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Cosmological parameter constraints from galaxy-galaxy lensing and galaxy clustering with the SDSS DR7

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posted on 2023-06-08, 15:49 authored by Rachel Mandelbaum, Anže Slosar, Tobias Baldauf, Uroš Seljak, Christopher M Hirata, Reiko Nakajima, Reinabelle Reyes, Robert E SmithRobert E Smith
Recent studies have shown that the cross-correlation coefficient between galaxies and dark matter is very close to unity on scales outside a few virial radii of galaxy haloes, independent of the details of how galaxies populate dark matter haloes. This finding makes it possible to determine the dark matter clustering from measurements of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing and galaxy clustering. We present new cosmological parameter constraints based on large-scale measurements of spectroscopic galaxy samples from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release 7. We generalize the approach of Baldauf et al. to remove small-scale information (below 2 and 4 h-1 Mpc for lensing and clustering measurements, respectively), where the cross-correlation coefficient differs from unity. We derive constraints for three galaxy samples covering 7131 deg2, containing 69 150, 62 150 and 35 088 galaxies with mean redshifts of 0.11, 0.28 and 0.40. We clearly detect scale-dependent galaxy bias for the more luminous galaxy samples, at a level consistent with theoretical expectations. When we vary both s8 and Om (and marginalize over non-linear galaxy bias) in a flat ? cold dark matter model, the best-constrained quantity is s8(Om/0.25)0.57 = 0.80 ± 0.05 (1s, stat. + sys.), where statistical and systematic errors (photometric redshift and shear calibration) have comparable contributions, and we have fixed ns = 0.96 and h = 0.7. These strong constraints on the matter clustering suggest that this method is competitive with cosmic shear in current data, while having very complementary and in some ways less serious systematics. We therefore expect that this method will play a prominent role in future weak lensing surveys. When we combine these data with Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 7-year (WMAP7) cosmic microwave background (CMB) data, constraints on s8, Om, H0, wde and ?m? become 30-80 per cent tighter than with CMB data alone, since our data break several parameter degeneracies.

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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0035-8711

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Oxford University Press

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2

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432

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1544-1575

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2013-09-18

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2013-09-18

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2013-09-18

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