The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Measuring DA and H at z = 0.57 from the baryon acoustic peak in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample

Lauren Anderson; Eric Aubourg; Stephen Bailey; Florian Beutler; Adam S. Bolton; J. Brinkmann; Joel R. Brownstein; Chia Hsun Chuang; Antonio J. Cuesta; Kyle S. Dawson; Daniel J. Eisenstein; Shirley Ho; Klaus Honscheid; Eyal A. Kazin; David Kirkby; Marc Manera; Cameron K. Mcbride; O. Mena; Robert C. Nichol; Matthew D. Olmstead; Nikhil Padmanabhan; N. Palanque-delabrouille; Will J. Percival; Francisco Prada; Ashley J. Ross; Nicholas P. Ross; Ariel G. Sánchez; Lado Samushia; David J. Schlegel; Donald P. Schneider; Hee Jong Seo; Michael A. Strauss; Daniel Thomas; Jeremy L. Tinker; Rita Tojeiro; Licia Verde; David Wake; David H. Weinberg; Xiaoying Xu; Christophe Yeche

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The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Measuring D_A and H at z = 0.57 from the baryon acoustic peak in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample

Lauren Anderson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Florian Beutler, Adam S. Bolton, J. Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Chia Hsun Chuang, Antonio J. Cuesta, Kyle S. Dawson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Shirley Ho, Klaus Honscheid, Eyal A. Kazin, David Kirkby, Marc Manera, Cameron K. Mcbride, O. Mena, Robert C. Nichol, Matthew D. OlmsteadNikhil Padmanabhan, N. Palanque-delabrouille, Will J. Percival, Francisco Prada, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, Ariel G. Sánchez, Lado Samushia, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Hee Jong Seo, Michael A. Strauss, Daniel Thomas, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Licia Verde, David Wake, David H. Weinberg, Xiaoying Xu, Christophe Yeche

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We present measurements of the angular diameter distance to and Hubble parameter at z = 0.57 from the measurement of the baryon acoustic peak in the correlation of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Our analysis is based on asample from Data Release 9 of 264 283 galaxies over 3275 square degrees in the redshift range 0.43 < z < 0.70. We use two different methods to provide robust measurement of the acoustic peak position across and along the line of sight in order to measure the cosmological distance scale. We find D_A(0.57) = 1408 ± 45 Mpc and H(0.57) = 92.9 ± 7.8 km s^-1 Mpc^-1 for our fiducial value of the sound horizon. These results from the anisotropic fitting are fully consistent with the analysis of the spherically averaged acoustic peak position presented in Anderson et al. Our distance measurements are a close match to the predictions of the standard cosmological model featuring a cosmological constant and zero spatial curvature.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	83-101
Number of pages	19
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	439
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2206
State	Published - Mar 2014

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Anderson, L., Aubourg, E., Bailey, S., Beutler, F., Bolton, A. S., Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, J. R., Chuang, C. H., Cuesta, A. J., Dawson, K. S., Eisenstein, D. J., Ho, S., Honscheid, K., Kazin, E. A., Kirkby, D., Manera, M., Mcbride, C. K., Mena, O., Nichol, R. C., ... Yeche, C. (2014). The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Measuring D_A and H at z = 0.57 from the baryon acoustic peak in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439(1), 83-101. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2206

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The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Measuring D_A and H at z = 0.57 from the baryon acoustic peak in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample. / Anderson, Lauren; Aubourg, Eric; Bailey, Stephen et al.
In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 439, No. 1, 03.2014, p. 83-101.

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Anderson L, Aubourg E, Bailey S, Beutler F, Bolton AS, Brinkmann J et al. The clustering of galaxies in the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Measuring D_A and H at z = 0.57 from the baryon acoustic peak in the data release 9 spectroscopic galaxy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 2014 Mar;439(1):83-101. doi: 10.1093/mnras/stt2206

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