@article {632943, title = {The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: theoretical systematics and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the galaxy correlation function}, journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society}, volume = {477}, year = {2018}, month = {June 1, 2018}, pages = {1153-1188}, abstract = {We investigate the potential sources of theoretical systematics in theanisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance scalemeasurements from the clustering of galaxies in configuration spaceusing the final Data Release (DR12) of the Baryon OscillationSpectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We perform a detailed study of the impacton BAO measurements from choices in the methodology such as fiducialcosmology, clustering estimators, random catalogues, fitting templates,and covariance matrices. The theoretical systematic uncertainties in BAOparameters are found to be 0.002 in the isotropic dilation α and0.003 in the quadrupolar dilation ɛ. The leading source ofsystematic uncertainty is related to the reconstruction techniques.Theoretical uncertainties are sub-dominant compared with the statisticaluncertainties for BOSS survey, accounting 0.2σstat forα and 0.25σstat for ɛ(σα, stat \~{} 0.010 andσɛ, stat \~{} 0.012, respectively). We alsopresent BAO-only distance scale constraints from the anisotropicanalysis of the correlation function. Our constraints on the angulardiameter distance DA(z) and the Hubble parameter H(z),including both statistical and theoretical systematic uncertainties, are1.5 per cent and 2.8 per cent at zeff = 0.38, 1.4 per centand 2.4 per cent at zeff = 0.51, and 1.7 per cent and 2.6 percent at zeff = 0.61. This paper is part of a set thatanalyses the final galaxy clustering data set from BOSS. Themeasurements and likelihoods presented here are cross-checked with otherBAO analysis in Alam et al. The systematic error budget concerning themethodology on post-reconstruction BAO analysis presented here is usedin Alam et al. to produce the final cosmological constraints from BOSS.}, keywords = {surveys; galaxies: distances and redshifts; cosmology: observations}, isbn = {0035-8711}, url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.477.1153V}, author = {Vargas-Maga{\~n}a, Mariana and Ho, Shirley and Antonio J. Cuesta and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Ross and Ashley J. Ross and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Will J. Percival and Niklas Grieb, Jan and S{\'a}nchez, Ariel G. and Tinker, Jeremy L. and Tojeiro, Rita and Beutler, Florian and Chuang, Chia-Hsun and Francisco-Shu Kitaura and Prada, Francisco and Rodr{\'\i}guez-Torres, Sergio A. and Rossi, Graziano and Seo, Hee-Jong and Brownstein, Joel R. and Olmstead, Matthew and Thomas, Daniel} }