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Title: The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in Fourier-space

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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  1. Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States)
  3. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States); Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  5. The Univ. of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan); Max-Planck-Institut fur Astrophysik, Garching bei Munchen (Germany)
  6. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States); National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ (United States)
  7. Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain); Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam (Germany)
  8. Univ. de Barcelona, Barcelona (Spain)
  9. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  10. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); The Univ. of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study, The Univ. of Tokyo, Chiba (Japan)
  11. Univ.-Sternwarte Munchen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munchen, Munchen (Germany); Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  12. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  13. Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam (Germany)
  14. Univ. of Portsmouth, Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  15. Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain); Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC, Madrid (Spain); Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Granada (Spain)
  16. Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain); Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
  17. Univ. of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
  18. Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  19. The Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  20. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  21. New York Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  22. Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews (United Kingdom)
  23. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico)
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We analyse the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal of the final Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data release (DR12). Our analysis is performed in the Fourier space, using the power spectrum monopole and quadrupole. The data set includes 1198 006 galaxies over the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.75.We divide this data set into three (overlapping) redshift bins with the effective redshifts z eff = 0.38, 0.51 and 0.61. We demonstrate the reliability of our analysis pipeline using N-body simulations as well as ~1000 MultiDark- Patchy mock catalogues that mimic the BOSS-DR12 target selection. We apply density field reconstruction to enhance the BAO signal-to-noise ratio. By including the power spectrum quadrupole we can separate the line of sight and angular modes, which allows us to constrain the angular diameter distance D A (z) and the Hubble parameter H(z) separately. We obtain two independent 1.6 and 1.5 per cent constraints on D A (z) and 2.9 and 2.3 per cent constraints on H(z) for the low (z eff = 0.38) and high (z eff = 0.61) redshift bin, respectively. We obtain two independent 1 and 0.9 per cent constraints on the angular averaged distance D V (z), when ignoring the Alcock-Paczynski effect. The detection significance of the BAO signal is of the order of 8σ (post-reconstruction) for each of the three redshift bins. Our results are in good agreement with the Planck prediction within Λ cold dark matter. This paper is part of a set that analyses the final galaxy clustering data set from BOSS. The measurements and likelihoods presented here are combined with others in Alam et al. to produce the final cosmological constraints from BOSS.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC00112704; AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
1324284
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1456965
Report Number(s):
BNL-112530-2016-JA; KA2301020
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 464, Issue 3; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 143 works
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