2013

The Weak Lensing Signal and the Clustering of BOSS Galaxies I: Measurements

Miyatake, Hironao, More, Surhud, Mandelbaum, Rachel et al.

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A joint analysis of the clustering of galaxies and their weak gravitational lensing signal is well-suited to simultaneously constrain the galaxy-halo connection as well as the cosmological parameters by breaking the degeneracy between galaxy bias and the amplitude of clustering signal.

In a series of two papers, we perform such an analysis at the highest redshift ($z\sim0.53$) in the literature using CMASS galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Eleventh Data Release (SDSS-III/BOSS DR11) catalog spanning 8300~deg$^2$.
In this paper, we present details of the clustering and weak lensing measurements of these galaxies.
We define a subsample of 400,916 CMASS galaxies based on their redshifts and stellar mass estimates so that the galaxies constitute an approximately volume-limited and similar population over the redshift range $0.47\le z\le 0.59$.

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