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The clustering of luminous red galaxies at z $\sim$ 0.7 from eBOSS and BOSS data
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- We present the first scientific results from the luminous red galaxy sample (LRG) of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). We measure the small and intermediate scale clustering from a sample of more than 61,000 galaxies in the redshift range $0.6 < z < 0.9$. We interpret these measurements in the framework of the Halo Occupation Distribution. The bias of eBOSS LRGs is $2.30 \pm 0.03$, with a satellite fraction of $13\pm3$\% and a mean halo mass of $2.5\times10^{13}h^{-1}M_{\odot}$. These results are consistent with expectations, demonstrating that eBOSS galaxies will be reliable tracers of large scale structure at $z\sim 0.7$. The eBOSS galaxy bias implies a scatter of luminosity at fixed halo mass, $\sigma_{\log L}$, of 0.19 dex. Using the clustering of massive galaxies from BOSS-CMASS, BOSS-LOWZ, and SDSS, we find that $\sigma_{\log L}=0.19$ is consistent with observations over the full redshift range that these samples cover. The addition of eBOSS to previous surveys allows investigation of the evolution of massive galaxies over the past $\sim 7$ Gyr.<br />Comment: 15 pages, 16 figures; changes following referee's comments; matches the accepted version
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1607.05383
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8eee