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Register a new userThe clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: RSD measurement from the LOS-dependent power spectrum of DR12 BOSS galaxies
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2015
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We measure and analyse the clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) relative to the line-of-sight (LOS), for LOWZ and CMASS galaxy samples drawn from the final Data Release 12 (DR12). The LOWZ sample contains 361,762 galaxies with an effective redshift of $z_{rm lowz}=0.32$, and the CMASS sample 777,202 galaxies with an effective redshift of $z_{rm cmass}=0.57$. From the power spectrum monopole and quadrupole moments around the LOS, we measure the growth of structure parameter $f$ times the amplitude of dark matter density fluctuations $sigma_8$ by modeling the Redshift-Space Distortion signal. When the geometrical Alcock-Paczynski effect is also constrained from the same data, we find joint constraints on $fsigma_8$, the product of the Hubble constant and the comoving sound horizon at the baryon drag epoch $H(z)r_s(z_d)$, and the angular distance parameter divided by the sound horizon $D_A(z)/r_s(z_d)$. We find $f(z_{rm lowz})sigma_8(z_{rm lowz})=0.394pm0.062$, $D_A(z_{rm lowz})/r_s(z_d)=6.35pm0.19$, $H(z_{rm lowz})r_s(z_d)=(11.41pm 0.56),{10^3rm km}s^{-1}$ for the LOWZ sample, and $f(z_{rm cmass})sigma_8(z_{rm cmass})=0.444pm0.038$, $D_A(z_{rm cmass})/r_s(z_d)=9.42pm0.15$, $H(z_{rm cmass})r_s(z_d)=(13.92 pm 0.44), {10^3rm km}s^{-1}$ for the CMASS sample. We find general agreement with previous BOSS DR11 measurements. Assuming the Hubble parameter and angular distance parameter are fixed at fiducial $Lambda$CDM values, we find $f(z_{rm lowz})sigma_8(z_{rm lowz})=0.485pm0.044$ and $f(z_{rm cmass})sigma_8(z_{rm cmass})=0.436pm0.022$ for the LOWZ and CMASS samples, respectively.
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[abridged] We present an anisotropic analysis of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale in the twelfth and final data release of the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We independently analyse the LOWZ and CMASS galaxy samples: the LOWZ sample contains contains 361 762 galaxies with an effective redshift of $z_{rm LOWZ}=0.32$; the CMASS sample consists of 777 202 galaxies with an effective redshift of $z_{rm CMASS}=0.57$. We extract the BAO peak position from the monopole power spectrum moment, $alpha_0$, and from the $mu^2$ moment, $alpha_2$, where $mu$ is the cosine of the angle to the line-of-sight. The $mu^2$-moment provides equivalent information to that available in the quadrupole but is simpler to analyse. After applying a reconstruction algorithm to reduce the BAO suppression by bulk motions, we measure the BAO peak position in the monopole and $mu^2$-moment, which are related to radial and angular shifts in scale. We report $H(z_{rm LOWZ})r_s(z_d)=(11.60pm0.60)cdot10^3 {rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{rm LOWZ})/r_s(z_d)=6.66pm0.16$ with a cross-correlation coefficient of $r_{HD_A}=0.41$, for the LOWZ sample; and $H(z_{rm CMASS})r_s(z_d)=(14.56pm0.37)cdot10^3 {rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{rm CMASS})/r_s(z_d)=9.42pm0.13$ with a cross-correlation coefficient of $r_{HD_A}=0.47$, for the CMASS sample. We combine these results with the measurements of the BAO peak position in the monopole and quadrupole correlation function of the same dataset citep[][companion paper]{Cuestaetal2015} and report the consensus values: $H(z_{rm LOWZ})r_s(z_d)=(11.63pm0.69)cdot10^3 {rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{rm LOWZ})/r_s(z_d)=6.67pm0.15$ with $r_{HD_A}=0.35$ for the LOWZ sample; $H(z_{rm CMASS})r_s(z_d)=(14.67pm0.42)cdot10^3 {rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{rm CMASS})/r_s(z_d)=9.47pm0.12$ with $r_{HD_A}=0.52$ for the CMASS sample.
We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined galaxy sample comprises 1.2 million massive galaxies over an effective area of 9329 deg^2 and volume of 18.7 Gpc^3, divided into three partially overlapping redshift slices centred at effective redshifts 0.38, 0.51, and 0.61. We measure the angular diameter distance DM and Hubble parameter H from the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) method after applying reconstruction to reduce non-linear effects on the BAO feature. Using the anisotropic clustering of the pre-reconstruction density field, we measure the product DM*H from the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect and the growth of structure, quantified by f{sigma}8(z), from redshift-space distortions (RSD). We combine measurements presented in seven companion papers into a set of consensus values and likelihoods, obtaining constraints that are tighter and more robust than those from any one method. Combined with Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background measurements, our distance scale measurements simultaneously imply curvature {Omega}_K =0.0003+/-0.0026 and a dark energy equation of state parameter w = -1.01+/-0.06, in strong affirmation of the spatially flat cold dark matter model with a cosmological constant ({Lambda}CDM). Our RSD measurements of f{sigma}_8, at 6 per cent precision, are similarly consistent with this model. When combined with supernova Ia data, we find H0 = 67.3+/-1.0 km/s/Mpc even for our most general dark energy model, in tension with some direct measurements. Adding extra relativistic species as a degree of freedom loosens the constraint only slightly, to H0 = 67.8+/-1.2 km/s/Mpc. Assuming flat {Lambda}CDM we find {Omega}_m = 0.310+/-0.005 and H0 = 67.6+/-0.5 km/s/Mpc, and we find a 95% upper limit of 0.16 eV/c^2 on the neutrino mass sum.
