Simulations of BAO reconstruction with a quasar Lyman-alpha survey
J. -M. Le Goff, C. Magneville, E. Rollinde, S. Peirani, P. Petitjean, C. Pichon, J. Rich, C. Yeche, E. Aubourg, N. Busca, R. Charlassier, T. Delubac, J. C. Hami… 展开作者
J. -M. Le Goff, C. Magneville, E. Rollinde, S. Peirani, P. Petitjean, C. Pichon, J. Rich, C. Yeche, E. Aubourg, N. Busca, R. Charlassier, T. Delubac, J. C. Hamilton, N. Palanque Delabrouille, I. Paris, M. Vargas
The imprint of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) on the matter power spectrum can be constrained using the neutral hydrogen density in the intergalactic medium as a tracer of the matter density. One of the goals of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) is to derive the Hubble expansion rate and the angular scale from the BAO signal in the IGM. To this aim, the Lyman-alpha forest of 10^5 quasars will be observed in the redshift range 2.2<z<3.5 and over 10,000 deg^2. We simulated the BOSS QSO survey to estimate the statistical accuracy on the BAO scale determination provided by such a large scale survey. In particular, we discuss the effect of the poorly constrained estimate of the unabsorbed intrinsic quasar spectrum. The volume of current N-body simulations being too small for such studies, we resorted to Gaussian random field (GRF) simulations. We validated the use of GRFs by comparing the output of GRF simulations with that of the Horizon N-body simulation with the same initial conditions. Realistic mock samples of QSO Lyman-αforest were generated; their power spectrum was computed and fitted to obtain the BAO scale. The rms of the results for 100 different simulations provides an estimate of the statistical error expected from the BOSS survey. We confirm the results from Fisher matrix estimate. In the absence of error on the unabsorbed quasar spectrum, the BOSS quasar survey should measure the BAO scale with an error of the order of 2.3%, or the transverse and radial BAO scales separately with errors of the order of 6.8% and 3.9%, respectively. The significance of the BAO detection is assessed by an average Δχ^2=17 but for individual realizations Δχ^2 ranges from 2 t o 35. The error on the unabsorbed quasar spectrum increases the error on the BAO scale by 10 to 20% and results in a sub percent bias.
The statistical power of Lyman-$α$ forest Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements is set to increase significantly in the coming years as new instruments such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument deliver progressively more constraining data. Generating mock datasets for such measurements will be important for validating analysis pipelines and evaluating the effects of systematics. With such studies in mind, we present LyaCoLoRe: a package for producing synthetic Lyman-$α$ forest survey datasets for BAO analyses. LyaCoLoRe transforms initial Gaussian random field skewers into skew…
We present the clustering of voids based on the quasar (QSO) sample of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16 in configuration space. We define voids as overlapping empty circumspheres computed by Delaunay tetrahedra spanned by quartets of quasars, allowing for an estimate of the depth of underdense regions. To maximise the BAO signal-to-noise ratio, we consider only voids with radii larger than 36$h^{-1}$Mpc. Our analysis shows a negative BAO peak in the cross-correlation of QSOs and voids. The joint BAO measurement of the QSO auto-correlation and the correspondi…
The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale acts as a standard ruler for measuring cosmological distances and has therefore emerged as a leading probe of cosmic expansion history. However, any physical effect that alters the length of the ruler can lead to a bias in our determination of distance and expansion rate. One of these physical effects is the streaming velocity, the relative velocity between baryons and dark matter in the early Universe, which couples to the BAO scale due to their common origin in acoustic waves at recombination. In this work, we investigate the impact of streaming ve…
We propose a new method for fitting the full-shape of the Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) forest three-dimensional (3D) correlation function in order to measure the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect. Our method preserves the robustness of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) analyses, while also providing extra cosmological information from a broader range of scales. We compute idealized forecasts for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) using the Ly$α$ auto-correlation and its cross-correlation with quasars, and show how this type of analysis improves cosmological constraints. The DESI Ly$α$ BAO analys…
Using synthetic Lyman-$α$ forests from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey, we present a study of the impact of errors in the estimation of quasar redshift on the Lyman-$α$ correlation functions. Estimates of quasar redshift have large uncertainties of a few hundred $\text{km s}^{-1}\,$ due to the broadness of the emission lines and the intrinsic shifts from other emission lines. We inject Gaussian random redshift errors into the mock quasar catalogues, and measure the auto-correlation and the Lyman-$α$-quasar cross-correlation functions. We find a smearing of the BAO featur…
Correlations in and with the flux transmission of the Lyman$-α$ (Ly$α$) forest in the spectra of high-redshift quasars are powerful cosmological tools, yet these measurements can be compromised if the intrinsic quasar continuum is significantly uncertain. One particularly problematic case is broad absorption line (BAL) quasars, which exhibit blueshifted absorption associated with many spectral features that are consistent with outflows of up to $\sim0.1c$. As these absorption features can both fall in the forest region and be difficult to distinguish from Ly$α$ absorption, cosmological analyse…
