Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/03/003
Keywords
baryon acoustic oscillations; gravity; galaxy clustering
Funding
- Catalyst grant [CSG-UOC1603]
- Knud Hojgaards Fond
- Torben og Alice Frimodts Fond
- Max Norgaard og Hustru Magda Norgaards Fond
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We develop methods for investigating baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) features in cosmological models with non-trivial (but slowly varying) averaged spatial curvature: models that are not necessarily flat, close to flat, nor with constant spatial curvature. The class of models to which our methods apply include Lemaitre-Tolman-Bondi models, modified gravity cosmologies, and inhomogeneous cosmologies with backreaction - in which we do not have a prediction of the shape of the spatial 2-point correlation function, but where we nevertheless expect to see a BAO feature in the present-day galaxy distribution, in form of an excess in the galaxy 2-point correlation function. We apply our methods to the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) dataset, investigating both the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda CDM) and timescape cosmological models as case studies. The correlation functions measured in the two fiducial models contain a similarly-pronounced BAO feature. We use the relative tangential and radial BAO scales to measure the anisotropic Alcock-Paczynski distortion parameter, epsilon, which is independent of the underlying BAO preferred scale. We find that epsilon is consistent with zero in both fiducial cosmologies, indicating that models with a different spatial curvature evolution can account for the relative positions of the tangential and radial BAO scale. We validate our methods using Lambda CDM mocks.
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