Quasar-Lyman α forest cross-correlation from BOSS DR11: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

Andreu Font-Ribera; David Kirkby; Nicolas Busca; Jordi Miralda-Escudé; Nicholas P. Ross; Anže Slosar; James Rich; Éric Aubourg; Stephen Bailey; Vaishali Bhardwaj; Julian Bautista; Florian Beutler; Dmitry Bizyaev; Michael Blomqvist; Howard Brewington; Jon Brinkmann; Joel R. Brownstein; Bill Carithers; Kyle S. Dawson; Timothée Delubac; Garrett Ebelke; Daniel J. Eisenstein; Jian Ge; Karen Kinemuchi; Khee Gan Lee; Viktor Malanushenko; Elena Malanushenko; Moses Marchante; Daniel Margala; Demitri Muna; Adam D. Myers; Pasquier Noterdaeme; Daniel Oravetz; Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille; Isabelle Pâris; Patrick Petitjean; Matthew M. Pieri; Graziano Rossi; Donald P. Schneider; Audrey Simmons; Matteo Viel; Christophe Yeche; Donald G. York

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Quasar-Lyman α forest cross-correlation from BOSS DR11: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

Andreu Font-Ribera, David Kirkby, Nicolas Busca, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Nicholas P. Ross, Anže Slosar, James Rich, Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Julian Bautista, Florian Beutler, Dmitry Bizyaev, Michael Blomqvist, Howard Brewington, Jon Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Bill Carithers, Kyle S. Dawson, Timothée DelubacGarrett Ebelke, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jian Ge, Karen Kinemuchi, Khee Gan Lee, Viktor Malanushenko, Elena Malanushenko, Moses Marchante, Daniel Margala, Demitri Muna, Adam D. Myers, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Daniel Oravetz, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew M. Pieri, Graziano Rossi, Donald P. Schneider, Audrey Simmons, Matteo Viel, Christophe Yeche, Donald G. York

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We measure the large-scale cross-correlation of quasars with the Lyα 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±0.3 and across the line of sight D_A(z = 2.36)/r_s = 10.8±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±8 km s⁻¹ Mpc⁻¹ and of the angular diameter distance of D_A(z = 2.36) = 1590±60 Mpc. The measured cross-correlation function and an update of the code to fit the BAO scale (baofit) are made publicly available.

Original language	English
Article number	027
Number of pages	26
Journal	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Volume	2014
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/027
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2014

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baryon acoustic oscillations
dark energy experiments
Lyman alpha forest
redshift surveys

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The Roles of the Mid-infrared and Surveys in The Life and Times of Quasars
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Font-Ribera, A., Kirkby, D., Busca, N., Miralda-Escudé, J., Ross, N. P., Slosar, A., Rich, J., Aubourg, É., Bailey, S., Bhardwaj, V., Bautista, J., Beutler, F., Bizyaev, D., Blomqvist, M., Brewington, H., Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, J. R., Carithers, B., Dawson, K. S., ... York, D. G. (2014). Quasar-Lyman α forest cross-correlation from BOSS DR11: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), 2014(5), Article 027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/027

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AU - Petitjean, Patrick

AU - Pieri, Matthew M.

AU - Rossi, Graziano

AU - Schneider, Donald P.

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Quasar-Lyman α forest cross-correlation from BOSS DR11: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

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