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author Slepian, Zachary
Krolewski, Alex
Greco, Alessandro
May, Simon
Leonard, William Ortola
Kamalinejad, Farshad
Chellino, Jessica
Reinhard, Matthew
Fernandez, Elena
Prada, Francisco
Ahlen, Steven
Bianchi, Davide
Brooks, David
Claybaugh, Todd
de la Macorra, Axel
de Mattia, Arnaud
Dey, Biprateep
Doel, Peter
Gaztanaga, Enrique
Gutierrez, Gaston
Honscheid, Klaus
Huterer, Dragan
Joyce, Dick
Kehoe, Robert
Kirkby, David
Kisner, Theodore
Landriau, Martin
Guillou, Laurent Le
Manera, Marc
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Nadathur, Seshadri
Percival, Will
Ross, Ashley
Sanchez, Eusebio
Schlegel, David
Schubnell, Michael
Seo, Hee-Jong
Silber, Joseph
Sprayberry, David
Tarle, Gregory
author_facet Slepian, Zachary
Krolewski, Alex
Greco, Alessandro
May, Simon
Leonard, William Ortola
Kamalinejad, Farshad
Chellino, Jessica
Reinhard, Matthew
Fernandez, Elena
Prada, Francisco
Ahlen, Steven
Bianchi, Davide
Brooks, David
Claybaugh, Todd
de la Macorra, Axel
de Mattia, Arnaud
Dey, Biprateep
Doel, Peter
Gaztanaga, Enrique
Gutierrez, Gaston
Honscheid, Klaus
Huterer, Dragan
Joyce, Dick
Kehoe, Robert
Kirkby, David
Kisner, Theodore
Landriau, Martin
Guillou, Laurent Le
Manera, Marc
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Nadathur, Seshadri
Percival, Will
Ross, Ashley
Sanchez, Eusebio
Schlegel, David
Schubnell, Michael
Seo, Hee-Jong
Silber, Joseph
Sprayberry, David
Tarle, Gregory
contents Here we report the first measurement of the parity-violating (PV) 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxy (DESI Y1 LRG) sample, motivated by the potential detection of the PV 4PCF in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS BOSS) galaxies. In our auto-correlation ("auto") analysis, we find a statistically significant excess of the PV signal compared to mocks without any PV, at 4-10$σ$ depending on details of the analysis. This could arise either from genuine PV or from an underestimation of the variance in the mocks; it is unlikely to arise, at the signal level, from a systematic. We then cross-correlate ("cross") the putative PV signal between different, independent patches of sky, and there find no detection of parity violation. The two measurements are in significant tension: while the cross has somewhat larger error bars than the auto, this is not sufficient to explain the discrepancy. We thus present the current work as an intriguing addition to the PV work on BOSS and as motivation for exploring further the relationship between the auto and cross PV 4PCF analyses.
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spellingShingle Measurement of Parity-Violating Modes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxies' 4-Point Correlation Function
Slepian, Zachary
Krolewski, Alex
Greco, Alessandro
May, Simon
Leonard, William Ortola
Kamalinejad, Farshad
Chellino, Jessica
Reinhard, Matthew
Fernandez, Elena
Prada, Francisco
Ahlen, Steven
Bianchi, Davide
Brooks, David
Claybaugh, Todd
de la Macorra, Axel
de Mattia, Arnaud
Dey, Biprateep
Doel, Peter
Gaztanaga, Enrique
Gutierrez, Gaston
Honscheid, Klaus
Huterer, Dragan
Joyce, Dick
Kehoe, Robert
Kirkby, David
Kisner, Theodore
Landriau, Martin
Guillou, Laurent Le
Manera, Marc
Meisner, Aaron
Miquel, Ramon
Nadathur, Seshadri
Percival, Will
Ross, Ashley
Sanchez, Eusebio
Schlegel, David
Schubnell, Michael
Seo, Hee-Jong
Silber, Joseph
Sprayberry, David
Tarle, Gregory
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Here we report the first measurement of the parity-violating (PV) 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxy (DESI Y1 LRG) sample, motivated by the potential detection of the PV 4PCF in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS BOSS) galaxies. In our auto-correlation ("auto") analysis, we find a statistically significant excess of the PV signal compared to mocks without any PV, at 4-10$σ$ depending on details of the analysis. This could arise either from genuine PV or from an underestimation of the variance in the mocks; it is unlikely to arise, at the signal level, from a systematic. We then cross-correlate ("cross") the putative PV signal between different, independent patches of sky, and there find no detection of parity violation. The two measurements are in significant tension: while the cross has somewhat larger error bars than the auto, this is not sufficient to explain the discrepancy. We thus present the current work as an intriguing addition to the PV work on BOSS and as motivation for exploring further the relationship between the auto and cross PV 4PCF analyses.
title Measurement of Parity-Violating Modes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Year 1 Luminous Red Galaxies' 4-Point Correlation Function
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09133