2015/01/01 by B. R. Granett, E. Branchini, L. Guzzo +53 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Luminosity function #Mathematics #Physics #Redshift #Redshift survey #Redshift-space distortions #Spectral density #Statistics #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph.CO
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201526330
published as A&A 583, A61 (2015) · Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics
openalex publication_date 2015/01/01 · arxiv created 2015/05/23 · arxiv updated 2015/10/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Aims. Using the VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS) we aim to jointly estimate the keyparameters that describe the galaxy density field and its spatial correlations in redshift space. Methods. We use the Bayesian formalism to jointly reconstruct the redshift-space galaxy density field, power spectrum, galaxy bias and galaxy luminosity function given the observations and survey selection function. The high-dimensional posterior distribution is explored using the Wiener filter within a Gibbs sampler. We validate the analysis using simulated catalogues and apply it to VIPERS data taking into consideration the inhomogeneous selection function. Results. We present joint constraints on the anisotropic power spectrum, and the bias and number density of red and blue galaxy classes in luminosity and redshift bins as well as the measurement covariances of these quantities. We find that the inferred galaxy bias and number density parameters are strongly correlated although they are only weakly correlated with the galaxy power spectrum. The power spectrum and redshift-space distortion parameters are in agreement with previous VIPERS results with the value of the growth rate fσ8 = 0.38 with 18% uncertainty at redshift 0.7.