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用互相关标定测光红移分布

Calibrating photometric redshift distributions with cross-correlations

A. E. Schulz

摘要:

下一代的星系巡天计划将使具有光度红移的星系数量增加两个数量级,大大扩大红移范围和检测阈值,从目前的最新技术水平获得公平的子样本光谱,这一新的数据可能是繁琐和昂贵的。然而,对星系的真实红移分布进行适当的校准对于挖掘这些调查的潜力至关重要。我们研究了一个有前途的替代直接光谱后续行动:校准的红移分布的光度星系通过交叉相关重叠光谱调查,其成员跟踪相同的密度场。我们回顾了理论,开发了一个管道,将其应用于模拟数据从N体模拟,并检查此红移分布估计的属性。我们证明了该方法是有效的,但估计被两个因素削弱。1)光谱样品的关联函数必须在沿着视线的许多仓中测量,这使其具有噪声并且干扰光度红移分布的高质量重建。2)该方法不能将光度红移分布与光度样品偏差的演化分开。我们建立这些因素的影响,使用我们的模拟目录。虽然可能仍然需要光谱跟踪光度测量数据的公平子样本,但进一步的细化可能会明显减少校准未来测量所需的光谱数量。

英文摘要:

The next generation of proposed galaxy surveys will increase the number of galaxies with photometric redshifts by two orders of magnitude, drastically expanding both redshift range and detection threshold from the current state of the art. Obtaining spectra for a fair sub-sample of this new data could be cumbersome and expensive. However, adequate calibration of the true redshift distribution of galaxies is vital to tapping the potential of these surveys. We examine a promising alternative to direct spectroscopic follow up: calibration of the redshift distribution of photometric galaxies via cross-correlation with an overlapping spectroscopic survey whose members trace the same density field. We review the theory, develop a pipeline, apply it to mock data from N-body simulations, and examine the properties of this redshift distribution estimator. We demonstrate that the method is effective, but the estimator is weakened by two factors. 1) The correlation function of the spectroscopic sample must be measured in many bins along the line of sight, rendering it noisy and interfering with high quality reconstruction of the photometric redshift distribution. 2) The method is not able to disentangle the photometric redshift distribution from evolution in the bias of the photometric sample. We establish the impact of these factors using our mock catalogs. Although it may still be necessary to spectroscopically follow up a fair subsample of the photometric survey data, further refinement may appreciably decrease the number of spectra that will be needed to calibrate future surveys.

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