HOD-Dependent Systematics in Emission Line Galaxies for the DESI 2024 BAO analysis

C. Garcia-Quintero, J. Mena-Fernández, A. Rocher, S. Yuan, B. Hadzhiyska, O. Alves, M. Rashkovetskyi, H. Seo, N. Padmanabhan, S. Nadathur, C. Howlett, M. Ishak, L. Medina-Varela, P. McDonald, A. J. Ross, Y. Xie, X. Chen, A. Bera, J. Aguilar, S. AhlenU. Andrade, S. BenZvi, D. Brooks, E. Burtin, S. Chen, T. Claybaugh, S. Cole, A. de la Macorra, A. de Mattia, A. Dey, B. Dey, Z. Ding, P. Doel, K. Fanning, J. E. Forero-Romero, E. Gaztañaga, H. Gil-Marín, S. Gontcho A Gontcho, G. Gutierrez, J. Guy, C. Hahn, K. Honscheid, A. Kremin, M. Landriau, L. Le Guillou, M. E. Levi, M. Manera, P. Martini, A. Meisner, R. Miquel, J. Moustakas, E. Mueller, A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez, A. D. Myers, J. Nie, G. Niz, E. Paillas, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, W. J. Percival, C. Poppett, A. Pérez-Fernández, A. Rosado-Marin, G. Rossi, R. Ruggeri, E. Sanchez, D. Schlegel, M. Schubnell, D. Sprayberry, G. Tarlé, M. Vargas-Magaña, B. A. Weaver, H. Zhang, R. Zhou, H. Zou

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Abstract

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will provide precise measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) to constrain the expansion history of the Universe and set stringent constraints on dark energy. Therefore, precise control of the global error budget due to various systematic effects is required for the DESI 2024 BAO analysis. In this work, we estimate the level of systematics induced in the DESI BAO analysis due the assumed Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) model for the Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) tracer. We make use of mock galaxy catalogs constructed by fitting various HOD models to early DESI data, namely the One-Percent survey data. Our analysis includes typical HOD models for the ELG tracer used in the literature as well as extensions to the baseline models. Among the extensions, we consider various recipes for galactic conformity and assembly bias. We use 25 AbacusSummit simulations under the ΛCDM cosmology for each HOD model and perform independent analyses in Fourier space and in configuration space. To recover the BAO signal from our mocks we perform BAO reconstruction and apply the control variates technique to reduce sample variance noise. Our BAO analyses can recover the isotropic BAO parameter αiso within 0.1% and the Alcock Paczynski parameter αAP within 0.3%. Overall, we find that the systematic error due to the HOD dependence is below 0.17%, with the Fourier space analysis being more robust against the HOD systematics. We conclude that our analysis pipeline is robust enough against the HOD systematics for the ELG tracer in the DESI 2024 BAO analysis, for the assumptions made.
Original languageEnglish
Article number132
Pages (from-to)1-59
Number of pages59
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2025
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Jan 2025

Keywords

  • astro-ph.CO
  • baryon acoustic oscillations
  • galaxy clustering
  • UKRI
  • STFC
  • ST/T005009/2

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