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The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from the anisotropic power spectrum of the quasar sample between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Neveux, Richard
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Burtin, Etienne
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de Mattia, Arnaud
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November 1, 2020
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society

We measure the clustering of quasars of the final data release (DR16) of eBOSS. The sample contains 343 708 quasars between redshifts 0.8 <= z <= 2.2 over 4699 deg2. We calculate the Legendre multipoles (0,2,4) of the anisotropic power spectrum and perform a BAO and a Full-Shape (FS) analysis at the effective redshift z(eff) = 1.480. The errors include systematic errors that amount to 1/3 of the statistical error. The systematic errors comprise a modelling part studied using a blind N-body mock challenge and observational effects studied with approximate mocks to account for various types of redshift smearing and fibre collisions. For the BAO analysis, we measure the transverse comoving distance D-M(zeff)/r(drag) = 30.60 +/- 0.90 and the Hubble distance D-H(zeff)/r(drag) = 13.34 +/- 0.60. This agrees with the configuration space analysis, and the consensus yields: D-M(zeff)/r(drag) = 30.69 +/- 0.80 and D-H(zeff)/r(drag) = 13.26 +/- 0.55. In the FS analysis, we fit the power spectrum using a model based on Regularised Perturbation Theory, which includes redshift space distortions and the Alcock-Paczynski effect. The results are D-M(zeff)/r(drag) = 30.68 +/- 0.90 and D-H(zeff)/r(drag) = 13.52 +/- 0.51 and we constrain the linear growth rate of structure f(zeff)sigma 8(z(eff)) = 0.476 +/- 0.047. Our results agree with the configuration space analysis. The consensus analysis of the eBOSS quasar sample yields: D-M(zeff)/r(drag) = 30.21 +/- 0.79, D-H(zeff)/r(drag) = 3.23 +/- 0.47, and f(z(eff))sigma(8)(z(eff)) = 0.462 +/- 0.045 and is consistent with a flat Lambda CDM cosmological model using Planck results.

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DOI
10.1093/mnras/staa2780
Web of Science ID

WOS:000587761200017

Author(s)
Neveux, Richard
Burtin, Etienne
de Mattia, Arnaud
Smith, Alex
Ross, Ashley J.
Hou, Jiamin
Bautista, Julian
Brinkmann, Jonathan
Chuang, Chia-Hsun
Dawson, Kyle S.
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Date Issued

2020-11-01

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

Published in
Monthly Notices Of The Royal Astronomical Society
Volume

499

Issue

1

Start page

210

End page

229

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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galaxies: distances and redshifts

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dark energy

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distance scale

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large-scale structure of universe

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cosmology: observations

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galaxies

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space

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evolution

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June 19, 2021
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