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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 485, Issue 1, Pages 326-355Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz191
Keywords
neutrinos; dark energy; large-scale structure of Universe; cosmology: observations
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Funding
- CNPq Brazil fellowships
- European Community through the DEDALE grant [665044]
- European Commission
- Royal Society
- Royal Society URF
- Royal Astronomical Society
- European Research Council Advanced Grant [FP7/291329]
- UK Science and Technology Research Council (STFC) [ST/M001334/1]
- European Union [6655919]
- STFC [ST/N000013/1, ST/M001334/1, ST/J004847/1, ST/R000476/1, ST/P000649/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We constrain cosmological parameters by analysing the angular power spectra of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR12 galaxies, a spectroscopic follow-up of around 1.3 million SDSS galaxies over 9376 deg(2) with an effective volume of similar to 6.5 (Gpc h(-1))(3) in the redshift range 0.15 <= z < 0.80. We split this sample into 13 tomographic bins (Delta z = 0.05); angular power spectra were calculated using a Pseudo-C-l estimator, and covariance matrices were estimated using lognormal simulated maps. Cosmological constraints obtained from these data were combined with constraints from Planck cosmic microwave background experiment as well as the JLA supernovae compilation. Considering a wCDM cosmological model measured on scales up to k(max) = 0.07h Mpc(-1), we constrain a constant dark energy equation-of-state with an similar to 4 per cent error at the 1 sigma level: w(0) = -0.993(-0.043)(+0.046), together with Omega(m) = 0.330 +/- 0.012, Omega(b) = 0.0505 +/- 0.002, S-8 = sigma(8) root Omega(m)/0.3 = 0.863 +/- 0.016, and h = 0.661 +/- 0.012. For the same combination of data sets, but now considering a Lambda CDM (lambda cold dark matter) model with massive neutrinos and the same scale cut, we find Omega(m) = 0.328 +/- 0.009, Omega(b) = 0.05017(-0.0008)(+0.0009), S-8 = 0.862 +/- 0.017, and h = 0.663(-0.007)(+0.006), and a 95 per cent credible interval (CI) upper limit of Sigma m(nu) < 0.14 eV for a normal hierarchy. These results are competitive if not better than standard analyses with the same data set, and demonstrate that this should be a method of choice for future surveys, opening the door for their full exploitation in cross-correlation probes.
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