2013

Quasar-Lyman $\alpha$ Forest Cross-Correlation from BOSS DR11 : Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

Font-Ribera, Andreu, Kirkby, David, Busca, Nicolas et al.

Understand

We measure the large-scale cross-correlation of quasars with the Lyman alpha forest absorption, using over 164,000 quasars from Data Release 11 of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey.

We extend the previous study of roughly 60,000 quasars from Data Release 9 to larger separations, allowing a measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale along the line of sight $c/(H(z=2.36) ~ r_s) = 9.0 \pm 0.3$ and across the line of sight $D_A(z=2.36) / ~ r_s = 10.8 \pm 0.4$, consistent with CMB and other BAO data.
Using the best fit value of the sound horizon from Planck data ($r_s=147.49 Mpc$), we can translate these results to a measurement of the Hubble parameter of $H(z=2.36) = 226 \pm 8 km/s / Mpc$ and of the angular diameter distance of $D_A(z=2.36) = 1590 \pm 60 Mpc$.
The measured cross-correlation function and an update of the code to fit the BAO scale (baofit) are made publicly available.

Built on

A. Font-Ribera, E. Arnau, J. Miralda-Escudé, E. Rollinde, J. Brinkmann, J. R. Brownstein, K.-G. Lee, A. D. Myers, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, I. Pâris, et al. , JCAP
1937
Earlier work this paper cites.
F. James and M. Roos, Computer Physics Communications 10
1975
Earlier work this paper cites.
B. Efron and G. Gong, American Statistician 37
1983
Earlier work this paper cites.
N. Kaiser, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc
1987
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. G. Riess, A. V. Filippenko, P. Challis, A. Clocchiatti, A. Diercks, P. M. Garnavich, R. L. Gilliland, C. J. Hogan, S. Jha, R. P. Kirshner, et al. , AJ 116
1998
Earlier work this paper cites.
D. J. Eisenstein and W. Hu, Astrophys. J
1998
Earlier work this paper cites.
J. E. Gunn, M. Carr, C. Rockosi, M. Sekiguchi, K. Berry, B. Elms, E. de Haas, Ž. Ivezić, G. Knapp, R. Lupton, et al. , AJ 116
1998
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. Perlmutter, G. Aldering, G. Goldhaber, R. A. Knop, P. Nugent, P. G. Castro, S. Deustua, S. Fabbro, A. Goobar, D. E. Groom, et al. , Astrophys. J
1999
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. Lewis, A. Challinor, and A. Lasenby, Astrophys. J
2000
Earlier work this paper cites.
D. G. York, J. Adelman, J. E. Anderson, S. F. Anderson, J. Annis, N. A. Bahcall, J. A. Bakken, R. Barkhouser, S. Bastian, E. Berman, et al. , AJ 120
2000
Earlier work this paper cites.
H.-J. Seo and D. J. Eisenstein, Astrophys. J
2003
Earlier work this paper cites.
D. J. Eisenstein, I. Zehavi, D. W. Hogg, R. Scoccimarro, M. R. Blanton, R. C. Nichol, R. Scranton, H.-J. Seo, M. Tegmark, Z. Zheng, et al. , Astrophys. J
2005
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. Cole, W. J. Percival, J. A. Peacock, P. Norberg, C. M. Baugh, C. S. Frenk, I. Baldry, J. Bland-Hawthorn, T. Bridges, R. Cannon, et al. , Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc
2005
Earlier work this paper cites.
J. E. Gunn, W. A. Siegmund, E. J. Mannery, R. E. Owen, C. L. Hull, R. F. Leger, L. N. Carey, G. R. Knapp, D. G. York, W. N. Boroski, et al. , AJ 131
2006
Earlier work this paper cites.
P. McDonald, U. Seljak, S. Burles, D. J. Schlegel, D. H. Weinberg, R. Cen, D. Shih, J. Schaye, D. P. Schneider, N. A. Bahcall, et al. , Astrophys. J. Sup
Original
2006
Earlier work this paper cites.
P. McDonald and D. J. Eisenstein, Phys. Rev
2007
Earlier work this paper cites.

