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Title: The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Single-probe measurements from DR12 galaxy clustering – towards an accurate model

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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  1. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife (Spain); Univ. de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife (Spain); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain); Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam (Germany)
  2. Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain); Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC, Madrid (Spain); Univ. de Madrid (UAM), Madrid (Spain)
  3. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States); Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  5. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife (Spain); Univ. de La Laguna (ULL), Tenerife (Spain)
  6. Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain); Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Granada (Spain)
  7. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France); Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  9. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  10. Univ.-Sternwarte Munchen, Munich (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  11. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  12. Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam (Germany); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  13. Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  14. Sejong Univ., Seoul (Korea)
  15. Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  16. Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  17. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  18. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  19. New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
  20. Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews (United Kingdom)
  21. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico)
  22. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
  23. King's College, Wilkes Barre, PA (United States)

With the largest spectroscopic galaxy survey volume drawn from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we can extract cosmological constraints from the measurements of redshift and geometric distortions at quasi-linear scales (e.g. above 50 h -1 Mpc). We analyse the broad-range shape of the monopole and quadrupole correlation functions of the BOSS Data Release 12 (DR12) CMASS galaxy sample, at the effective redshift z = 0.59, to obtain constraints on the Hubble expansion rate H(z), the angular- diameter distance D A (z), the normalized growth rate f(z)σ 8 (z), and the physical matter density Ω m h 2 .We obtain robust measurements by including a polynomial as the model for the systematic errors, and find it works very well against the systematic effects, e.g. ones induced by stars and seeing. We provide accurate measurements (D A (0.59)r s,fid /r s , H(0.59)r s /r s,fid , f(0.59)σ 8 (0.59), Ω m h 2 ) = (1427 ± 26 Mpc, 97.3 ± 3.3 kms -1 Mpc -1 , 0.488 ± 0.060, 0.135 ± 0.016), where r s is the comoving sound horizon at the drag epoch and r s,fid = 147.66 Mpc is the sound scale of the fiducial cosmology used in this study. The parameters which are not well constrained by our galaxy clustering analysis are marginalized over with wide flat priors. Since no priors from other data sets, e.g. cosmic microwave background (CMB), are adopted and no dark energy models are assumed, our results from BOSS CMASS galaxy clustering alone may be combined with other data sets, i.e. CMB, SNe, lensing or other galaxy clustering data to constrain the parameters of a given cosmological model. The uncertainty on the dark energy equation of state parameter, w, from CMB+CMASS is about 8 per cent. The uncertainty on the curvature fraction, Ω k , is 0.3 per cent. We do not find deviation from flat ΛCDM.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC00112704; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1324269
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1377516
Report Number(s):
BNL-112529-2016-JA; KA2301020
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 461, Issue 4; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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