the slope of the halo mass function.
Published: 2024
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3. The Optical Corrector for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Author: Timothy N. Miller, Peter Doel, Gaston Gutierrez, Robert Besuner, David Brooks, Giuseppe Gallo, Henry Heetderks, Patrick Jelinsky, Stephen M. Kent, Michael Lampton, Michael E. Levi, Ming Liang, Aaron Meisner, Michael J. Sholl, Joseph Harry Silber, David Sprayberry, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Axel de la Macorra, Daniel Eisenstein, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Jorge Jimenez, Dick Joyce, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Laurent Le Guillou, Christophe Magneville, Paul Martini, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Will Percival, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Graziano Rossi, David Schlegel, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, Ray Sharples, Gregory Tarlé, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Zhimin Zhou, and the DESI Collaboration
Subjects: Dark energy, Astronomical instrumentation, Optical telescopes, Wide-field telescopes, Lenses, Prime focus, Astronomy, QB1-991
Abstract: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is currently measuring the spectra of 40 million galaxies and quasars, the largest such survey ever made to probe the nature of cosmological dark energy. The 4 m Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory has been adapted for DESI, including the construction of a 3.°2 diameter prime focus corrector that focuses astronomical light onto a 0.8 m diameter focal surface with excellent image quality over the DESI bandpass of 360–980 nm. The wide-field corrector includes six lenses, as large as 1.1 m in diameter and as heavy as 237 kilograms, including two counterrotating wedged lenses that correct for atmospheric dispersion over zenith angles from 0° to 60°. The lenses, cells, and barrel assembly all meet precise alignment tolerances on the order of tens of microns. The barrel alignment is maintained throughout a range of observing angles and temperature excursions in the Mayall dome by use of a hexapod, which is itself supported by a new cage, ring, and truss structure. In this paper we describe the design, fabrication, and performance of the new corrector and associated structure, focusing on how they meet DESI requirements. In particular, we describe the prescription and specifications of the lenses, design choices and error budgeting of the barrel assembly, stray light mitigations, and integration and test at the Mayall telescope. We conclude with some validation highlights that demonstrate the successful corrector on-sky performance, and we list some lessons learned during the multiyear fabrication phase.
Published: 2024
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4. Constraints on the Spacetime Variation of the Fine-structure Constant Using DESI Emission-line Galaxies

Author: Linhua Jiang, Zhiwei Pan, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Robert Blum, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Axel de la Macorra, Arjun Dey, Peter Doel, Kevin Fanning, Simone Ferraro, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Gaston Gutierrez, Klaus Honscheid, Stephanie Juneau, Martin Landriau, Laurent Le Guillou, Michael Levi, Marc Manera, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Eva-Maria Mueller, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Adam Myers, Jundan Nie, Gustavo Niz, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, Edward Schlafly, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, David Sprayberry, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Hu Zou, and The DESI Collaboration
Subjects: Emission line galaxies, Galaxy spectroscopy, Interdisciplinary astronomy, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We present strong constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant α using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). In this pilot work, we utilize ∼110,000 galaxies with strong and narrow [O iii ] λ λ 4959, 5007 emission lines to measure the relative variation Δ α / α in space and time. The [O iii ] doublet is arguably the best choice for this purpose owing to its wide wavelength separation between the two lines and its strong emission in many galaxies. Our galaxy sample spans a redshift range of 0 < z < 0.95, covering half of all cosmic time. We divide the sample into subsamples in 10 redshift bins (Δ z = 0.1), and calculate Δ α / α for the individual subsamples. The uncertainties of the measured Δ α / α are roughly between 2 × 10 ^−6 and 2 × 10 ^−5 . We find an apparent α variation with redshift at a level of Δ α / α = (2–3) × 10 ^−5 . This is highly likely to be caused by systematics associated with wavelength calibration, since such small systematics can be caused by a wavelength distortion of 0.002–0.003 Å, which is beyond the accuracy that the current DESI data can achieve. We refine the wavelength calibration using sky lines for a small fraction of the galaxies, but this does not change our main results. We further probe the spatial variation of α in small redshift ranges, and do not find obvious, large-scale structures in the spatial distribution of Δ α / α . As DESI is ongoing, we will include more galaxies, and by improving the wavelength calibration, we expect to obtain a better constraint that is comparable to the strongest current constraint.
Published: 2024
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5. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Key Results

Author: Yue Shen, Catherine J. Grier, Keith Horne, Zachary Stone, Jennifer I. Li, Qian Yang, Yasaman Homayouni, Jonathan R. Trump, Scott F. Anderson, W. N. Brandt, Patrick B. Hall, Luis C. Ho, Linhua Jiang, Patrick Petitjean, Donald P. Schneider, Charling Tao, Fergus. R. Donnan, Yusra AlSayyad, Matthew A. Bershady, Michael R. Blanton, Dmitry Bizyaev, Kevin Bundy, Yuguang Chen, Megan C. Davis, Kyle Dawson, Xiaohui Fan, Jenny E. Greene, Hannes Gröller, Yucheng Guo, Héctor Ibarra-Medel, Yuanzhe Jiang, Ryan P. Keenan, Juna A. Kollmeier, Cassandra Lejoly, Zefeng Li, Axel de la Macorra, Maxwell Moe, Jundan Nie, Graziano Rossi, Paul S. Smith, Wei Leong Tee, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Jiachuan Xu, Minghao Yue, Xu Zhou, Zhimin Zhou, and Hu Zou
Subjects: Reverberation mapping, Surveys, Quasars, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We present the final data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Reverberation Mapping (RM) project, a precursor to the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper RM program. This data set includes 11 yr photometric and 7 yr spectroscopic light curves for 849 broad-line quasars over a redshift range of 0.1 < z < 4.5 and a luminosity range of L _bol = 10 ^44−47.5 erg s ^−1 , along with spectral and variability measurements. We report 23, 81, 125, and 110 RM lags (relative to optical continuum variability) for broad H α , H β , Mg ii , and C iv using the SDSS-RM sample, spanning much of the luminosity and redshift ranges of the sample. Using 30 low-redshift RM active galactic nuclei with dynamical-modeling black hole masses, we derive a new estimate of the average virial factor of $\left\langle \mathrm{log}f\right\rangle =0.62\pm 0.07$ for the line dispersion measured from the rms spectrum. The intrinsic scatter of individual virial factors is 0.31 ± 0.07 dex, indicating a factor of 2 systematic uncertainty in RM black hole masses. Our lag measurements reveal significant R – L relations for H β and Mg ii at high redshift, consistent with the latest measurements based on heterogeneous samples. While we are unable to robustly constrain the slope of the R – L relation for C iv given the limited dynamic range in luminosity, we found substantially larger scatter in C iv lags at fixed L _1350 . Using the SDSS-RM lag sample, we derive improved single-epoch (SE) mass recipes for H β , Mg ii , and C iv , which are consistent with their respective RM masses as well as between the SE recipes from two different lines, over the luminosity range probed by our sample. The new H β and Mg ii recipes are approximately unbiased estimators at given RM masses, but there are systematic biases in the C iv recipe. The intrinsic scatter of SE masses around RM masses is ∼0.45 dex for H β and Mg ii , increasing to ∼0.58 dex for C iv .
Published: 2024
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6. The DESI One-percent Survey: Evidence for Assembly Bias from Low-redshift Counts-in-cylinders Measurements

Author: Alan N. Pearl, Andrew R. Zentner, Jeffrey A. Newman, Rachel Bezanson, Kuan Wang, John Moustakas, Jessica N. Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Shaun Cole, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Jamie E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Paul Martini, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, Jundan Nie, Will Percival, Francisco Prada, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin A. Weaver, and Zhimin Zhou
Subjects: Galaxy dark matter halos, Two-point correlation function, N-body simulations, Astronomical models, Astronomy software, Cosmological evolution, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We explore the galaxy-halo connection information that is available in low-redshift samples from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). We model the halo occupation distribution (HOD) from z = 0.1 to 0.3 using Survey Validation 3 (SV3; a.k.a., the One-Percent Survey) data of the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey. In addition to more commonly used metrics, we incorporate counts-in-cylinders (CiC) measurements, which drastically tighten HOD constraints. Our analysis is aided by the Python package, galtab , which enables the rapid, precise prediction of CiC for any HOD model available in halotools . This methodology allows our Markov chains to converge with much fewer trial points, and enables even more drastic speedups due to its GPU portability. Our HOD fits constrain characteristic halo masses tightly and provide statistical evidence for assembly bias, especially at lower luminosity thresholds: the HOD of central galaxies in z ∼ 0.15 samples with limiting absolute magnitude M _r < −20.0 and M _r < −20.5 samples is positively correlated with halo concentration with a significance of 99.9% and 99.5%, respectively. Our models also favor positive central assembly bias for the brighter M _r < −21.0 sample at z ∼ 0.25 (94.8% significance), but there is no significant evidence for assembly bias with the same luminosity threshold at z ∼ 0.15. We provide our constraints for each threshold sample’s characteristic halo masses, assembly bias, and other HOD parameters. These constraints are expected to be significantly tightened with future DESI data, which will span an area 100 times larger than that of SV3.
Published: 2024
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7. PROVABGS: The Probabilistic Stellar Mass Function of the BGS One-percent Survey

Author: ChangHoon Hahn, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Shadab Alam, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Shaun Cole, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Andreu A. Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Song Huang, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Graziano Rossi, Amélie Saintonge, Eusebio Sanchez, Christoph Saulder, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, Małgorzata Siudek, Federico Speranza, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin A. Weaver, Risa H. Wechsler, Sihan Yuan, Zhimin Zhou, and Hu Zou
Subjects: Cosmology, Large-scale structure of the universe, Galaxies, Galactic and extragalactic astronomy, Galaxy spectroscopy, Astrostatistics, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We present the probabilistic stellar mass function (pSMF) of galaxies in the DESI Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS), observed during the One-percent Survey. The One-percent Survey was one of DESI’s survey validation programs conducted from 2021 April to May, before the start of the main survey. It used the same target selection and similar observing strategy as the main survey and successfully observed the spectra and redshifts of 143,017 galaxies in the r < 19.5 magnitude-limited BGS Bright sample and 95,499 galaxies in the fainter surface-brightness- and color-selected BGS Faint sample over z < 0.6. We derive pSMFs from posteriors of stellar mass, M _* , inferred from DESI photometry and spectroscopy using the Hahn et al. PRObabilistic Value-Added BGS (PROVABGS) Bayesian spectral energy distribution modeling framework. We use a hierarchical population inference framework that statistically and rigorously propagates the M _* uncertainties. Furthermore, we include correction weights that account for the selection effects and incompleteness of the BGS observations. We present the redshift evolution of the pSMF in BGS, as well as the pSMFs of star-forming and quiescent galaxies classified using average specific star formation rates from PROVABGS. Overall, the pSMFs show good agreement with previous stellar mass function measurements in the literature. Our pSMFs showcase the potential and statistical power of BGS, which in its main survey will observe >100 × more galaxies. Moreover, we present the statistical framework for subsequent population statistics measurements using BGS, which will characterize the global galaxy population and scaling relations at low redshifts with unprecedented precision.
Published: 2024
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8. Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. I. Sample from the Early Data

Author: Wei-Jian Guo, Hu Zou, Victoria A. Fawcett, Rebecca Canning, Stephanie Juneau, Tamara M. Davis, David M. Alexander, Linhua Jiang, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Kevin Fanning, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Zhiwei Pan, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Małgorzata Siudek, Eusebio Sanchez, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, Jipeng Sui, Gregory Tarlé, and Zhimin Zhou
Subjects: Active galaxies, Accretion, Active galactic nuclei, Supermassive black holes, Catalogs, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CL AGNs) can be generally confirmed by the emergence (turn-on) or disappearance (turn-off) of broad emission lines (BELs), associated with a transient timescale (about 100 ∼ 5000 days) that is much shorter than predicted by traditional accretion disk models. We carry out a systematic CL AGN search by crossmatching the spectra coming from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Following previous studies, we identify CL AGNs based on H α , H β , and Mg ii at z ≤ 0.75 and Mg ii , C iii ], and C iv at z > 0.75. We present 56 CL AGNs based on visual inspection and three selection criteria, including 2 H α , 34 H β , 9 Mg ii , 18 C iii ], and 1 C iv CL AGN. Eight cases show simultaneous appearances/disappearances of two BELs. We also present 44 CL AGN candidates with significant flux variation of BELs, but remaining strong broad components. In the confirmed CL AGNs, 10 cases show additional CL candidate features for different lines. In this paper, we find: (1) a 24:32 ratio of turn-on to turn-off CL AGNs; (2) an upper-limit transition timescale ranging from 330 to 5762 days in the rest frame; and (3) the majority of CL AGNs follow the bluer-when-brighter trend. Our results greatly increase the current CL census (∼30%) and would be conducive to exploring the underlying physical mechanism.
Published: 2024
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9. The DESI One-Percent Survey: A Concise Model for the Galactic Conformity of Emission-line Galaxies

Author: Hongyu Gao, Y. P. Jing, Kun Xu, Donghai Zhao, Shanquan Gui, Yun Zheng, Xiaolin Luo, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Shaun Cole, Axel de la Macorra, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Mustapha Ishak, Andrew Lambert, Martin Landriau, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, Jundan Nie, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, Michael Schubnell, Hee-Jong Seo, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, and Zhimin Zhou
Subjects: Emission line galaxies, Redshift surveys, Galaxy dark matter halos, Dark energy, Observational cosmology, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: Galactic conformity is the phenomenon whereby a galaxy of a certain physical property is correlated with its neighbors of the same property, implying a possible causal relationship. The observed auto correlations of emission-line galaxies (ELGs) from the highly complete DESI One-Percent Survey exhibit a strong clustering signal on small scales, providing clear evidence for the conformity effect of ELGs. Building upon the original subhalo abundance-matching (SHAM) method developed by Gao et al., we propose a concise conformity model to improve the ELG–halo connection. In this model, the number of satellite ELGs is boosted by a factor of ∼5 in the halos whose central galaxies are ELGs. We show that the mean ELG satellite number in such central halos is still smaller than 1 and that the model does not significantly increase the overall satellite fraction. With this model, we can well recover the ELG auto correlations to the smallest scales explored with the current data (i.e., r _p > 0.03 Mpc h ^−1 in real space and at s > 0.3 Mpc h ^−1 in redshift space), while the cross correlations between luminous red galaxies and ELGs are nearly unchanged. Although our SHAM model has only eight parameters, we further verify that it can accurately describe the ELG clustering in the entire redshift range from z = 0.8 to 1.6. We therefore expect that this method can be used to generate high-quality ELG lightcone mocks for DESI.
Published: 2024
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10. DESI Survey Validation Spectra Reveal an Increasing Fraction of Recently Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 1

