1. Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements
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Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bautista, Julian E., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Blomqvist, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burden, Angela, Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Dawson, Kyle S., Delubac, Timothée, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ge, Jian, Le Goff, J. -M., Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A., Gott, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Guy, Julien, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Ho, Shirley, Honscheid, Klaus, Howlett, Cullan, Kirkby, David, Kitaura, Francisco S., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Lee, Khee-Gan, Long, Dan, Lupton, Robert H., Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Malanushenko, Viktor, Malanushenko, Elena, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, McBride, Cameron K., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Myers, Adam D., Nichol, Robert C., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel, Pâris, Isabelle, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Reid, Beth, Rich, James, Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Rubiño-Martín, Jose Alberto, Sánchez, Ariel G., Samushia, Lado, Génova-Santos, Ricardo Tanausú, Scóccola, Claudia G., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Seo, Hee-Jong, Sheldon, Erin, Simmons, Audrey, Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, Anže, Strauss, Michael A., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Vazquez, Jose Alberto, VIEL, MATTEO, Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, BOSS Collaboration, USA, Universitat de Barcelona, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Departamento de FisicaTeorica e IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Research Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), McMaster University [Hamilton, Ontario], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Irvine], University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California-University of California, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Santiago de Chile, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Shandong University, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), EPFL Laboratoire d’astrophysique, Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] (UCHILE), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), University of California [Irvine] (UC Irvine), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), and Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP)
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) ,LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE ,gr-qc ,COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS ,Cosmic microwave background ,FOS: Physical sciences ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Atomic ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology ,Cosmology ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,symbols.namesake ,Particle and Plasma Physics ,Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica ,Dark energy ,Nuclear ,Planck ,QC ,Physics ,Quantum Physics ,Cosmologia ,hep-ex ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Molecular ,3rd-DAS ,purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 [https] ,Espectroscòpia de microones ,Nuclear & Particles Physics ,Redshift ,Baryon ,QC Physics ,13. Climate action ,astro-ph.CO ,symbols ,Microwave spectroscopy ,Baryon acoustic oscillations ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Astronomical and Space Sciences ,Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics ,Hubble's law ,BARYON ACCOUSTIC OSCILLATIONS - Abstract
We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Ia supernova (SN) data. We take advantage of high-precision BAO measurements from galaxy clustering and the Ly-alpha forest (LyaF) in the BOSS survey of SDSS-III. BAO data alone yield a high confidence detection of dark energy, and in combination with the CMB angular acoustic scale they further imply a nearly flat universe. Combining BAO and SN data into an "inverse distance ladder" yields a 1.7% measurement of $H_0=67.3 \pm1.1$ km/s/Mpc. This measurement assumes standard pre-recombination physics but is insensitive to assumptions about dark energy or space curvature, so agreement with CMB-based estimates that assume a flat LCDM cosmology is an important corroboration of this minimal cosmological model. For open LCDM, our BAO+SN+CMB combination yields $\Omega_m=0.301 \pm 0.008$ and curvature $\Omega_k=-0.003 \pm 0.003$. When we allow more general forms of evolving dark energy, the BAO+SN+CMB parameter constraints remain consistent with flat LCDM. While the overall $\chi^2$ of model fits is satisfactory, the LyaF BAO measurements are in moderate (2-2.5 sigma) tension with model predictions. Models with early dark energy that tracks the dominant energy component at high redshifts remain consistent with our constraints. Expansion history alone yields an upper limit of 0.56 eV on the summed mass of neutrino species, improving to 0.26 eV if we include Planck CMB lensing. Standard dark energy models constrained by our data predict a level of matter clustering that is high compared to most, but not all, observational estimates. (Abridged), Comment: 38 pages, 20 figures, BOSS collaboration paper; v2: fixed inconsistent definitions of DH, added references; v3: version accepted by PRD, corrected error resulting in significantly weaker constraints on decaying dark matter model
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- 2015
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