skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: anisotropic clustering analysis in configuration space

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

We explore the cosmological implications of anisotropic clustering measurements of the quasar sample from Data Release 14 (DR14) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) in configuration space. The similar to 147000 quasar sample observed by eBOSS offers a direct tracer of the density field and bridges the gap of previous baryon acoustic oscillation measurements between redshift 0.8 < z < 2.2. By analysing the two-point correlation function characterized by clustering wedges xi(wi)(s) and multipolesi xi(l)(S), we measure the angular diameter distance, Hubble parameter, and cosmic structure growth rate. We define a systematic error budget for our measurements based on the analysis of N-body simulations and mock catalogues. Based on the DR14 large-scale structure quasar sample at the effective redshift z(eff) = 1.52, we find the growth rate of cosmic structure f sigma(8)(z(eff)) = 0.396 +/- 0.079, and the geometric parameters Dv(z)/r(d) = 26.47 +/- 1.23, and F-AP(Z) = 2.53 +/- 0.22, where the uncertainties include both statistical and systematic errors. These values are in excellent agreement with the best-fitting standard A cold dark matter model to the latest cosmic microwave background data from Planck.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
German Research Foundation (DFG); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; University of Portsmouth
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1567061
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 480, Issue 2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (104)

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample journal March 2017
An evolution free test for non-zero cosmological constant journal October 1979
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample journal December 2012
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measuring DA and H at z = 0.57 from the baryon acoustic peak in the Data Release 9 spectroscopic Galaxy sample journal January 2014
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples journal April 2014
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: first measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2 journal October 2017
Measuring the cosmological constant with redshift surveys journal October 1996
Measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation correlations at z  = 2.3 with SDSS DR12 Ly α -Forests journal June 2017
Multipoint propagators in cosmological gravitational instability journal November 2008
Cosmology with photometric redshift surveys: Cosmology with photometric redshift surveys journal September 2005
Probing Dark Energy Using Baryonic Oscillations in the Galaxy Power Spectrum as a Cosmological Ruler journal September 2003
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe journal June 2017
Photometric Redshifts and Quasar Probabilities from a Single, Data-Driven Generative Model journal March 2012
Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Ly α forest of BOSS quasars journal April 2013
Convolution Lagrangian perturbation theory for biased tracers journal December 2012
Gravity and large-scale nonlocal bias journal April 2012
EZmocks: extending the Zel'dovich approximation to generate mock galaxy catalogues with accurate clustering statistics journal November 2014
nIFTy cosmology: Galaxy/halo mock catalogue comparison project on clustering statistics journal July 2015
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: power-spectrum analysis of the final data set and cosmological implications journal September 2005
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: spectra and redshifts journal December 2001
Renormalized cosmological perturbation theory journal March 2006
The Sdss-Iv Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early data journal February 2016
Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Ly α forest of BOSS DR11 quasars journal January 2015
The effect of covariance estimator error on cosmological parameter constraints journal September 2013
Baryonic Features in the Matter Transfer Function journal April 1998
Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large‐Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies journal November 2005
Power-spectrum analysis of three-dimensional redshift surveys journal May 1994
On the Validity of the Streaming Model for the Redshift-Space Correlation Function in the Linear Regime journal August 1995
Quasar-Lyman α forest cross-correlation from BOSS DR11: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations journal May 2014
Biasing and hierarchical statistics in large-scale structure journal August 1993
Inference from Iterative Simulation Using Multiple Sequences journal November 1992
Gaussian covariance matrices for anisotropic galaxy clustering measurements journal February 2016
The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey journal April 2006
A test of the nature of cosmic acceleration using galaxy redshift distortions journal January 2008
HACC: Simulating sky surveys on state-of-the-art supercomputing architectures journal January 2016
Why your model parameter confidences might be too optimistic. Unbiased estimation of the inverse covariance matrix journal December 2006
Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications journal April 1970
Redshifting rings of power journal September 2003
Clustering in real space and in redshift space journal July 1987
Improving measurements of H(z) and DA (z) by analysing clustering anisotropies: Improving H(z) and DA(z) measurements journal November 2011
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measuring H(z) and DA(z) at z = 0.57 with clustering wedges journal August 2013
MultiDark simulations: the story of dark matter halo concentrations and density profiles journal February 2016
SEVEN-YEAR WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE ( WMAP ) OBSERVATIONS: COSMOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION journal January 2011
Bias and variance of angular correlation functions journal July 1993
Baryon oscillations as a cosmological probe journal October 2003
The mass–concentration–redshift relation of cold dark matter haloes journal April 2014
Correlation Function in Deep Redshift Space as a Cosmological Probe journal November 2004
Baryonic signatures in large-scale structure journal April 1999
Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines journal June 1953
The Sdss-Iv Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection journal December 2015
The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos journal May 1996
The impact of galaxy formation on satellite kinematics and redshift-space distortions journal January 2018
Constraining anisotropic baryon oscillations journal June 2008
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release journal November 2012
Primeval Adiabatic Perturbation in an Expanding Universe journal November 1970
The clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: including covariance matrix errors journal February 2014
Exploring the Optical Transient Sky with the Palomar Transient Factory
  • Rau, Arne; Kulkarni, Shrinivas R.; Law, Nicholas M.
  • Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 121, Issue 886 https://doi.org/10.1086/605911
journal December 2009
Towards an accurate model of the redshift-space clustering of haloes in the quasi-linear regime: Redshift-space distortions journal August 2011
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: angular clustering tomography and its cosmological implications journal March 2017
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measuring growth rate and geometry with anisotropic clustering journal February 2014
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological constraints from the full shape of the clustering wedges journal June 2013
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the full shape of the clustering wedges in the data release 10 and 11 galaxy samples journal April 2014
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications of the configuration-space clustering wedges journal September 2016
Redshift-space distortions, pairwise velocities, and nonlinearities journal October 2004
Parameter inference with estimated covariance matrices journal December 2015
The Sloan Digital sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Velocity Shifts of Quasar Emission Lines journal October 2016
The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for the Sloan Digital sky Survey and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey journal July 2013
Baryon acoustic oscillations in 2D: Modeling redshift-space power spectrum from perturbation theory journal September 2010
Estimating cosmological parameter covariance journal June 2014
Putting the precision in precision cosmology: How accurate should your data covariance matrix be? journal May 2013
Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and the Mass-To-Number Ratio of Galaxy Clusters journal December 2011
An analytic model for redshift-space distortions journal November 2013
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise): Mission Description and Initial On-Orbit Performance journal November 2010
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary journal September 2000
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on vaccination intent in the UK and USA journal February 2021
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Power-spectrum analysis of the final data set and cosmological implications text January 2005
Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and the mass-to-number ratio of galaxy clusters text January 2012
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe text January 2017
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE): Mission Description and Initial On-orbit Performance text January 2010
Convolution Lagrangian perturbation theory for biased tracers text January 2012
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release text January 2012
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological constraints from the full shape of the clustering wedges text January 2013
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring D_A and H at z=0.57 from the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample text January 2013
The Effect of Covariance Estimator Error on Cosmological Parameter Constraints text January 2013
An analytic model for redshift-space distortions text January 2013
The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Including covariance matrix errors text January 2013
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the full shape of the clustering wedges in the data release 10 and 11 galaxy samples text January 2013
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 10 and 11 galaxy samples text January 2013
Estimating Cosmological Parameter Covariance text January 2014
EZmocks: extending the Zel'dovich approximation to generate mock galaxy catalogues with accurate clustering statistics text January 2014
HACC: Simulating Sky Surveys on State-of-the-Art Supercomputing Architectures text January 2014
The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data text January 2015
Gaussian covariance matrices for anisotropic galaxy clustering measurements text January 2015
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Velocity Shifts of Quasar Emission Lines text January 2016
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe text January 2017
Probing dark energy using baryonic oscillations in the galaxy power spectrum as a cosmological ruler text January 2003
Correlation Function in Deep Redshift Space as a Cosmological Probe text January 2004
The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: Power-spectrum analysis of the final dataset and cosmological implications text January 2005
Renormalized Cosmological Perturbation Theory text January 2005
The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey text January 2006
On The Validity of the Streaming Model for the Redshift-Space Correlation Function in the Linear Regime text January 1994
The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos text January 1995
Measuring the cosmological constant with redshift surveys text January 1996
Baryonic Features in the Matter Transfer Function text January 1997

