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The completed SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Geometry and growth from the anisotropic void-galaxy correlation function in the luminous red galaxy sample

Nadathur, S; Woodfinden, A; Percival, WJ; Aubert, M; Bautista, J; Dawson, K; Escoffier, S; ... Schneider, DP; + view all (2020) The completed SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Geometry and growth from the anisotropic void-galaxy correlation function in the luminous red galaxy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 499 (3) pp. 4140-4157. 10.1093/mnras/staa3074. Green open access

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Abstract

We present an analysis of the anisotropic redshift-space void-galaxy correlation in configuration space using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 16 luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample. This sample consists of LRGs between redshifts 0.6 and 1.0, combined with the high redshift z > 0.6 tail of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12 CMASS sample. We use a reconstruction method to undo redshift-space distortion (RSD) effects from the galaxy field before applying a watershed void-finding algorithm to remove bias from the void selection. We then perform a joint fit to the multipole moments of the correlation function for the growth rate fσ 8 and the geometrical distance ratio DM/DH, finding f σ8 (zeff ) = 0.356 ± 0.079 and DM /DH (zeff ) = 0.868 ± 0.017 at the effective redshift zeff = 0.69 of the sample. The posterior parameter degeneracies are orthogonal to those from galaxy clustering analyses applied to the same data, and the constraint achieved on DM/DH is significantly tighter. In combination with the consensus galaxy BAO and full-shape analyses of the same sample, we obtain fσ 8 = 0.447 ± 0.039, DM/rd = 17.48 ± 0.23, and DH/rd = 20.10 ± 0.34. These values are in good agreement with the ΛCDM model predictions and represent reductions in the uncertainties of 13 per cent, 23 per cent, and 28 per cent, respectively, compared to the combined results from galaxy clustering, or an overall reduction of 55 per cent in the allowed volume of parameter space.

Type: Article
Title: The completed SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Geometry and growth from the anisotropic void-galaxy correlation function in the luminous red galaxy sample
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3074
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3074
Language: English
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UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120935
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