Measuring galaxy abundance and clustering at high redshift from incomplete spectroscopic data: Tests on mock catalogs

arXiv:2008.13733 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2024-02-02 · Read on arXiv

Jiacheng Meng, Cheng Li, Houjun Mo, Yangyao Chen, Kai Wang

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2024-02-02

Updated: 2026-08-19

Comments: The paper is significantly revised and the flux limit effect is emphasized. The method to correct the flux limit effect on clustering measurement is also improved. 24 pages, 15 figures, and this version is accepted by ApJ

Journal ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 ApJ 964 161

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad2931

Code: https://github.com/Subaru-PFS/ets

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Clustering — 23× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Prime Focus Spectrograph — 2× in this paper
• Distribution Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Environmental Quenching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Observational Selection Effects — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The Prime Focus Spectrograph Galaxy Evolution Survey
• Mitigating the impact of fiber assignment on clustering measurements from deep galaxy redshift surveys
• COSMOS2020: The Galaxy Stellar Mass Function: the assembly and star formation cessation of galaxies at $0.2\lt z \leq 7.5$

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