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are considered to be a very robust standard ruler against various systematics. This premise has been tested against observational systematics, but not to the level required for the next generation of galaxy surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid. In this paper, we investigate the effect of observational systematics on the BAO measurement of the final sample of quasars from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 16 in order to prepare and hone a similar analysis for upcoming surveys. We employ catalogues…
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: Anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillations measurements in Fourier-space with optimal redshift weights
利用扩展的重子振荡光谱巡天数据Release 14类星体样品,测量了具有最佳红移权的各向异性和各向同性的重子声学振荡(BAO)。应用红移权重将对BAO膨胀参数$α(z_{\rm eff})$的约束提高了17\ %。我们重建了$0.8<z<2.2$红移范围内BAO距离指标的演化历史。本文是分析eBOSS DR 14类星体样本的一组中的一部分。
High-redshift transverse BAO measurements with the SDSS quasar catalog
Observatório Nacional(国家天文台);University of Trento(特伦托大学);Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications (TIFPA)-INFN(特伦托基础物理与应用研究所(TIFPA)-意大利国家核物理研究所);Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul(南里奥格兰德联邦大学);Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais(巴西国家空间研究院)
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2
Three-dimensional correlations of the Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) forest and cross correlations between the Ly$α$ forest and quasars have been measured on large scales, allowing a precise measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature at redshifts $z>2$. These 3D correlations are often modelled using linear perturbation theory, but full-shape analyses to extract cosmological information beyond BAO will require more realistic models capable of describing non-linearities present at smaller scales. We present a measurement of the Ly$α$ forest flux power spectrum from large hydrodynamic simula…
Fitting Methods for Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyman-α Forest Fluctuations in BOSS Data Release 9
描述了分析莱曼-α森林涨落和测量重子声学振荡(BAO)参数的拟合方法。我们将我们的方法应用于BOSS Data Release 9。我们的方法是基于物理坐标空间中的三维关联函数模型,并包括红移空间失真,各向异性非线性展宽,和宽带失真的影响。我们允许独立的尺度因子沿和垂直的视线,以尽量减少对我们假设的基准宇宙学的依赖,并获得单独的测量的BAO角和相对速度尺度。我们的拟合软件和复制我们的主要BOSS数据版本9结果所需的输入文件是公开的。
We present results from end-to-end simulations of observations designed to constrain the rate of change in the expansion history of the Universe using the redshift drift of the Lyman-$α$ forest absorption lines along the lines-of-sight toward bright quasars. For our simulations we take Lyman-$α$ forest lines extracted from Keck/HIRES spectra of bright quasars at $z>3$, and compare the results from these real quasar spectra with mock spectra generated via Monte Carlo realizations. We use the results of these simulations to assess the potential for a dedicated observatory to detect redshift drif…
We measure the anisotropic clustering of the quasar sample from Data Release 16 (DR16) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). A sample of $343,708$ spectroscopically confirmed quasars between redshift $0.8<z<2.2$ are used as tracers of the underlying dark matter field. In comparison with DR14 sample, the final sample doubles the number of objects as well as the survey area. In this paper, we present the analysis in configuration space by measuring the two-point correlation function and decompose using the Legendre polynomials. For the full-…
Detection significance of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations peaks in galaxy and quasar clustering
我们比较我们的分析的重子声学振荡(BAO)功能的相关函数的SDSS BOSS DR 12 LOWZ和CMASS星系样本的arXiv:1509.06371 v2的结果。使用数据的子集,我们获得了相关函数的误差的经验估计,这与arXiv:1509.06371v2的模拟误差一致。我们发现,BAO检测的显著性是对拟合范围的选择最敏感的量,随着拟合范围的减小,CMASS值从$8.0σ$减小到$5.3σ$。尽管我们对$D_V(z)$的测量结果与arXiv:1509.06371 v2的测量结果一致,但我们注意到它们的CMASS $8.0σ$(LOWZ $4.0σ$)检测显著性仅在与对角协方差项拟合时降低至$4.7σ$($2.8σ$)。我们通过拟合2QDESp,SDSS DR5 EQUORM,2QZ和2SLAQ类星体相关函数的加权平均值,将我们的BAO分析扩展到更高的红移,与eBOSS DR 14实现的$3.9\%$相比,获得了$7.6\%$测量。与LRG调查不同,类星体相关函数的较大误差意味着滋扰参数(占尺度依赖的聚类)在提供良好的拟合基准$Λ$ CDM模型中的作用较小。再次仅使用arXiv:1705.06373 v2的误差条并忽略任何非对角协方差矩阵项,我们发现eBOSS峰值显著性从2.8降低到$1.4σ$。我们的结论是,对于LRG和类星体,报告的BAO峰值的意义,从SDSS调查敏感地依赖于在…
The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measuring the cross-correlation between the MgII flux transmission field and quasars and galaxies at $z=0.59$
When performing cosmological inference, standard analyses of the Lyman-$α$ (Ly$α$) three-dimensional correlation functions only consider the information carried by the distinct peak produced by baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). In this work, we address whether this compression is sufficient to capture all the relevant cosmological information carried by these functions. We do this by performing a direct fit to the full shape, including all physical scales without compression, of synthetic Ly$α$ auto-correlation functions and cross-correlations with quasars at effective redshift $z_{\rm{eff}}…
Reconstruction techniques for intrinsic quasar continua are crucial for the precision study of Lyman-$α$ (Ly-$α$) and Lyman-$β$ (Ly-$β$) transmission at $z>5.0$, where the $λ<1215 A$ emission of quasars is nearly completely absorbed. While the number and quality of spectroscopic observations has become theoretically sufficient to quantify Ly-$α$ transmission at $5.0<z<6.0$ to better than $1\%$, the biases and uncertainties arising from predicting the unabsorbed continuum are not known to the same level. In this paper, we systematically evaluate eight reconstruction techniques on a unified test…
We measure the clustering of quasars of the final data release (DR16) of eBOSS. The sample contains $343\,708$ quasars between redshifts $0.8\leq z\leq2.2$ over $4699\,\mathrm{deg}^2$. We calculate the Legendre multipoles (0,2,4) of the anisotropic power spectrum and perform a BAO and a Full-Shape (FS) analysis at the effective redshift $z{\rm eff}=1.480$. The errors include systematic errors that amount to 1/3 of the statistical error. The systematic errors comprise a modelling part studied using a blind N-Body mock challenge and observational effects studied with approximate mocks to account…