Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: A 2.7% measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

T. M.C. Abbott; M. Aguena; S. Allam; A. Amon; F. Andrade-Oliveira; J. Asorey; S. Avila; G. M. Bernstein; E. Bertin; A. Brandao-Souza; D. Brooks; D. L. Burke; J. Calcino; H. Camacho; A. Carnero Rosell; D. Carollo; M. Carrasco Kind; J. Carretero; F. J. Castander; R. Cawthon; K. C. Chan; A. Choi; C. Conselice; M. Costanzi; M. Crocce; L. N. Da Costa; M. E.S. Pereira; T. M. Davis; J. De Vicente; S. Desai; H. T. Diehl; P. Doel; K. Eckert; J. Elvin-Poole; S. Everett; A. E. Evrard; X. Fang; I. Ferrero; A. Ferté; B. Flaugher; P. Fosalba; J. García-Bellido; E. Gaztanaga; D. W. Gerdes; T. Giannantonio; K. Glazebrook; D. Gomes; D. Gruen; R. A. Gruendl; J. Gschwend; G. Gutierrez; S. R. Hinton; D. L. Hollowood; K. Honscheid; D. Huterer; B. Jain; D. J. James; T. Jeltema; N. Kokron; E. Krause; K. Kuehn; O. Lahav; G. F. Lewis; C. Lidman; M. Lima; H. Lin; M. A.G. Maia; U. Malik; P. Martini; P. Melchior; J. Mena-Fernández; F. Menanteau; R. Miquel; J. J. Mohr; R. Morgan; J. Muir; J. Myles; A. Möller; A. Palmese; F. Paz-Chinchón; W. J. Percival; A. Pieres; A. A. Plazas Malagón; A. Porredon; J. Prat; K. Reil; M. Rodriguez-Monroy; A. K. Romer; A. Roodman; R. Rosenfeld; A. J. Ross; E. Sanchez; D. Sanchez Cid; V. Scarpine; S. Serrano; I. Sevilla-Noarbe; E. Sheldon; M. Smith; M. Soares-Santos; E. Suchyta; M. E.C. Swanson; G. Tarle; D. Thomas; C. To; M. A. Troxel; B. E. Tucker; D. L. Tucker; I. Tutusaus; S. A. Uddin; T. N. Varga; J. Weller; R. D. Wilkinson

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.043512

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: A 2.7% measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

T. M.C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. Allam, A. Amon, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Asorey, S. Avila, G. M. Bernstein, E. Bertin, A. Brandao-Souza, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, J. Calcino, H. Camacho, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Carollo, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, F. J. Castander, R. CawthonK. C. Chan, A. Choi, C. Conselice, M. Costanzi, M. Crocce, L. N. Da Costa, M. E.S. Pereira, T. M. Davis, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, P. Doel, K. Eckert, J. Elvin-Poole, S. Everett, A. E. Evrard, X. Fang, I. Ferrero, A. Ferté, B. Flaugher, P. Fosalba, J. García-Bellido, E. Gaztanaga, D. W. Gerdes, T. Giannantonio, K. Glazebrook, D. Gomes, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. Huterer, B. Jain, D. J. James, T. Jeltema, N. Kokron, E. Krause, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, G. F. Lewis, C. Lidman, M. Lima, H. Lin, M. A.G. Maia, U. Malik, P. Martini, P. Melchior, J. Mena-Fernández, F. Menanteau, R. Miquel, J. J. Mohr, R. Morgan, J. Muir, J. Myles, A. Möller, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchón, W. J. Percival, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. Porredon, J. Prat, K. Reil, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, A. K. Romer, A. Roodman, R. Rosenfeld, A. J. Ross, E. Sanchez, D. Sanchez Cid, V. Scarpine, S. Serrano, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Sheldon, M. Smith, M. Soares-Santos, E. Suchyta, M. E.C. Swanson, G. Tarle, D. Thomas, C. To, M. A. Troxel, B. E. Tucker, D. L. Tucker, I. Tutusaus, S. A. Uddin, T. N. Varga, J. Weller, R. D. Wilkinson

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We present angular diameter measurements obtained by measuring the position of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in an optimized sample of galaxies from the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data (DES Y3). The sample consists of 7 million galaxies distributed over a footprint of 4100 deg2 with 0.6<zphoto<1.1 and a typical redshift uncertainty of 0.03(1+z). The sample selection is the same as in the BAO measurement with the first year of DES data, but the analysis presented here uses three times the area, extends to higher redshift, and makes a number of improvements, including a fully analytical BAO template, the use of covariances from both theory and simulations, and an extensive preunblinding protocol. We used two different statistics; angular correlation function and power spectrum, and validate our pipeline with an ensemble of over 1500 realistic simulations. Both statistics yield compatible results. We combine the likelihoods derived from angular correlations and spherical harmonics to constrain the ratio of comoving angular diameter distance DM at the effective redshift of our sample to the sound horizon scale at the drag epoch. We obtain DM(zeff=0.835)/rd=18.92±0.51, which is consistent with, but smaller than, the Planck prediction assuming flat ΛCDM, at the level of 2.3σ. The analysis was performed blind and is robust to changes in a number of analysis choices. It represents the most precise BAO distance measurement from imaging data to date, and is competitive with the latest transverse ones from spectroscopic samples at z>0.75. When combined with DES 3x2pt+SNIa, they lead to improvements in H0 and ωm constraints by ∼20%.

Original language	English
Article number	043512
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	105
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.043512
State	Published - Feb 15 2022

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Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University,the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. The Collaborating Institutions are Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of Cambridge, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas-Madrid, the University of Chicago, University College London, the DES-Brazil Consortium, the University of Edinburgh, the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Institut de Ciències de l’Espai (IEEC/CSIC), the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München and the associated Excellence Cluster Universe, the University of Michigan, NSF’s NOIRLab, the University of Nottingham, The Ohio State University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Portsmouth, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, the University of Sussex, Texas A&M University, and the OzDES Membership Consortium. Based in part on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory at NSF’s NOIRLab (NOIRLab Prop. ID 2012B-0001; PI: J. Frieman), which is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. AST-1138766 and No. AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under Grants No. ESP2017-89838, No. PGC2018-094773, No. PGC2018-102021, No. SEV-2016-0588, No. SEV-2016-0597, and No. MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. I. F. A. E. is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC Grant Agreements No. 240672, No. 291329, and No. 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq Grant No. 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.

Funders	Funder number
Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey	2012B-0001
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC	DE-AC02-07CH11359
INCT
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
National Science Foundation	AST-1138766, AST-1536171
National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Science
High Energy Physics
Ohio State University
University of Chicago
Seventh Framework Programme
Higher Education Funding Council for England
European Commission
European Research Council	240672, 306478, 291329
European Research Council
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Generalitat de Catalunya
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico	465376/2014-2
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación	SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, MDM-2015-0509, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, ESP2017-89838
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
European Regional Development Fund

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Abbott, T. M. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Amon, A., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Asorey, J., Avila, S., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brandao-Souza, A., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Calcino, J., Camacho, H., Carnero Rosell, A., Carollo, D., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., ... Wilkinson, R. D. (2022). Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: A 2.7% measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835. Physical Review D, 105(4), Article 043512. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.043512

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Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: A 2.7% measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

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