The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined galaxy sample comprises 1.2 million massive galaxies over an effective area of 9329 deg 2 and volume of 18.7 Gpc 3 , divided into three partially overlapping redshift slices centred at effective redshifts 0.38, 0.51 and 0.61. We measure the angular diameter distance D M and Hubble parameter H from the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) method, in combination with a cosmic microwave background prior on the sound horizon scale, after applying reconstruction to reduce non-linear effects on the BAO feature. Using the anisotropic clustering…

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  National Science Foundation

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  U.S. Department of Energy

  Awards: -AC02-05CH11231, 05CH11231, DE-SC0014329, AC02-98CH10886, SC0013718, DE-SC0009959, AC02-05CH11231, SC0012704, DE-AC02, DE-SC0013718, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02-
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  Awards: DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-SC0012704
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  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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  Yale University

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  Vanderbilt University
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  Princeton University
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  Ohio State University
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  Harvard University
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  University of Washington
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  Johns Hopkins University
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  University of Arizona
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  Carnegie Mellon University
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  University of Portsmouth
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  New Mexico State University
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  York University
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  National Research Foundation

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  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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  Agence Nationale de la Recherche

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  Sejong University
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  National Research Foundation of Korea

  Awards: NRF-SGER 2014055950, DE-AC02-98CH10886
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  Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
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  Office of Science

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  College of Engineering, Michigan State University
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  Science and Technology Facilities Council

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  Institut de Ciències del Cosmos

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  High Energy Physics

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  Brookhaven National Laboratory

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  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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