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The completed SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: pairwise-inverse probability and angular correction for fibre collisions in clustering measurements

Mohammad, Faizan G.
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Percival, Will J.
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Seo, Hee-Jong
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October 1, 2020
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

The completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) catalogues contain redshifts of 344 080 quasars at 0.8 < z < 2.2, 174 816 luminous red galaxies between 0.6 < z < 1.0, and 173 736 emission-line galaxies over 0.6 < z < 1.1 in order to constrain the expansion history of the Universe and the growth rate of structure through clustering measurements. Mechanical limitations of the fibre-fed spectrograph on the Sloan telescope prevent two fibres being placed closer than 62 arcsec in a single pass of the instrument. These 'fibre collisions' strongly correlate with the intrinsic clustering of targets and can bias measurements of the two-point correlation function resulting in a systematic error on the inferred values of the cosmological parameters. We combine the new techniques of pairwise-inverse probability and the angular upweighting (PIP+ANG) to correct the clustering measurements for the effect of fibre collisions. Using mock catalogues, we show that our corrections provide unbiased measurements, within data precision, of both the projected w(p) (r(p)) and the redshift-space multipole xi((l = 0, 2, 4))(s) correlation functions down to 0.1 h(-1) Mpc, regardless of the tracer type. We apply the corrections to the eBOSS DR16 catalogues. We find that, on scales s greater than or similar to 20 h(-1) Mpc for xi(l), as used to make baryon acoustic oscillation and large-scale redshift-space distortion measurements, approximate methods such as nearest-neighbour upweighting are sufficiently accurate given the statistical errors of the data. Using the PIP method, for the first time for a spectroscopic program of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we are able to successfully access the one-halo term in the clustering measurements down to similar to 0.1 h(-1) Mpc scales. Our results will therefore allow studies that use the small-scale clustering to strengthen the constraints on both cosmological parameters and the halo occupation distribution models.

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research article
DOI
10.1093/mnras/staa2344
Web of Science ID

WOS:000587741300011

Author(s)
Mohammad, Faizan G.
Percival, Will J.
Seo, Hee-Jong
Chapman, Michael J.
Bianchi, D.
Ross, Ashley J.
Zhao, Cheng  
Lang, Dustin
Bautista, Julian
Brinkmann, Jonathan
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Date Issued

2020-10-01

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

498

Issue

1

Start page

128

End page

143

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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galaxies: distances and redshifts

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large-scale structure of universe

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cosmology: observations

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galaxy redshift survey

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digital sky survey

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power-spectrum analysis

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growth-rate

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dependence

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space

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REVIEWED

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June 19, 2021
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