TY - JOUR
T1 - The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III DR10 baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey
T2 - No detectable colour dependence of distance scale or growth rate measurements
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Samushia, Lado
AU - Burden, Angela
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Manera, Marc
AU - Beutler, Florian
AU - Brinkmann, J.
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - Carnero, Aurelio
AU - Da Costa, Luiz A.N.
AU - Eisenstein, Daniel J.
AU - Guo, Hong
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Maia, Marcio A.G.
AU - Montesano, Francesco
AU - Muna, Demitri
AU - Nichol, Robert C.
AU - Nuza, Sebastián E.
AU - Sánchez, Ariel G.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Skibba, Ramin A.
AU - Sobreira, Flávia
AU - Streblyanska, Alina
AU - Swanson, Molly E.C.
AU - Thomas, Daniel
AU - Tinker, Jeremy L.
AU - Wake, David A.
AU - Zehavi, Idit
AU - Zhao, Gong bo
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - We study the clustering of galaxies, as a function of their colour, fromData Release Ten (DR10) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.DR10 contains 540 505 galaxies with 0.43 < z < 0.7; from these we select 122 967 for a 'Blue' sample and 131 969 for a 'Red' sample based on k+e corrected (to z =0.55) r-i colours and i-band magnitudes. The samples are chosen such that both contain more than 100 000 galaxies, have similar redshift distributions and maximize the difference in clustering amplitude. The Red sample has a 40 per cent larger bias than the Blue (bRed/bBlue = 1.39 ± 0.04), implying that the Red galaxies occupy dark matter haloes with an average mass that is 0.5 log10M⊙ greater. Spherically averaged measurements of the correlation function, ξ 0, and the power spectrum are used to locate the position of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature of both samples. Using ξ 0, we obtain distance scales, relative to the distance of our reference ∧ cold dark matter cosmology, of 1.010 ± 0.027 for the Red sample and 1.005 ± 0.031 for the Blue. After applying reconstruction, these measurements improve to 1.013 ± 0.020 for the Red sample and 1.008 ± 0.026 for the Blue. For each sample, measurements of ξ 0 and the second multipole moment, ξ 2, of the anisotropic correlation function are used to determine the rate of structure growth, parametrized by fσ8.We find fσ8, Red = 0.511 ± 0.083, fσ8, Blue = 0.509 ± 0.085 and fσ8, Cross = 0.423 ± 0.061 (from the cross-correlation between the Red and Blue samples).We use the covariance between the bias and growth measurements obtained from each sample and their cross-correlation to produce an optimally combined measurement of fσ8, comb = 0.443 ± 0.055. This result compares favourably to that of the full 0.43 < z < 0.7 sample (fσ8, full = 0.422 ± 0.051) despite the fact that, in total, we use less than half of the number of galaxies analysed in the full sample measurement. In no instance do we detect significant differences in distance scale or structure growth measurements obtained from the Blue and Red samples. Our results are consistent with theoretical predictions and our tests on mock samples, which predict that any colour-dependent systematic uncertainty on the measured BAO position is less than 0.5 per cent.
AB - We study the clustering of galaxies, as a function of their colour, fromData Release Ten (DR10) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.DR10 contains 540 505 galaxies with 0.43 < z < 0.7; from these we select 122 967 for a 'Blue' sample and 131 969 for a 'Red' sample based on k+e corrected (to z =0.55) r-i colours and i-band magnitudes. The samples are chosen such that both contain more than 100 000 galaxies, have similar redshift distributions and maximize the difference in clustering amplitude. The Red sample has a 40 per cent larger bias than the Blue (bRed/bBlue = 1.39 ± 0.04), implying that the Red galaxies occupy dark matter haloes with an average mass that is 0.5 log10M⊙ greater. Spherically averaged measurements of the correlation function, ξ 0, and the power spectrum are used to locate the position of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature of both samples. Using ξ 0, we obtain distance scales, relative to the distance of our reference ∧ cold dark matter cosmology, of 1.010 ± 0.027 for the Red sample and 1.005 ± 0.031 for the Blue. After applying reconstruction, these measurements improve to 1.013 ± 0.020 for the Red sample and 1.008 ± 0.026 for the Blue. For each sample, measurements of ξ 0 and the second multipole moment, ξ 2, of the anisotropic correlation function are used to determine the rate of structure growth, parametrized by fσ8.We find fσ8, Red = 0.511 ± 0.083, fσ8, Blue = 0.509 ± 0.085 and fσ8, Cross = 0.423 ± 0.061 (from the cross-correlation between the Red and Blue samples).We use the covariance between the bias and growth measurements obtained from each sample and their cross-correlation to produce an optimally combined measurement of fσ8, comb = 0.443 ± 0.055. This result compares favourably to that of the full 0.43 < z < 0.7 sample (fσ8, full = 0.422 ± 0.051) despite the fact that, in total, we use less than half of the number of galaxies analysed in the full sample measurement. In no instance do we detect significant differences in distance scale or structure growth measurements obtained from the Blue and Red samples. Our results are consistent with theoretical predictions and our tests on mock samples, which predict that any colour-dependent systematic uncertainty on the measured BAO position is less than 0.5 per cent.
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stt1895
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stt1895
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890912452
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 437
SP - 1109
EP - 1126
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -