The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Unbiased clustering estimate with VIPERS slit assignment

F.G. Mohammad , D. Bianchi , W.J. Percival , S. de La Torre (1) , L. Guzzo , B.R. Granett , E. Branchini , M. Bolzonella , B. Garilli , M. Scodeggio , U. Abbas , C. Adami (1) , J. Bel (2) , D. Bottini , A. Cappi (3) , O. Cucciati , I. Davidzon (1) , P. Franzetti , A. Fritz , A. Iovino , J. Krywult , V. Le Brun (1) , O. Le Fèvre (1) , K. Małek (1) , F. Marulli , M. Polletta (4, 5) , A. Pollo , L.A.M. Tasca (1) , R. Tojeiro , D. Vergani , A. Zanichelli , S. Arnouts (1) , J. Coupon , G. de Lucia , O. Ilbert (1) , L. Moscardini , T. Moutard

1 LAM - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
2 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
3 LAGRANGE - Joseph Louis LAGRANGE
4 Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2
5 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

The VIPERS galaxy survey has measured the clustering of 0.5 < z < 1.2 galaxies, enabling a number of measurements of galaxy properties and cosmological redshift-space distortions (RSD). Because the measurements were made using one-pass of the VIMOS instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), the galaxies observed only represent approximately 47% of the parent target sample, with a distribution imprinted with the pattern of the VIMOS slitmask. Correcting for the effect on clustering has previously been achieved using an approximate approach developed using mock catalogues. Pairwise inverse probability (PIP) weighting has recently been proposed to correct for missing galaxies, and we apply it to mock VIPERS catalogues to show that it accurately corrects the clustering for the VIMOS effects, matching the clustering measured from the observed sample to that of the parent. We then apply PIP-weighting to the VIPERS data, and fit the resulting monopole and quadrupole moments of the galaxy two-point correlation function with respect to the line-of-sight, making measurements of RSD. The results are close to previous measurements, showing that the previous approximate methods used by the VIPERS team are sufficient given the errors obtained on the RSD parameter.Key words: cosmology: observations / large-scale structure of Universe / galaxies: high-redshift / galaxies: statistics⋆ Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Cerro Paranal, Chile, using the Very Large Telescope under programs 182.A-0886 and partly 070.A-9007. Also based on observations obtained with MegaPrime/MegaCam, a joint project of CFHT and CEA/DAPNIA, at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), which is operated by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, the Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) of France, and the University of Hawaii. This work is based in part on data products produced at TERAPIX and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre as part of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Legacy Survey, a collaborative project of NRC and CNRS. The VIPERS web site is http://www.vipers.inaf.it/

Mots clés: cosmology: observations; large-scale structure of Universe; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: statistics

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

F.G. Mohammad, D. Bianchi, W.J. Percival, S. de La Torre, L. Guzzo, et al.. The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): Unbiased clustering estimate with VIPERS slit assignment. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2018, 619, pp.A17. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201833853⟩. ⟨hal-01853846⟩