Teodoro, L.F.A., Johnston, R. and Hendry, M.A. (2010) Completeness - II. A signal-to-noise ratio approach for completeness estimators applied to galaxy magnitude-redshift surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 405(2), p. 1187. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16580.x)
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Abstract
This is the second paper in our completeness series, which addresses some of the issues raised in the previous article by Johnston, Teodoro & Hendry, in which we developed statistical tests for assessing the completeness in apparent magnitude of magnitude–redshift surveys defined by two flux limits. The statistics, T<sub>c</sub> and T<sub>v</sub>, associated with these tests are non-parametric and defined in terms of the observed cumulative distribution function of sources; they represent powerful tools for identifying the true flux limit and/or characterizing systematic errors in magnitude–redshift data. In this paper, we present a new approach to constructing these estimators that resembles an ‘adaptive smoothing’ procedure – i.e. by seeking to maintain the same amount of the information, as measured by the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N), allocated to each galaxy. For consistency with our previous work, we apply our improved estimators to the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey data, and demonstrate that one needs to use an S/N appropriately tailored for each individual catalogue to optimize the performance of the completeness estimators. Furthermore, unless such an adaptive procedure is employed, the assessment of completeness may result in a spurious outcome if one uses other estimators present in the literature which have not been designed taking into account ‘shot-noise’ due to sampling.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Teodoro, Dr Luis and Hendry, Professor Martin |
| Authors: | Teodoro, L.F.A., Johnston, R., and Hendry, M.A. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Research Centre: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy > Institute for Gravitational Research |
| Journal Name: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 0035-8711 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1365-2966 |
| Published Online: | 04 May 2010 |
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