The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological implications of the Fourier space wedges of the final …
JN Grieb, AG Sánchez… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
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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 …
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 …
Abstract
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 and the Hubble parameter to , 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 . 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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