The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: tomographic BAO analysis of DR12 combined sample in Fourier space

We perform a tomographic baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) analysis using the monopole, quadrupole and hexadecapole of the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum measured from the pre-reconstructed combined galaxy sample of the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release (DR)12 covering the redshift range of 0.20<z<0.75. By allowing for overlap between neighbouring redshift slices, we successfully obtained the isotropic and anisotropic BAO distance measurements within nine redshift slices to a precision of 1.5%−3.4% for D_V/r_d, 1.8%−4.2% for D_A/r_d and 3.7%−7.5% for H r_d, depending on effective redshifts. We provide our BAO measurement of D_A/r_d and H r_d with the full covariance matrix, which can be used for cosmological implications. Our measurements are consistent with those presented in Alam et al. (2016), in which the BAO distances are measured at three effective redshifts. We constrain dark energy parameters using our measurements, and find an improvement of the Figure-of-Merit of dark energy in general due to the temporal BAO information resolved. This paper is part of a set that analyses the final galaxy clustering dataset from BOSS.