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Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions

Doux, C; Baxter, E; Lemos, P; Chang, C; Alarcon, A; Amon, A; Campos, A; ... Wilkinson, RD; + view all (2021) Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 503 (2) pp. 2688-2705. 10.1093/mnras/stab526. Green open access

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Abstract

Beyond-$\Lambda$CDM physics or systematic errors may cause subsets of a cosmological data set to appear inconsistent when analyzed assuming $\Lambda$CDM. We present an application of internal consistency tests to measurements from the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) joint probes analysis. Our analysis relies on computing the posterior predictive distribution (PPD) for these data under the assumption of $\Lambda$CDM. We find that the DES Y1 data have an acceptable goodness of fit to $\Lambda$CDM, with a probability of finding a worse fit by random chance of ${p = 0.046}$. Using numerical PPD tests, supplemented by graphical checks, we show that most of the data vector appears completely consistent with expectations, although we observe a small tension between large- and small-scale measurements. A small part (roughly 1.5%) of the data vector shows an unusually large departure from expectations; excluding this part of the data has negligible impact on cosmological constraints, but does significantly improve the $p$-value to 0.10. The methodology developed here will be applied to test the consistency of DES Year 3 joint probes data sets.

Type: Article
Title: Dark Energy Survey internal consistency tests of the joint cosmological probes analysis with posterior predictive distributions
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab526
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab526
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
Keywords: gravitational lensing: weak, methods: statistical, dark energy, large-scale structure of Universe
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123763
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