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Efficient Cosmological Analysis of the SDSS/BOSS data from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The precision of the cosmological data allows us to accurately approximate the predictions for cosmological observables by Taylor expanding up to a low order the dependence on the cosmological parameters around a reference cosmology. By applying this observation to the redshift-space one-loop galaxy power spectrum of the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure, we analyze the BOSS DR12 data by scanning over all the parameters of $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with massive neutrinos. We impose several sets of priors, the widest of which is just a Big Bang Nucleosynthesis prior on the current fractional energy density of baryons, $\Omega_b h^2$, and a bound on the sum of neutrino masses to be less than 0.9 eV. In this case we measure the primordial amplitude of the power spectrum, $A_s$, the abundance of matter, $\Omega_m$, the Hubble parameter, $H_0$, and the tilt of the primordial power spectrum, $n_s$, to about $19\%$, $5.7\%$, $2.2\%$ and $7.3\%$ respectively, obtaining $\ln ( 10^{10} A_s) =2.91\pm 0.19$, $\Omega_m=0.314\pm 0.018$, $H_0=68.7\pm 1.5$ km/(s Mpc) and $n_s=0.979\pm 0.071$ at $68\%$ confidence level. A public code is released with this preprint.<br />Comment: 15 + 10 pages, 15 figures. Code publicly available. Removed prior on the tilt, improved presentation and accuracy
Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1909.07951
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/06/001