Bibcode
Grieb, Jan Niklas; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador; Scoccimarro, Román; Crocce, Martín; Dalla Vecchia, C.; Montesano, Francesco; Gil-Marín, Héctor; Ross, Ashley J.; Beutler, Florian; Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Prada, Francisco; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Percival, Will J.; Vargas-Magaña, Mariana; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Tojeiro, Rita; Brownstein, Joel R.; Maraston, Claudia; Nichol, Robert C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Samushia, Lado; Seo, Hee-Jong; Streblyanska, A.; Zhao, Gong-bo
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 467, Issue 2, p.2085-2112
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2017
Citations
102
Refereed citations
99
Description
We extract cosmological information from the anisotropic power-spectrum
measurements from the recently completed Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), extending the concept of clustering wedges
to Fourier space. Making use of new fast-Fourier-transform-based
estimators, we measure the power-spectrum clustering wedges of the BOSS
sample by filtering out the information of Legendre multipoles ℓ
> 4. Our modelling of these measurements is based on novel approaches
to describe non-linear evolution, bias and redshift-space distortions,
which we test using synthetic catalogues based on large-volume N-body
simulations. We are able to include smaller scales than in previous
analyses, resulting in tighter cosmological constraints. Using three
overlapping redshift bins, we measure the angular-diameter distance, the
Hubble parameter and the cosmic growth rate, and explore the
cosmological implications of our full-shape clustering measurements in
combination with cosmic microwave background and Type Ia supernova data.
Assuming a Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology, we
constrain the matter density to Ω M=
0.311_{-0.010}^{+0.009} and the Hubble parameter to H_0 =
67.6_{-0.6}^{+0.7} km s^{-1 Mpc^{-1}}, at a confidence level of 68 per
cent. We also allow for non-standard dark energy models and
modifications of the growth rate, finding good agreement with the
ΛCDM paradigm. For example, we constrain the equation-of-state
parameter to w = -1.019_{-0.039}^{+0.048}. This paper is part of a set
that analyses the final galaxy-clustering data set from BOSS. The
measurements and likelihoods presented here are combined with others in
Alam et al. to produce the final cosmological constraints from BOSS.
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