Cawthon, R;
Elvin-Poole, J;
Porredon, A;
Crocce, M;
Giannini, G;
Gatti, M;
Ross, AJ;
... Wilkinson, RD; + view all
(2022)
Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: calibration of lens sample redshift distributions using clustering redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
, 513
(4)
pp. 5517-5539.
10.1093/mnras/stac1160.
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Abstract
We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform these measurements, we cross-correlate with spectroscopic galaxies from the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Survey (BOSS) and its extension, eBOSS. We validate our methodology in simulations, including a new technique to calibrate systematic errors that result from the galaxy clustering bias, and we find that our method is generally unbiased in calibrating the mean redshift. We apply our method to the data, and estimate the redshift distribution for 11 different photometrically selected bins. We find general agreement between clustering redshift and photometric redshift estimates, with differences on the inferred mean redshift found to be below |z| = 0.01 in most of the bins. We also test a method to calibrate a width parameter for redshift distributions, which we found necessary to use for some of our samples. Our typical uncertainties on the mean redshift ranged from 0.003 to 0.008, while our uncertainties on the width ranged from 4 to 9 per cent. We discuss how these results calibrate the photometric redshift distributions used in companion papers for DES Year 3 results.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: calibration of lens sample redshift distributions using clustering redshifts with BOSS/eBOSS |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/stac1160 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1160 |
| 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: | surveys, galaxies: distances and redshifts, large-scale structure of Universe, cosmology: observations, CROSS-CORRELATION REDSHIFTS, SCALE STRUCTURE CATALOGS, MILKY-WAY, SDSS, GALAXIES, DES |
| UCL classification: | 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 UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10150634 |
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