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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 579, Issue 1, Pages 48-75Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1086/342786
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cosmology : observations; large-scale structure of universe
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The angular distribution of galaxies encodes a wealth of information about large-scale structure. Ultimately, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will record the angular positions of order of 10(8) galaxies in five bands, adding significantly to the cosmological constraints. This is the first in a series of papers analyzing a rectangular stripe of 2.degrees5 x 90degrees from early SDSS data. We present the angular correlation function for galaxies in four separate magnitude bins on angular scales ranging from 0.degrees003 to 15degrees. Much of the focus of this paper is on potential systematic effects. We show that the final galaxy catalog with the mask accounting for regions of poor seeing, reddening, bright stars, etc. is free from external and internal systematic effects for galaxies brighter than r* = 22. Our estimator of the angular correlation function includes the effects of the integral constraint and the mask. The full covariance matrix of errors in these estimates is derived using mock catalogs with further estimates using a number of other methods.
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