1. Dark energy survey year 3 results: Galaxy sample for BAO measurement
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Josh Frieman, R. L. C. Ogando, J. Calcino, David J. James, Pablo Fosalba, F. J. Castander, Ramon Miquel, O. Alves, Elisabeth Krause, J. Mena-Fernández, Will J. Percival, N. Weaverdyck, Karl Glazebrook, D Burke, A Roodman, C. Lidman, B. E. Tucker, A. Brandao-Souza, Erin Sheldon, A. Choi, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Carrasco Kind, F. Andrade-Oliveira, Jennifer L. Marshall, K. Honscheid, J. Carretero, Michael Schubnell, Jack Elvin-Poole, Tamara M. Davis, Anais Möller, E. Bertin, Chun-Hao To, Agnès Ferté, E. J. Sanchez, Ashley J. Ross, Martin Crocce, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, M. Soares-Santos, R. Cawthon, Daniel Thomas, A. G. Kim, E. Suchyta, J. Gschwend, August E. Evrard, Tommaso Giannantonio, A. A. Plazas Malagón, Geraint F. Lewis, G. Tarle, W. Riquelme, Rob Sharp, Santiago Avila, E. Buckley-Geer, S. A. Uddin, Ofer Lahav, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Dragan Huterer, A. Porredon, W. G. Hartley, M. Costanzi, Felipe Menanteau, A. Carnero Rosell, K. D. Eckert, T. N. Varga, Peter Doel, Douglas L. Tucker, V. Scarpine, Daniela Carollo, Robert Morgan, Juan Garcia-Bellido, S. Desai, Kyler Kuehn, D. L. Hollowood, J. Annis, H. T. Diehl, Christopher J. Conselice, S. Serrano, I. Ferrero, L. N. da Costa, Ben Hoyle, K. C. Chan, Rogerio Rosenfeld, Enrique Gaztanaga, B. Flaugher, David J. Brooks, Antonella Palmese, Marcos Lima, M. A. G. Maia, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, U. Malik, Adriano Pieres, F. Paz-Chinchón, Joseph J. Mohr, J. De Vicente, M.E. da Silva Pereira, M. Smith, S. Everett, Daniel Gruen, H. Camacho, J. Muir, Samuel Hinton, D. W. Gerdes, G. Gutierrez, M. E. C. Swanson, Jacobo Asorey, Michel Aguena, D. Sanchez Cid, S. Allam, Robert A. Gruendl, National Science Foundation (US), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), European Commission, Generalitat de Catalunya, Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (Brasil), 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 de Physique de Clermont (LPC), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), DES, UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, Rosell, A. C., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Crocce, M., Elvin-Poole, J., Porredon, A., Ferrero, I., Mena-Fernandez, J., Cawthon, R., De Vicente, J., Gaztanaga, E., Ross, A. J., Sanchez, E., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Alves, O., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Brandao-Souza, A., Camacho, H., Chan, K. C., Ferte, A., Muir, J., Riquelme, W., Rosenfeld, R., Cid, D. S., Hartley, W. G., Weaverdyck, N., Abbott, T., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Annis, J., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D., Calcino, J., Carollo, D., Kind, M. C., Carretero, J., Castander, F., Choi, A., Conselice, C., Costanzi, M., Da Costa, L., Da Silva Pereira, M. E., Davis, T., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eckert, K., Everett, S., Evrard, A., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gerdes, D., Giannantonio, T., Glazebrook, K., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S., Hollowood, D., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Huterer, D., James, D., Kim, A., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lewis, G., Lidman, C., Lima, M., Maia, M., Malik, U., Marshall, J., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Mohr, J., Moller, A., Morgan, R., Ogando, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchon, F., Percival, W., Pieres, A., Malagon, A. P., Roodman, A., Scarpine, V., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sharp, R., Sheldon, E., Smith, M., Soares-Santos, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Tucker, B., Tucker, D., Uddin, S., Varga, T. N., Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Dpto. Astrofísica, Laboratório Interinstitucional de E-Astronomia - LIneA, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), CSIC), The Ohio State University, University of Oslo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), California Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Geneva, NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, University College London, University of Chicago, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Queensland, Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, University of Manchester, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Trieste, Observatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Observatório Nacional, IIT Hyderabad, University of Pennsylvania, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of Cambridge, Swinburne University of Technology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of Arizona, Macquarie University, Lowell Observatory, The University of Sydney, The Australian National University, Australian National University, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Texas A&M University, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, LPC, University of Waterloo, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Peyton Hall, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Southampton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Portsmouth, and The University of Texas at Austin
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Physics ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,Cosmology: observations ,Large-Scale Structure of Universe [Cosmology] ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Física ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,observation [Cosmology] ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Surveys ,Catalogues ,Sample (graphics) ,Catalogue ,Galaxy ,Cosmology: large-scale structure of Universe ,Observations [Cosmology] ,Space and Planetary Science ,Dark energy ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
Rosell, A., et al. (DES Collaboration), In this paper, we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data. The definition is based on a colour and redshift-dependent magnitude cut optimized to select galaxies at redshifts higher than 0.5, while ensuring a high-quality determination. The sample covers ~4100 deg2 to a depth of i = 22.3 (AB) at 10s. It contains 7031 993 galaxies in the redshift range from z = 0.6 to 1.1, with a mean effective redshift of 0.835. Redshifts are estimated with the machine learning algorithm DNF, and are validated using the VIPERS PDR2 sample. We find a mean redshift bias of zbias~0.01 and a mean uncertainty, in units of 1 + z, of σ68~0.03. We evaluate the galaxy population of the sample, showing it is mostly built upon Elliptical to Sbc types. Furthermore, we find a low level of stellar contamination of ≤ 4 per cent. We present the method used to mitigate the effect of spurious clustering coming from observing conditions and other large-scale systematics.We apply it to the BAO sample and calculate weights that are used to get a robust estimate of the galaxy clustering signal. This paper is one of a series dedicated to the analysis of the BAO signal in DES Y3. In the companion papers, we present the galaxy mock catalogues used to calibrate the analysis and the angular diameter distance constraints obtained through the fitting to the BAO scale., The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838,PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). ACR acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) under grant AYA2017-84061-P, co-financed by FEDER (European Regional Development Funds) and by the Spanish Space Research Program ‘Participation in the NISP instrument and preparation for the science of EUCLID’ (ESP2017-84272-C2-1-R). SA was supported by the MICUES project, funded by the EU’s H2020 MSCA grant agreement no. 713366 (InterTalentum UAM).
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- 2022