The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measuring the evolution of the growth rate using redshift-space distortions between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

We measure the growth rate and its evolution using the anisotropic clustering of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 (DR14) quasar sample, which includes |$148\, 659$| quasars covering the wide redshift range of 0.8 < z < 2.2 and a sky area of |$2112.90...

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Published in:	Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2019-03, Vol.483 (3), p.3878-3887
Main Authors:	Ruggeri, Rossana, Percival, Will J, Gil-Marín, Héctor, Beutler, Florian, Mueller, Eva-Maria, Zhu, Fangzhou, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zarrouk, Pauline, Sánchez, Ariel G, Bautista, Julian, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R, Baumgarten, Falk, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Dawson, Kyle, Seo, Hee-Jong, Tojeiro, Rita, Zhao, Cheng
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS Astrophysics cosmology: observations dark energy dark matter large-scale structure of Universe Physics
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Summary:	We measure the growth rate and its evolution using the anisotropic clustering of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 (DR14) quasar sample, which includes \|$148\, 659$\| quasars covering the wide redshift range of 0.8 < z < 2.2 and a sky area of \|$2112.90\, \rm deg^2$\|⁠. To optimize measurements we deploy a redshift-dependent weighting scheme, which allows us to avoid binning and perform the data analysis consistently including the redshift evolution across the sample. We perform the analysis in Fourier space, and use the redshift evolving power spectrum multipoles to measure the redshift-space distortion parameter fσ_8 and parameters controlling the anisotropic projection of the cosmological perturbations. We measure fσ_8(z = 1.52) = 0.43 ± 0.05 and dfσ_8/dz(z = 1.52) = −0.16 ± 0.08, consistent with the expectation for a lambda cold dark matter cosmology as constrained by the Planck experiment.
ISSN:	0035-8711 1365-2966