The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: The low-redshift sample

John K. Parejko; Tomomi Sunayama; Nikhil Padmanabhan; David A. Wake; Andreas A. Berlind; Dmitry Bizyaev; Michael Blanton; Adam S. Bolton; Frank van den Bosch; Jon Brinkmann; Joel R. Brownstein; Luiz Alberto Nicolaci Da Costa; Daniel J. Eisenstein; Hong Guo; Eyal Kazin; Marcio Maia; Elena Malanushenko; Claudia Maraston; Cameron K. McBride; Robert C. Nichol; Daniel J. Oravetz; Kaike Pan; Will J. Percival; Francisco Prada; Ashley J. Ross; Nicholas P. Ross; David J. Schlegel; Don Schneider; Audrey E. Simmons; Ramin Skibba; Jeremy Tinker; Rita Tojeiro; Benjamin A. Weaver; Andrew Wetzel; Martin White; David H. Weinberg; Daniel Thomas; Idit Zehavi; Zheng Zheng

doi:10.1093/mnras/sts314

The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: The low-redshift sample

John K. Parejko, Tomomi Sunayama, Nikhil Padmanabhan, David A. Wake, Andreas A. Berlind, Dmitry Bizyaev, Michael Blanton, Adam S. Bolton, Frank van den Bosch, Jon Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci Da Costa, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Hong Guo, Eyal Kazin, Marcio Maia, Elena Malanushenko, Claudia Maraston, Cameron K. McBride, Robert C. NicholDaniel J. Oravetz, Kaike Pan, Will J. Percival, Francisco Prada, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, David J. Schlegel, Don Schneider, Audrey E. Simmons, Ramin Skibba, Jeremy Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Benjamin A. Weaver, Andrew Wetzel, Martin White, David H. Weinberg, Daniel Thomas, Idit Zehavi, Zheng Zheng

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We report on the small-scale (0.5 < r < 40 h-1 Mpc) clustering of 78 895 massive (M 1011.3M) galaxies at 0.2 < z< 0.4 from the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), to be released as part of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 9 (DR9). We describe the sample selection, basic properties of the galaxies and caveats for working with the data. We calculate the real- and redshift-space twopoint correlation functions of these galaxies, fit these measurements using halo occupation distribution (HOD) modelling within dark matter cosmological simulations, and estimate the errors using mock catalogues. These galaxies lie in massive haloes, with a mean halo mass of 5.2 10¹³ h^-1M, a large-scale bias of ~2.0 and a satellite fraction of 12 ± 2 per cent. Thus, these galaxies occupy haloes with average masses in between those of the higher redshift BOSS CMASS sample and the original SDSS I/II luminous red galaxy sample

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	98-112
Number of pages	15
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	429
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts314
State	Published - Feb 11 2013

Keywords

Evolution
Galaxies
Haloes
Large
Scale structure of Universe
Statistics
Surveys

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Parejko, J. K., Sunayama, T., Padmanabhan, N., Wake, D. A., Berlind, A. A., Bizyaev, D., Blanton, M., Bolton, A. S., van den Bosch, F., Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, J. R., Da Costa, L. A. N., Eisenstein, D. J., Guo, H., Kazin, E., Maia, M., Malanushenko, E., Maraston, C., McBride, C. K., ... Zheng, Z. (2013). The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: The low-redshift sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429(1), 98-112. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts314

Parejko, JK, Sunayama, T, Padmanabhan, N, Wake, DA, Berlind, AA, Bizyaev, D, Blanton, M, Bolton, AS, van den Bosch, F, Brinkmann, J, Brownstein, JR, Da Costa, LAN, Eisenstein, DJ, Guo, H, Kazin, E, Maia, M, Malanushenko, E, Maraston, C, McBride, CK, Nichol, RC, Oravetz, DJ, Pan, K, Percival, WJ, Prada, F, Ross, AJ, Ross, NP, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, D, Simmons, AE, Skibba, R, Tinker, J, Tojeiro, R, Weaver, BA, Wetzel, A, White, M, Weinberg, DH, Thomas, D, Zehavi, I & Zheng, Z 2013, 'The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: The low-redshift sample', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 429, no. 1, pp. 98-112. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts314

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