A 1.6 % CMB independent constraint on H0

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• Matias Zaldarriaga
• Wednesday 24 June 2020, 16:00-17:00
• CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

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I will present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the pre- and post-reconstruction galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the final data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) using the EFT of LSS . Geometric constraints are obtained from the positions of BAO peaks in reconstructed spectra, which are analyzed in combination with the unreconstructed spectra in a full-shape (FS) likelihood using a joint covariance matrix. Assuming ΛCDM with massive neutrinos, we analyze clustering data from two redshift bins zeff=0.38,0.61 and obtain 1.6% constraints on the Hubble constant H0, using only a single prior on the current baryon density ωb from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) and no knowledge of the power spectrum slope ns. This gives H0 = 68.6±1.1 km s−1Mpc−1, with the inclusion of BAO data sharpening the measurement by 40%, representing one of the strongest current constraints on H0 independent of cosmic microwave background data. Restricting to the best-fit slope ns from Planck (but without additional priors on the spectral shape), we obtain a 1% H0 measurement of 67.8± 0.7 km s−1Mpc−1. I will present the constraints on Early Dark Energy models that result from the combination of Planck and our BOSS analysis.

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