TY - JOUR
T1 - The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
T2 - BAO measurement from the LOS-dependent power spectrum of DR12 BOSS galaxies
AU - Gil-Marín, Héctor
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Cuesta, Antonio J.
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - Chuang, Chia-Hsun
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
AU - Maraston, Claudia
AU - Prada, Francisco
AU - Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio
AU - Ross, Ashely J.
AU - Schlegel, David J.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Thomas, Daniel
AU - Tinker, Jeremy L.
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Vargas Magaña, Mariana
AU - Zhao, Gong-Bo
N1 - HGM is grateful for support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council through the grant ST/I001204/1. WJP is grateful for support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Research Council through the grant ST/I001204/1, and the European Research Council through the grant “Darksurvey”, reference 614030. FSK acknowledges the support of the Karl-Schwarzschild Program from the Leibniz Society.
PY - 2016/8/21
Y1 - 2016/8/21
N2 - [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 $z_{\rm
LOWZ}=0.32$, and 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, $\alpha_2$. We report $H(z_{\rm
LOWZ})r_s(z_d)=(11.64\pm0.62)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{\rm
LOWZ})/r_s(z_d)=6.85\pm0.17$ with a cross-correlation coefficient of
$r_{HD_A}=0.42$, for the LOWZ sample; and $H(z_{\rm
CMASS})r_s(z_d)=(14.56\pm0.38)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{\rm
CMASS})/r_s(z_d)=9.42\pm0.13$ with a cross-correlation coefficient of
$r_{HD_A}=0.51$, 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: $H(z_{\rm
LOWZ})r_s(z_d)=(11.64\pm0.70)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{\rm
LOWZ})/r_s(z_d)=6.76\pm0.15$ with $r_{HD_A}=0.35$ for the LOWZ sample;
and $H(z_{\rm CMASS})r_s(z_d)=(14.66\pm0.42)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$
and $D_A(z_{\rm CMASS})/r_s(z_d)=9.47\pm0.13$ with $r_{HD_A}=0.54$ for
the CMASS sample.
AB - [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 $z_{\rm
LOWZ}=0.32$, and 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, $\alpha_2$. We report $H(z_{\rm
LOWZ})r_s(z_d)=(11.64\pm0.62)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{\rm
LOWZ})/r_s(z_d)=6.85\pm0.17$ with a cross-correlation coefficient of
$r_{HD_A}=0.42$, for the LOWZ sample; and $H(z_{\rm
CMASS})r_s(z_d)=(14.56\pm0.38)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{\rm
CMASS})/r_s(z_d)=9.42\pm0.13$ with a cross-correlation coefficient of
$r_{HD_A}=0.51$, 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: $H(z_{\rm
LOWZ})r_s(z_d)=(11.64\pm0.70)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$ and $D_A(z_{\rm
LOWZ})/r_s(z_d)=6.76\pm0.15$ with $r_{HD_A}=0.35$ for the LOWZ sample;
and $H(z_{\rm CMASS})r_s(z_d)=(14.66\pm0.42)\cdot10^3\,{\rm km}s^{-1}$
and $D_A(z_{\rm CMASS})/r_s(z_d)=9.47\pm0.13$ with $r_{HD_A}=0.54$ for
the CMASS sample.
KW - Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
UR - http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015arXiv150906373G
U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stw1264
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stw1264
M3 - Article
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 460
SP - 4210
EP - 4219
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 4
ER -