The angular scale of homogeneity with SDSS-IV DR16 Luminous Red Galaxies [CEA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07819


We report measurements of the angular scale of cosmic homogeneity ($\theta_{h}$) using the recently released luminous red galaxy sample of the sixteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV LRG DR16). This consists on a model-independent method, as we only use the celestial coordinates of these objects to carry out such an analysis. The observational data is divided in thin redshift bins, namely $0.67<z<0.68$, $0.70<z<0.71$, and $0.73<z<0.74$, in order to avoid projection biases, and we estimate our uncertainties through a bootstrap method and a suite of mock catalogues. We find that the LRGs exhibit an angular scale of homogeneity which is consistent with the predictions of the standard cosmology.

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U. Andrade, R. Gonçalves, G. Carvalho, et. al.
Tue, 17 May 22
62/95

Comments: 13 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables