TY - JOUR
T1 - The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample
T2 - Measurement of the growth rate of structure from the anisotropic correlation function between redshift 0.8 and 2.2
AU - Zarrouk, Pauline
AU - Burtin, Etienne
AU - Gil-Marín, Héctor
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Pâris, Isabelle
AU - Dawson, Kyle S.
AU - Myers, Adam D.
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Chuang, Chia Hsun
AU - Zhao, Gong Bo
AU - Bautista, Julian
AU - Comparat, Johan
AU - González-Pérez, Violeta
AU - Habib, Salman
AU - Heitmann, Katrin
AU - Hou, Jiamin
AU - Laurent, Pierre
AU - Le Goff, Jean Marc
AU - Prada, Francisco
AU - Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio A.
AU - Rossi, Graziano
AU - Ruggeri, Rossana
AU - Sánchez, Ariel G.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Tinker, Jeremy L.
AU - Wang, Yuting
AU - Yèche, Christophe
AU - Baumgarten, Falk
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - de la Torre, Sylvain
AU - Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des
AU - Kneib, Jean Paul
AU - Mariappan, Vivek
AU - Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
AU - Peacock, John
AU - Petitjean, Patrick
AU - Seo, Hee Jong
AU - Zhao, Cheng
N1 - Funding Information:
PZ and EB would like to thank Martin White for helpful comments on the RSD modelling and on requirements for the use of N-body simulations to the analysis of the quasar sample. PZ and EB acknowledge support from the P2IO LabEx (reference ANR-10-LABX-0038). HGM acknowledges support from the Labex ILP (reference ANR-10-LABX-63) part of the Idex SUPER, and received financial state aidmanaged by the Agence Nationalede la Recherche, as part of the programme Investissements d'avenir under the reference ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02. AJR is grateful for support from the Ohio State University Center for Cosmology and ParticlePhysics. GBZ is supported by NSFC Grants 1171001024 and 11673025. GBZ is also supported by a Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship, hosted by University of Portsmouth. SH's and KH'sworkwas supported under the U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-AC02-06CH11357.GBZ is supported by NSFC Grant No. 11673025, and by a Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship. GR acknowledges support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through Grant No. 2017077508 funded by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), and from the faculty research fund of Sejong University in 2018. Funding for SDSS-III and SDSS-IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Participating Institutions. Additional funding for SDSS-III comes from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Further information about both projects is available at www.sdss.org. SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions in both collaborations. In SDSS-III, these include the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University ofVirginia, University ofWashington, andYaleUniversity. The Participating Institutions in SDSS-IV areCarnegieMellon University, Colorado University, Boulder, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik (MPA Garching), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie (MPIA Heidelberg), National Astronomical Observatories of China, New Mexico State University, New York University, The Ohio State University, Penn State University, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, United Kingdom Participation Group, University of Portsmouth, University of Utah, University of Wisconsin, and Yale University. This research used resources of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported under contract DEAC02-06CH11357. This work made use of the facilities and staffof the UK Sciama High Performance Computing cluster supported by the ICG, SEPNet, and the University of Portsmouth. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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PY - 2018/6/21
Y1 - 2018/6/21
N2 - We present the clustering measurements of quasars in configuration space based on the Data Release 14 (DR14) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This data set includes 148 659 quasars spread over the redshift range 0.8 ≤ z ≤ 2.2 and spanning 2112.9 deg2. We use the Convolution Lagrangian Perturbation Theory approach with a Gaussian Streaming model for the redshift space distortions of the correlation function and demonstrate its applicability for dark matter haloes hosting eBOSS quasar tracers. At the effective redshift zeff = 1.52, we measure the linear growth rate of structure fσ8(zeff) = 0.426 ± 0.077, the expansion rate H(zeff) = 159 -13 +12(r s fid/rs) kms-1Mpc-1, and the angular diameter distance DA(zeff) = 1850 -115 +90 (rs/r s fid) Mpc, where rs is the sound horizon at the end of the baryon drag epoch and r s fid is its value in the fiducial cosmology. The quoted uncertainties include both systematic and statistical contributions. The results on the evolution of distances are consistent with the predictions of flat Λ-cold dark matter cosmology with Planck parameters, and the measurement of fσ8 extends the validity of General Relativity to higher redshifts (z > 1). This paper is released with companion papers using the same sample. The results on the cosmological parameters of the studies are found to be in very good agreement, providing clear evidence of the complementarity and of the robustness of the first full-shape clustering measurements with the eBOSS DR14 quasar sample.
AB - We present the clustering measurements of quasars in configuration space based on the Data Release 14 (DR14) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This data set includes 148 659 quasars spread over the redshift range 0.8 ≤ z ≤ 2.2 and spanning 2112.9 deg2. We use the Convolution Lagrangian Perturbation Theory approach with a Gaussian Streaming model for the redshift space distortions of the correlation function and demonstrate its applicability for dark matter haloes hosting eBOSS quasar tracers. At the effective redshift zeff = 1.52, we measure the linear growth rate of structure fσ8(zeff) = 0.426 ± 0.077, the expansion rate H(zeff) = 159 -13 +12(r s fid/rs) kms-1Mpc-1, and the angular diameter distance DA(zeff) = 1850 -115 +90 (rs/r s fid) Mpc, where rs is the sound horizon at the end of the baryon drag epoch and r s fid is its value in the fiducial cosmology. The quoted uncertainties include both systematic and statistical contributions. The results on the evolution of distances are consistent with the predictions of flat Λ-cold dark matter cosmology with Planck parameters, and the measurement of fσ8 extends the validity of General Relativity to higher redshifts (z > 1). This paper is released with companion papers using the same sample. The results on the cosmological parameters of the studies are found to be in very good agreement, providing clear evidence of the complementarity and of the robustness of the first full-shape clustering measurements with the eBOSS DR14 quasar sample.
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/sty506
DO - 10.1093/mnras/sty506
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049968975
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 477
SP - 1639
EP - 1663
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -