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SDSS-IV扩展重子振荡光谱巡天:亮红星系目标选择

The SDSS-IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminous Red Galaxy Target Selection

Abhishek Prakash, Timothy C. Licquia, Jeffrey A. Newman, Ashley J. Ross, Adam D. Myers, Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival, Julian E. Bautista, J… 展开作者

Abhishek Prakash, Timothy C. Licquia, Jeffrey A. Newman, Ashley J. Ross, Adam D. Myers, Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival, Julian E. Bautista, Johan Comparat, Jeremy L. Tinker, David J. Schlegel, Rita Tojeiro, Shirley Ho, Dustin Lang, Sandhya M. Rao, Cameron K. McBride, Guangtun Ben Zhu, Joel R. Brownstein, Stephen Bailey, Adam S. Bolton, Timothee Delubac, Vivek Mariappan, Michael R. Blanton, Beth Reid, Donald P. Schneider, Hee-Jong Seo, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Francisco Prada

摘要:

我们描述的算法用于选择明亮的红色星系(LRG)样本的扩展重子振荡光谱调查(eBOSS)的斯隆数字巡天IV(SDSS-IV)使用光度数据从SDSS和宽视场红外巡天探测器(WISE)。LRG目标需要满足一组颜色选择标准,并且分别具有z波段和i波段MODEL幅度z < 19.95和19.9 < i < 21.8。我们的算法每平方度选择大约50个LRG目标,其中绝大多数位于红移范围0.6 < z < 1.0(中值红移0.71)。我们证明了我们的方法在消除恒星污染和低红移星系方面非常有效。我们使用SDSS-III/BOSS的光谱数据进行了一些测试,以确定我们的目标选择的红移可靠性及其满足eBOSS科学要求的能力。SDSS光谱具有足够高的信噪比,至少89%的目标样品产生安全的红移测量。我们还提出了测试的均匀性和同质性的样品,表明它应该是干净的,足以研究宇宙的大尺度结构在更高的红移比SDSS-III/BOSS LRGs达到。

英文摘要:

We describe the algorithm used to select the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) using photometric data from both the SDSS and the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). LRG targets are required to meet a set of color selection criteria and have z-band and i-band MODEL magnitudes z < 19.95 and 19.9 < i < 21.8, respectively. Our algorithm selects roughly 50 LRG targets per square degree, the great majority of which lie in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 1.0 (median redshift 0.71). We demonstrate that our methods are highly effective at eliminating stellar contamination and lower-redshift galaxies. We perform a number of tests using spectroscopic data from SDSS-III/BOSS to determine the redshift reliability of our target selection and its ability to meet the science requirements of eBOSS. The SDSS spectra are of high enough signal-to-noise ratio that at least 89% of the target sample yields secure redshift measurements. We also present tests of the uniformity and homogeneity of the sample, demonstrating that it should be clean enough for studies of the large-scale structure of the universe at higher redshifts than SDSS-III/BOSS LRGs reached.

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