Author: David J. Setton, Biprateep Dey, Gourav Khullar, Rachel Bezanson, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jessica N. Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Brett H. Andrews, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Arjun Dey, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Andreu Font-Ribera, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Anthony Kremin, Stephanie Juneau, Martin Landriau, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Alan Pearl, Francisco Prada, Gregory Tarlé, Małgorzata Siudek, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Zhimin Zhou, and Hu Zou
Subjects: Post-starburst galaxies, Galaxies, E+A galaxies, Galaxy quenching, Quenched galaxies, Galaxy spectroscopy, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We utilize ∼17,000 bright luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the novel Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Survey Validation spectroscopic sample, leveraging its deep (∼2.5 hr galaxy ^−1 exposure time) spectra to characterize the contribution of recently quenched galaxies to the massive galaxy population at 0.4 < z < 1.3. We use Prospector to infer nonparametric star formation histories and identify a significant population of recently quenched galaxies that have joined the quiescent population within the past ∼1 Gyr. The highest-redshift subset (277 at z > 1) of our sample of recently quenched galaxies represents the largest spectroscopic sample of post-starburst galaxies at that epoch. At 0.4 < z < 0.8, we measure the number density of quiescent LRGs, finding that recently quenched galaxies constitute a growing fraction of the massive galaxy population with increasing look-back time. Finally, we quantify the importance of this population among massive ( $\mathrm{log}({M}_{\star }/{M}_{\odot })$ > 11.2) LRGs by measuring the fraction of stellar mass each galaxy formed in the gigayear before observation, f _1 Gyr . Although galaxies with f _1 Gyr > 0.1 are rare at z ∼ 0.4 (≲0.5% of the population), by z ∼ 0.8, they constitute ∼3% of massive galaxies. Relaxing this threshold, we find that galaxies with f _1 Gyr > 5% constitute ∼10% of the massive galaxy population at z ∼ 0.8. We also identify a small but significant sample of galaxies at z = 1.1–1.3 that formed with f _1 Gyr > 50%, implying that they may be analogs to high-redshift quiescent galaxies that formed on similar timescales. Future analysis of this unprecedented sample promises to illuminate the physical mechanisms that drive the quenching of massive galaxies after cosmic noon.
Published: 2023
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11. DESI Survey Validation Data in the COSMOS/Hyper Suprime-Cam Field: Cool Gas Trace Main-sequence Star-forming Galaxies at the Cosmic Noon

Author: Siwei Zou, Linhua Jiang, Zheng Cai, John Moustakas, Zechang Sun, Zhiwei Pan, Jiani Ding, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Hu Zou, Yuan-sen Ting, Matthew Pieri, Steven Ahlen, David Alexander, David Brooks, Arjun Dey, Andreu Font-Ribera, Satya Gontcho A. Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Martin Landriau, Axel de la Macorra, Mariana Vargas Magana, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, and Zhimin Zhou
Subjects: Circumgalactic medium, Galaxy environments, Star formation, Quasar absorption line spectroscopy, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We present the first result in exploring the gaseous halo and galaxy correlation using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey validation data in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) and Hyper Suprime-Cam field. We obtain multiphase gaseous halo properties in the circumgalactic medium by using 115 quasar spectra (signal-to-noise ratio > 3). We detect Mg ii absorption at redshift 0.6 < z < 2.5, C iv absorption at 1.6 < z < 3.6, and H i absorption associated with the Mg ii and C iv . By crossmatching the COSMOS2020 catalog, we identify the Mg ii and C iv host galaxies in 10 quasar fields at 0.9< z < 3.1. We find that within the impact parameter of 250 kpc, a tight correlation is seen between the strong Mg ii equivalent width and the host galaxy star formation rate. The covering fraction f _c of the strong Mg ii selected galaxies, which is the ratio of the absorbing galaxy in a certain galaxy population, shows significant evolution in the main-sequence galaxies and marginal evolution in all the galaxy populations within 250 kpc at 0.9 < z < 2.2. The f _c increase in the main-sequence galaxies likely suggests the coevolution of strong Mg ii absorbing gas and the main-sequence galaxies at the cosmic noon. Furthermore, Mg ii and C iv absorbing gas is detected out of the galaxy virial radius, tentatively indicating the feedback produced by the star formation and/or the environmental effects.
Published: 2023
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12. Survey Operations for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Author: Edward F. Schlafly, David Kirkby, David J. Schlegel, Adam D. Myers, Anand Raichoor, Kyle Dawson, Jessica Aguilar, Carlos Allende Prieto, Stephen Bailey, Segev BenZvi, Jose Bermejo-Climent, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Arjun Dey, Peter Doel, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Juan García-Bellido, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Julien Guy, ChangHoon Hahn, Klaus Honscheid, Mustapha Ishak, Stéphanie Juneau, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Dustin A. Lang, James Lasker, Michael E. Levi, Christophe Magneville, Christopher J. Manser, Paul Martini, Aaron M. Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jeffrey A. Newman, Jundan Nie, Nathalie. Palanque-Delabrouille, Will J. Percival, Claire Poppett, Constance Rockosi, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin A. Weaver, Christophe Yèche, Rongpu Zhou, and DESI Collaboration
Subjects: Redshift surveys, Spectroscopy, Observatories, Astronomy, QB1-991
Abstract: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey is a spectroscopic survey of tens of millions of galaxies at 0 < z < 3.5 covering 14,000 sq. deg. of the sky. In its first 1.1 yr of survey operations, it has observed more than 14 million galaxies and 4 million stars. We describe the processes that govern DESI’s observations of the 15,000 fields composing the survey. This includes the planning of each night’s observations in the afternoon; automatic selection of fields to observe during the night; real-time assessment of field completeness on the basis of observing conditions during each exposure; reduction, redshifting, and quality assurance of each field of targets in the morning following observation; and updates to the list of future targets to observe on the basis of these results. We also compare the performance of the survey with historical expectations and find good agreement. Simulations of the weather and of DESI observations using the real field-selection algorithm show good agreement with the actual observations. After accounting for major unplanned shutdowns, the dark time survey is progressing about 7% faster than forecast, which is good agreement given approximations made in the simulations.
Published: 2023
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13. DESI z ≳ 5 Quasar Survey. I. A First Sample of 400 New Quasars at z ∼ 4.7–6.6

Author: Jinyi Yang, Xiaohui Fan, Ansh Gupta, Adam D. Myers, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Feige Wang, Christophe Yèche, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David M. Alexander, David Brooks, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Arjun Dey, Govinda Dhungana, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Satya Gontcho, Julien Guy, Klaus Honscheid, Stephanie Juneau, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Laurent Le Guillou, Michael Levi, Christophe Magneville, Paul Martini, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Will Percival, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Edward Schlafly, Gregory Tarlé, Mariana Vargas Magana, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Risa Wechsler, Rongpu Zhou, Zhimin Zhou, and Hu Zou
Subjects: Quasars, Surveys, Broad absorption line quasar, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We report the first results of a high-redshift ( z ≳ 5) quasar survey using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). As a DESI secondary target program, this survey is designed to carry out a systematic search and investigation of quasars at 4.8 < z < 6.8. The target selection is based on the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (the Legacy Surveys) DR9 photometry, combined with the Pan-STARRS1 data and J -band photometry from public surveys. A first quasar sample has been constructed from the DESI Survey Validation 3 (SV3) and first-year observations until 2022 May. This sample includes more than 400 new quasars at redshift 4.7 ≤ z < 6.6, down to 21.5 magnitude (AB) in the z band, discovered from 35% of the entire target sample. Remarkably, there are 220 new quasars identified at z ≥ 5, more than one-third of existing quasars previously published at this redshift. The observations so far result in an average success rate of 23% at z > 4.7. The current spectral data set has already allowed analysis of interesting individual objects (e.g., quasars with damped Ly α absorbers and broad absorption line features), and statistical analysis will follow the survey’s completion. A set of science projects will be carried out leveraging this program, including quasar luminosity function, quasar clustering, intergalactic medium, quasar spectral properties, intervening absorbers, and properties of early supermassive black holes. Additionally, a sample of 38 new quasars at z ∼ 3.8–5.7 discovered from a pilot survey in the DESI SV1 is also published in this paper.
Published: 2023
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14. GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-poor Star Candidates from DESI

Author: Carlos Allende Prieto, David S. Aguado, Jonay I. González Hernández, Rafael Rebolo, Joan Najita, Christopher J. Manser, Constance Rockosi, Zachary Slepian, Mar Mezcua, Monica Valluri, Rana Ezzeddine, Sergey E. Koposov, Andrew P. Cooper, Arjun Dey, Boris T. Gänsicke, Ting S. Li, Katia Cunha, Siwei Zou, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Todd Claybaugh, Shaun Cole, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Kevin Fanning, Jaime Forero-Romero, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Pascale Jablonka, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Martin Landriau, Axel de la Macorra, Aaron Meisner, Ramón Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan Nie, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sánchez, Michael Schubnell, Ray Sharples, Malgorzata Siudek, Verne V. Smith, Gregory Tarlé, Fiorenzo Vincenzo, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Zhimin Zhou, and Hu Zou
Subjects: Spectroscopy, Field stars, Milky Way formation, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ∼10, improving the sample statistics to study the early chemical evolution of the Milky Way and the nature of the first stars. In this paper we report follow-up observations with high signal-to-noise ratio of nine metal-poor stars identified during the DESI commissioning with the Optical System for Imaging and Low-Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy (OSIRIS) instrument on the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias. The analysis of the data using a well-vetted methodology confirms the quality of the DESI spectra and the performance of the pipelines developed for the data reduction and analysis of DESI data.
Published: 2023
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15. Detecting and Characterizing Mg ii Absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra

Author: Lucas Napolitano, Agnesh Pandey, Adam D. Myers, Ting-Wen Lan, Abhijeet Anand, Jessica Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, David M. Alexander, David Brooks, Rebecca Canning, Chiara Circosta, Axel De La Macorra, Peter Doel, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Victoria A. Fawcett, Andreu Font-Ribera, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, L. Le Guillou, Julien Guy, Klaus Honscheid, Stephanie Juneau, T. Kisner, Martin Landriau, Aaron M. Meisner, Ramon Miquel, J. Moustakas, Will J. Percival, J. Xavier Prochaska, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, B. A. Weaver, Benjamin Weiner, Zhimin Zhou, Hu Zou, and Siwei Zou
Subjects: Catalogs, Sky surveys, Cosmology, Large-scale structure of the universe, AGN host galaxies, Galaxies, Astronomy, QB1-991
Abstract: We present findings of the detection of Magnesium II (Mg ii , λ = 2796, 2803 Å) absorbers from the early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI is projected to obtain spectroscopy of approximately 3 million quasars (QSOs), of which over 99% are anticipated to be at redshifts greater than z > 0.3, such that DESI would be able to observe an associated or intervening Mg ii absorber illuminated by the background QSO. We have developed an autonomous supplementary spectral pipeline that detects these systems through an initial line-fitting process and then confirms the line properties using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampler. Based upon a visual inspection of the resulting systems, we estimate that this sample has a purity greater than 99%. We have also investigated the completeness of our sample in regard to both the signal-to-noise properties of the input spectra and the rest-frame equivalent width ( W _0 ) of the absorber systems. From a parent catalog containing 83,207 quasars, we detect a total of 23,921 Mg ii absorption systems following a series of quality cuts. Extrapolating from this occurrence rate of 28.8% implies a catalog at the completion of the five-year DESI survey that will contain over eight hundred thousand Mg ii absorbers. The cataloging of these systems will enable significant further research because they carry information regarding circumgalactic medium environments, the distribution of intervening galaxies, and the growth of metallicity across the redshift range 0.3 ≤ z < 2.5.
Published: 2023
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16. Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

Author: Andrew P. Cooper, Sergey E. Koposov, Carlos Allende Prieto, Christopher J. Manser, Namitha Kizhuprakkat, Adam D. Myers, Arjun Dey, Boris T. Gänsicke, Ting S. Li, Constance Rockosi, Monica Valluri, Joan Najita, Alis Deason, Anand Raichoor, M.-Y. Wang, Y.-S. Ting, Bokyoung Kim, Andreia Carrillo, Wenting Wang, Leandro Beraldo e Silva, Jiwon Jesse Han, Jiani Ding, Miguel Sánchez-Conde, Jessica N. Aguilar, Steven Ahlen, Stephen Bailey, Vasily Belokurov, David Brooks, Katia Cunha, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Parker Fagrelius, Kevin Fanning, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Julien Guy, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Michael E. Levi, Paul Martini, Aaron M. Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Jundan J. D. Nie, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Will J. Percival, Claire Poppett, Francisco Prada, Nabeel Rehemtulla, Edward Schlafly, David Schlegel, Michael Schubnell, Ray M. Sharples, Gregory Tarlé, Risa H. Wechsler, David H. Weinberg, Zhimin Zhou, and Hu Zou
Subjects: Milky Way stellar halo, Dwarf galaxies, Milky Way evolution, Milky Way Galaxy, Milky Way dark matter halo, Milky Way dynamics, Astrophysics, QB460-466
Abstract: We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory. Over the next 5 yr DESI MWS will observe approximately seven million stars at Galactic latitudes ∣ b ∣ > 20°, with an inclusive target selection scheme focused on the thick disk and stellar halo. MWS will also include several high-completeness samples of rare stellar types, including white dwarfs, low-mass stars within 100 pc of the Sun, and horizontal branch stars. We summarize the potential of DESI to advance understanding of the Galactic structure and stellar evolution. We introduce the final definitions of the main MWS target classes and estimate the number of stars in each class that will be observed. We describe our pipelines for deriving radial velocities, atmospheric parameters, and chemical abundances. We use ≃500,000 spectra of unique stellar targets from the DESI Survey Validation program (SV) to demonstrate that our pipelines can measure radial velocities to ≃1 km s ^−1 and [Fe/H] accurate to ≃0.2 dex for typical stars in our main sample. We find the stellar parameter distributions from ≈100 deg ^2 of SV observations with ≳90% completeness on our main sample are in good agreement with expectations from mock catalogs and previous surveys.
Published: 2023
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17. The VST ATLAS quasar survey I: Catalogue of photometrically selected quasar candidates

