DOE OSTI · 3009976
Enhancing Multiplet Alignment Measurements with Imaging
Abstract
We demonstrate that measurements of the gravitational tidal field made with spectroscopic redshifts can be improved with information from imaging surveys. The average orientation of small groups of galaxies, or “multiplets” is correlated with large-scale structure and is used to measure the direction of tidal forces. Previously, multiplet intrinsic alignment has been measured in DESI using galaxies that have spectroscopic redshifts. The DESI Legacy Imaging catalog can be used to supplement multiplet catalogs. Our findings show that galaxy positions from the imaging catalog produce a measurement similar to the measurements made with only spectroscopic data. This demonstrates that imaging can improve our signal-to-noise ratio for multiplet alignment in DESI.
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Kumwembe, Alexus Annika (ORCID:000900098150684X), Lamman, Claire (ORCID:0000000267319329), Eisenstein, Daniel (ORCID:0000000229293121), Aguilar, Jessica Nicole (ORCID:000000030822452X), Ahlen, Steven (ORCID:0000000160987247), Bianchi, Davide (ORCID:0000000197120006), Brooks, David (ORCID:0000000284585047), Claybaugh, Todd, Cuceu, Andrei (ORCID:0000000221690595), de la Macorra, Axel (ORCID:0000000217691640), Dey, Biprateep (ORCID:0000000256657912), Doel, Peter (ORCID:0000000263974457), Font-Ribera, Andreu (ORCID:0000000230337312), Forero-Romero, Jaime E. (ORCID:0000000228903725), Gaztañaga, Enrique (ORCID:0000000196320815), Gontcho A Gontcho, Satya (ORCID:000000033142233X), Gutierrez, Gaston (ORCID:0000000308250517), Ishak, Mustapha (ORCID:000000026024466X), Jimenez, Jorge (ORCID:0000000185283473), Joyce, Dick (ORCID:0000000302015241), Kehoe, Robert (ORCID:000000027101697X), Kisner, Theodore (ORCID:0000000335107134), Lahav, Ofer, Landriau, Martin (ORCID:0000000318388528), Manera, Marc (ORCID:0000000349628934), Miquel, Ramon (ORCID:0000000266104836), Nadathur, Seshadri (ORCID:0000000190703102), Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie (ORCID:000000033188784X), Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi (ORCID:0000000169790125), Prada, Francisco (ORCID:0000000171458674), Rossi, Graziano, Sanchez, Eusebio (ORCID:0000000296468198), Schlegel, David (ORCID:0000000250425088), Seo, Hee-Jong (ORCID:0000000265883508), Silber, Joseph Harry (ORCID:0000000234610320), Sprayberry, David (ORCID:0000000175836441), Tarlé, Gregory (ORCID:0000000317040781), Weaver, Benjamin Alan. 2025-11-12. Enhancing Multiplet Alignment Measurements with Imaging. https://doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172%2Fae1c19
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