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Quantifying the $S_8$ tension with the Redshift Space Distortion data set

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2021-01-12 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

One problem of the Λ\LambdaCDM model is the tension between the S8S_8 found in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments and the smaller one obtained from large-scale observations in the late Universe. The σ8\sigma_8 quantifies the relatively high level of clustering. Bayesian Analysis of the Redshift Space Distortion (RSD) selected data set yields: S8=0.7000.037+0.038S_8 = 0.700^{+0.038}_{-0.037}. The fit has 3σ3\sigma tension with the Planck 2018 results. With Gaussian processes method a model-independent reconstructions of the growth history of matter in-homogeneity is studied. The fit yields S8=0.7070.085+0.085,0.7010.089+0.089S_8 = 0.707^{+0.085}_{-0.085}, 0.701^{+0.089}_{-0.089}, and 0.7310.062+0.063 0.731^{+0.063}_{-0.062} for different kernels. The tension reduces and being smaller then 1.5σ1.5\, \sigma. With future measurements the tension may be reduced, but the possibility the tension is real is a plausible situation.

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@article{arxiv.2005.03751,
  title  = {Quantifying the $S_8$ tension with the Redshift Space Distortion data set},
  author = {David Benisty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.03751},
  year   = {2021}
}

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9 pages; 3 figures; published version

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