1. Optimal 1D Ly$\alpha$ Forest Power Spectrum Estimation -- III. DESI early data
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Karaçaylı, Naim Göksel, Martini, Paul, Guy, Julien, Ravoux, Corentin, Karim, Marie Lynn Abdul, Armengaud, Eric, Walther, Michael, Aguilar, J, Ahlen, S, Bailey, S, Bautista, J, Beltran, S.F, Brooks, D, Cabayol-Garcia, L, Chabanier, S, Chaussidon, E, Chaves-Montero, J, Dawson, K, de la Cruz, R, de la Macorra, A, Doel, P, Font-Ribera, A, Forero-Romero, J.E, Gontcho A. Gontcho, S, Gonzalez-Morales, A.X, Gordon, C, Herrera-Alcantar, H.K, Honscheid, K, Iršič, V, Ishak, M, Kehoe, R, Kisner, T, Kremin, A, Landriau, M, Le Guillou, L, Levi, M.E, Lukić, Z, Meisner, A, Miquel, R, Moustakas, J, Mueller, E, Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A, Napolitano, L, Nie, J, Niz, G, Palanque-Delabrouille, N, Percival, W.J, Pieri, M, Poppett, C, Prada, F, Pérez-Ràfols, I, Ramírez-Pérez, C, Rossi, G, Sanchez, E, Seo, H, Sinigaglia, F, Tan, T, Tarlé, G, Wang, B, Weaver, B.A, Yèche, C, Zhou, Z, 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)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-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), Instituto de RadioAstronomía Milimétrica (IRAM), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
The one-dimensional power spectrum $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ of the Ly$\alpha$ forest provides important information about cosmological and astrophysical parameters, including constraints on warm dark matter models, the sum of the masses of the three neutrino species, and the thermal state of the intergalactic medium. We present the first measurement of $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ with the quadratic maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey early data sample. This early sample of $54~600$ quasars is already comparable in size to the largest previous studies, and we conduct a thorough investigation of numerous instrumental and analysis systematic errors to evaluate their impact on DESI data with QMLE. We demonstrate the excellent performance of the spectroscopic pipeline noise estimation and the impressive accuracy of the spectrograph resolution matrix with two-dimensional image simulations of raw DESI images that we processed with the DESI spectroscopic pipeline. We also study metal line contamination and noise calibration systematics with quasar spectra on the red side of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line. In a companion paper, we present a similar analysis based on the Fast Fourier Transform estimate of the power spectrum. We conclude with a comparison of these two approaches and implications for the upcoming DESI Year 1 analysis., Comment: 22 pages, 18 figures
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- 2023