We present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the pre- and postreconstruction galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the final data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Geometric constraints are obtained from the positions of BAO peaks in reconstructed spectra, which are analyzed in combination with the unreconstructed spectra in a full-shape (FS) likelihood using a joint covariance matrix, giving stronger parameter constraints than FS-only or BAO-only analyses. We introduce a new method for obtaining constraints from reconstructed spectra based on a correlated theoretical error, which is shown to be simple, robust, and applicable to any flavor of density-field reconstruction. Assuming ACDM with massive neutrinos, we analyze clustering data from two redshift bins z(eff) = 0.38, 0.61 and obtain 1.6% constraints on the Hubble constant H-0, using only a single prior on the current baryon density omega(b) from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and no knowledge of the power spectrum slope n(s). This gives H-0 = 68.6 +/- 1.1 km s(-1) Mpc(-1), with the inclusion of BAO data sharpening the measurement by 40%, representing one of the strongest current constraints on H-0 independent of cosmic microwave background data, comparable with recent constraints using BAO data in combination with other data-sets. Restricting to the best-fit slope n(s) from Planck (but without additional priors on the spectral shape), we obtain a 1% H-0 measurement of 67.8 +/- 0.7 km s(-1) Mpc(-1). Finally, we find strong constraints on the cosmological parameters from a joint analysis of the FS, BAO, and Planck data. This sets new bounds on the sum of neutrino masses Sigma m(nu), < 0.14 eV (at 95% confidence) and the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom N-eff = 2.90(-0.16)(+0.15), though contours are not appreciably narrowed by the inclusion of BAO data.

Combining full-shape and BAO analyses of galaxy power spectra: a 1.6% CMB-independent constraint on H 0 / Oliver H.E. Philcox; Mikhail M. Ivanov; Marko Simonovic; Matias Zaldarriaga. - In: JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS. - ISSN 1475-7516. - STAMPA. - 2020:(2020), pp. 032-032. [10.1088/1475-7516/2020/05/032]

Combining full-shape and BAO analyses of galaxy power spectra: a 1.6% CMB-independent constraint on H 0

Marko Simonovic;
2020

Abstract

We present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the pre- and postreconstruction galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the final data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Geometric constraints are obtained from the positions of BAO peaks in reconstructed spectra, which are analyzed in combination with the unreconstructed spectra in a full-shape (FS) likelihood using a joint covariance matrix, giving stronger parameter constraints than FS-only or BAO-only analyses. We introduce a new method for obtaining constraints from reconstructed spectra based on a correlated theoretical error, which is shown to be simple, robust, and applicable to any flavor of density-field reconstruction. Assuming ACDM with massive neutrinos, we analyze clustering data from two redshift bins z(eff) = 0.38, 0.61 and obtain 1.6% constraints on the Hubble constant H-0, using only a single prior on the current baryon density omega(b) from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and no knowledge of the power spectrum slope n(s). This gives H-0 = 68.6 +/- 1.1 km s(-1) Mpc(-1), with the inclusion of BAO data sharpening the measurement by 40%, representing one of the strongest current constraints on H-0 independent of cosmic microwave background data, comparable with recent constraints using BAO data in combination with other data-sets. Restricting to the best-fit slope n(s) from Planck (but without additional priors on the spectral shape), we obtain a 1% H-0 measurement of 67.8 +/- 0.7 km s(-1) Mpc(-1). Finally, we find strong constraints on the cosmological parameters from a joint analysis of the FS, BAO, and Planck data. This sets new bounds on the sum of neutrino masses Sigma m(nu), < 0.14 eV (at 95% confidence) and the effective number of relativistic degrees of freedom N-eff = 2.90(-0.16)(+0.15), though contours are not appreciably narrowed by the inclusion of BAO data.
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Oliver H.E. Philcox; Mikhail M. Ivanov; Marko Simonovic; Matias Zaldarriaga
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