Author: Alice M Eltvedt, T Shanks, N Metcalfe, B Ansarinejad, L F Barrientos, R Sharp, U Malik, D N A Murphy, M Irwin, M Wilson, D M Alexander, Andras Kovacs, Juan Garcia-Bellido, Steven Ahlen, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Andreu Font-Ribera, Satya Gontcho a Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, Jundan Nie, Gregory Tarlé, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, and Zhimin Zhou
Published: 2023
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18. Constraining galaxy–halo connection with high-order statistics

Author: Hanyu Zhang, Lado Samushia, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Aaron Meisner, Claire Poppett, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarle, Kai Zhang, Hu Zou, Department of Energy (US), National Science Foundation (US), Simons Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology: theory, Galaxies: haloes, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate using three-point statistics in constraining the galaxy–halo connection. We show that for some galaxy samples, the constraints on the halo occupation distribution parameters are dominated by the three-point function signal (over its two-point counterpart). We demonstrate this on mock catalogues corresponding to the Luminous red galaxies (LRGs), Emission-line galaxies (ELGs), and quasars (QSOs) targeted by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey. The projected three-point function for triangle sides less up to 20 h−1 Mpc measured from a cubic Gpc of data can constrain the characteristic minimum mass of the LRGs with a preci sion of 0.46 per cent. For comparison, similar constraints from the projected two-point function are 1.55 per cent. The improvements for the ELGs and QSOs targets are more modest. In the case of the QSOs, it is caused by the high shot-noise of the sample, and in the case of the ELGs, it is caused by the range of halo masses of the host haloes. The most time-consuming part of our pipeline is the measurement of the three-point functions. We adopt a tabulation method, proposed in earlier works for the two-point function, to significantly reduce the required compute time for the three-point analysis., LS is grateful for support from DOE grants DE-SC0021165 and DE-SC0011840, NASA ROSES grants 12-EUCLID12-0004 and 15-WFIRST15-0008, and Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia grants FR 19-498. This research is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Centre, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract; additional support for DESI is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to the NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory; the Science and Technologies Facilities Council of the United Kingdom; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA); the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico; the Ministry of Economy of Spain, and by the DESI Member Institutions. We acknowledge the use of the NASA astrophysics data system https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ and the arXiv open-access repository https://arxiv.org/. The software was hosted on the GitHub platform https://github.com/. The manuscript was typeset using the overleaf cloud-based LaTeX editor https://www.overleaf.com.
Published: 2022

19. Effect of the metallicity of the intergalactic medium in the Lyman‐ α forest correlation function

Author: Andrea Muñoz‐Gutiérrez and Axel de la Macorra
Subjects: Space and Planetary Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Published: 2023

20. DESI Mock Challenge: Halo and galaxy catalogs with the bias assignment method

Author: Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Shadab Alam, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Yu, Ginevra Favole, Francesco Sinigaglia, Cheng Zhao, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Andreu Font-Ribera, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Aron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, Gregory Tarlé, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, and Zhimin Zhou
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), galaxy: halo, Space and Planetary Science, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, galaxies: statistics, methods: numerical, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Context. We present a novel approach to the construction of mock galaxy catalogues for large-scale structure analysis based on the distribution of dark matter halos obtained with effective bias models at the field level. Aims. We aim to produce mock galaxy catalogues capable of generating accurate covariance matrices for a number of cosmological probes that are expected to be measured in current and forthcoming galaxy redshift surveys (e.g. two- and three-point statistics). The construction of the catalogues shown in this paper is part of a mock-comparison project within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration., Methods. We use the bias assignment method (BAM) to model the statistics of halo distribution through a learning algorithm using a few detailed N-body simulations, and approximated gravity solvers based on Lagrangian perturbation theory. We introduce cosmic-web-dependent corrections to modelling redshift-space distortions at the N-body level - both in the halo and galaxy distributions -, as well as a multi-scale approach for accurate assignment of halo properties. Using specific models of halo occupation distributions to populate halos, we generate galaxy mocks with the expected number density and central-satellite fraction of emission-line galaxies, which are a key target of the DESI experiment., Results. BAM generates mock catalogues with per cent accuracy in a number of summary statistics, such as the abundance, the twoand three-point statistics of halo distributions, both in real and redshift space. In particular, the mock galaxy catalogues display similar to 3%-10% accuracy in the multipoles of the power spectrum up to scales of k similar to 0.4 h(-1)Mpc. We show that covariance matrices of two- and three-point statistics obtained with BAM display a similar structure to the reference simulation., Conclusions. BAM o ffers an efficient way to produce mock halo catalogues with accurate two- and three-point statistics, and is able to generate a variety of multi-tracer catalogues with precise covariance matrices of several cosmological probes. We discuss future developments of the algorithm towards mock production in DESI and other galaxy-redshift surveys.
Published: 2022

21. Intrinsic Alignment as an RSD Contaminant in the DESI Survey

Author: Claire Lamman, Daniel Eisenstein, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, David Brooks, Axel de la Macorra, Peter Doel, Andreu Font-Ribera, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Klaus Honscheid, Robert Kehoe, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Martin Landriau, Michael Levi, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Claire Poppett, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, dark energy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], methods: data analysis, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the tidal alignment of the major axes of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Legacy Imaging Survey and use it to infer the artificial redshift-space distortion signature that will arise from an orientation-dependent, surface-brightness selection in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Using photometric redshifts to down-weight the shape-density correlations due to weak lensing, we measure the intrinsic tidal alignment of LRGs. Separately, we estimate the net polarization of LRG orientations from DESI's fiber-magnitude target selection to be of order 10^-2 along the line of sight. Using these measurements and a linear tidal model, we forecast a 0.5% fractional decrease on the quadrupole of the 2-point correlation function for projected separations of 40-80 Mpc/h. We also use a halo catalog from the Abacus Summit cosmological simulation suite to reproduce this false quadrupole., 13 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to MNRAS. For an accessible summary of this paper, see https://cmlamman.github.io/doc/fakeRSD_summary.pdf
Published: 2022

22. The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey quasar sample: testing observational systematics on the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation measurement

Author: Eva Maria Mueller, Will J. Percival, Ashley J. Ross, Richard Neveux, Axel de la Macorra, Hee-Jong Seo, Kyle S. Dawson, Joel R. Brownstein, Mehdi Rezaie, Cheng Zhao, Adam D. Myers, Grant Merz, Christian Nitschelm, Donald P. Schneider, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Florian Beutler, Graziano Rossi, Héctor Gil-Marín, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, redshift 0.8, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, galaxies, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, data release, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Standard ruler, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, cosmology: distance scale, peak, Galaxy, Redshift, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, Dark energy, digital sky survey, power-spectrum, large-scale structure of Universe, Baryon acoustic oscillations, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are considered to be a very robust standard ruler against various systematics. This premise has been tested against observational systematics, but not to the level required for the next generation of galaxy surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid. In this paper, we investigate the effect of observational systematics on the BAO measurement of the final sample of quasars from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16 in order to prepare and hone a similar analysis for upcoming surveys. We employ catalogues with various treatments of imaging systematic effects using linear and neural network-based nonlinear approaches and consider how the BAO measurement changes. We also test how the variations to the BAO fitting model respond to the observational systematics. As expected, we confirm that the BAO measurements obtained from the DR16 quasar sample are robust against imaging systematics well within the statistical error, while reporting slightly modified constraints that shift the line-of-sight BAO signal by less than 1.1% . We use realistic simulations with similar redshift and angular distributions as the DR16 sample to conduct statistical tests for validating the pipeline, quantifying the significance of differences, and estimating the expected bias on the BAO scale in future high-precision data sets. Although we find a marginal impact for the eBOSS QSO data, the work presented here is of vital importance for constraining the nature of dark energy with the BAO feature in the new era of big data cosmology with DESI and Euclid., 14 pages and 16 figures, comments are welcome
Published: 2021

23. The effect of quasar redshift errors on Lyman-$\alpha$ forest correlation functions

Author: Samantha Youles, Julian E Bautista, Andreu Font-Ribera, David Bacon, James Rich, David Brooks, Tamara M Davis, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Govinda Dhungana, Peter Doel, Kevin Fanning, Enrique Gaztañaga, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Alma X Gonzalez-Morales, Julien Guy, Klaus Honscheid, Vid Iršič, Robert Kehoe, David Kirkby, Theodore Kisner, Martin Landriau, Laurent Le Guillou, Michael E Levi, Paul Martini, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Claire Poppett, César Ramírez-Pérez, Michael Schubnell, Gregory Tarlé, Michael Walther, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: theory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Using synthetic Lyman-$\alpha$ forests from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we present a study of the impact of errors in the estimation of quasar redshift on the Lyman-$\alpha$ correlation functions. Estimates of quasar redshift have large uncertainties of a few hundred $\text{km s}^{-1}\,$ due to the broadness of the emission lines and the intrinsic shifts from other emission lines. We inject Gaussian random redshift errors into the mock quasar catalogues, and measure the auto-correlation and the Lyman-$\alpha$-quasar cross-correlation functions. We find a smearing of the BAO feature in the radial direction, but changes in the peak position are negligible. However, we see a significant unphysical correlation for small separations transverse to the line of sight which increases with the amplitude of the redshift errors. We interpret this contamination as a result of the broadening of emission lines in the measured mean continuum, caused by quasar redshift errors, combined with the unrealistically strong clustering of the simulated quasars on small scales., Comment: 13 pages, 8 figures, submitted to MNRAS
Published: 2022

24. Towards a solution to the H0 tension

Author: Axel de la Macorra, Joanna Garrido, and Erick Almaraz
Published: 2022

25. The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the growth rate of structure from the small-scale clustering of the luminous red galaxy sample

Author: Michael J Chapman, Faizan G Mohammad, Zhongxu Zhai, Will J Percival, Jeremy L Tinker, Julian E Bautista, Joel R Brownstein, Etienne Burtin, Kyle S Dawson, Héctor Gil-Marín, Axel de la Macorra, Ashley J Ross, Graziano Rossi, Donald P Schneider, Gong-Bo Zhao, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, galaxies: distances and redshifts, cosmological parameters, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the small-scale clustering of the Data Release 16 extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Luminous Red Galaxy sample, corrected for fibre-collisions using Pairwise Inverse Probability weights, which give unbiased clustering measurements on all scales. We fit to the monopole and quadrupole moments and to the projected correlation function over the separation range $7-60\,h^{-1}$Mpc with a model based on the Aemulus cosmological emulator to measure the growth rate of cosmic structure, parameterized by $f\sigma_8$. We obtain a measurement of $f\sigma_8(z=0.737)=0.408\pm0.038$, which is $1.4\sigma$ lower than the value expected from 2018 Planck data for a flat $\Lambda$CDM model, and is more consistent with recent weak-lensing measurements. The level of precision achieved is 1.7 times better than more standard measurements made using only the large-scale modes of the same sample. We also fit to the data using the full range of scales $0.1-60\,h^{-1}$Mpc modelled by the Aemulus cosmological emulator and find a $4.5\sigma$ tension in the amplitude of the halo velocity field with the Planck+$\Lambda$CDM model, driven by a mismatch on the non-linear scales. This may not be cosmological in origin, and could be due to a breakdown in the Halo Occupation Distribution model used in the emulator. Finally, we perform a robust analysis of possible sources of systematics, including the effects of redshift uncertainty and incompleteness due to target selection that were not included in previous analyses fitting to clustering measurements on small scales., Comment: 19 pages, 16 figures, published in MNRAS
Published: 2022

26. Combined full shape analysis of BOSS galaxies and eBOSS quasars using an iterative emulator

Author: Richard Neveux, Etienne Burtin, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Arnaud de Mattia, Agne Semenaite, Kyle S Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Will J Percival, Graziano Rossi, Donald P Schneider, Gong-Bo Zhao, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, ANR-17-CE31-0024,NILAC,Nouvelles implications des forêts Lyman-alpha en cosmologie(2017), and ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmological parameters, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Standard full-shape clustering analyses in Fourier space rely on a fixed power spectrum template, defined at the fiducial cosmology used to convert redshifts into distances, and compress the cosmological information into the Alcock-Paczynski parameters and the linear growth rate of structure. In this paper, we propose an analysis method that operates directly in the cosmology parameter space and varies the power spectrum template accordingly at each tested point. Predictions for the power spectrum multipoles from the TNS model are computed at different cosmologies in the framework of $\Lambda \rm{CDM}$. Applied to the final eBOSS QSO and LRG samples together with the low-z DR12 BOSS galaxy sample, our analysis results in a set of constraints on the cosmological parameters $\Omega_{\rm cdm}$, $H_0$, $\sigma_8$, $\Omega_{\rm b}$ and $n_s$. To reduce the number of computed models, we construct an iterative process to sample the likelihood surface, where each iteration consists of a Gaussian process regression. This method is validated with mocks from N-body simulations. From the combined analysis of the (e)BOSS data, we obtain the following constraints: $\sigma_8=0.877\pm 0.049$ and $\Omega_{\rm m}=0.304^{+0.016}_{-0.010}$ without any external prior. The eBOSS quasar sample alone shows a $3.1\sigma$ discrepancy compared to the Planck prediction., Comment: 13 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2022
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27. Metal Lines Associated with the Lyman-alpha Forest from eBOSS Data

