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

Journal Article · · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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  1. Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom). Inst. of Cosmology & Gravitation; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Ohio Univ., Athens, OH (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  3. Max Planck Inst. fur Astrophysik, Garching bei Munchen (Germany); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan). Inst. for Advanced Study, Kavli Inst. for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI)
  4. Leibniz Inst. fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam (Germany); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain). Dept. de Fisica Teorica
  5. Univ. de Barcelona (Spain). Inst. de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB)
  6. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  7. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). Inst. Lagrange de Paris; Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France). Lab. de Physique Nuclaire et de Hautes Energies
  8. Ludwig Maximilian Univ., Munich (Germany). Univ. Sternwarte Munchen; Max Planck Inst. fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  9. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy
  10. Leibniz Inst. fur Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Potsdam (Germany)
  11. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  12. Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom). Inst. of Cosmology & Gravitation
  13. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Inst. for Gravitation and the Cosmos
  14. Inst. de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC), Granada (Spain); Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC, Madrid (Spain); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain). Dept. de Fisica Teorica
  15. Max Planck Inst. fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching (Germany)
  16. Univ. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain). Dept. de Fisica Teorica; Campus of International Excellence UAM+CSIC, Madrid (Spain)
  17. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France). Inst. Lagrange de Paris; Univ. of Portsmouth (United Kingdom). Inst. of Cosmology & Gravitation
  18. Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom). The Royal Observatory, Inst. for Astronomy
  19. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Inst. for Gravitation and the Cosmos
  20. New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States). Dept. of Physics, Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
  21. Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland (United Kingdom). School of Phsyics and Astronomy
  22. Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City (Mexico). Inst. de Fisica
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We investigate the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 12 sample, which consists of 1198 006 galaxies in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.75 and a sky coverage of 10 252 deg2. We analyse this data set in Fourier space, using the power-spectrum multipoles to measure redshift-space distortions simultaneously with the Alcock–Paczynski effect and the baryon acoustic oscillation scale. We include the power-spectrum monopole, quadrupole and hexadecapole in our analysis and compare our measurements with a perturbation-theory-based model, while properly accounting for the survey window function. To evaluate the reliability of our analysis pipeline, we participate in a mock challenge, which results in systematic uncertainties significantly smaller than the statistical uncertainties. While the high-redshift constraint on fσ8 at zeff = 0.61 indicates a small (~1.4σ) deviation from the prediction of the Planck ΛCDM (Λ cold dark matter) model, the low-redshift constraint is in good agreement with Planck ΛCDM. This paper is part of a set that analyses the final galaxy clustering data set from BOSS. Lastly, the measurements and likelihoods presented here are combined with others in Alam et al. to produce the final cosmological constraints from BOSS.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; SC0014329; CSD2009-00064; SEV-2012-0249; AYA2014-60641-C2-1-P
OSTI ID:
1526477
Journal Information:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 466, Issue 2; ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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