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The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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Alam, Shadab, Ata, Metin, Bailey, Stephen, Beutler, Florian, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blazek, Jonathan A., Bolton, Adam S., Brownstein, Joel R. +65 more·2017·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Abstract

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 D M and Hubble parameter H from the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) method, in combination with a cosmic microwave background prior on the sound horizon scale, after applying reconstruction to reduce non-linear effects on the BAO feature.Using the anisotropic clustering of the Hubble Fellow.

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  • Alam et al. (2017a) note that the current growth measurements of f sigma8 reaffirm the validity of GR.

    “The authors note that the current growth measurements of reaffirm the validity of GR.”

    From Testing general relativity in cosmology (2019) · cites this paper as Alam et al. (2017a)

  • Alam et al. (2017a) found very little changes in these values when allowing the equation of state w and the spatial curvature parameter to vary.

    “They also found very little changes in these values when they allow for the equation of state w and the spatial curvature parameter to vary.”

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  • Alam et al. (2017a) combined RSD and BAO with Planck-2015 and, for a LCDM background model and redshift-independent rescaling, found a growth amplitude value consistent with GR.

    “For a CDM background model and a redshift independent rescaling, they find , so a growth amplitude value that is consistent with GR.”

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  • Alam et al. (2017a), when allowing redshift-dependent variation, found a 1.5-sigma deviation from a zero GR-value, which they considered not statistically significant and concluded their results are consistent with GR.

    “When they allow for a redshift-dependent variation, they find and . This is a 1.5- deviation from a zero GR-value so they considered this as not statistically significant and concluded that their results are consistent with GR.”

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Alam, S., Ata, M., Bailey, S., Beutler, F., Bizyaev, D., Blazek, J. A., Bolton, A. S., Brownstein, J. R., Burden, A., Chuang, C.-H., Comparat, J., Cuesta, A. J., Dawson, K. S., Eisenstein, D. J., Escoffier, S., Gil-Marín, H., Grieb, J. N., Hand, N., Ho, S., Kinemuchi, K., Kirkby, D., Kitaura, F., Malanushenko, E., Malanushenko, V., Maraston, C., McBride, C. K., Nichol, R. C., Olmstead, M. D., Oravetz, D., Padmanabhan, N., Palanque-Delabrouille, N., Pan, K., Pellejero-Ibanez, M., Percival, W. J., Petitjean, P., Prada, F., Price-Whelan, A. M., Reid, B. A., Rodríguez-Torres, S. A., Roe, N. A., Ross, A. J., Ross, N. P., Rossi, G., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Saito, S., Salazar-Albornoz, S., Samushia, L., Sánchez, A. G., Satpathy, S., Schlegel, D. J., Schneider, D. P., Scóccola, C. G., Seo, H.-J., Sheldon, E. S., Simmons, A., Slosar, A., Strauss, M. A., Swanson, M. E. C., Thomas, D., Tinker, J. L., Tojeiro, R., Magaña, M. V., Vazquez, J. A., Verde, L., Wake, D. A., Wang, Y., Weinberg, D. H., White, M., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, C., Zehavi, I., Zhai, Z., & Zhao, G.-B.
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  • Carnegie Mellon University (US)
  • Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (DE)
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  • University of Utah (US)
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  • Instituto de Física Teórica (ES)
  • Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ES)
  • Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (US)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Sorbonne Université (FR)
  • Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (DE)
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • University of Portsmouth (GB)
  • King's College - Pennsylvania (US)
  • Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
  • Princeton University (US)
  • Centre de physique des particules de Marseille (FR)
  • Sejong University (KR)
  • Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (JP)
  • Kansas State University (US)
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (AR)
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (US)
  • University of St Andrews (GB)
  • Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ES)
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
Corresponding author
  • Reid, Beth A.
  • Tinker, Jeremy L.
Venue
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Published
2017-03-28
Volume
470
Issue
3
Pages
2617-2652
ISSN
  • 0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
  • 1365-2966
OpenAlex
W2501864044
Cited by
3,056
References
221
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Language
en
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  • National Science Foundation (DE-AC02-98CH10886, DEAC02-05CH11231, DE-SC0012704)
  • U.S. Department of Energy (-AC02-05CH11231, DE‐SC0012704, 05CH11231, DEAC-02-98CH10886, DESC0014329, DESC0009959, DE AC02 05CH11231, -AC02-98 CH 10886, SC0012704., DESC0013718, DESC0010331, DESC0017860, DE-AC02-)
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  • York University
  • National Research Foundation (NRF-SGER 2014055950, ST/N000668/1)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE-AC02-05CH11231, MDM-2014-0369)
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11IDEX-0004-02, ANR-16-CE31-0021, ANR-10-LABX-63, ANR-11-IDEX, DE-AC02-05CH11231, IDEX-0004-02, ANR-10-LABX-0063, ANR-11-IDEX-0004, ANR-10, 10-LABX-63)
  • Sejong University
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-SGER 2014055950, DE-AC02-98CH10886)
  • Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
  • Office of Science (DE-AC-02-98CH10886, DESC0014329, DE-SC-0012704, DEAC02–05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02, DESC0010331, SC0012704)
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  • Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M001709/1, ST/N00180X/1, ST/K004719/1, DE-AC02-98CH10886, ST/N000668/1, ST/L00481X/1)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K21733)
  • Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (MDM-2014-0369)
  • High Energy Physics (DE-SC0012704, DEAC02--05CH11231, DE-SC0014329)
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (SC0012704, AC-02-98CH10886, DE-AC02- 98CH10886, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE- SC0012704)
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (AC02‐05CH11231, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-SC0012704, 05CH11231)
  • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (240117, 614030)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Keywords
galaxy clustering, baryon acoustic oscillations, BOSS, SDSS DR12, angular diameter distance, Hubble parameter, sound horizon, anisotropic clustering, large-scale structure, cosmological constraints

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