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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 591, Issue 1, Pages 1-11Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1086/375264
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cosmology : theory; galaxies : clusters : general; galaxies : formation; large-scale structure of universe; methods : data analysis; methods : statistical
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We present measurements of parameters of the three-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering from 222 square degrees of early imaging data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The projected galaxy distribution on the sky is expanded over a set of Karhunen-Loeve (KL) eigenfunctions, which optimize the signal-to-noise ratio in our analysis. A maximum likelihood analysis is used to estimate parameters that set the shape and amplitude of the three-dimensional power spectrum of galaxies in the SDSS magnitude-limited sample with r* < 21. Our best estimates are Gamma = 0.188 +/- 0.04 and sigma(8L) = 0.915 +/- 0.06 ( statistical errors only), for a. at universe with a cosmological constant. We demonstrate that our measurements contain signal from scales at or beyond the peak of the three-dimensional power spectrum. We discuss how the results scale with systematic uncertainties, like the radial selection function. We find that the central values satisfy the analytically estimated scaling relation. We have also explored the effects of evolutionary corrections, various truncations of the KL basis, seeing, sample size, and limiting magnitude. We find that the impact of most of these uncertainties stay within the 2 sigma uncertainties of our fiducial result.
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