Tuesday, June 25, 2013

1306.5544 (Elena Giusarma et al.)

Constraints on neutrino masses from Planck and Galaxy Clustering data    [PDF]

Elena Giusarma, Roland de Putter, Shirley Ho, Olga Mena
We present here bounds on neutrino masses from the combination of recent Planck Cosmic Microwave Background measurements and galaxy clustering information from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III. We use the full shape of either the photometric angular clustering (Data Release 8) or the 3D spectroscopic clustering (Data Release 9) power spectrum in different cosmological scenarios. In the Lambda$CDM scenario, spectroscopic galaxy clustering measurements improve significantly the existing neutrino mass bounds from Planck data. We find sum m_nu< 0.39 eV at 95% confidence level for the combination of the 3D power spectrum with Planck CMB data (with lensing included) and Wilkinson Microwave Anisoptropy Probe 9-year polarization measurements. Therefore, robust neutrino mass constraints can be obtained without the addition of the prior on the Hubble constant from HST. In extended cosmological scenarios with a dark energy fluid or with non flat geometries, galaxy clustering measurements are essential to pin down the neutrino mass bounds, providing in the majority of cases better results than those obtained from the associated measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale only. In the presence of a freely varying (constant) dark energy equation of state, we find sum m_nu<0.49 eV at 95% confidence level for the combination of the 3D power spectrum with Planck CMB data (with lensing included) and Wilkinson Microwave Anisoptropy Probe 9-year polarization measurements. This same data combination in non flat geometries provides the neutrino mass bound sum m_nu<0.35 eV at 95% confidence level.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5544

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