Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts

Citation:

Pope AC, Matsubara T, Szalay AS, Blanton MR, Eisenstein DJ, Gray J, Jain B, Bahcall NA, Brinkmann J, Budavari T, et al. Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts. The Astrophysical Journal. 2004;607 :655-660.

Date Published:

June 1, 2004

Abstract:

We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application ofthe Karhunen-Loève transform to the analysis of thethree-dimensional power spectrum of density fluctuations using SloanDigital Sky Survey galaxy redshifts. We use Ωmh andfbbm to describe theshape of the power spectrum, σL8g for the(linearly extrapolated) normalization, and β to parameterize lineartheory redshift-space distortions. On scales k<~0.16hMpc-1, our maximum likelihood values areΩmh=0.264+/-0.043, fb=0.286+/-0.065,σL8g=0.966+/-0.048, and β=0.45+/-0.12.When we take a prior on Ωb from the Wilkinson MicrowaveAnisotropy Probe (WMAP), we find Ωmh=0.207+/-0.030,which is in excellent agreement with WMAP and the Two-Degree Field. Thisindicates that we have reasonably measured the gross shape of the powerspectrum, but we have difficulty breaking the degeneracy betweenΩmh and fb, because the baryon oscillationsare not resolved in the current spectroscopic survey window function.

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