Author: Li Yang, Zheng Zheng, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Kyle Dawson, Matthew M. Pieri, Graziano Rossi, Donald P. Schneider, Axel de la Macorra, Adrean Muñoz Gutiérrez, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the metal species associated with the Ly$\alpha$ forest in the eBOSS quasar spectra. Metal absorption lines are revealed in the stacked spectra from cross-correlating the selected Ly$\alpha$ absorbers in the forest and the flux fluctuation field. Up to 13 metal species are identified associated with relatively strong Ly$\alpha$ absorbers (those with flux fluctuation $-1.0, Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ, Jun 21, 2022. In press. 28 pages, 19 figures, 2 tables
Published: 2022
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28. The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data

Author: null Abdurro’uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts, Víctor Silva Aguirre, Romina Ahumada, Nikhil Ajgaonkar, N. Filiz Ak, Shadab Alam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andrés Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Borja Anguiano, Erik Aquino-Ortíz, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Maria Argudo-Fernández, Metin Ata, Marie Aubert, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Rodolfo H. Barbá, Kat Barger, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, Francesco Belfiore, Chad F. Bender, Mariangela Bernardi, Matthew A. Bershady, Florian Beutler, Christian Moni Bidin, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael R. Blanton, Nicholas Fraser Boardman, Adam S. Bolton, Médéric Boquien, Jura Borissova, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, Jordan Brown, Joel R. Brownstein, Marcella Brusa, Johannes Buchner, Kevin Bundy, Joseph N. Burchett, Martin Bureau, Adam Burgasser, Tuesday K. Cabang, Stephanie Campbell, Michele Cappellari, Joleen K. Carlberg, Fábio Carneiro Wanderley, Ricardo Carrera, Jennifer Cash, Yan-Ping Chen, Wei-Huai Chen, Brian Cherinka, Cristina Chiappini, Peter Doohyun Choi, S. Drew Chojnowski, Haeun Chung, Nicolas Clerc, Roger E. Cohen, Julia M. Comerford, Johan Comparat, Luiz da Costa, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Irene Cruz-Gonzalez, Connor Culhane, Katia Cunha, Y. Sophia Dai, Guillermo Damke, Jeremy Darling, James W. Davidson Jr., Roger Davies, Kyle Dawson, Nathan De Lee, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Mariana Cano-Díaz, Helena Domínguez Sánchez, John Donor, Chris Duckworth, Tom Dwelly, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Eric Emsellem, Mike Eracleous, Stephanie Escoffier, Xiaohui Fan, Emily Farr, Shuai Feng, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Diane Feuillet, Andreas Filipp, Sean P Fillingham, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Sebastien Fromenteau, Lluís Galbany, Rafael A. García, D. A. García-Hernández, Junqiang Ge, Doug Geisler, Joseph Gelfand, Tobias Géron, Benjamin J. Gibson, Julian Goddy, Diego Godoy-Rivera, Kathleen Grabowski, Paul J. Green, Michael Greener, Catherine J. Grier, Emily Griffith, Hong Guo, Julien Guy, Massinissa Hadjara, Paul Harding, Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Fred Hearty, Jesús Hernández, Lewis Hill, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Danny Horta, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Chin-Hao Hsu, Yun-Hsin Hsu, Daniel Huber, Marc Huertas-Company, Brian Hutchinson, Ho Seong Hwang, Héctor J. Ibarra-Medel, Jacob Ider Chitham, Gabriele S. Ilha, Julie Imig, Will Jaekle, Tharindu Jayasinghe, Xihan Ji, Jennifer A. Johnson, Amy Jones, Henrik Jönsson, Ivan Katkov, Dr. Arman Khalatyan, Karen Kinemuchi, Shobhit Kisku, Johan H. Knapen, Jean-Paul Kneib, Juna A. Kollmeier, Miranda Kong, Marina Kounkel, Kathryn Kreckel, Dhanesh Krishnarao, Ivan Lacerna, Richard R. Lane, Rachel Langgin, Ramon Lavender, David R. Law, Daniel Lazarz, Henry W. Leung, Ho-Hin Leung, Hannah M. Lewis, Cheng Li, Ran Li, Jianhui Lian, Fu-Heng Liang, Lihwai Lin, Yen-Ting Lin, Sicheng Lin, Chris Lintott, Dan Long, Penélope Longa-Peña, Carlos López-Cobá, Shengdong Lu, Britt F. Lundgren, Yuanze Luo, J. Ted Mackereth, Axel de la Macorra, Suvrath Mahadevan, Steven R. Majewski, Arturo Manchado, Travis Mandeville, Claudia Maraston, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Thomas Masseron, Karen L. Masters, Savita Mathur, Richard M. McDermid, Myles Mckay, Andrea Merloni, Michael Merrifield, Szabolcs Meszaros, Andrea Miglio, Francesco Di Mille, Dante Minniti, Rebecca Minsley, Antonela Monachesi, Jeongin Moon, Benoit Mosser, John Mulchaey, Demitri Muna, Ricardo R. Muñoz, Adam D. Myers, Natalie Myers, Seshadri Nadathur, Preethi Nair, Kirpal Nandra, Justus Neumann, Jeffrey A. Newman, David L. Nidever, Farnik Nikakhtar, Christian Nitschelm, Julia E. O’Connell, Luis Garma-Oehmichen, Gabriel Luan Souza de Oliveira, Richard Olney, Daniel Oravetz, Mario Ortigoza-Urdaneta, Yeisson Osorio, Justin Otter, Zachary J. Pace, Nelson Padilla, Kaike Pan, Hsi-An Pan, Taniya Parikh, James Parker, Sebastien Peirani, Karla Peña Ramírez, Samantha Penny, Will J. Percival, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Marc Pinsonneault, Frédérick Poidevin, Vijith Jacob Poovelil, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Anna Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz, M. Jordan Raddick, Amy Ray, Sandro Barboza Rembold, Nicole Riddle, Rogemar A. Riffel, Rogério Riffel, Hans-Walter Rix, Annie C. Robin, Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, Benjamin Rose, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Kate H. R. Rubin, Mara Salvato, Sebástian F. Sánchez, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, Robyn Sanderson, Felipe Antonio Santana Rojas, Edgar Sarceno, Regina Sarmiento, Conor Sayres, Elizaveta Sazonova, Adam L. Schaefer, Ricardo Schiavon, David J Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Axel Schwope, Aldo Serenelli, Javier Serna, Zhengyi Shao, Griffin Shapiro, Anubhav Sharma, Yue Shen, Matthew Shetrone, Yiping Shu, Joshua D. Simon, M. F. Skrutskie, Rebecca Smethurst, Verne Smith, Jennifer Sobeck, Taylor Spoo, Dani Sprague, David V. Stark, Keivan G. Stassun, Matthias Steinmetz, Dennis Stello, Alexander Stone-Martinez, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Guy S. Stringfellow, Amelia Stutz, Yung-Chau Su, Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp, Michael S. Talbot, Jamie Tayar, Eduardo Telles, Johanna Teske, Ani Thakar, Christopher Theissen, Andrew Tkachenko, Daniel Thomas, Rita Tojeiro, Hector Hernandez Toledo, Nicholas W. Troup, Jonathan R. Trump, James Trussler, Jacqueline Turner, Sarah Tuttle, Eduardo Unda-Sanzana, José Antonio Vázquez-Mata, Marica Valentini, Octavio Valenzuela, Jaime Vargas-González, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Pablo Vera Alfaro, Sandro Villanova, Fiorenzo Vincenzo, David Wake, Jack T. Warfield, Jessica Diane Washington, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Anne-Marie Weijmans, David H. Weinberg, Achim Weiss, Kyle B. Westfall, Vivienne Wild, Matthew C. Wilde, John C. Wilson, Robert F. Wilson, Mikayla Wilson, Julien Wolf, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Renbin Yan, Olga Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Kai Zhang, Cheng Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Kai Zhu, Institute of Astronomy [Leuven], Catholic University of Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Radboud University [Nijmegen], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Aarhus], Aarhus University [Aarhus], Institute for Astronomy [Edinburgh] (IfA), University of Edinburgh, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Universidad de Antofagasta, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), European Southern Observatory (ESO), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire d'Etude du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères = Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres (LERMA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. Centre for Contemporary Art, European Space Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts, Victor Silva Aguirre, Romina Ahumada, Nikhil Ajgaonkar, N. Filiz Ak, Shadab Alam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Borja Anguiano, Erik Aquino-Ortiz, Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca, Maria Argudo-Fernandez, Metin Ata, Marie Aubert, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Rodolfo H. Barba, Kat Barger, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, Francesco Belfiore, Chad F. Bender, Mariangela Bernardi, Matthew A. Bershady, Florian Beutler, Christian Moni Bidin, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael R. Blanton, Nicholas Fraser Boardman, Adam S. Bolton, Mederic Boquien, Jura Borissova, Jo Bovy, W.N. Brandt, Jordan Brown, Joel R. Brownstein, Marcella Brusa, Johannes Buchner, Kevin Bundy, Joseph N. Burchett, Martin Bureau, Adam Burgasser, Tuesday K. Cabang, Stephanie Campbell, Michele Cappellari, Joleen K. Carlberg, Fabio Carneiro Wanderley, Ricardo Carrera, Jennifer Cash, Yan-Ping Chen, Wei-Huai Chen, Brian Cherinka, Cristina Chiappini, Peter Doohyun Choi, S. Drew Chojnowski, Haeun Chung, Nicolas Clerc, Roger E. Cohen, Julia M. Comerford, Johan Comparat, Luiz da Costa, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Irene Cruz-Gonzalez, Connor Culhane, Katia Cunha, Y. Sophia Dai, Guillermo Damke, Jeremy Darling, James W. Davidson Jr., Roger Davies, Kyle Dawson, Nathan De Lee, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Mariana Cano-Diaz, Helena Dominguez Sanchez, John Donor, Chris Duckworth, Tom Dwelly, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Eric Emsellem, Mike Eracleous, Stephanie Escoffier, Xiaohui Fan, Emily Farr, Shuai Feng, Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado, Diane Feuillet, Andreas Filipp, Sean P Fillingham, Peter M. Frinchaboy , Sebastien Fromenteau, Lluis Galbany, Rafael A. Garcia, D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, Junqiang Ge, Doug Geisler, Joseph Gelfand, Tobias Geron, Benjamin J. Gibson, Julian Goddy, Diego Godoy-Rivera, Kathleen Grabowski, Paul J. Green, Michael Greener, Catherine J. Grier, Emily Griffith, Hong Guo, Julien Guy, Massinissa Hadjara, Paul Harding, Sten Hasselquist, Christian R. Hayes, Fred Hearty, Jesus Hernandez, Lewis Hill, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Danny Horta, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Chin-Hao Hsu, Yun-Hsin Hsu, Daniel Huber, Marc Huertas-Company, Brian Hutchinson, Ho Seong Hwang, Hector J. Ibarra-Medel, Jacob Ider Chitham, Gabriele S. Ilha, Julie Imig, Will Jaekle, Tharindu Jayasinghe, Xihan Ji, Jennifer A. Johnson, Amy Jones, Henrik Jonsson, Ivan Katkov, Dr. Arman Khalatyan, Karen Kinemuchi, Shobhit Kisku, Johan H. Knapen, Jean-Paul Kneib, Juna A. Kollmeier, Miranda Kong, Marina Kounkel, Kathryn Kreckel, Dhanesh Krishnarao, Ivan Lacerna, Richard R. Lane, Rachel Langgin, Ramon Lavender, David R. Law, Daniel Lazarz, Henry W. Leung, Ho-Hin Leung, Hannah M. Lewis, Cheng Li, Ran Li, Jianhui Lian, Fu-Heng Liang, Lihwai Lin, Yen-Ting Lin, Sicheng Lin, Chris Lintott, Dan Long, Penelope Longa-Pena, Carlos Lopez-Coba, Shengdong Lu, Britt F. Lundgren, Yuanze Luo, J. Ted Mackereth, Axel de la Macorra, Suvrath Mahadevan, Steven R. Majewski, Arturo Manchado, Travis Mandeville, Claudia Maraston, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, Thomas Masseron, Karen L. Masters, Savita Mathur, Richard M. McDermid, Myles Mckay, Andrea Merloni, Michael Merrifield, Szabolcs Meszaros, Andrea Miglio, Francesco Di Mille, Dante Minniti, Rebecca Minsley, Antonela Monachesi, Jeongin Moon, Benoit Mosser, John Mulchaey, Demitri Muna, Ricardo R. Munoz, Adam D. Myers, Natalie Myers, Seshadri Nadathur, Preethi Nair, Kirpal Nandra, Justus Neumann, Jeffrey A. Newman, David L. Nidever, Farnik Nikakhtar, Christian Nitschelm, Julia E. O'Connell, Luis Garma-Oehmichen, Gabriel Luan Souza de Oliveira, Richard Olney, Daniel Oravetz, Mario Ortigoza-Urdaneta, Yeisson Osorio, Justin Otter, Zachary J. Pace, Nelson Padilla, Kaike Pan, Hsi-An Pan, Taniya Parikh, James Parker, Sebastien Peirani, Karla Pena Ramirez, Samantha Penny, Will J. Percival, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Marc Pinsonneault, Frederick Poidevin, Vijith Jacob Poovelil, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Anna Barbara de Andrade Queiroz, M. Jordan Raddick, Amy Ray, Sandro Barboza Rembold, Nicole Riddle, Rogemar A. Riffel, Rogerio Riffel, Hans-Walter Rix, Annie C. Robin, Aldo Rodriguez-Puebla, Alexandre Roman-Lopes, Carlos Roman-Zuniga, Benjamin Rose, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Kate H. R. Rubin, Mara Salvato, Sebastian F. Sanchez, Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego, Robyn Sanderson, Felipe Antonio Santana Rojas, Edgar Sarceno, Regina Sarmiento, Conor Sayres, Elizaveta Sazonova, Adam L. Schaefer, Ricardo Schiavon, David J Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Axel Schwope, Aldo Serenelli, Javier Serna, Zhengyi Shao, Griffin Shapiro, Anubhav Sharma, Yue Shen, Matthew Shetrone, Yiping Shu, Joshua D. Simon, M. F. Skrutskie, Rebecca Smethurst, Verne Smith, Jennifer Sobeck, Taylor Spoo, Dani Sprague, David V. Stark, Keivan G. Stassun, Matthias Steinmetz, Dennis Stello, Alexander Stone-Martinez, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Guy S. Stringfellow, Amelia Stutz, Yung-Chau Su, Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp, Michael S. Talbot, Jamie Tayar, Eduardo Telles, Johanna Teske, Ani Thakar, Christopher Theissen, Daniel Thomas, Andrew Tkachenko, Rita Tojeiro, Hector Hernandez Toledo, Nicholas W. Troup, Jonathan R. Trump, James Trussler, Jacqueline Turner, Sarah Tuttle, Eduardo Unda-Sanzana, Jose Antonio Vazquez-Mata, Marica Valentini, Octavio Valenzuela, Jaime Vargas-Gonzalez, Mariana Vargas-Magana, Pablo Vera Alfaro, Sandro Villanova, Fiorenzo Vincenzo, David Wake, Jack T. Warfield, Jessica Diane Washington, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Anne-Marie Weijmans, David H. Weinberg, Achim Weiss, Kyle B. Westfall, Vivienne Wild, Matthew C. Wilde, John C. Wilson, Robert F. Wilson, Mikayla Wilson, Julien Wolf, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Renbin Yan, Olga Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Kai Zhang, Cheng Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Zheng Zheng, Kai Zhu
Subjects: ABSORPTION-LINE SPECTRA, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, anisotropic power spectrum, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astrophysics - astrophysics of galaxies, absorption-line spectra, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, large-scale structure, OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY, cluster chemical abundances, reverberation mapping project, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, QB Astronomy, OLD STELLAR POPULATIONS, CLUSTER CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), QC, QB, MCC, FINAL TARGETING STRATEGY, Science & Technology, REVERBERATION MAPPING PROJECT, DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ANISOTROPIC POWER SPECTRUM, oscillation spectroscopic survey, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, final targeting strategy, sdss-iv manga, QC Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), active galactic nuclei, Physical Sciences, old stellar populations, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, SDSS-IV MANGA, Astrophysics - instrumentation and methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Abdurro’uf et al., This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey, which reached its goal of surveying over 10,000 nearby galaxies. The complete release of the MaNGA Stellar Library accompanies this data, providing observations of almost 30,000 stars through the MaNGA instrument during bright time. DR17 also contains the complete release of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 survey that publicly releases infrared spectra of over 650,000 stars. The main sample from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), as well as the subsurvey Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey data were fully released in DR16. New single-fiber optical spectroscopy released in DR17 is from the SPectroscipic IDentification of ERosita Survey subsurvey and the eBOSS-RM program. Along with the primary data sets, DR17 includes 25 new or updated value-added catalogs. This paper concludes the release of SDSS-IV survey data. SDSS continues into its fifth phase with observations already underway for the Milky Way Mapper, Local Volume Mapper, and Black Hole Mapper surveys., This publication uses data generated via the Zooniverse.org platform, development of which is funded by generous support, including a Global Impact Award from Google, and by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC; https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.
Published: 2022

29. Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications from two decades of spectroscopic surveys at the Apache Point Observatory

Author: Yuting Wang, Héctor Gil-Marín, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Rossana Ruggeri, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jean-Paul Kneib, Christophe Balland, Mark A. Klaene, Jiamin Hou, Graziano Rossi, Abhishek Prakash, Adam D. Myers, Richard Neveux, Kathleen Grabowski, Chia-Hsun Chuang, M. C. Cousinou, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Matthew M. Pieri, Patrick Petitjean, C. Yeche, Adam S. Bolton, Hui Kong, Pauline Zarrouk, Johan Comparat, Thomas Etourneau, Audrey Oravetz, Ashley J. Ross, Dmitry Bizyaev, Romain Paviot, Mehdi Rezaie, Amélie Tamone, James C. Parker, Gong-Bo Zhao, Faizan G. Mohammad, Santiago Avila, Jeffrey A. Newman, F. Javier Sánchez, Joel R. Brownstein, Kyle S. Dawson, Sylvain de la Torre, Peter Doohyun Choi, Daniel Long, Julian E. Bautista, Sicheng Lin, Alex Smith, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, Andrei Variu, Seshadri Nadathur, Daniel Oravetz, Stephanie Escoffier, Eva Maria Mueller, Jeongin Moon, Etienne Burtin, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Julianna Stermer, Axel de la Macorra, Matthew A. Bershady, Hee-Jong Seo, Anand Raichoor, Paul Martini, Solène Chabanier, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, J. Rich, Anne-Marie Weijmans, Ariel G. Sánchez, Benjamin A. Weaver, Conor Sayres, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Kaike Pan, Will J. Percival, Corentin Ravoux, Adam J. Hawken, Jeremy L. Tinker, Zheng Zheng, Anže Slosar, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Cheng Zhao, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Andrei Cuceu, P. Noterdaeme, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, Arnaud de Mattia, Julien Guy, James Farr, Jo Bovy, Brad W. Lyke, Marie Aubert, Michael J. Chapman, Jean Marc Le Goff, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, S. Fromenteau, Jonathan Brinkmann, Shadab Alam, Rita Tojeiro, Arman Shafieloo, Michael R. Blanton, Donald P. Schneider, Karen L. Masters, Victoria de Sainte Agathe, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), eBOSS, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016), UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Department of Energy (US), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, and University of St Andrews. Centre for Contemporary Art
Subjects: galaxy redshift survey, Cosmic microwave background, Astrophysics, supernova legacy survey, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Particle and Plasma Physics, QB Astronomy, Large-scale structure of the Universe, angular power spectrum, QC, Weak gravitational lensing, QB, Physics, Quantum Physics, ly-alpha forest, Cosmic distance ladder, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Planck temperature, acoustic-oscillations, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Cosmology, photometry data release, symbols, astro-ph.CO, hubble-space-telescope, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cosmological parameters, Red Shift, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Halo, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, Planck, 010306 general physics, dark-energy constraints, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Molecular, Física, DAS, Galaxies, Redshift, QC Physics, Dark energy, digital sky survey, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], growth-rate, Hubble's law
Abstract: Shadab, Alam et al., We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using galaxies, quasars, and Lyα forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) lineage of experiments in large-scale structure. These experiments, composed of data from SDSS, SDSS-II, BOSS, and eBOSS, offer independent measurements of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements of angular-diameter distances and Hubble distances relative to the sound horizon, rd, from eight different samples and six measurements of the growth rate parameter, fσ8, from redshift-space distortions (RSD). This composite sample is the most constraining of its kind and allows us to perform a comprehensive assessment of the cosmological model after two decades of dedicated spectroscopic observation. We show that the BAO data alone are able to rule out dark-energy-free models at more than eight standard deviations in an extension to the flat, ΛCDM model that allows for curvature. When combined with Planck Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements of temperature and polarization, under the same model, the BAO data provide nearly an order of magnitude improvement on curvature constraints relative to primary CMB constraints alone. Independent of distance measurements, the SDSS RSD data complement weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in demonstrating a preference for a flat ΛCDM cosmological model when combined with Planck measurements. The combined BAO and RSD measurements indicate σ8=0.85±0.03, implying a growth rate that is consistent with predictions from Planck temperature and polarization data and with General Relativity. When combining the results of SDSS BAO and RSD, Planck, Pantheon Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), and DES weak lensing and clustering measurements, all multiple-parameter extensions remain consistent with a ΛCDM model. Regardless of cosmological model, the precision on each of the three parameters, ωΛ, H0, and σ8, remains at roughly 1%, showing changes of less than 0.6% in the central values between models. In a model that allows for free curvature and a time-evolving equation of state for dark energy, the combined samples produce a constraint ωk=-0.0022±0.0022. The dark energy constraints lead to w0=-0.909±0.081 and wa=-0.49-0.30+0.35, corresponding to an equation of state of wp=-1.018±0.032 at a pivot redshift zp=0.29 and a Dark Energy Task Force Figure of Merit of 94. The inverse distance ladder measurement under this model yields H0=68.18±0.79 km s-1 Mpc-1, remaining in tension with several direct determination methods; the BAO data allow Hubble constant estimates that are robust against the assumption of the cosmological model. In addition, the BAO data allow estimates of H0 that are independent of the CMB data, with similar central values and precision under a ΛCDM model. Our most constraining combination of data gives the upper limit on the sum of neutrino masses at mν, This paper represents an effort by both the SDSS-III and SDSS-IV collaborations. Funding for SDSS-III was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS website is www.sdss.org. SDSS-IV is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS Collaboration including the Brazilian Participation Group, the Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Mellon University, the Chilean Participation Group, the French Participation Group, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)/University of Tokyo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), National Astronomical Observatory of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, University of Notre Dame, Observatário Nacional/MCTI, The Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, University of Arizona, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Virginia, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.
Published: 2021

30. Testing the theory of gravity with DESI: estimators, predictions and simulation requirements

Author: Shadab Alam, Christian Arnold, Alejandro Aviles, Rachel Bean, Yan-Chuan Cai, Marius Cautun, Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, N. Chandrachani Devi, Alexander Eggemeier, Sebastien Fromenteau, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Vitali Halenka, Jian-hua He, Wojciech A. Hellwing, Cesar Hernandez-Aguayo, Mustapha Ishak, Kazuya Koyama, Baojiu Li, Axel de la Macorra, Jennifer Menesses Rizo, Christo
Published: 2021
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31. Primordial non-Gaussianity from the completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey – I: Catalogue preparation and systematic mitigation

Author: Kyle S. Dawson, Jiamin Hou, Ashley J. Ross, Hee-Jong Seo, Mehdi Rezaie, Eva Maria Mueller, Joel R. Brownstein, Axel de la Macorra, Julian E. Bautista, Gong-Bo Zhao, Etienne Burtin, Razvan Bunescu, Grant Merz, Eleanor B. Lyke, Reza Katebi, Will J. Percival, Donald P. Schneider, Graziano Rossi, Pauline Zarrouk, Héctor Gil-Marín, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Department of Energy (US), Ohio Supercomputer Center, National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (South Korea), University of Utah, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Subjects: FOS: Computer and information sciences, large-scale structure of the Universe, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Non-Gaussianity, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [INFO]Computer Science [cs], Large-scale structure of the Universe, inflation, Cluster analysis, Spurious relationship, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Stellar density, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Covariance, Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph), Inflation, Redshift, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Physics - Computational Physics, Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an), [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-DATA-AN]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability [physics.data-an], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We investigate the large-scale clustering of the final spectroscopic sample of quasars from the recently completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). The sample contains $343708$ objects in the redshift range $0.8, Comment: 17 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. For the associated code and value-added catalogs see https://github.com/mehdirezaie/sysnetdev and https://github.com/mehdirezaie/eBOSSDR16QSOE
Published: 2021

32. The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale structure catalogs for cosmological analysis

Author: Axel de la Macorra, Eric Jullo, Jeremy L. Tinker, J. N. McLane, Faizan G. Mohammad, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Sylvain de la Torre, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Arnaud de Mattia, Peter Doohyun Choi, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, Stephanie Escoffier, Hui Kong, S. Fromenteau, Stephen Bailey, Hee-Jong Seo, Solène Chabanier, Eva-Maria Mueller, Alex Smith, Jean-Paul Kneib, Joel R. Brownstein, Gong-Bo Zhao, Richard Neveux, Jonathan Brinkmann, Irene Cruz-González, Alexandra N. Higley, Kyle S. Dawson, Yucheng Zhang, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, John Moustakas, Etienne Burtin, Johan Comparat, Will J. Percival, Christian Nitschelm, Shadab Alam, Donald P. Schneider, Graziano Rossi, Julian E. Bautista, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Anthony R. Pullen, Cheng Zhao, Adam D. Myers, Pauline Zarrouk, Jiamin Hou, Romain Paviot, Mehdi Rezaie, Jeffrey A. Newman, Ashley J. Ross, M. Vivek, Rita Tojeiro, Mariana Vargas Magaña, Brad W. Lyke, Anand Raichoor, Héctor Gil-Marín, Dmitry Bizyaev, Center for Cosmology & AstroParticle Physics, Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation [Portsmouth] (ICG), University of Portsmouth, University of St Andrews [Scotland], Institute for Astronomy [Edinburgh] (IfA), University of Edinburgh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, University of Utah, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia [Barcelona] (IEEC-CSIC), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Laramie], University of Wyoming (UW), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Waterloo], University of Waterloo [Waterloo], Siena College [Loudonville], Department of Physics [Oxford], University of Oxford, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics [Waterloo], Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Ohio University - Athens (OU), Physics & Astronomy Department [Ohio University], Department of Physics [New York], New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU)-NYU System (NYU), National Astronomical Observatories [Beijing] (NAOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), New Mexico State University, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas [Madrid] (CIEMAT), Sejong University, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Department of Physics and Astronomy [Pittsburgh], University of Pittsburgh (PITT), Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Centro de Astronomia [Antofagasta] (CITEVA), Universidad de Antofagasta, Center for Computational Astrophysics [New York], Flatiron Institute, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [PennState], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016), ANR-11-IDEX-0001,Amidex,INITIATIVE D'EXCELLENCE AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE(2011), European Project: 670193,H2020,ERC-2014-ADG,COSFORM(2015), University of Oxford [Oxford], Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Department of Energy (US), European Commission, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France), and National Research Foundation of Korea
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), reconstruction, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, spiders, galaxies, emission, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, catalogues, power-spectrum analysis, QB, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Oscillation, Null (mathematics), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Sampling (statistics), DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, acoustic-oscillations, calibration, Catalogues, Galaxy, Redshift, Baryon, QC Physics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, cosmology: observations, digital sky survey, Cosmology Observations, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present large-scale structure catalogs from the completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). Derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) -IV Data Release 16 (DR16), these catalogs provide the data samples, corrected for observational systematics, and random positions sampling the survey selection function. Combined, they allow large-scale clustering measurements suitable for testing cosmological models. We describe the methods used to create these catalogs for the eBOSS DR16 Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) and Quasar samples. The quasar catalog contains 343,708 redshifts with $0.8 < z < 2.2$ over 4,808\,deg$^2$. We combine 174,816 eBOSS LRG redshifts over 4,242\,deg$^2$ in the redshift interval $0.6 < z < 1.0$ with SDSS-III BOSS LRGs in the same redshift range to produce a combined sample of 377,458 galaxy redshifts distributed over 9,493\,deg$^2$. Improved algorithms for estimating redshifts allow that 98 per cent of LRG observations result in a successful redshift, with less than one per cent catastrophic failures ($��z > 1000$ ${\rm km~s}^{-1}$). For quasars, these rates are 95 and 2 per cent (with $��z > 3000$ ${\rm km~s}^{-1}$). We apply corrections for trends between the number densities of our samples and the properties of the imaging and spectroscopic data. For example, the quasar catalog obtains a $��^2$/DoF$= 776/10$ for a null test against imaging depth before corrections and a $��^2$/DoF$=6/8$ after. The catalogs, combined with careful consideration of the details of their construction found here-in, allow companion papers to present cosmological results with negligible impact from observational systematic uncertainties., Matches version accepted by MNRAS, very minor changes. A summary of all SDSS BAO and RSD measurements with accompanying legacy figures can be found here: https://www.sdss.org/science/final-bao-and-rsd-measurements/ . The full cosmological interpretation of these measurements can be found here: https://sdss.org/science/cosmology-results-from-eboss/
Published: 2020