We analyse the broad-range shape of the monopole and quadrupole correlation functions of the BOSS Data Release 12 (DR12) CMASS and LOWZ galaxy sample to obtain constraints on the Hubble expansion rate $H(z)$, the angular-diameter distance $D_A(z)$, the normalised growth rate $f(z)sigma_8(z)$, and the physical matter density $Omega_mh^2$. We adopt wide and flat priors on all model parameters in order to ensure the results are those of a `single-probe galaxy clustering analysis. We also marginalise over three nuisance terms that account for potential observational systematics affecting the measured monopole. However, such Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis is computationally expensive for advanced theoretical models, thus we develop a new methodology to speed up our analysis. We obtain ${D_A(z)r_{s,fid}/r_s$Mpc, $H(z)r_s/r_{s,fid}$kms$^{-1}$Mpc$^{-1}$, $f(z)sigma_8(z)$, $Omega_m h^2}$ = ${956pm28$ , $75.0pm4.0$ , $0.397 pm 0.073$, $0.143pm0.017}$ at $z=0.32$ and ${1421pm23$, $96.7pm2.7$ , $0.497 pm 0.058$, $0.137pm0.015}$ at $z=0.59$ where $r_s$ is the comoving sound horizon at the drag epoch and $r_{s,fid}=147.66$Mpc for the fiducial cosmology in this study. In addition, we divide the galaxy sample into four redshift bins to increase the sensitivity of redshift evolution. However, we do not find improvements in terms of constraining dark energy model parameters. Combining our measurements with Planck data, we obtain $Omega_m=0.306pm0.009$, $H_0=67.9pm0.7$kms$^{-1}$Mpc$^{-1}$, and $sigma_8=0.815pm0.009$ assuming $Lambda$CDM; $Omega_k=0.000pm0.003$ assuming oCDM; $w=-1.01pm0.06$ assuming $w$CDM; and $w_0=-0.95pm0.22$ and $w_a=-0.22pm0.63$ assuming $w_0w_a$CDM. Our results show no tension with the flat $Lambda$CDM cosmological paradigm. This paper is part of a set that analyses the final galaxy clustering dataset from BOSS.
We report on the small scale (0.5<r<40h^-1 Mpc) clustering of 78895 massive (M*~10^11.3M_sun) galaxies at 0.2<z<0.4 from the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), to be released as part of SDSS Data Release 9 (DR9). We describe the sample selection, basic properties of the galaxies, and caveats for working with the data. We calculate the real- and redshift-space two-point correlation functions of these galaxies, fit these measurements using Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modeling within dark matter cosmological simulations, and estimate the errors using mock catalogs. These galaxies lie in massive halos, with a mean halo mass of 5.2x10^13 h^-1 M_sun, a large scale bias of ~2.0, and a satellite fraction of 12+/-2%. Thus, these galaxies occupy halos with average masses in between those of the higher redshift BOSS CMASS sample and the original SDSS I/II LRG sample.
We analyze the density field of galaxies observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) included in the SDSS Data Release Nine (DR9). DR9 includes spectroscopic redshifts for over 400,000 galaxies spread over a footprint of 3,275 deg^2. We identify, characterize, and mitigate the impact of sources of systematic uncertainty on large-scale clustering measurements, both for angular moments of the redshift-space correlation function and the spherically averaged power spectrum, P(k), in order to ensure that robust cosmological constraints will be obtained from these data. A correlation between the projected density of stars and the higher redshift (0.43 < z < 0.7) galaxy sample (the `CMASS sample) due to imaging systematics imparts a systematic error that is larger than the statistical error of the clustering measurements at scales s > 120h^-1Mpc or k < 0.01hMpc^-1. We find that these errors can be ameliorated by weighting galaxies based on their surface brightness and the local stellar density. We use mock galaxy catalogs that simulate the CMASS selection function to determine that randomly selecting galaxy redshifts in order to simulate the radial selection function of a random sample imparts the least systematic error on correlation function measurements and that this systematic error is negligible for the spherically averaged correlation function. The methods we recommend for the calculation of clustering measurements using the CMASS sample are adopted in companion papers that locate the position of the baryon acoustic oscillation feature (Anderson et al. 2012), constrain cosmological models using the full shape of the correlation function (Sanchez et al. 2012), and measure the rate of structure growth (Reid et al. 2012). (abridged)
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