All-sky angular power spectra from cleaned WISE$\times$SuperCOSMOS galaxy number counts

Abstract

Aiming to extract cosmological information from linear scales of the WISE$\times$SuperCOSMOS photometric redshift catalog, we perform a characterization of the systematic effects associated with stellar content, evidencing the presence of contamination and obscuration. We create an integrated model for these effects (which together we call `usurper contamination'), devise a method to remove both of them simultaneously and show its functionality by applying it to a set of mock catalogs. When administered to WISE$\times$SuperCOSMOS data, our method shows to improve the measurements of angular power spectra on scales $\ell \lesssim 15$ and the extraction of cosmological parameters therefrom, even though a significant excess of power remains at these scales. When ignoring scales $\ell <15$, we still find strong indications of systematics, albeit these can be localized in the southern equatorial hemisphere. An independent analysis of the northern hemisphere at $\ell \ge 15$ agrees with a $\Lambda$CDM model with parameters from the Planck satellite and gives ${\Omega }_{\mathrm{c}}=0.254\pm 0.020$ and ${\Omega }_{\mathrm{b}}<0.065$ at 95% confidence limit when combined with priors on $H_0$, $A_s$ and $n_s$.

arXiv comment33 pages, 20 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in JCAP

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