期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/026
关键词
dark energy experiments; Lyman alpha forest; baryon acoustic oscillations
资金
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- University of Arizona
- Brazilian Participation Group
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- University of Cambridge
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Florida
- French Participation Group
- German Participation Group
- Harvard University
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
- 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
- Spanish Participation Group
- University of Tokyo
- University of Utah
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- Yale University
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K00090X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1109730] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [ST/K00090X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
We use the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) to detect and measure the position of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function in the Lyman-alpha forest flux fluctuations at a redshift z(eff) = 2.4. The feature is clearly detected at significance between 3 and 5 sigma (depending on the broadband model and method of error covariance matrix estimation) and is consistent with predictions of the standard Lambda CDM model. We assess the biases in our method, stability of the error covariance matrix and possible systematic effects. We fit the resulting correlation function with several models that decouple the broadband and acoustic scale information. For an isotropic dilation factor, we measure 100 x (alpha(iso) - 1) = -1.6(-2.0 -4.1 -6.8)(+2.0 +4.3 +7.4) (stat.) +/- 1.0 (syst.) (multiple statistical errors denote 1,2 and 3 sigma confidence limits) with respect to the acoustic scale in the fiducial cosmological model (flat Lambda CDM with Omega(m) = 0.27, h = 0.7). When fitting separately for the radial and transversal dilation factors we find marginalised constraints 100 x (alpha(vertical bar vertical bar) - 1) = - 1.3(-3.3 -6.7 -10.2)(+3.5 +7.6 +1 2.3) (stat.) +/- 2.0 (syst.) and 100 x (alpha(perpendicular to) - 1) = -2.2(-7.1 -15)(+7.4 +17) (stat.) +/- 3.0 (syst.). The dilation factor measurements are significantly correlated with cross-correlation coefficient of similar to -0.55. Errors become significantly non-Gaussian for deviations over 3 standard deviations from best fit value. Because of the data cuts and analysis method, these measurements give tighter constraints than a previous BAO analysis of the BOSS DR9 Lyman-alpha forest sample, providing an important consistency test of the standard cosmological model in a new redshift regime.
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