Publications by Anand Stéphane Raichoor

Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Stewart Cole, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Andrei Variu, Xin Chen, Daniel Felipe Forero Sanchez, Eduardo Sanchez, Zheng Zheng, Hua Zhang, Sun Hee Kim, Cheng Zhao

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg(2) over 5 yr to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). The scientific program for DESI ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission-line Galaxies

Stewart Cole, Jiaxi Yu, Yi Zhang, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, Arjun Dey

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To assist in these tasks, we visually inspect DESI spectra of approximately 2500 ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

First detection of the BAO signal from early DESI data

Andrei Variu, Cheng Zhao, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, David Schlegel

We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial 2 months of operations of the Stage-IV ground-based Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). From a selected sam ...

Oxford Univ Press2023

Abundance matching analysis of the emission-line galaxy sample in the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Johan Comparat, Anand Stéphane Raichoor

We present the measurements of the small-scale clustering for the emission-line galaxy (ELG) sample from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Surv e y (eBOSS) in the Sloan Digital Sk y Surv e y IV (SDSS-IV). We use conditional abundance matching m ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2023

Model BOSS and eBOSS luminous red galaxies at 0.2 < z < 1.0 using SubHalo Abundance Matching with three parameters

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Jiaxi Yu, Cheng Zhao, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, Ginevra Favole

SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) is an empirical method for constructing galaxy catalogues based on high-resolution N-body simulations. We apply SHAM on the UNIT simulation to simulate SDSS BOSS/eBOSS luminous red galaxies (LRGs) within a wide redshift ra ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

Angular systematics-free cosmological analysis of galaxy clustering in configuration space

Cheng Zhao, Anand Stéphane Raichoor

Galaxy redshift surveys are subject to incompleteness and inhomogeneous sampling due to the various constraints inherent to spectroscopic observations. This can introduce systematic errors on the summary statistics of interest, which need to be mitigated i ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2022

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the emission line galaxy sample from the anisotropic power spectrum between redshift 0.6 and 1.1

Cheng Zhao, Johan Comparat, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, Amélie Tamone, Claudio Gorgoni, Yuting Wang

We analyse the large-scale clustering in Fourier space of emission line galaxies (ELG) from the Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. The ELG sample contains 173736 galaxies covering 1170deg(2) ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: N-body mock challenge for the eBOSS emission line galaxy sample

Cheng Zhao, Johan Comparat, Anand Stéphane Raichoor, Amélie Tamone

Cosmological growth can be measured in the redshift space clustering of galaxies targeted by spectroscopic surveys. Accurate prediction of clustering of galaxies will require understanding galaxy physics, which is a very hard and highly non-linear problem. ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021

Tightening weak lensing constraints on the ellipticity of galaxy-scale dark matter haloes

Anand Stéphane Raichoor

Cosmological simulations predict that galaxies are embedded into triaxial dark matter haloes, which appear approximately elliptical in projection. Weak gravitational lensing allows us to constrain these halo shapes and thereby test the nature of dark matte ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2021

Baryon acoustic oscillations in the projected cross-correlation function between the eBOSS DR16 quasars and photometric galaxies from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Cheng Zhao, Anand Stéphane Raichoor

We search for the baryon acoustic oscillations in the projected cross-correlation function binned into transverse comoving radius between the SDSS-IV DR16 eBOSS quasars and a dense photometric sample of galaxies selected from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2021