Blinding the Lyman α Forest: The catalog alternative

Sergio Felipe Beltrán Valencia

Why data blinding is used? What are we blinding? Some other results of blinding with metals:
By blinding data we can avoid that the participants of
an experiment directly or indirectly modify the results or
the inference of parameters to match their personal H
The QSO Si III
beliefs.

BAO peak shift

How to blind data?
H Si III
z′
z Absorptions

PICCA.deltas Blinding Module PICCA.cf PICCA.fitter / Vega

z
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Blinded, Catalog delta field

deltas
extraction
delta field
transformation
Auto/cross
correlation
Model 5tting

Real data Continuum and weight fittings DM correction

How does blinding look?

Metal

peak shift?

sf.beltranvalencia@ugto.mx Universidad de Guanajuato Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation - COTB 2022