Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Calibration of redMaGiC redshift distributions in DES and SDSS from cross-correlations
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We present calibrations of the redshift distributions of redMaGiC galaxies in
the Dark Energy Survey Year 1 (DES Y1) and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR8
data. These results determine the priors of the redshift distribution of
redMaGiC galaxies, which were used for galaxy clustering measurements and as
lenses for galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements in DES Y1 cosmological analyses.
We empirically determine the bias in redMaGiC photometric redshift estimates
using angular cross-correlations with Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
(BOSS) galaxies. For DES, we calibrate a single parameter redshift bias in
three photometric redshift bins:
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1365-2966