Blinding scheme for the scale-dependence bias signature of local primordial non-Gaussianity for DESI 2024

dc.contributor.author D. Sprayberry
dc.contributor.author K. Fanning
dc.contributor.author N. Palanque-Delabrouille
dc.contributor.author H. Seo
dc.contributor.author H. Zou
dc.contributor.author B.A. Weaver
dc.contributor.author L. Le Guillou
dc.contributor.author E. Chaussidon
dc.contributor.author W.J. Percival
dc.contributor.author F. Prada
dc.contributor.author D. Brooks
dc.contributor.author T. Kisner
dc.contributor.author G. Niz
dc.contributor.author E. Sanchez
dc.contributor.author E. Gaztañaga
dc.contributor.author M. Schubnell
dc.contributor.author M. Manera
dc.contributor.author G. Rossi
dc.contributor.author A. de Mattia
dc.contributor.author G. Tarlé
dc.contributor.author T. Claybaugh
dc.contributor.author D. Schlegel
dc.contributor.author A. Lambert
dc.contributor.author S. Cole
dc.contributor.author S. Ahlen
dc.contributor.author A. Meisner
dc.contributor.author C. Yèche
dc.contributor.author A. de la Macorra
dc.contributor.author M. Vargas-Magaña
dc.contributor.author J. Aguilar
dc.contributor.author S.Gontcho A. Gontcho
dc.contributor.author R. Miquel
dc.contributor.author P. Doel
dc.contributor.author C. Howlett
dc.contributor.author A.J. Ross
dc.date.accessioned 2025-12-31T14:27:32Z
dc.date.available 2025-12-31T14:27:32Z
dc.date.issued 2025-01-01
dc.description Abstract The next generation of spectroscopic surveys is expected to achieve an unprecedented level of accuracy in the measurement of cosmological parameters. To avoid confirmation bias and thereby improve the reliability of these results, blinding procedures become a standard practice in the cosmological analyses of such surveys. Blinding is especially crucial when the impact of observational systematics is important relative to the cosmological signal, and a detection of that signal would have significant implications. This is the case for local primordial non-gaussianity, as probed by the scale-dependent bias of the galaxy power spectrum at large scales that are heavily sensitive to the dependence of the target selection on the imaging quality, known as imaging systematics. We propose a blinding method for the scale-dependent bias signature of local primordial non-gaussianity at the density field level which consists in generating a set of weights for the data that replicate the scale-dependent bias. The applied blinding is predictable, and can be straightforwardly combined with other catalog-level blinding procedures that have been designed for the baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift space distortion signals. The procedure is validated through simulations that replicate data from the first year of observation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, but may find applications to other upcoming spectroscopic surveys.
dc.description.spage 135
dc.description.volume 2025
dc.identifier.arxiv 2406.00191
dc.identifier.doi 10.48550/arxiv.2406.00191
dc.identifier.handle 10261/385068
dc.identifier.issn 1475-7516
dc.identifier.uri https://ror.circle-u.eu/handle/123456789/1715306
dc.openaire.affiliation Université Paris Cité
dc.openaire.collaboration 1
dc.publisher IOP Publishing
dc.rights OPEN
dc.rights.license c_abf2
dc.source Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
dc.subject [PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
dc.subject [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
dc.subject galaxy surveys
dc.subject 5107 Particle and high energy physics (for-2020)
dc.subject Galaxy clustering
dc.subject Nuclear
dc.subject 0202 Atomic
dc.subject Power spectrum
dc.subject power spectrum
dc.subject cosmological parameters from LSS
dc.subject 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences (for)
dc.subject FOS: Physical sciences
dc.subject Nuclear & Particles Physics (science-metrix)
dc.subject Particle and Plasma Physics (for)
dc.subject Molecular
dc.subject 500
dc.subject 5106 Nuclear and Plasma Physics (for-2020)
dc.subject 51 Physical Sciences (for-2020)
dc.subject Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
dc.subject Galaxy surveys
dc.subject Cosmological parameters from LSS
dc.subject 5101 Astronomical sciences (for-2020)
dc.subject 530
dc.subject Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
dc.subject galaxy clustering
dc.title Blinding scheme for the scale-dependence bias signature of local primordial non-Gaussianity for DESI 2024
dc.type publication

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