[PDF] Top 20 Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: galaxy sample for BAO measurement

... a sample dominated by LRGs as their typical photo z estimates are more accurate than for the average galaxy population because of the 4000 Å Balmer break in their ...our BAO sample to cover ... See full document

... random galaxy catalogues (used in equation (2)) correct issues in clustering measurements that can be created due to the masked areas of the sky, and edge-effects of the data ...The galaxy catalogue ... See full document

... inclusive galaxy sample; previously, significant IA measurements have come from selections of massive elliptical galaxies, usually with spectroscopic redshifts ... See full document

... and galaxy profiles of cosmic voids? In this paper, we use two methods to extract voids in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 redMaGiC galaxy sample to address ... See full document

... Our results are shown in the upper panels of Fig. 5 , labelled ‘scenario A’, and the residual shifts in the mean z A after the calibration are summarized in the first row of Tables 1 and 2 . If the ... See full document

... Fig. 4 shows quantile–quantile (Q–Q) plots of the residuals in both samples. The Q–Q plot compares the quantiles of the rank- ordered residuals, expressed in units of the measured standard deviation, equation (8), to ... See full document

... We perform a joint analysis of intrinsic alignments and cosmology using tomographic weak lensing, galaxy clustering, and galaxy–galaxy lensing measurements from Year 1 Y1 of the Dark Ene[r] ... See full document

... each galaxy in the G OLD ...each galaxy: the model is convolved with each exposure’s point spread function (PSF) and compared to pixels from all individual exposures covering the ...common galaxy ... See full document

... spin-0 galaxy overdensity field, δ g , and the spin-2 weak lensing shear field, .... 1 Such joint fits have recently been demonstrated in several works [2 –6] ... See full document

... of galaxy lensing except in some theoretical studies (Vallinotto et ...in galaxy lensing is that the information of the potential and deflec- tion fields are on scales much larger (or lower  modes) than ... See full document

... cross-correlate galaxy weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) year-one data with a cosmic microwave background (CMB) weak lensing map derived from South Pole ... See full document

... On the other hand, there are some sources of contami- nation which are correlated with the true density fluctua- tions. In this case, the contaminant needs not affect both galaxy density and CMB lensing in order ... See full document

... < 1 per cent. In McClintock et al. ( 2018 ), these fits are performed in a joint likelihood analysis together with the mass profile model and systematic corrections. This way the estimated statistical ... See full document

... the BAO-calibrated inverse distance ladder method used here. Our measurement is in excellent agreement with previous inverse distance ladder measurements, ...JLA sample, as well more recent ... See full document

... the results of several searches of the DES SV and Y1 imaging data for strong gravitational lens ...DES galaxy clusters, and we searched the DES catalogs for spatial matches of potential lens and source ... See full document

... cluster galaxy residual (red point) is subtracted from the raw ICL+CG measurement (blue line) to derive the “pure” ICL+CG profile (red ...to 1 Mpc, although the subtraction of cluster galaxy ... See full document

... shape measurement methods considered here fit parametric models across square ‘postage-stamps’ of pixels centred on the galaxy being ...the galaxy being measured – hence if the contaminating light is ... See full document

... five year constraints. BAO constraints from eBOSS (Dawson et ...the galaxy BAO measurements to redshifts z∼ 1, only to be surpassed by new spectroscopic surveys such as DESI (DESI ... See full document

... The expected uncertainty for DES Y1 data, assuming a Gaussian likelihood applied to the mean ξ s⊥ obtained from 1800 mock realizations, as a function of the s⊥ binning that is used.. Se[r] ... See full document

... these results has received funding from the Euro- pean Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agree- ments 240672, 291329, and ... See full document