Bibcode
Brownstein, Joel R.; Nichol, Robert C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Tojeiro, Rita; Vargas-Magaña, Mariana; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Seo, Hee-Jong; Satpathy, Siddharth; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Samushia, Lado; Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador; Percival, Will J.; Rossi, Graziano; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu; Grieb, Jan Niklas; Ho, Shirley; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Gil-Marín, Héctor; Beutler, Florian; Slosar, Anže; Vazquez, Jose A.; Alam, Shadab; Prada, Francisco; Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio; Ross, Ashley J.; Zhao, Gongbo; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Wang, Yuting; Rubiño-Martín, J. A.; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Pellejero-Ibanez, M.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 468, Issue 4, p.4116-4133
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2017
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Description
We develop a new computationally efficient methodology called
double-probe analysis with the aim of minimizing informative priors
(those coming from extra probes) in the estimation of cosmological
parameters. Using our new methodology, we extract the dark energy
model-independent cosmological constraints from the joint data sets of
the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) galaxy sample and
Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements. We measure the
mean values and covariance matrix of {R, la,
Ωbh2, ns, log(As),
Ωk, H(z), DA(z),
f(z)σ8(z)}, which give an efficient summary of the
Planck data and two-point statistics from the BOSS galaxy sample. The
CMB shift parameters are R=√{Ω _m H_0^2} r(z_*) and
la = πr(z*)/rs(z*), where
z* is the redshift at the last scattering surface, and
r(z*) and rs(z*) denote our comoving
distance to the z* and sound horizon at z*,
respectively; Ωb is the baryon fraction at z = 0. This
approximate methodology guarantees that we will not need to put
informative priors on the cosmological parameters that galaxy clustering
is unable to constrain, i.e. Ωbh2 and
ns. The main advantage is that the computational time
required for extracting these parameters is decreased by a factor of 60
with respect to exact full-likelihood analyses. The results obtained
show no tension with the flat Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM)
cosmological paradigm. By comparing with the full-likelihood exact
analysis with fixed dark energy models, on one hand we demonstrate that
the double-probe method provides robust cosmological parameter
constraints that can be conveniently used to study dark energy models,
and on the other hand we provide a reliable set of measurements assuming
dark energy models to be used, for example, in distance estimations. We
extend our study to measure the sum of the neutrino mass using different
methodologies, including double-probe analysis (introduced in this
study), full-likelihood analysis and single-probe analysis. From
full-likelihood analysis, we obtain Σmν < 0.12
(68 per cent), assuming ΛCDM and Σmν <
0.20 (68 per cent) assuming owCDM. We also find that there is degeneracy
between observational systematics and neutrino masses, which suggests
that one should take great care when estimating these parameters in the
case of not having control over the systematics of a given sample.
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