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来自 BOSS DR11 的类星体 -Lyman $\alpha$ 森林互相关:重子声学振荡

宇宙学与河外天体物理 2015-06-17 v2

摘要

我们利用 SDSS-III 重子振荡光谱巡天(Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey)数据发布 11(Data Release 11)中超过 164,000 个类星体,测量了类星体与 Lyman alpha 森林吸收的大尺度互相关。我们将之前基于数据发布 9 中约 60,000 个类星体的研究扩展到了更大的分离距离,从而得以测量沿视线方向的重子声学振荡(BAO)尺度 c/(H(z=2.36) rs)=9.0±0.3c/(H(z=2.36) ~ r_s) = 9.0 \pm 0.3 以及垂直于视线方向的尺度 DA(z=2.36)/ rs=10.8±0.4D_A(z=2.36) / ~ r_s = 10.8 \pm 0.4,这与宇宙微波背景辐射(CMB)及其他 BAO 数据一致。使用来自 Planck 数据的声视界最佳拟合值(rs=147.49Mpcr_s=147.49 Mpc),我们可以将这些结果转化为对哈勃参数 H(z=2.36)=226±8km/s/MpcH(z=2.36) = 226 \pm 8 km/s / Mpc 和角直径距离 DA(z=2.36)=1590±60MpcD_A(z=2.36) = 1590 \pm 60 Mpc 的测量。测量得到的互相关函数以及用于拟合 BAO 尺度的代码更新版本(baofit)已公开提供。

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引用

@article{arxiv.1311.1767,
  title  = {Quasar-Lyman $\alpha$ Forest Cross-Correlation from BOSS DR11 : Baryon Acoustic Oscillations},
  author = {Andreu Font-Ribera and David Kirkby and Nicolas Busca and Jordi Miralda-Escudé and Nicholas P. Ross and Anže Slosar and Jim Rich and Éric Aubourg and Stephen Bailey and Vaishali Bhardwaj and Julian Bautista and Florian Beutler and Dmitry Bizyaev and Michael Blomqvist and Howard Brewington and Jon Brinkmann and Joel R. Brownstein and Bill Carithers and Kyle S. Dawson and Timothée Delubac and Garrett Ebelke and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Jian Ge and Karen Kinemuchi and Khee-Gan Lee and Viktor Malanushenko and Elena Malanushenko and Moses Marchante and Daniel Margala and Demitri Muna and Adam D. Myers and Pasquier Noterdaeme and Daniel Oravetz and Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille and Isabelle Pâris and Patrick Petitjean and Matthew M. Pieri and Graziano Rossi and Donald P. Schneider and Audrey Simmons and Matteo Viel and Christophe Yeche and Donald G. York},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1767},
  year   = {2015}
}

备注

26 pages, 7 figures, version published by JCAP, with some extra comments suggested by the referee. Results unchanged from previous version