Unbiased Cosmological Parameter Estimation from Emission Line Surveys with Interlopers.
2018
The galaxy catalogs generated from low-resolution emission line surveys often contain both foreground and background interlopers due to line misidentification, which can bias the cosmological parameter estimation. In this paper, we present a method for correcting the interloper bias by using the joint-analysis of auto- and cross-power spectra of the main and the interloper samples. In particular, we can measure the interloper fractions from the cross-correlation between the interlopers and survey galaxies, because the
true cross-correlation must be negligibly small. The estimated interloper fractions, in turn, remove the interloper bias in the cosmological parameter estimation. For example, in the
Hobby-Eberly TelescopeDark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) low-
redshift($z<0.5$) [O II] $\lambda3727$\AA{} emitters contaminate high-
redshift($1.9
Lyman-$\
alpha$
lineemitters. We demonstrate that the joint-analysis method yields a high signal-to-noise
ratio measurementof the interloper fractions while only marginally increasing the uncertainties in the cosmological parameters relative to the case without interlopers. We also show the same is true for the high-latitude spectroscopic survey of
Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope(WFIRST) mission where contamination occurs between the Balmer-$\alpha$ line emitters at lower
redshifts($1.1
redshifts($1.7
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