KiDS-Legacy: Angular galaxy clustering from deep surveys with complex selection effects
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| author | Yan, Ziang Wright, Angus H. Chisari, Nora Elisa Georgiou, Christos Joudaki, Shahab Loureiro, Arthur Reischke, Robert Asgari, Marika Bilicki, Maciej Dvornik, Andrej Heymans, Catherine Hildebrandt, Hendrik Jalan, Priyanka Joachimi, Benjamin Lesci, Giorgio Francesco Li, Shun-Sheng Linke, Laila Mahony, Constance Moscardini, Lauro Napolitano, Nicola R. Stoelzner, Benjamin Von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian Yoon, Mijin |
| author_facet | Yan, Ziang Wright, Angus H. Chisari, Nora Elisa Georgiou, Christos Joudaki, Shahab Loureiro, Arthur Reischke, Robert Asgari, Marika Bilicki, Maciej Dvornik, Andrej Heymans, Catherine Hildebrandt, Hendrik Jalan, Priyanka Joachimi, Benjamin Lesci, Giorgio Francesco Li, Shun-Sheng Linke, Laila Mahony, Constance Moscardini, Lauro Napolitano, Nicola R. Stoelzner, Benjamin Von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian Yoon, Mijin |
| contents | Photometric galaxy surveys, despite their limited resolution along the line of sight, encode rich information about the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe thanks to the high number density and extensive depth of the data. However, the complicated selection effects in wide and deep surveys can potentially cause significant bias in the angular two-point correlation function (2PCF) measured from those surveys. In this paper, we measure the 2PCF from the newly published KiDS-Legacy sample. Given an $r$-band $5σ$ magnitude limit of $24.8$ and survey footprint of $1347$ deg$^2$, it achieves an excellent combination of sky coverage and depth for such a measurement. We find that complex selection effects, primarily induced by varying seeing, introduce over-estimation of the 2PCF by approximately an order of magnitude. To correct for such effects, we apply a machine learning-based method to recover an organised random (OR) that presents the same selection pattern as the galaxy sample. The basic idea is to find the selection-induced clustering of galaxies using a combination of self-organising maps (SOMs) and hierarchical clustering (HC). This unsupervised machine learning method is able to recover complicated selection effects without specifying their functional forms. We validate this SOM+HC method on mock deep galaxy samples with realistic systematics and selections derived from the KiDS-Legacy catalogue. Using mock data, we demonstrate that the OR delivers unbiased 2PCF cosmological parameter constraints, removing the $27σ$ offset in the galaxy bias parameter that is recovered when adopting uniform randoms. Blinded measurements on the real KiDS-Legacy data show that the corrected 2PCF is robust to the SOM+HC configuration near the optimal set-up suggested by the mock tests. |
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| spellingShingle | KiDS-Legacy: Angular galaxy clustering from deep surveys with complex selection effects Yan, Ziang Wright, Angus H. Chisari, Nora Elisa Georgiou, Christos Joudaki, Shahab Loureiro, Arthur Reischke, Robert Asgari, Marika Bilicki, Maciej Dvornik, Andrej Heymans, Catherine Hildebrandt, Hendrik Jalan, Priyanka Joachimi, Benjamin Lesci, Giorgio Francesco Li, Shun-Sheng Linke, Laila Mahony, Constance Moscardini, Lauro Napolitano, Nicola R. Stoelzner, Benjamin Von Wietersheim-Kramsta, Maximilian Yoon, Mijin Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Photometric galaxy surveys, despite their limited resolution along the line of sight, encode rich information about the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe thanks to the high number density and extensive depth of the data. However, the complicated selection effects in wide and deep surveys can potentially cause significant bias in the angular two-point correlation function (2PCF) measured from those surveys. In this paper, we measure the 2PCF from the newly published KiDS-Legacy sample. Given an $r$-band $5σ$ magnitude limit of $24.8$ and survey footprint of $1347$ deg$^2$, it achieves an excellent combination of sky coverage and depth for such a measurement. We find that complex selection effects, primarily induced by varying seeing, introduce over-estimation of the 2PCF by approximately an order of magnitude. To correct for such effects, we apply a machine learning-based method to recover an organised random (OR) that presents the same selection pattern as the galaxy sample. The basic idea is to find the selection-induced clustering of galaxies using a combination of self-organising maps (SOMs) and hierarchical clustering (HC). This unsupervised machine learning method is able to recover complicated selection effects without specifying their functional forms. We validate this SOM+HC method on mock deep galaxy samples with realistic systematics and selections derived from the KiDS-Legacy catalogue. Using mock data, we demonstrate that the OR delivers unbiased 2PCF cosmological parameter constraints, removing the $27σ$ offset in the galaxy bias parameter that is recovered when adopting uniform randoms. Blinded measurements on the real KiDS-Legacy data show that the corrected 2PCF is robust to the SOM+HC configuration near the optimal set-up suggested by the mock tests. |
| title | KiDS-Legacy: Angular galaxy clustering from deep surveys with complex selection effects |
| topic | Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23141 |