Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 420, Issue 3, Pages 2102-2119Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20169.x
Keywords
cosmological parameters; dark energy; large-scale structure of Universe
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Funding
- European Research Council
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Leverhulme trust
- STFC
- Georgian National Science Foundation [GNSF ST08/4-442]
- SNFS SCOPES [128040]
- ICG
- SEPNet
- University of Portsmouth
- COSMOS consortium supercomputer within the DiRAC facility
- BIS
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/I001204/1, ST/H008586/1, ST/H002774/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/H008586/1, ST/I001204/1, ST/H002774/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The simplest theory describing large-scale redshift-space distortions (RSD), based on linear theory and distant galaxies, depends on the growth of cosmological structure, suggesting that strong tests of general relativity can be constructed from galaxy surveys. As data sets become larger and the expected constraints more precise, the extent to which the RSD follow the simple theory needs to be assessed in order that we do not introduce systematic errors into the tests by introducing inaccurate simplifying assumptions. We study the impact of the sample geometry, non-linear processes and biases induced by our lack of understanding of the radial galaxy distribution on RSD measurements. Using Large Suite of Dark Matter Simulations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) luminous red galaxy data, these effects are shown to be important at the level of 20 per cent. Including them, we can accurately model the recovered clustering in these mock catalogues on scales 30200 h-1 Mpc. Applying this analysis to robustly measure parameters describing the growth history of the Universe from the SDSS-II data gives f(z= 0.25)s8(z= 0.25) = 0.3512 +/- 0.0583 and f(z= 0.37)s8(z= 0.37) = 0.4602 +/- 0.0378 when no prior is imposed on the growth rate, and the background geometry is assumed to follow a cold dark matter (?CDM) model with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)+Type Ia supernova priors. The standard WMAP constrained ?CDM model with general relativity predicts f(z= 0.25)s8(z= 0.25) = 0.4260 +/- 0.0141 and f(z= 0.37)s8(z= 0.37) = 0.4367 +/- 0.0136, which is fully consistent with these measurements.
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