Clustering of photometric luminous red galaxies I : Growth of Structure and Baryon Acoustic Feature

Abstract

The possibility of measuring redshift space (RSD) distortions using photometric data have been recently highlighted. This effect complements and significantly alters the detectability of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in photometric surveys. In this paper we present measurements of the angular correlation function of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the photometric catalog of the final data release (DR7) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS). The sample compromise ~ 1.5 x 10^6 LRGs distributed in 0.45 < z < 0.65, with a characteristic photometric error of ~ 0.05. Our measured correlation centered at z=0.55 is in very good agreement with predictions from standard LCDM in a broad range of angular scales, $0.5^{\circ }<\theta <6^{\circ }$. We find that the growth of structure can indeed be robustly measured, with errors matching expectations. The velocity growth rate is recovered as $f{\sigma }_8=0.53\pm 0.42$ when no prior is imposed on the growth factor and the background geometry follows a LCDM model with WMAP7+SNIa priors. This is compatible with the corresponding General Relativity (GR) prediction $f{\sigma }_8=0.45$ for our fiducial cosmology. If we adopt a parametrization such that $f={\Omega }_m^{\gamma }(z)$, with $\gamma \approx 0.55$ in GR, and combine our $f{\sigma }_8$ measurement with the corresponding ones from spectroscopic LRGs at lower redshifts we obtain $\gamma =0.54\pm 0.17$. In addition we find evidence for the presence of the baryon acoustic feature matching the amplitude, location and shape of LCDM predictions. The photometric BAO feature is detected with 98 % confidence level at z=0.55.

16 pages, 19 figures, minor changes to text to match accepted version by MNRAS

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