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Improving baryon acoustic oscillation measurement with the combination of cosmic voids and galaxies

Zhao, Cheng  
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Chuang, Chia-Hsun
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Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
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January 1, 2020
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

We develop a methodology to optimize the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO from tracers in underdense regions (voids). In this study, we combine the overdense and underdense tracers (galaxies and voids) to obtain better constraints on the BAO scale. To this end, we modify the de-wiggled BAO model with an additional parameter to describe both the BAO peak and the underlying exclusion pattern of void 2PCFs. We show that after applying BAO reconstruction to galaxies, the BAO peak scale of both galaxies and voids are unbiased using the modified model. Furthermore, we use a new 2PCF estimator for a multitracer analysis with galaxies and voids. In simulations, the joint sample improves by about 10 per cent the constraint for the post-reconstruction BAO peak position compared to the result from galaxies alone, which is equivalent to an enlargement of the survey volume by 20 per cent. Applying this method to the BOSS DR12 data, we have an 18 per cent improvement for the low-z sample (0.2 < z< 0.5), but a worse constraint for the high-z sample (0.5 < z < 0.75), which is consistent with statistical fluctuations for the current survey volume. Future larger samples will give more robust improvements due to less statistical fluctuations.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stz3339
Web of Science ID

WOS:000512306500109

Author(s)
Zhao, Cheng  
Chuang, Chia-Hsun
Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
Liang, Yu
Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos
Tao, Charling
Vargas-Magaa, Mariana
Variu, Andrei  
Yepes, Gustavo
Date Issued

2020-01-01

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

491

Issue

3

Start page

4554

End page

4572

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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methods: data analysis

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methods: statistical

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galaxies: statistics

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cosmology: observations

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large-scale structure of universe

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power-spectrum analysis

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large-scale structure

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distance measurements

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perturbation-theory

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initial conditions

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redshift-space

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reconstruction

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density

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efficient

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cosmology

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REVIEWED

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