Extended Fast Action Minimisation method: application to SDSS-DR12 Combined Sample
arXiv:2010.10456 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stab378
Abstract
We present the first application of the extended Fast Action Minimization method (eFAM) to a real dataset, the SDSS-DR12 Combined Sample, to reconstruct galaxies orbits back-in-time, their two-point correlation function (2PCF) in real-space, and enhance the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak. For this purpose, we introduce a new implementation of eFAM that accounts for selection effects, survey footprint, and galaxy bias. We use the reconstructed BAO peak to measure the angular diameter distance, D_A(z)r^{fid}_s/r_s, and the Hubble parameter, H(z)r_s/r^{fid}_s, normalized to the sound horizon scale for a fiducial cosmology r^{fid}_s, at the mean redshift of the sample z=0.38, obtaining D_A(z=0.38)r^{fid}_s/r_s=1090 +/- 29 (Mpc)^{-1}, and H(z=0.38)r_s}/r^{fid}_s=83 +/- 3 (km s^{-1}Mpc^{-1}), in agreement with previous measurements on the same dataset. The validation tests, performed using 400 publicly available SDSS-DR12 mock catalogues, reveal that eFAM performs well in reconstructing the 2PCF down to separations of 25h^{-1}Mpc$, i.e. well into the non-linear regime. Besides, eFAM successfully removes the anisotropies due to redshift-space distortion at all redshifts including that of the survey, allowing us to decrease the number of free parameters in the model and fit the full-shape of the back-in-time reconstructed 2PCF well beyond the BAO peak. Recovering the real-space 2PCF, eFAM improves the precision on the estimates of the fitting parameters. When compared with the no-reconstruction case, eFAM reduces the uncertainty of the Alcock-Paczynski distortion parameters of about 40% and that on the non-linear damping scale of about 70%. These results show that eFAM can be successfully applied to existing redshift galaxy catalogues and should be considered as a reconstruction tool for next-generation surveys alternative to popular methods based on the Zel'dovich approximation.
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