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Title: Baryon acoustic oscillations at z = 2.34 from the correlations of Ly α absorption in eBOSS DR14

Journal Article · · Astronomy and Astrophysics
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  1. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)
  2. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
  3. Aix-Marseille Univ., and CNRS/IN2P3, Marseille (France)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  5. Univ. Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  6. Univ. College London (UCL), London (United Kingdom)
  7. Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom)
  8. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico). Inst. de Astronomia
  9. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  10. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  11. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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We measure the imprint of primordial baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) in the correlation function of Lyαabsorption in quasar spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and the extended BOSS (eBOSS) in Data Release 14 (DR14) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-IV. In addition to 179 965 spectra with absorption in the Lyman-α(Lyα) region, we use Lyαabsorption in the Lyman-βregion of 56 154 spectra for the first time. We measure the Hubble distance,DH, and the comoving angular diameter distance,DM, relative to the sound horizon at the drag epochrdat an effective redshiftz = 2.34. Using a physical model of the correlation function outside the BAO peak, we findDH(2.34)/rd = 8.86 ± 0.29 andDM(2.34)/rd = 37.41 ± 1.86, within 1σfrom the flat-ΛCDM model consistent with CMB anisotropy measurements. With the addition of polynomial “broadband” terms, the results remain within one standard deviation of the CMB-inspired model. Combined with the quasar-Lyαcross-correlation measurement presented in a companion paper, the BAO measurements atz = 2.35 are within 1.7σof the predictions of this model.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1570659
Report Number(s):
BNL-212173-2019-JAAM; TRN: US2001115
Journal Information:
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 629; ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher:
EDP SciencesCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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