1. Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: measurement of the galaxy angular power spectrum
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C. B. D'Andrea, A. K. Romer, J. Carretero, D. L. Hollowood, J. Gschwend, Rogerio Rosenfeld, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, Douglas L. Tucker, M. Smith, Kyler Kuehn, Shantanu Desai, F. Lacasa, S. Kent, Ramon Miquel, N. Kuropatkin, Marcos Lima, David J. Brooks, Donnacha Kirk, Michael Schubnell, R. C. Smith, Sarah Bridle, A. Roodman, Tommaso Giannantonio, B. Flaugher, Alistair R. Walker, Filipe B. Abdalla, Carlos E. Cunha, L. N. da Costa, Marcelle Soares-Santos, A. A. Plazas, Jennifer L. Marshall, Will J. Percival, N. Kokron, G. Tarle, D. W. Gerdes, A. Troja, E. Suchyta, August E. Evrard, K. Honscheid, F. J. Castander, David J. James, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Carrasco Kind, F. Andrade-Oliveira, Elisabeth Krause, Pablo Fosalba, K. C. Chan, E. J. Sanchez, M. E. C. Swanson, J. De Vicente, Martin Crocce, J. Annis, Ben Hoyle, R. Cawthon, Juan Garcia-Bellido, R. A. Bernstein, Joe Zuntz, Flavia Sobreira, M. W. G. Johnson, A. Carnero Rosell, Joshua A. Frieman, Daniel Thomas, E. Buckley-Geer, Salcedo Romero de Ávila, Juan Estrada, Ashley J. Ross, D. L. Burke, S. Allam, Robert A. Gruendl, Huan Lin, H. Camacho, M. D. Johnson, G. Gutierrez, E. Bertin, Peter Doel, H. T. Diehl, 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), DES, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Lab Interinst E Astron LIneA, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Univ Geneva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Observ Nacl, Univ Portsmouth, IEEC, CSIC, Ohio State Univ, Univ Autonoma Madrid, Natl Opt Astron Observ, UCL, Rhodes Univ, Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Observ Carnegie Inst Washington, CNRS, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ Manchester, Stanford Univ, SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Univ Illinois, Natl Ctr Supercomp Applicat, Barcelona Inst Sci & Technol, Univ Chicago, Univ Penn, Ctr Invest Energet Medioambientales & Tecnol CIEM, IIT Hyderabad, Univ Michigan, Univ Cambridge, Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Steward Observ, CALTECH, Australian Astron Observ, Texas A&M Univ, Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats, Univ Waterloo, Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Univ Sussex, Univ Southampton, Brandeis Univ, Oak Ridge Natl Lab, and Univ Edinburgh
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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,01 natural sciences ,Measure (mathematics) ,symbols.namesake ,Goodness of fit ,Robustness (computer science) ,0103 physical sciences ,LENTES GRAVITACIONAIS ,Statistical physics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,STFC ,QB ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Covariance matrix ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Spectral density ,RCUK ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Markov chain Monte Carlo ,cosmology: observations ,large-scale structure of Universe ,Galaxy ,observations [cosmology] ,Space and Planetary Science ,Dark energy ,symbols ,astro-ph.CO ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics - Abstract
We use data from the first-year (Y1) observations of the DES collaboration to measure the galaxy angular power spectrum (APS), and search for its BAO feature using a template-fitting method. We test our methodology in a sample of 1800 DES Y1-like mock catalogs. The APS is measured with the pseudo-$C_\ell$ method, using pixelized maps constructed from the mock catalogs and the DES mask. The covariance matrix of the $C_\ell$'s in these tests are also obtained from the mock catalogs. We use templates to model the measured spectra and estimate template parameters firstly from the $C_\ell$'s of the mocks using two different methods, a maximum likelihood estimator and a MCMC, finding consistent results with a good reduced $\chi^2$. Robustness tests are performed to estimate the impact of different choices of settings used in our analysis. After these tests on mocks, we apply our method to a galaxy sample constructed from DES Y1 data specifically for LSS studies. This catalog comprises galaxies within an effective area of 1318 deg$^2$ and $0.6, Comment: 13 pages, 14 figures
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- 2019
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