Jan 13, 2020

Combining stacks of different redshifts

I've written a program to take the stacks of clusters in different 200Mpc slices, resize them all to the same physical size, and stack them. Below are plots showing the stack from one slice, then adding the stacks from each successively more distant slice. This combination helps to bring out the signal. These were all done using the combined CMASS and Redmagic galaxy maps for orientation, at an ~18 Mpc smoothing scale, with the ellipticity 0 < e < 2 (more written on the ellipticity later). In order, left to right and up to down, the images below start at the 1000-1200 Mpc slice, then add and average the successive 200 Mpc stacks until the final image is the average of 5 stacks in the 1000-2000 Mpc range.

Importance of including Redmagic galaxies

Given Bhuvnesh's warning about how the Redmagic galaxy sample is difficult to mock, we had been wondering if it is possible to do this project with orientations given by the CMASS galaxy field alone. So, I tested stacks at various smoothing scales