A Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation features in the SDSS BOSS DR12 Galaxy Bispectrum
Abstract
We present the first high significance detection (4.1σ) of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the galaxy bispectrum of the twelfth data release (DR12) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample (0.43≤z≤0.7). We measured the scale dilation parameter, α, using the power spectrum, bispectrum, and both simultaneously for DR12, plus 2048 MultiDark-PATCHY mocks in the North and South Galactic Caps (NGC and SGC, respectively), and the volume weighted averages of those two samples (N+SGC). The fitting to the mocks validated our analysis pipeline, yielding values consistent with the mock cosmology. By fitting to the power spectrum and bispectrum separately, we tested the robustness of our results, finding consistent values from the NGC, SGC and N+SGC in all cases. We found DV=2032±24(stat.)±15(sys.) Mpc, DV=2038±55(stat.)±15(sys.) Mpc, and DV=2031±22(stat.)±10(sys.) Mpc from the N+SGC power spectrum, bispectrum and simultaneous fitting, respectively.
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- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States); Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom); Ilia State Univ., Tbilisi (Georgia)
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- Research Org.:
- Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1540622
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1656950
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0011840
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 478; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
- Publisher:
- Royal Astronomical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy & Astrophysics
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Pearson, David W., and Samushia, Lado. A Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation features in the SDSS BOSS DR12 Galaxy Bispectrum. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty1266.
Pearson, David W., & Samushia, Lado. A Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation features in the SDSS BOSS DR12 Galaxy Bispectrum. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1266
Pearson, David W., and Samushia, Lado. Wed .
"A Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation features in the SDSS BOSS DR12 Galaxy Bispectrum". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1266. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1540622.
@article{osti_1540622,
title = {A Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation features in the SDSS BOSS DR12 Galaxy Bispectrum},
author = {Pearson, David W. and Samushia, Lado},
abstractNote = {We present the first high significance detection (4.1σ) of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the galaxy bispectrum of the twelfth data release (DR12) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample (0.43≤z≤0.7). We measured the scale dilation parameter, α, using the power spectrum, bispectrum, and both simultaneously for DR12, plus 2048 MultiDark-PATCHY mocks in the North and South Galactic Caps (NGC and SGC, respectively), and the volume weighted averages of those two samples (N+SGC). The fitting to the mocks validated our analysis pipeline, yielding values consistent with the mock cosmology. By fitting to the power spectrum and bispectrum separately, we tested the robustness of our results, finding consistent values from the NGC, SGC and N+SGC in all cases. We found DV=2032±24(stat.)±15(sys.) Mpc, DV=2038±55(stat.)±15(sys.) Mpc, and DV=2031±22(stat.)±10(sys.) Mpc from the N+SGC power spectrum, bispectrum and simultaneous fitting, respectively.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/sty1266},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 4,
volume = 478,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Wed May 16 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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