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; Jim 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, Jim 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)rs) = 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
Journal	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume	2014
Issue number	May 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/027
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2014

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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, 2014(May 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2014/05/027

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

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