Cosmological tests using redshift space clustering in BOSS DR11
- Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, 305-348 (Korea, Republic of)
- Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 130-722 (Korea, Republic of)
- Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU, WPI), The University of Tokyo, Chiba, 277-8582 Japan (Japan)
We analyze the clustering of large scale structure in the Universe in a model independent method, accounting for anisotropic effects along and transverse to the line of sight. A large sample of 690,000 galaxies from The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopy Survey Data Release 11 are used to determine the Hubble expansion H, angular distance D{sub A}, and growth rate G{sub Θ} at an effective redshift of z=0.57. After careful bias and convergence studies of the effects from small scale clustering, we find that cutting transverse separations below 40 Mpc/h delivers robust results while smaller scale data leads to a bias due to unmodelled nonlinear and velocity effects. The converged results are in agreement with concordance ΛCDM cosmology, general relativity, and minimal neutrino mass, all within the 68% confidence level. We also present results separately for the northern and southern hemisphere sky, finding a slight tension in the growth rate --- potentially a signature of anisotropic stress, or just covariance with small scale velocities --- but within 68% CL.
- OSTI ID:
- 22382096
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2014, Issue 12; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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