Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxy sample
Percival, Will J.; Reid, Beth A.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Bahcall, Neta A.; Budavari, Tamas; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gunn, James E.; Ivezić, Zcaron;eljko; Knapp, Gillian R.; Kron, Richard G.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; Mckay, Timothy A.; Meiksin, Avery; Nichol, Robert C.; Pope, Adrian C.; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Spergel, David N.; Stoughton, Chris; Strauss, Michael A.; Szalay, Alexander S.; Tegmark, Max; Vogeley, Michael S.; Weinberg, David H.; York, Donald G.; Zehavi, Idit
2010-02-01
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Percival, Will J.; Reid, Beth A.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Bahcall, Neta A.; Budavari, Tamas; Frieman, Joshua A.; Fukugita, Masataka; Gunn, James E.; Ivezić, Zcaron;eljko; Knapp, Gillian R.; Kron, Richard G.; Loveday, Jon; Lupton, Robert H.; Mckay, Timothy A.; Meiksin, Avery; Nichol, Robert C.; Pope, Adrian C.; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Spergel, David N.; Stoughton, Chris; Strauss, Michael A.; Szalay, Alexander S.; Tegmark, Max; Vogeley, Michael S.; Weinberg, David H.; York, Donald G.; Zehavi, Idit; (2010). "Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxy sample." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 401(4): 2148-2168. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/78610>
Abstract
The spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) galaxy sample represents the final set of galaxies observed using the original SDSS target selection criteria. We analyse the clustering of galaxies within this sample, including both the luminous red galaxy and main samples, and also include the 2-degree Field Galaxy Redshift Survey data. In total, this sample comprises 893 319 galaxies over 9100 deg 2 . Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are observed in power spectra measured for different slices in redshift; this allows us to constrain the distance–redshift relation at multiple epochs. We achieve a distance measure at redshift z = 0.275 , of r s ( z d )/ D V (0.275) = 0.1390 ± 0.0037 (2.7 per cent accuracy), where r s ( z d ) is the comoving sound horizon at the baryon-drag epoch, D V ( z ) ≡[(1 + z ) 2 D 2 A cz / H ( z )] 1/3 , D A ( z ) is the angular diameter distance and H ( z ) is the Hubble parameter. We find an almost independent constraint on the ratio of distances D V (0.35)/ D V (0.2) = 1.736 ± 0.065 , which is consistent at the 1.1σ level with the best-fitting Λ cold dark matter model obtained when combining our z = 0.275 distance constraint with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 5-year ( WMAP 5) data. The offset is similar to that found in previous analyses of the SDSS DR5 sample, but the discrepancy is now of lower significance, a change caused by a revised error analysis and a change in the methodology adopted, as well as the addition of more data. Using WMAP 5 constraints on Ω b h 2 and Ω c h 2 , and combining our BAO distance measurements with those from the Union supernova sample, places a tight constraint on Ω m = 0.286 ± 0.018 and H 0 = 68.2 ± 2.2 km s −1 Mpc −1 that is robust to allowing Ω k ≠ 0 and w ≠−1 . This result is independent of the behaviour of dark energy at redshifts greater than those probed by the BAO and supernova measurements. Combining these data sets with the full WMAP 5 likelihood constraints provides tight constraints on both Ω k =−0.006 ± 0.008 and w =−0.97 ± 0.10 for a constant dark energy equation of state.Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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0035-8711 1365-2966
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