33. Cosmological signatures of a Rapid Diluted Energy Density

Author: Axel de la Macorra, Erick Almaraz, Jorge Mastache, Dante V. Gomez-Navarro, Alejandro Aviles, and Mariana Jaber
Subjects: Physics, Particle physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Matter power spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Elementary particle, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Lambda, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Spectral line, Massless particle, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Dark energy, Perturbation theory, Scale factor (cosmology), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the cosmological signatures of having extra energy density, $\rho_{ex}$, beyond the $\Lambda$CDM model that dilutes rapidly, faster than radiation, at a scale factor $a_c$ with a corresponding mode $k_c=a_c H(a_c)$ crossing the horizon at that time. These types of models are motivated by phase transitions of the underlying elementary particles, for example the creation of protons and neutrons from almost massless quarks or the recently proposed Bound Dark Energy model. The rapidly dilution of $\rho_{ex}$ leaves distinctive imprints in the Universe not only in the expansion history with a clear impact on the acoustic scale, $r_s(a_cc)$, and angular distances, $D_A(a)$, but also in the matter and CMB power spectra. The rapidly diluted energy density $\rho_{ex}$, (RDED) generates characteristic signatures that can be observed with current and future precision cosmological data. In particular, we find a bump in the matter power spectrum compared to the standard $\Lambda$CDM. We identify the amplitude, width, and time scale of the bump to the physical properties of the transition. We study these effects with linear theory, standard perturbation theory, and the correlated impact on cosmological distances, allowing for independent measurements of these extensions of the standard $\Lambda$CDM model., Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2020

34. The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from the anisotropic power spectrum of the Quasar sample between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Author: Faizan G. Mohammad, Mariappan Vivek, Richard Neveux, Jonathan Brinkmann, Brad W. Lyke, Kyle S. Dawson, Adam D. Myers, Graziano Rossi, Pauline Zarrouk, Will J. Percival, Axel de la Macorra, Alex Smith, Jeffrey A. Newman, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Eva-Maria Müller, Cheng Zhao, Arnaud de Mattia, Gong-Bo Zhao, Héctor Gil-Marín, Julian E. Bautista, Donald P. Schneider, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Etienne Burtin, Jiamin Hou, Ashley J. Ross, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Department of Energy (US), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), National Science Foundation (US), and ANR-17-CE31-0024,NILAC,Nouvelles implications des forêts Lyman-alpha en cosmologie(2017)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of universe, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, distance scale, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Max planck institute, Observatory, Dark energy, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies, evolution, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], User Facility, dark energy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Mathematics, large-scale structure of universe, Distance scale, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, space, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, galaxies: distances and redshifts, National laboratory, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the clustering of quasars of the final data release (DR16) of eBOSS. The sample contains 343708 quasars between redshifts 0.8 ≤ z ≤ 2.2 over 4699deg2⁠. We calculate the Legendre multipoles (0,2,4) of the anisotropic power spectrum and perform a BAO and a Full-Shape (FS) analysis at the effective redshift zeff = 1.480. The errors include systematic errors that amount to 1/3 of the statistical error. The systematic errors comprise a modelling part studied using a blind N-body mock challenge and observational effects studied with approximate mocks to account for various types of redshift smearing and fibre collisions. For the BAO analysis, we measure the transverse comoving distance DM(zeff)/rdrag = 30.60 ± 0.90 and the Hubble distance DH(zeff)/rdrag = 13.34 ± 0.60. This agrees with the configuration space analysis, and the consensus yields: DM(zeff)/rdrag = 30.69 ± 0.80 and DH(zeff)/rdrag = 13.26 ± 0.55. In the FS analysis, we fit the power spectrum using a model based on Regularised Perturbation Theory, which includes redshift space distortions and the Alcock–Paczynski effect. The results are DM(zeff)/rdrag = 30.68 ± 0.90 and DH(zeff)/rdrag = 13.52 ± 0.51 and we constrain the linear growth rate of structure f(zeff)σ8(zeff) = 0.476 ± 0.047. Our results agree with the configuration space analysis. The consensus analysis of the eBOSS quasar sample yields: DM(zeff)/rdrag = 30.21 ± 0.79, DH(zeff)/rdrag = 3.23 ± 0.47, and f(zeff)σ8(zeff) = 0.462 ± 0.045 and is consistent with a flat ΛCDM cosmological model using Planck results., R. Neveux acknowledges support from grant ANR-16-CE31-0021, eBOSS and from ANR-17-CE31-0024-01, NILAC. Funding for SDSS-III and SDSS-IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and participating institutions. Additional funding for SDSS-III comes from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Further information about both projects is available at www.sdss.org. SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions in both collaborations. In SDSS-III, these include the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University. The Participating Institutions in SDSS-IV are Carnegie Mellon University, Colorado University, Boulder, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), National Astronomical Observatories of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, The Ohio State University, Penn State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin, and Yale University. This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under contract DE- AC02-06CH11357. This work made use of the facilities and staff of the UK Sciama High Performance Computing cluster supported by the ICG, SEPNet, and the University of Portsmouth. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Published: 2020

35. 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

Author: Arnaud de Mattia, Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider, Anand Raichoor, Ashley J Ross, Amélie Tamone, Cheng Zhao, Shadab Alam, Santiago Avila, Etienne Burtin, Julian Bautista, Florian Beutler, Jonathan Brinkmann, Joel R Brownstein, Michael J Chapman, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Johan Comparat, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Kyle S Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Héctor Gil-Marín, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Claudio Gorgoni, Jiamin Hou, Hui Kong, Sicheng Lin, Seshadri Nadathur, Jeffrey A Newman, Eva-Maria Mueller, Will J Percival, Mehdi Rezaie, Graziano Rossi, Donald P Schneider, Prabhakar Tiwari, M Vivek, Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), European Commission, National Key Research and Development Program (China), National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (South Korea), Sejong University, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, and ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016)
Subjects: large-scale structure of universe, Distance scale, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, distance scale, 01 natural sciences, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], astro-ph.CO, galaxies: distances and redshifts, observations [Cosmology], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], dark energy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Mattia, A. de, et al., 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 1170 deg2 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 normalization 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., AdM acknowledges support from the P2IO LabEx (ANR-10-LABX-0038) in the framework ‘Investissements d’Avenir’ (ANR-11-IDEX-0003-01) managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, France). This work was supported by the ANR eBOSS project (ANR-16-CE31-0021) of the French National Research Agency. AR acknowledges support from the ERC advanced grant LIDA. AR, CZ, and AT acknowledge support from the SNF grant 200020_175751. AJR is grateful for support from the Ohio State University Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics. SA is supported by the European Research Council through the COSFORM Research Grant (#670193). SA was supported by the MICUES project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 713366 (InterTalentum UAM). VGP acknowledges support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC grant #769130). YW and GBZ are supported by NSFC Grants 11925303, 11720101004, 11673025 and 11890691. G-BZ is also supported by the National Key Basic Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018YFA0404503), and a grant of CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team. YW is also supported by the Nebula Talents Program of NAOC. GR acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through Grant Nos. 2017R1E1A1A01077508 and 2020R1A2C1005655 funded by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), and from the faculty research fund of Sejong University.
Published: 2020

36. The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys : First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Author: Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andrés Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Borja Anguiano, Riccardo Arcodia, Eric Armengaud, Marie Aubert, Santiago Avila, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Christophe Balland, Kat Barger, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Sarbani Basu, Julian Bautista, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, B. Izamar T. Benavides, Chad F. Bender, Mariangela Bernardi, Matthew Bershady, Florian Beutler, Christian Moni Bidin, Jonathan Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael R. Blanton, Médéric Boquien, Jura Borissova, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, Jonathan Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, Martin Bureau, Adam Burgasser, Etienne Burtin, Mariana Cano-Díaz, Raffaella Capasso, Michele Cappellari, Ricardo Carrera, Solène Chabanier, William Chaplin, Michael Chapman, Brian Cherinka, Cristina Chiappini, Peter Doohyun Choi, S. Drew Chojnowski, Haeun Chung, Nicolas Clerc, Damien Coffey, Julia M. Comerford, Johan Comparat, Luiz da Costa, Marie-Claude Cousinou, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Katia Cunha, Gabriele da Silva Ilha, Yu Sophia Dai, Sanna B. Damsted, Jeremy Darling, James W. Davidson, Roger Davies, Kyle Dawson, Nikhil De, Axel de la Macorra, Nathan De Lee, Anna Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz, Alice Deconto Machado, Sylvain de la Torre, Flavia Dell’Agli, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Sean Dillon, John Donor, Niv Drory, Chris Duckworth, Tom Dwelly, Garrett Ebelke, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Arthur Davis Eigenbrot, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Mike Eracleous, Ghazaleh Erfanianfar, Stephanie Escoffier, Xiaohui Fan, Emily Farr, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Diane Feuillet, Alexis Finoguenov, Patricia Fofie, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Sebastien Fromenteau, Hai Fu, Lluís Galbany, Rafael A. Garcia, D. A. 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Chaplin W., Chapman M., Cherinka B., Chiappini C., Doohyun Choi P., Chojnowski S.D., Chung H., Clerc N., Coffey D., Comerford J.M., Comparat J., Da Costa L., Cousinou M.-C., Covey K., Crane J.D., Cunha K., Ilha G.D.S., Dai Y.S., Damsted S.B., Darling J., Davidson J.W., Davies R., Dawson K., De N., De La Macorra A., De Lee N., Queiroz A.B.D.A., Deconto Machado A., De La Torre S., Dell'Agli F., Du Mas Des Bourboux H., Diamond-Stanic A.M., Dillon S., Donor J., Drory N., Duckworth C., Dwelly T., Ebelke G., Eftekharzadeh S., Davis Eigenbrot A., Elsworth Y.P., Eracleous M., Erfanianfar G., Escoffier S., Fan X., Farr E., Fernandez-Trincado J.G., Feuillet D., Finoguenov A., Fofie P., Fraser-Mckelvie A., Frinchaboy P.M., Fromenteau S., Fu H., Galbany L., Garcia R.A., Garcia-Hernandez D.A., Oehmichen L.A.G., Ge J., Maia M.A.G., Geisler D., Gelfand J., Goddy J., Gonzalez-Perez V., Grabowski K., Green P., Grier C.J., Guo H., Guy J., Harding P., Hasselquist S., Hawken A.J., Hayes C.R., Hearty F., Hekker S., Hogg D.W., Holtzman J.A., Horta D., Hou J., Hsieh B.-C., Huber D., Hunt J.A.S., Chitham J.I., Imig J., Jaber M., Angel C.E.J., Johnson J.A., Jones A.M., Jonsson H., Jullo E., Kim Y., Kinemuchi K., Kirkpatrick Iv C.C., Kite G.W., Klaene M., Kneib J.-P., Kollmeier J.A., Kong H., Kounkel M., Krishnarao D., Lacerna I., Lan T.-W., Lane R.R., Law D.R., Le Goff J.-M., Leung H.W., Lewis H., Li C., Lian J., Lin L., Long D., Longa-Peña P., Lundgren B., Lyke B.W., Ted Mackereth J., Macleod C.L., Majewski S.R., Manchado A., Maraston C., Martini P., Masseron T., Masters K.L., Mathur S., McDermid R.M., Merloni A., Merrifield M., Meszaros S., Miglio A., Minniti D., Minsley R., Miyaji T., Mohammad F.G., Mosser B., Mueller E.-M., Muna D., Muñoz-Gutierrez A., Myers A.D., Nadathur S., Nair P., Nandra K., Do Nascimento J.C., Nevin R.J., Newman J.A., Nidever D.L., Nitschelm C., Noterdaeme P., O'Connell J.E., Olmstead M.D., Oravetz D., Oravetz A., Osorio Y., Pace Z.J., Padilla N., Palanque-Delabrouille N., Palicio P.A., Pan H.-A., Pan K., Parker J., Paviot R., Peirani S., Ramrez K.P., Penny S., Percival W.J., Perez-Fournon I., Perez-Rafols I., Petitjean P., Pieri M.M., Pinsonneault M., Poovelil V.J., Povick J.T., Prakash A., Price-Whelan A.M., Raddick M.J., Raichoor A., Ray A., Rembold S.B., Rezaie M., Riffel R.A., Riffel R., Rix H.-W., Robin A.C., Roman-Lopes A., Roman-Zuñiga C., Rose B., Ross A.J., Rossi G., Rowlands K., Rubin K.H.R., Salvato M., Sanchez A.G., Sanchez-Menguiano L., Sanchez-Gallego J.R., Sayres C., Schaefer A., Schiavon R.P., Schimoia J.S., Schlafly E., Schlegel D., Schneider D.P., Schultheis M., Schwope A., Seo H.-J., Serenelli A., Shafieloo A., Shamsi S.J., Shao Z., Shen S., Shetrone M., Shirley R., Aguirre V.S., Simon J.D., Skrutskie M.F., Slosar A., Smethurst R., Sobeck J., Sodi B.C., Souto D., Stark D.V., Stassun K.G., Steinmetz M., Stello D., Stermer J., Storchi-Bergmann T., Streblyanska A., Stringfellow G.S., Stutz A., Suarez G., Sun J., Taghizadeh-Popp M., Talbot M.S., Tayar J., Thakar A.R., Theriault R., Thomas D., Thomas Z.C., Tinker J., Tojeiro R., Toledo H.H., Tremonti C.A., Troup N.W., Tuttle S., Unda-Sanzana E., Valentini M., Vargas-Gonzalez J., Vargas-Magaña M., Vazquez-Mata J.A., Vivek M., Wake D., Wang Y., Weaver B.A., Weijmans A.-M., Wild V., Wilson J.C., Wilson R.F., Wolthuis N., Wood-Vasey W.M., Yan R., Yang M., Yeche C., Zamora O., Zarrouk P., Zasowski G., Zhang K., Zhao C., Zhao G., Zheng Z., Zhu G., Zou H., Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Department of Energy (US)
Subjects: Optical telescopes, SAMPLE, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, Infrared astronomy, Observatory, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, REDSHIFT 0.8, redshift surveys, stellar spectral lines, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Astronomy databases, Redshift surveys, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, stellar properties, CATALOG, astro-ph.CO, astronomy databases, Data release, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], infrared astonomy, TELESCOPE, astro-ph.GA, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, MASS, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Galactic abundances, Stellar properties, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, DISTANCES, Stellar spectral lines, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, optical telescopes, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Galaxy, GALAXY, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], STELLAR, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], galactic abundances, MILKY, astro-ph.IM, SDSS-IV MANGA
Abstract: This paper documents the 16th data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS), the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of data from the Southern Hemisphere survey of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2); new data from APOGEE-2 North are also included. DR16 is also notable as the final data release for the main cosmological program of the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), and all raw and reduced spectra from that project are released here. DR16 also includes all the data from the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey and new data from the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Survey programs, both of which were co-observed on eBOSS plates. DR16 has no new data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey (or the MaNGA Stellar Library "MaStar"). We also preview future SDSS-V operations (due to start in 2020), and summarize plans for the final SDSS-IV data release (DR17)., Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS website is www.sdss.org.
Published: 2020

