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Record W4403091085 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202451358

Alcock–Paczyński effect on void-finding

2024· article· en· W4403091085 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAstronomy and Astrophysics · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicBayesian Methods and Mixture Models
Canadian institutionsPerimeter InstituteUniversity of Waterloo
FundersScience and Technology Facilities CouncilInnovation, Science and Economic Development CanadaInstitut Périmètre de physique théoriqueNorges ForskningsrådGovernment of CanadaMinistry of Colleges and Universities
KeywordsPhysicsVoid (composites)AstrophysicsGalaxyThe VoidCorrelationAstronomyStatistical physicsGeometry

Abstract

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Under the assumption of statistical isotropy, and in the absence of directional selection effects, a stack of voids is expected to be spherically symmetric, which makes it an excellent object to use for an Alcock–Paczyński (AP) test. This test is commonly carried out using the void-galaxy cross-correlation function (CCF), which has emerged as a competitive probe, especially in combination with the galaxy-galaxy auto-correlation function. Current studies of the AP effect around voids assume that void-centre positions are influenced by the choice of fiducial cosmology in the same way as galaxy positions. We show that this assumption, though prevalent in the literature, is complicated by the response of void-finding algorithms to shifts in tracer positions. Using stretched simulation boxes to emulate the AP effect, we investigate how the void-galaxy CCF changes due to its presence, revealing an additional effect imprinted in the CCF that must be accounted for. The effect originates from the response of void finders to the distorted tracer field – which leads to reduction of the amplitude of the AP signal in the CCF – and thus depends on the specific void-finding algorithm used. We present results for four different void-finding packages, namely REVOLVER , VIDE , voxel , and the spherical void finder in the Pylians3 library, demonstrating how incorrect treatment of the AP effect results in biases in the recovered parameters, regardless of the technique used. Finally, we propose a method to alleviate this issue without resorting to complex and finder-specific modelling of the void-finder response to AP.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.838
Threshold uncertainty score0.630

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it