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dc.contributor.authorPercival, Will J.
dc.contributor.authorRoss, Ashley J.
dc.contributor.authorSánchez, Ariel G.
dc.contributor.authorSamushia, Lado
dc.contributor.authorBurden, Angela
dc.contributor.authorCrittenden, Robert
dc.contributor.authorCuesta, Antonio J.
dc.contributor.authorMagana, Mariana Vargas
dc.contributor.authorManera, Marc
dc.contributor.authorBeutler, Florian
dc.contributor.authorChuang, Chia-Hsun
dc.contributor.authorEisenstein, Daniel J.
dc.contributor.authorHo, Shirley
dc.contributor.authorMcBride, Cameron K.
dc.contributor.authorMontesano, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorPadmanabhan, Nikhil
dc.contributor.authorReid, Beth
dc.contributor.authorSaito, Shun
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, Donald P.
dc.contributor.authorSeo, Hee-Jong
dc.contributor.authorTojeiro, Rita
dc.contributor.authorWeaver, Benjamin A.
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-08T14:31:03Z
dc.date.available2014-12-08T14:31:03Z
dc.date.issued2014-04-11
dc.identifier.citationPercival , W J , Ross , A J , Sánchez , A G , Samushia , L , Burden , A , Crittenden , R , Cuesta , A J , Magana , M V , Manera , M , Beutler , F , Chuang , C-H , Eisenstein , D J , Ho , S , McBride , C K , Montesano , F , Padmanabhan , N , Reid , B , Saito , S , Schneider , D P , Seo , H-J , Tojeiro , R & Weaver , B A 2014 , ' The clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey : including covariance matrix errors ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 439 , no. 3 , pp. 2531-2541 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu112en
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 157307788
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: afdf003a-bf5b-45bc-b107-92511a967ccf
dc.identifier.otherBibCode: 2014MNRAS.439.2531P
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84896480653
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/5887
dc.descriptionJP acknowledges support from the UK Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) through the consolidated grant ST/K0090X/1 and from the European Research Council through the ‘Starting Independent Research’ grant 202686, MDEPUGS. AGS acknowledges support from the Trans-regional Collaborative Research Centre TR33 ‘The Dark Universe’ of the German Research Foundation (DFG).en
dc.description.abstractWe present improved methodology for including covariance matrices in the error budget of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) galaxy clustering measurements, revisiting Data Release 9 (DR9) analyses, and describing a method that is used in DR10/11 analyses presented in companion papers. The precise analysis method adopted is becoming increasingly important, due to the precision that BOSS can now reach: even using as many as 600 mock catalogues to estimate covariance of two-point clustering measurements can still lead to an increase in the errors of ∼20 per cent, depending on how the cosmological parameters of interest are measured. In this paper, we extend previous work on this contribution to the error budget, deriving formulae for errors measured by integrating over the likelihood, and to the distribution of recovered best-fitting parameters fitting the simulations also used to estimate the covariance matrix. Both are situations that previous analyses of BOSS have considered. We apply the formulae derived to baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and redshift-space distortion (RSD) measurements from BOSS in our companion papers. To further aid these analyses, we consider the optimum number of bins to use for two-point measurements using the monopole power spectrum or correlation function for BAO, and the monopole and quadrupole moments of the correlation function for anisotropic-BAO and RSD measurements.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societyen
dc.rightsThis article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2014 The Authors, Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectCosmology: observationsen
dc.subjectDistance scaleen
dc.subjectLarge-scale structure of Universeen
dc.subjectQB Astronomyen
dc.subjectQC Physicsen
dc.subject.lccQBen
dc.subject.lccQCen
dc.titleThe clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey : including covariance matrix errorsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu112
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014MNRAS.439.2531Pen


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