Similar

G. J. Hill, K. Gebhardt, E. Komatsu, N. Drory, P. J. MacQueen, J. Adams, G. A. Blanc, R. Koehler, M. Rafal, M. M. Roth, et al. , in T. Kodama, T. Yamada, and K. Aoki, eds., Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series (Oct. 2008), vol. 399 of Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series , pp. 115–+
2008
Cited alongside, same era.
D. J. Schlegel, C. Bebek, H. Heetderks, S. Ho, M. Lampton, M. Levi, N. Mostek, N. Padmanabhan, S. Perlmutter, N. Roe, et al. , ArXiv e-prints (Apr. 2009), 0904.0468
2009
Cited alongside, same era.
P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, C. Ledoux, and R. Srianand, A&A 505
2009
Cited alongside, same era.
C. Yèche, P. Petitjean, J. Rich, E. Aubourg, N. Busca, J.-C. Hamilton, J.-M. Le Goff, I. Paris, S. Peirani, C. Pichon, et al. , A&A 523
2010
Cited alongside, same era.
C. Blake, E. A. Kazin, F. Beutler, T. M. Davis, D. Parkinson, S. Brough, M. Colless, C. Contreras, W. Couch, S. Croom, et al. , Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc
2011
Cited alongside, same era.
A. Slosar, A. Font-Ribera, M. M. Pieri, J. Rich, J.-M. Le Goff, É. Aubourg, J. Brinkmann, N. Busca, B. Carithers, R. Charlassier, et al. , JCAP
2011
Cited alongside, same era.
D. J. Eisenstein, D. H. Weinberg, E. Agol, H. Aihara, C. Allende Prieto, S. F. Anderson, J. A. Arns, É. Aubourg, S. Bailey, E. Balbinot, et al. , AJ 142
2011
Cited alongside, same era.
J. A. Kirkpatrick, D. J. Schlegel, N. P. Ross, A. D. Myers, J. F. Hennawi, E. S. Sheldon, D. P. Schneider, and B. A. Weaver, Astrophys. J
2011
Cited alongside, same era.
J. Bovy, J. F. Hennawi, D. W. Hogg, A. D. Myers, J. A. Kirkpatrick, D. J. Schlegel, N. P. Ross, E. S. Sheldon, I. D. McGreer, D. P. Schneider, et al. , Astrophys. J
2011
Cited alongside, same era.
M. McQuinn and M. White, Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc
2011
Cited alongside, same era.
D. H. Weinberg, M. J. Mortonson, D. J. Eisenstein, C. Hirata, A. G. Riess, and E. Rozo, ArXiv e-prints (Jan. 2012), 1201.2434
2012
Cited alongside, same era.
L. Anderson, E. Aubourg, S. Bailey, D. Bizyaev, M. Blanton, A. S. Bolton, J. Brinkmann, J. R. Brownstein, A. Burden, A. J. Cuesta, et al. , Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc
2012
Cited alongside, same era.

Then

N. P. Ross, A. D. Myers, E. S. Sheldon, C. Yèche, M. A. Strauss, J. Bovy, J. A. Kirkpatrick, G. T. Richards, É. Aubourg, M. R. Blanton, et al. , Astrophys. J. Sup
2012
Later among the works it cites.
I. Pâris, P. Petitjean, É. Aubourg, S. Bailey, N. P. Ross, A. D. Myers, M. A. Strauss, S. F. Anderson, E. Arnau, J. Bautista, et al. , A&A 548
2012
Later among the works it cites.
P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, W. C. Carithers, I. Pâris, A. Font-Ribera, S. Bailey, E. Aubourg, D. Bizyaev, G. Ebelke, H. Finley, et al. , A&A 547
2012
Later among the works it cites.
A. Font-Ribera, J. Miralda-Escudé, E. Arnau, B. Carithers, K.-G. Lee, P. Noterdaeme, I. Pâris, P. Petitjean, J. Rich, E. Rollinde, et al. , JCAP
2012
Later among the works it cites.
K.-G. Lee, N. Suzuki, and D. N. Spergel, AJ 143
2012
Later among the works it cites.
Planck Collaboration, P. A. R. Ade, N. Aghanim, C. Armitage-Caplan, M. Arnaud, M. Ashdown, F. Atrio-Barandela, J. Aumont, C. Baccigalupi, A. J. Banday, et al. , ArXiv e-prints (Mar. 2013), 1303.5076
2013
Closest in time.
J. C. Pober, A. R. Parsons, D. R. DeBoer, P. McDonald, M. McQuinn, J. E. Aguirre, Z. Ali, R. F. Bradley, T.-C. Chang, and M. F. Morales, AJ 145
2013
Closest in time.
G. Zhao and collaborators, The Extended BOSS Survey (eBOSS) , in preparation (2013)
2013
Closest in time.
N. G. Busca, T. Delubac, J. Rich, S. Bailey, A. Font-Ribera, D. Kirkby, J.-M. Le Goff, M. M. Pieri, A. Slosar, É. Aubourg, et al. , A&A 552
2013
Closest in time.
A. Slosar, V. Iršič, D. Kirkby, S. Bailey, N. G. Busca, T. Delubac, J. Rich, É. Aubourg, J. E. Bautista, V. Bhardwaj, et al. , JCAP
2013
Closest in time.
D. Kirkby, D. Margala, A. Slosar, S. Bailey, N. G. Busca, T. Delubac, J. Rich, J. E. Bautista, M. Blomqvist, J. R. Brownstein, et al. , JCAP
2013
Closest in time.
S. A. Smee, J. E. Gunn, A. Uomoto, N. Roe, D. Schlegel, C. M. Rockosi, M. A. Carr, F. Leger, K. S. Dawson, M. D. Olmstead, et al. , AJ 146
2013
Closest in time.
K. S. Dawson, D. J. Schlegel, C. P. Ahn, S. F. Anderson, É. Aubourg, S. Bailey, R. H. Barkhouser, J. E. Bautista, A. Beifiori, A. A. Berlind, et al. , AJ 145
2013
Closest in time.
T. Delubac and collaborators, Lyman alpha BAO constraints from SDSS DR11 , in preparation (2013)
2013
Closest in time.
R. O’Connell and collaborators, BAO in QSO-LyaF Cross-correlation , in preparation (2013)
2013
Closest in time.

Beyond the bibliography

alphaXiv searches the wider corpus for related work and actual follow-ups.

Open on alphaXiv

alphaXiv is searching for related work…

Reading the bibliography…