Tests of redshift-space distortions models in configuration space for the analysis of the BOSS final data release

dc.citation.doi10.1093/mnras/stu2460
dc.citation.epage245
dc.citation.issn0035-8711
dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.jtitleMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
dc.citation.spage234
dc.citation.volume447
dc.contributor.authorWhite, M.
dc.contributor.authorReid, B.
dc.contributor.authorChuang, C. H.
dc.contributor.authorTinker, J. L.
dc.contributor.authorMcBride, C. K.
dc.contributor.authorPrada, F.
dc.contributor.authorSamushia, Lado
dc.contributor.authoreidlado
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-06T15:11:41Z
dc.date.available2016-04-06T15:11:41Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-12
dc.date.published2015
dc.descriptionCitation: White, M., Reid, B., Chuang, C. H., Tinker, J. L., McBride, C. K., Prada, F., & Samushia, L. (2015). Tests of redshift-space distortions models in configuration space for the analysis of the BOSS final data release. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 447(1), 234-245. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu2460
dc.descriptionObservations of redshift-space distortions in spectroscopic galaxy surveys offer an attractive method for observing the build-up of cosmological structure, which depends both on the expansion rate of the Universe and our theory of gravity. In preparation for analysis of redshift-space distortions from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) final data release, we compare a number of analytic and phenomenological models, specified in configuration space, to mock catalogues derived in different ways from several N-body simulations. The galaxies in each mock catalogue have properties similar to those of the higher redshift galaxies measured by BOSS but differ in the details of how small-scale velocities and halo occupancy are determined. We find that all of the analytic models fit the simulations over a limited range of scales while failing at small scales. We discuss which models are most robust and on which scales they return reliable estimates of the rate of growth of structure: we find that models based on some form of resummation can fit our N-body data for BOSS-like galaxies above 30 h(-1) Mpc well enough to return unbiased parameter estimates.
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dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2460
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dc.subjectGravitation
dc.subjectGalaxies: Haloes
dc.subjectGalaxies: Statistics
dc.subjectCosmological
dc.subjectParameters
dc.subjectLarge-Scale Structure Of Universe
dc.titleTests of redshift-space distortions models in configuration space for the analysis of the BOSS final data release
dc.typeArticle

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