37. LyaCoLoRe: Synthetic Datasets for Current and Future Lyman-${\alpha}$ Forest BAO Surveys

Author: Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Anže Slosar, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, J. Rich, James Farr, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Kai Zhang, F. Javier Sánchez, Thomas Etourneau, Duan Yutong, David Alonso, Andrew Pontzen, Axel de la Macorra, Andreu Font-Ribera, Gregory Tarlé, Peter Doel, Julien Guy, David J. Brooks, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: dark energy experiments, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Statistical power, Gaussian random field, Particle and Plasma Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Nuclear, redshift surveys, Remote sensing, Physics, baryon acoustic oscillations, Cross-correlation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Lyman alpha forest, 15. Life on land, Lyman-alpha forest, Nuclear & Particles Physics, Redshift, red-shift surveys, Dark energy, Baryon acoustic oscillations, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The statistical power of Lyman-${\alpha}$ forest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements is set to increase significantly in the coming years as new instruments such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument deliver progressively more constraining data. Generating mock datasets for such measurements will be important for validating analysis pipelines and evaluating the effects of systematics. With such studies in mind, we present LyaCoLoRe: a package for producing synthetic Lyman-${\alpha}$ forest survey datasets for BAO analyses. LyaCoLoRe transforms initial Gaussian random field skewers into skewers of transmitted flux fraction via a number of fast approximations. In this work we explain the methods of producing mock datasets used in LyaCoLoRe, and then measure correlation functions on a suite of realisations of such data. We demonstrate that we are able to recover the correct BAO signal, as well as large-scale bias parameters similar to literature values. Finally, we briefly describe methods to add further astrophysical effects to our skewers - high column density systems and metal absorbers - which act as potential complications for BAO analyses., Comment: 29 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2020

38. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release

Author: Joel R. Brownstein, Scott F. Anderson, Nicolás G. Busca, Pauline Zarrouk, Will J. Percival, Johan Comparat, Brad W. Lyke, Patrick Petitjean, Julian E. Bautista, Mara Salvato, Benjamin A. Weaver, Jonathan Brinkmann, Jiamin Hou, Danielle P. Schurhammer, Kyle S. Dawson, Alexandra N. Higley, Alina Streblyanska, Ashley J. Ross, James Rich, Isabelle Pâris, Jeffrey A. Newman, Solène Chabanier, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, W. N. Brandt, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Graziano Rossi, Donald P. Schneider, Adam D. Myers, Andrea Muñoz Gutiérrez, Paul J. Green, Alex Smith, Etienne Burtin, J. N. McLane, M. Vivek, Dmitry Bizyaev, Axel de la Macorra, Paul Martini, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Observational cosmology, 0103 physical sciences, ROSAT, Emission spectrum, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog comprises the largest selection of spectroscopically confirmed quasars to date. The full catalog includes two sub-catalogs: a "superset" of all SDSS-IV/eBOSS objects targeted as quasars containing 1,440,615 observations and a quasar-only catalog containing 750,414 quasars, including 225,082 new quasars appearing in an SDSS data release for the first time, as well as known quasars from SDSS-I/II/III. We present automated identification and redshift information for these quasars alongside data from visual inspections for 320,161 spectra. The quasar-only catalog is estimated to be 99.8% complete with 0.3% to 1.3% contamination. Automated and visual inspection redshifts are supplemented by redshifts derived via principal component analysis and emission lines. We include emission line redshifts for H$\alpha$, H$\beta$, Mg II, C III], C IV, and Ly$\alpha$. Identification and key characteristics generated by automated algorithms are presented for 99,856 Broad Absorption Line quasars and 35,686 Damped Lyman Alpha quasars. In addition to SDSS photometric data, we also present multi-wavelength data for quasars from GALEX, UKIDSS, WISE, FIRST, ROSAT/2RXS, XMM-Newton, and Gaia. Calibrated digital optical spectra for these quasars can be obtained from the SDSS Science Archive Server., Comment: 32 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables. Accepted to ApJS. Catalog files are available at https://data.sdss.org/sas/dr16/eboss/qso/DR16Q/ . A summary of all SDSS BAO and RSD measurements with legacy figures can be found at https://www.sdss.org/science/final-bao-and-rsd-measurements/ while full cosmological interpretation of these can be found at https://www.sdss.org/science/cosmology-results-from-eboss/
Published: 2020

39. The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 LRG sample: structure growth rate measurement from the anisotropic LRG correlation function in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 1.0

Author: Cheng Zhao, B. Camacho, Axel de la Macorra, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Yuting Wang, Héctor Gil-Marín, Jeremy L. Tinker, M. Icaza-Lizaola, Graziano Rossi, Romain Paviot, Gong Bo Zao, Ashley J. Ross, S. Fromenteau, Shadab Alam, Irene Cruz-González, Abhishek Prakash, Donald P. Schneider, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Angular diameter distance, Dark matter, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Redshift, Cosmology, Galaxy, Redshift-space distortions, Baryon, surveys, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, large-scale structure of Universe, dark energy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We analyze the anisotropic clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Luminous Red Galaxy Data Release 14 (DR14) sample combined with Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample of galaxies in the redshift range 0.6$, Comment: Accepted on the 5th December 2019, 28 pages,27 figures
Published: 2020

40. 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

Author: Julian E Bautista, Romain Paviot, Mariana Vargas Magaña, Sylvain de la Torre, Sebastien Fromenteau, Hector Gil-Marín, Ashley J Ross, Etienne Burtin, Kyle S Dawson, Jiamin Hou, Jean-Paul Kneib, Arnaud de Mattia, Will J Percival, Graziano Rossi, Rita Tojeiro, Cheng Zhao, Gong-Bo Zhao, Shadab Alam, Joel Brownstein, Michael J Chapman, Peter D Choi, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Stéphanie Escoffier, Axel de la Macorra, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Faizan G Mohammad, Jeongin Moon, Eva-Maria Müller, Seshadri Nadathur, Jeffrey A Newman, Donald Schneider, Hee-Jong Seo, Yuting Wang, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation [Portsmouth] (ICG), University of Portsmouth, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Instituto de Ciencias Físicas, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institute for Space Studies of Catalonia [Barcelona] (IEEC-CSIC), Center for Cosmology & AstroParticle Physics, Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, University of Utah, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Waterloo], University of Waterloo [Waterloo], Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics [Waterloo], Sejong University, University of St Andrews [Scotland], National Astronomical Observatories [Beijing] (NAOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Institute for Astronomy [Edinburgh] (IfA), University of Edinburgh, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University, Department of Physics [Oxford], University of Oxford [Oxford], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Pittsburgh], University of Pittsburgh (PITT), Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System, Physics & Astronomy Department [Ohio University], Ohio University - Athens (OU), ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016), European Project: 670193,H2020,ERC-2014-ADG,COSFORM(2015), La Caixa, National Research Foundation of Korea, European Commission, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (US), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and University of Oxford
Subjects: reconstruction, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], FOS: Physical sciences, Large scale structure, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, large scale structure, 01 natural sciences, cosmology: dark energy, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, large-scale structure of Universe [Cosmology], QB Astronomy, perturbation-theory, cosmic structure, dark energy, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, dark energy survey, QC, power-spectrum analysis, QB, survey cosmological implications, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, measuring d-a, cosmology: large-scale structure of universe, Astronomy and Astrophysics, DAS, acoustic-oscillations, Cosmology, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, astro-ph.CO, space distortions, dark energy [Cosmology], dr14 quasar sample, cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Bautista, Julian E., et al., 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., RP, SdlT, and SE acknowledge the support from the French National Research Agency (ANR) under contract ANR-16-CE31-0021, eBOSS. SdlT and SE acknowledge the support of the OCEVU Labex (ANR-11-LABX-0060) and the A*MIDEX project (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02) funded by the ‘Investissements d’Avenir’ French government programme managed by the ANR. MVM and SF are partially supported by Programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigación e Inovación ca Teconológica (PAPITT) no. IA101518, no. IA101619, Proyecto LANCAD-UNAM-DGTIC-319, and LANCAD-UNAM-DGTIC-136. HGM acknowledges the support from la Caixa Foundation (ID 100010434) code LCF/BQ/PI18/11630024. SA is supported by the European Research Council through the COSFORM Research Grant (#670193). GR, PDC, and JM acknowledge support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through Grant Nos. 2017R1E1A1A01077508 and 2020R1A2C1005655 funded by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), and from the faculty research fund of Sejong University. Numerical computations were done on the Sciama High Performance Compute (HPC) cluster, which is supported by the ICG, SEPNet, and the University of Portsmouth. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This research also uses resources of the HPC cluster ATOCATL-IA-UNAM México. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 693024).
Published: 2020
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41. 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

Author: Kyle S. Dawson, Will J. Percival, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Axel de la Macorra, Graziano Rossi, Alex Smith, Julian E. Bautista, Ariel G. Sánchez, Pauline Zarrouk, Mariana Vargas Magaña, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Richard Neveux, Donald P. Schneider, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Héctor Gil-Marín, Adam D. Myers, Brad W. Lyke, Jonathan Brinkmann, Jeffrey A. Newman, Joel R. Brownstein, Eva Maria Mueller, Jiamin Hou, Ashley J. Ross, Gong-Bo Zhao, Roman Scoccimarro, M. Vivek, Etienne Burtin, Arnaud de Mattia, Cheng Zhao, Faizan G. Mohammad, Department of Energy (US), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Correlation function (quantum field theory), 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Physics::Geophysics, Methods: data analysis, distance scale [Cosmology], 0103 physical sciences, Cosmology: distance scale, data analysis [Methods], observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Legendre polynomials, fiber collisions, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, power-spectrum analysis, acoustic peak, Physics, survey cosmological implications, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, measuring d-a, Angular diameter distance, Cosmology: observations, cosmology: large-scale structure of universe, Cosmology: dark energy, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, covariance matrices, general [Quasars], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, main galaxy sample, Redshift, Baryon, Quasars: general, Space and Planetary Science, dark energy [Cosmology], digital sky survey, Multipole expansion, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], growth-rate, catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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 $8 \, h{-1}\, {\rm Mpc}$, f?8(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 $f\sigma-8{{\bf c}}(z-{\rm eff}) = 0.462 \pm 0.045$., In addition, this research relied on resources provided to the eBOSS Collaboration by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). NERSC is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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42. The Completed SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Lyα Forests

