Bibcode
Chuang, C.-H.; Prada, Francisco; Pellejero-Ibañez, M.; Beutler, Florian; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Escoffier, Stephanie; Ho, Shirley; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Manera, Marc; Nuza, Sebastián E.; Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio; Ross, Ashley; Rubiño-Martín, J. A.; Samushia, Lado; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Wang, Yuting; Weaver, Benjamin A.; Zhao, Gongbo; Brownstein, Joel R.; Dawson, Kyle S.; Maraston, Claudia; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Thomas, Daniel
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 461, Issue 4, p.3781-3793
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10
2016
Citations
138
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127
Description
With the largest spectroscopic galaxy survey volume drawn from the
SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we can extract
cosmological constraints from the measurements of redshift and geometric
distortions at quasi-linear scales (e.g. above 50 h-1 Mpc).
We analyse the broad-range shape of the monopole and quadrupole
correlation functions of the BOSS Data Release 12 (DR12) CMASS galaxy
sample, at the effective redshift z = 0.59, to obtain constraints on the
Hubble expansion rate H(z), the angular- diameter distance
DA(z), the normalized growth rate f(z)σ8(z),
and the physical matter density Ωm h2. We
obtain robust measurements by including a polynomial as the model for
the systematic errors, and find it works very well against the
systematic effects, e.g. ones induced by stars and seeing. We provide
accurate measurements
{DA(0.59)rs,fid/rs,
H(0.59)rs/rs,fid,
f(0.59)σ8(0.59), Ωm h2} =
{1427 ± 26 Mpc, 97.3 ± 3.3 km s-1
Mpc-1, 0.488 ± 0.060, 0.135 ± 0.016}, where
rs is the comoving sound horizon at the drag epoch and
rs,fid = 147.66 Mpc is the sound scale of the fiducial
cosmology used in this study. The parameters which are not well
constrained by our galaxy clustering analysis are marginalized over with
wide flat priors. Since no priors from other data sets, e.g. cosmic
microwave background (CMB), are adopted and no dark energy models are
assumed, our results from BOSS CMASS galaxy clustering alone may be
combined with other data sets, i.e. CMB, SNe, lensing or other galaxy
clustering data to constrain the parameters of a given cosmological
model. The uncertainty on the dark energy equation of state parameter,
w, from CMB+CMASS is about 8 per cent. The uncertainty on the curvature
fraction, Ωk, is 0.3 per cent. We do not find deviation
from flat ΛCDM.