The power spectrum and bispectrum of SDSS DR11 BOSS galaxies II: cosmological interpretation

Abstract

We examine the cosmological implications of the measurements of the linear growth rate of cosmological structure obtained in a companion paper from the power spectrum and bispectrum monopoles of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data, Release 11, CMASS galaxies. This measurement was of $f^{0.43}{\sigma }_8$, where ${\sigma }_8$ is the amplitude of dark matter density fluctuations, and $f$ is the linear growth rate, at the effective redshift of the survey, $z_{\mathrm{eff}}=0.57$. In conjunction with Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data, interesting constraints can be placed on models with non-standard neutrino properties and models where gravity deviates from general relativity on cosmological scales. In particular, the sum of the masses of the three species of the neutrinos is constrained to $m_{\nu }<0.49\mathrm{eV}$ (at 95\% confidence level) when the $f^{0.43}{\sigma }_8$ measurement is combined with state-of-the-art CMB measurements. Allowing the effective number of neutrinos to vary as a free parameter does not significantly change these results. When we combine the measurement of $f^{0.43}{\sigma }_8$ with the complementary measurement of $f{\sigma }_8$ from the monopole and quadrupole of the two-point correlation function we are able to obtain an independent measurements of $f$ and ${\sigma }_8$. We obtain $f=0.63\pm 0.16$ and ${\sigma }_8=0.710\pm 0.086$ (68\% confidence level). This is the first time when these parameters have been able to be measured independently using the redshift-space power spectrum and bispectrum measurements from galaxy clustering data only.

9 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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