Author: Edmond Chaussidon, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Hee-Jong Seo, Solène Chabanier, Will J. Percival, Brad W. Lyke, Graziano Rossi, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Victoria de Sainte Agathe, Matthew M. Pieri, M. Vivek, Samantha Youles, Jean Marc Le Goff, Thomas Etourneau, James Rich, Patrick Petitjean, Anže Slosar, James C. Parker, Christophe Yèche, Julian E. Bautista, James Farr, Eva Maria Mueller, Kyle S. Dawson, Andrea Muñoz Gutiérrez, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jonathan Brinkmann, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Andrei Cuceu, Julianna Stermer, Corentin Ravoux, Adam D. Myers, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Julien Guy, Axel de la Macorra, Joel R. Brownstein, Christophe Balland, Christian Nitschelm, Michael Blomqvist, Donald P. Schneider, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016)
Subjects: Physics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Oscillation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Redshift, Baryon, symbols.namesake, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, symbols, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Planck, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: We present a measurement of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) from Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) absorption and quasars at an effective redshift $z=2.33$ using the complete extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). The sixteenth and final eBOSS data release (SDSS DR16) contains all data from eBOSS and its predecessor, the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), providing $210,005$ quasars with $z_{q}>2.10$ that are used to measure Ly$\alpha$ absorption. We measure the BAO scale both in the auto-correlation of Ly$\alpha$ absorption and in its cross correlation with $341,468$ quasars with redshift $z_{q}>1.77$. Apart from the statistical gain from new quasars and deeper observations, the main improvements over previous work come from more accurate modeling of physical and instrumental correlations and the use of new sets of mock data. Combining the BAO measurement from the auto- and cross-correlation yields the constraints of the two ratios $D_{H}(z=2.33)/r_{d} = 8.99 \pm 0.19$ and $D_{M}(z=2.33)/r_{d} = 37.5 \pm 1.1$, where the error bars are statistical. These results are within $1.5\sigma$ of the prediction of the flat-$\Lambda$CDM cosmology of Planck~(2016). The analysis code, \texttt{picca}, the catalog of the flux-transmission field measurements, and the $\Delta \chi^{2}$ surfaces are publicly available., Comment: 37 pages, 23 figures, Matches the published version by ApJ
Published: 2020

43. The Completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: The Damped Lyα Systems Catalog

Author: Solène Chabanier, Thomas Etourneau, Jean-Marc Le Goff, James Rich, Julianna Stermer, Bela Abolfathi, Andreu Font-Ribera, Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales, Axel de la Macorra, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew M. Pieri, Corentin Ravoux, Graziano Rossi, Donald P. Schneider, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016)
Subjects: Particle and Plasma Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Molecular, Nuclear, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Atomic, Astronomical and Space Sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-DATA-AN]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability [physics.data-an], Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract: We present the characteristics of the damped Lyα (DLA) systems found in data release DR16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The DLAs were identified using the convolutional neural network of Parks et al. (2018). A total of 117,458 absorber candidates were found with 2 ≤ z DLA ≤ 5.5 and 19.7 ≤ log ( N ( H I ) / cm − 2 ) ≤ 22 , including 57,136 DLA candidates with log ( N ( H I ) / cm − 2 ) ≥ 20.3 . Mock quasar spectra were used to estimate the DLA detection efficiency and the purity of the resulting catalog. Restricting the quasar sample to bright forests, i.e., those with mean forest fluxes f λ ¯ > 2 × 10 − 19 W m − 2 nm − 1 , the efficiency and purity are greater than 90% for DLAs with column densities in the range 20.1 ≤ log ( N ( H I ) / cm − 2 ) ≤ 22 .
Published: 2022

44. Analytic Fluid Approximation for Warm Dark Matter

Author: Jorge Mastache and Axel de la Macorra
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Computer Science::Networking and Internet Architecture, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the full evolution of the velocity of a massive particle, along with the equation of state we can compute the energy density and pressure evolution for the background evolution. It is also natural to compute the perturbation equations for any massive decoupled particle, i.e. warm dark matter (WDM) or neutrinos, in the fluid approximation. Using this approach we analytically compute the time when the WDM stop being relativistic, $a_{nr}$, which is 2.6\% different respect to the exact Boltzmann solution. Using the fluid approximation the matter power spectrum is computed faster and with great accuracy, the cut-off in structure formation due to the free-streaming ($\lambda_{fs}$) of the particle, characteristic for a WDM particle, is replicated in both matter power spectrum and halo mass function. With this approach, we have a deeper understanding of the WDM physics that lead us to show that the temperature the dark matter can be computed as a function of known properties of the WDM particle. This formulation can be integrated into comprehensive numerical modeling reasonable increasing the performance in the calculations, therefore, we analyze the parameter $a_{nr}$ in a $\Lambda$WDM model using CMB Planck data combined with matter power spectrum data set of WiggleZ, obtaining a lower bound for the WDM mass $m_{\rm wdm} = 70.3$ eV at 86\% confidence, this value is consistent with WiggleZ data set but more data at small scales or a combination with other observations are needed to stronger constrain the mass value of the WDM particle., Comment: 16 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2019

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

Author: Anže Slosar, Matthew M. Pieri, Christophe Balland, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Jean Marc Le Goff, Michael Blomqvist, C. Yeche, Kyle S. Dawson, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, J. Bautista, Julien Guy, Donald P. Schneider, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Will J. Percival, Axel de la Macorra, Victoria De Sainte Agathe, J. Rich, Andreu Font-Ribera, Nicolás G. Busca, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Utah, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, University College of London [London] (UCL), University of Portsmouth, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), University of Waterloo [Waterloo], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System, Brookhaven National Laboratory [Upton, NY] (BNL), U.S. Department of Energy [Washington] (DOE)-UT-Battelle, LLC-Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), ANR under contract ANR-14-ACHN-0021, ANR-11-IDEX-0001,Amidex,INITIATIVE D'EXCELLENCE AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE(2011), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), UT-Battelle, LLC-Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY)-U.S. Department of Energy [Washington] (DOE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Brookhaven National Laboratory, and ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02/11-IDEX-0001,AMIDEX,AMIDEX(2011)
Subjects: Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cosmic microwave background, Angular diameter distance, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Correlation function (astronomy), 01 natural sciences, Redshift, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, Baryon acoustic oscillations, cosmological parameters, dark energy, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We measure the imprint of primordial baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the correlation function of Ly$\alpha$ 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-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) region, we use, for the first time, Ly$\alpha$ absorption in the Lyman-$\beta$ region of 56,154 spectra. We measure the Hubble distance, $D_H$, and the comoving angular diameter distance, $D_M$, relative to the sound horizon at the drag epoch $r_d$ at an effective redshift $z=2.34$. Using a physical model of the correlation function outside the BAO peak, we find $D_H(2.34)/r_d=8.86\pm 0.29$ and $D_M(2.34)/r_d=37.41\pm 1.86$, within 1$\sigma$ from the flat-$\Lambda$CDM 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-Ly$\alpha$ cross-correlation measurement presented in a companion paper Blomqvist19, the BAO measurements at $z=2.35$ are within 1.7$\sigma$ of the predictions of this model., Comment: accepted by A&A
Published: 2019

46. Redshift-weighted constraints on primordial non-Gaussianity from the clustering of the eBOSS DR14 quasars in Fourier space

Author: Peter Doohyun Choi, Cheng Zhao, Florian Beutler, Graziano Rossi, Gong-Bo Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Uroš Seljak, Axel de la Macorra, Ashley J. Ross, Rossana Ruggeri, Héctor Gil-Marín, Donald P. Schneider, Emanuele Castorina, Will J. Percival, Nick Hand, and Kyle S. Dawson
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), galaxy power spectrum, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, power spectrum, 01 natural sciences, Measure (mathematics), Non-Gaussianity, cosmological parameters from lss, 0103 physical sciences, evolution, inflation, redshift surveys, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Spectral density, Sigma, Estimator, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, sample, Redshift, Baryon, 13. Climate action, baryon acoustic-oscillations, digital sky survey, growth-rate, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We present constraints on local primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), parametrized through $f^{\rm loc}_{\rm NL}$, using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 14 quasar sample. We measure and analyze the anisotropic clustering of the quasars in Fourier space, testing for the scale-dependent bias introduced by primordial non-Gaussianity on large scales. We derive and employ a power spectrum estimator using optimal weights that account for the redshift evolution of the PNG signal. We find constraints of $-51, Comment: 28 pages, 12 figures. Comments welcome!
Published: 2019

47. The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample:a tomographic measurement of cosmic structure growth and expansion rate based on optimal redshift weights

Author: Cheng Zhao, Rita Tojeiro, Adam D. Myers, Graziano Rossi, Falk Baumgarten, Jiamin Hou, Axel de la Macorra, John A. Peacock, Rossana Ruggeri, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Isabelle Pâris, Yuting Wang, Will J. Percival, Eva Maria Mueller, Héctor Gil-Marín, Julian E. Bautista, Donald P. Schneider, Dandan Wang, Florian Beutler, Fangzhou Zhu, Ashley J. Ross, Gong-Bo Zhao, Shun Saito, Jeremy L. Tinker, Pauline Zarrouk, Kyle S. Dawson, Ariel G. Sánchez, Joel R. Brownstein, Arman Shafieloo, Jian Li, Etienne Burtin, Institut Lagrange de Paris, Sorbonne Université (SU), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Universités, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), and Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, Cosmological parameters, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, distance scale, 01 natural sciences, Redshift-space distortions, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, cosmological parameters, dark energy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Physics, Field galaxy, Distance scale, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, Baryon acoustic oscillations, large-scale structure of Universe, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We develop a new method, which is based on the optimal redshift weighting scheme, to extract the maximal tomographic information of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and redshift space distortions (RSD) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 quasar (DR14Q) survey. We validate our method using the EZ mocks, and apply our pipeline to the eBOSS DR14Q sample in the redshift range of $0.8, Comment: 18 pages, 18 figures, 5 tables; This paper is part of a set that analyses the eBOSS DR14 quasar sample; MNRAS accepted
Published: 2019

48. Imprint of a Steep Equation of State in the growth of structure

Author: Mariana Jaber-Bravo, Axel de la Macorra, and Erick Almaraz
Subjects: Physics, Structure formation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Matter power spectrum, Equation of state (cosmology), Logarithmic growth, Spectral density, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Function (mathematics), 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Mathematical physics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: We study the cosmological properties of a dynamical of dark energy (DE) component determined by a Steep Equation of State (SEoS) $w(z)=w_0+w_i\frac{(z/z_T)^q}{1+(z/z_T)^q}$. The SEoS has a transition at $z_T$ between two pivotal values ($w_i, w_0$) which can be taken as an early time and present day values of $w$ and the steepness is given by $q$. We describe the impact of this dynamical DE at background and perturbative level. The steepness of the transition has a better cosmological fit than a conventional CPL model with $w=w_0+w_a(1-a)$. Furthermore, we analyze the impact of steepness of the transition in the growth of matter perturbations and structure formation. This is manifest in the linear matter power spectrum, $P(k)$, the logarithmic growth function, $f\sigma_8(z)$, and the differential mass function $dn/d\log M(z=0)$. The differences in these last three quantities is at a percent-level using the same cosmological baseline parameters in our SEoS and a $\Lambda CDM$ model. However, we find an increase in the power spectrum, producing a bump at $k\approx k_T$ with $k_T\equiv a_TH(a_T)$ the mode associated to the time of the steep transition ($a_T = 1/(1+z_T)$). Different dynamics of DE lead to a different amount of DM at present time which has an impact in Power Spectrum and accordingly in structure formation., Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures
Published: 2019
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49. Bound Dark Matter (BDM) towards solving the small scale structure problem

Author: Axel de la Macorra and Jorge Mastache
Subjects: Physics, Phase transition, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Structure formation, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Equation of state (cosmology), Cosmic microwave background, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Redshift, Metric expansion of space, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Scale factor (cosmology), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Cosmological observations such as structure formation, CMB, and cosmic distance ladder set tight constraints to the amount and nature of dark matter (DM). In particular structure formation strongly constraints not only the amount of energy density, but also the time when DM became non-relativistic, anr. Standard cold and thermic warm DM particles have a smooth transition from being relativistic at high energies to a non-relativistic regime since the mass of these particles is constant while the velocity redshifts with the expansion of the universe. However, here we explore the possibility that the DM particle acquires a non-perturbative mass at a phase transition scale and a scale factor ac. This transition acquired a more fundamental meaning for the Bound Dark Matter (BDM) model because they describe a particle getting its mass through a non-perturbative process. These BDM particles may go from being relativistic to non-relativistic at ac, which implies an abrupt transition of the velocity of the particles vc at that time, affecting the equation of state and the cosmological evolution. Here we study the cosmological impact of the values of vc and the scale transition ac and they by reducing the free-streaming scale and therefore the small scale structure. Using CMB Plank, Supernovae SNIa, and BAO data, we constrain the valid region in the parameter space ac-vc putting upper bounds to ac but not restricting vc. For instance, the transition must be ac, Comment: 24 pages, 10 figues
Published: 2020

50. Nonlinear structure formation in Bound Dark Energy

Author: Axel de la Macorra, Erick Almaraz, and Baojiu Li
Subjects: Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Meson, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Matter power spectrum, Halo mass function, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 13. Climate action, 0103 physical sciences, Dark energy, Halo, Scalar meson, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Quintessence
Abstract: We study nonlinear structure formation in the Bound Dark Energy model (BDE), where dark energy (DE) corresponds to a light scalar meson particle $\phi$ dynamically formed at a condensation energy scale $\Lambda_c$. The evolution of this dark-energy meson is determined by the potential $V(\phi)=\Lambda_c^{4+2/3}\phi^{-2/3}$, with a distinguishing phenomenology from other quintessence scenarios. Particularly, the expansion rate of the universe is affected not only at late times, but also when the condensation of $\phi$ occurs, which in linear theory leads to an enhancement (with respect to standard $\Lambda$CDM) of matter perturbations on small scales. We study how much of this signature is still present at late times as well as the properties of dark matter halos in the nonlinear regime through N-body simulations. Our results show that nonlinear corrections wash out this feature from the matter power spectrum even before DE becomes dominant. There is, however, a small but clear suppression of the BDE spectrum of $2\%$ today on the largest scales due to the distinct late-time dynamics of DE. The differences on the clustering power between BDE and $\Lambda$CDM are reflected in the halo mass function, where small halos are more abundant in BDE as opposed to large heavy structures, whose formation is delayed because of the expansion history of the universe. This result is well captured by the semi-analytical Sheth-Tormen formula. However, despite these differences, the halo concentration parameter is essentially the same in both models, which suggest that clustering inside the halos decouple from the general expansion once the halos form., Comment: Accepted version. Extended discussions in sections 2, 3.2 & 4.3. More references added
Published: 2020

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