Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-12-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
We calculate the angular power spectrum of galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) by using a quadratic estimation method with KL-compression. The primary data sample includes over 18 million galaxies covering more than 5,700 square degrees after masking areas with bright objects, reddening greater than 0.2 magnitudes, and seeing of more than 1.5 arcseconds. We test for systematic effects by calculating the angular power spectrum by SDSS stripe and find that these measurements are minimally affected by seeing and reddening. We calculate the angular power spectrum for l \leq 200 multipoles by using 40 bandpowers for the full sample, and l \leq 1000 multipoles using 50 bandpowers for individual stripes. We also calculate the angular power spectrum for this sample separated into 3 magnitude bins with mean redshifts of z = 0.171, z = 0.217, and z = 0.261 to examine the evolution of the angular power spectrum. We determine the theoretical linear angular power spectrum by projecting the 3D power spectrum to two dimensions for a basic comparison to our observational results. By minimizing the {\chi}^2 fit between these data and the theoretical linear angular power spectrum we measure a loosely-constrained fit of {\Omega}_m = 0.31^{+0.18}_{-0.11} with a linear bias of b = 0.94 \pm 0.04.
Brunner Robert
Hayes Brett
Ross Ashley
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