The long road to unblinding, Part I:

fiber assignment systematics

Arnaud de Mattia

Fiber assignment

A fraction of galaxies do not receive a fiber. Two effects:

i) variation of completeness as a function of number of passes (NTILE)

ii) loss of pairs of galaxies at small angular separation (\(<0.05°\))

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By Arnaud De Mattia

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