학술논문
First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data
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Working Paper
Author
Moon, Jeongin; Valcin, David; Rashkovetskyi, Michael; Saulder, Christoph; Aguilar, Jessica Nicole; Ahlen, Steven; Alam, Shadab; Bailey, Stephen; Baltay, Charles; Blum, Robert; Brooks, David; Burtin, Etienne; Chaussidon, Edmond; Dawson, Kyle; de la Macorra, Axel; de Mattia, Arnaud; Dhungana, Govinda; Eisenstein, Daniel; Flaugher, Brenna; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Forero-Romero, Jaime E.; Garcia-Quintero, Cristhian; Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A; Guy, Julien; Hanif, Malik Muhammad Sikandar; Honscheid, Klaus; Ishak, Mustapha; Kehoe, Robert; Kim, Sumi; Kisner, Theodore; Kremin, Anthony; Landriau, Martin; Guillou, Laurent Le; Levi, Michael; Manera, Marc; Martini, Paul; McDonald, Patrick; Meisner, Aaron; Miquel, Ramon; Moustakas, John; Myers, Adam; Nadathur, Seshadri; Neveux, Richard; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Nie, Jundan; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Percival, Will; Fernández, Alejandro Pérez; Poppett, Claire; Prada, Francisco; Raichoor, Anand; Ross, Ashley J.; Rossi, Graziano; Samushia, Lado; Schlegel, David; Seo, Hee-Jong; Tarlé, Gregory; Magana, Mariana Vargas; Variu, Andrei; Weaver, Benjamin Alan; White, Martin J.; Yèche, Christophe; Yuan, Sihan; Zhao, Cheng; Zhou, Rongpu; Zhou, Zhimin; Zou, Hu
Source
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 525, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 5406-5422
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Abstract
We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV ground-based Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). From a selected sample of 261,291 Luminous Red Galaxies spanning the redshift interval 0.4 < z < 1.1 and covering 1651 square degrees with a 57.9% completeness level, we report a ~5 sigma level BAO detection and the measurement of the BAO location at a precision of 1.7%. Using a Bright Galaxy Sample of 109,523 galaxies in the redshift range 0.1 < z < 0.5, over 3677 square degrees with a 50.0% completeness, we also detect the BAO feature at ~3 sigma significance with a 2.6% precision. These first BAO measurements represent an important milestone, acting as a quality control on the optimal performance of the complex robotically-actuated, fiber-fed DESI spectrograph, as well as an early validation of the DESI spectroscopic pipeline and data management system. Based on these first promising results, we forecast that DESI is on target to achieve a high-significance BAO detection at sub-percent precision with the completed 5-year survey data, meeting the top-level science requirements on BAO measurements. This exquisite level of precision will set new standards in cosmology and confirm DESI as the most competitive BAO experiment for the remainder of this decade.
Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. MNRAS, 525, 5406. Author accepted manuscript matching the published version
Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. MNRAS, 525, 5406. Author accepted manuscript matching the published version