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                            Ata, Metin; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio; Angulo, Raul E.; Ferraro, Simone; Gil-Marín, Hector; McDonald, Patrick; Hernández Monteagudo, Carlos; Müller, Volker; Yepes, Gustavo; Autefage, Mathieu; Baumgarten, Falk; Beutler, Florian; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burden, Angela; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Guo, Hong; Ho, Shirley; McBride, Cameron; Neyrinck, Mark; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Percival, Will J.; Prada, Francisco; Rossi, Graziano; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Schlegel, David; Schneider, Donald P.; Seo, Hee-Jong; Streblyanska, A.; Tinker, Jeremy; Tojeiro, Rita; Vargas-Magana, Mariana
    Bibliographical reference
                                    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 467, Issue 4, p.3993-4014
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                        2017
            
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                            Description
                                    We present a Bayesian phase-space reconstruction of the cosmic
large-scale matter density and velocity fields from the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillations Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12
CMASS galaxy clustering catalogue. We rely on a given Λ cold dark
matter cosmology, a mesh resolution in the range of 6-10 h-1
Mpc, and a lognormal-Poisson model with a redshift-dependent non-linear
bias. The bias parameters are derived from the data and a general
renormalized perturbation theory approach. We use combined Gibbs and
Hamiltonian sampling, implemented in the argo code, to iteratively
reconstruct the dark matter density field and the coherent peculiar
velocities of individual galaxies, correcting hereby for coherent
redshift space distortions. Our tests relying on accurate N-body-based
mock galaxy catalogues show unbiased real space power spectra of the
non-linear density field up to k ∼ 0.2 h Mpc-1, and
vanishing quadrupoles down to r ∼ 20 h-1 Mpc. We also
demonstrate that the non-linear cosmic web can be obtained from the
tidal field tensor based on the Gaussian component of the reconstructed
density field. We find that the reconstructed velocities have a
statistical correlation coefficient compared to the true velocities of
each individual light-cone mock galaxy of r ∼ 0.68 including about
10 per cent of satellite galaxies with virial motions (about r = 0.75
without satellites). The power spectra of the velocity divergence agree
well with theoretical predictions up to k ∼ 0.2 h Mpc-1.
This work will be especially useful to improve, for example, baryon
acoustic oscillation reconstructions, kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich,
integrated Sachs-Wolfe measurements or environmental studies.
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