Cited By (16)

Model-independent cosmic acceleration and redshift-dependent intrinsic luminosity in type-Ia supernovae journal April 2019
Baryon acoustic oscillations at z = 2.34 from the correlations of Ly α absorption in eBOSS DR14 journal September 2019
Baryon acoustic oscillations from the cross-correlation of Ly α absorption and quasars in eBOSS DR14 journal September 2019
Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices – I. Correlation function journal October 2018
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measuring the evolution of the growth rate using redshift-space distortions between redshift 0.8 and 2.2 journal December 2018
General cosmography model with spatial curvature journal December 2019
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 LRG sample: structure growth rate measurement from the anisotropic LRG correlation function in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 1.0 journal December 2019
Large-scale redshift space distortions in modified gravity theories journal February 2019
Growth of matter perturbations in the bi-Galileons field model journal December 2019
Constraining power of cosmological observables: Blind redshift spots and optimal ranges journal March 2019
HACC Cosmological Simulations: First Data Release journal September 2019
The Outer Rim Simulation: A Path to Many-core Supercomputers journal November 2019
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measuring the evolution of the growth rate using redshift space distortions between redshift 0.8 and 2.2 text January 2018
Comparing approximate methods for mock catalogues and covariance matrices I: correlation function text January 2018
Large-scale redshift space distortions in modified gravity theories text January 2018
Constraining power of cosmological observables: blind redshift spots and optimal ranges text January 2018

Similar Records

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: anisotropic clustering analysis in configuration space
Journal Article · Tue Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · OSTI ID:1567061
+20 more
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measurement of the growth rate of structure from the anisotropic correlation function between redshift 0.8 and 2.2
Journal Article · Sat Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · OSTI ID:1567061
+36 more
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: a tomographic measurement of cosmic structure growth and expansion rate based on optimal redshift weights
Journal Article · Fri Oct 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · OSTI ID:1567061
+28 more

Related Subjects

cosmology
data analysis
large
quasars
scale structure of Universe