A 2% Distance to z = 0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - III : Cosmological Measurements and Interpretation

Abstract

We use the 2% distance measurement from our reconstructed baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) signature using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from Padmanabhan et al. (2012) and Xu et al. (2012) combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) data from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP7) to measure parameters for various cosmological models. We find a 1.7% measurement of H_0 = 69.8 +/- 1.2 km/s/Mpc and a 5.0% measurement of Omega_m = 0.280 +/- 0.014 for a flat Universe with a cosmological constant. These measurements of H_0 and Omega_m are robust against a range of underlying models for the expansion history. We measure the dark energy equation of state parameter w = -0.97 +/- 0.17, which is consistent with a cosmological constant. If curvature is allowed to vary, we find that the Universe is consistent with a flat geometry (Omega_K = -0.004 +/- 0.005). We also use a combination of the 6 Degree Field Galaxy Survey BAO data, WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey data, Type Ia supernovae (SN) data, and a local measurement of the Hubble constant to explore cosmological models with more parameters. Finally, we explore the effect of varying the energy density of relativistic particles on the measurement of H_0.

13 pages, 14 figures, MNRAS submitted. This is the third of a series of three papers. We found a bug in the publicly available code that implements w_0 and w_a in CAMB and CosmoMC. The sense of the bug was to alter the clustering of dark energy. The bug has now been fixed and we have rerun all chains that include w!=-1. The results change by less than 1 sigma

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