PIRSA:14030096

SDSS-III BOSS and Beyond: fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys

Reid, B. (2014). SDSS-III BOSS and Beyond: fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14030096

Reid, Beth. SDSS-III BOSS and Beyond: fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys. Perimeter Institute, Mar. 11, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14030096 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:14030096,
            doi = {10.48660/14030096},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14030096},
            author = {Reid, Beth},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {SDSS-III BOSS and Beyond: fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2014},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:14030096 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Beth Reid

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, now nearly complete, is measuring the three-dimensional cosmic structure with 1.35 million new redshifts. Galaxy clustering measurements provide constraints on the cosmic expansion history through the baryon acoustic oscillation feature and the Alcock-Paczynski effect. In addition, the imprint of galaxy peculiar velocities on the observed galaxy clustering, "redshift-space distortions", provides a measurement of the growth rate of matter perturbations. Taken together, these measurements provide excellent constraints on dark energy and test the relation between expansion history and growth of perturbations expected in General Relativity. I will summarize results from BOSS's recent DR11 results and highlight what we may learn about fundamental physics (especially neutrinos) from the upcoming Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).