Constraining cosmology with the Gaia-unWISE Quasar Catalog and CMB lensing: structure growth

Author:

Alonso David,Fabbian Giulio,Storey-Fisher Kate,Eilers Anna-Christina,García-García Carlos,Hogg David W.,Rix Hans-Walter

Abstract

AbstractWe study the angular clustering of Quaia, aGaia- andunWISE-based catalog of over a million quasars with an exceptionally well-defined selection function. With it, we derive cosmology constraints from the amplitude and growth of structure across cosmic time. We divide the sample into two redshift bins, centered atz= 1.0 andz= 2.1, and measure both overdensity auto-correlations and cross-correlations with maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background convergence measured byPlanck. From these data, and including a prior from measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations scale, we place constraints on the amplitude of the matter power spectrum  σ8= 0.766 ± 0.034, and on the matter density parameter Ωm= 0.343+0.017-0.019. These measurements are in reasonable agreement withPlanckat the ∼ 1.4σlevel, and are found to be robust with respect to observational and theoretical uncertainties. We find that our slightly lower value ofσ8is driven by the higher-redshift sample, which favours a low amplitude of matter fluctuations. We present plausible arguments showing that this could be driven by contamination of the CMB lensing map by high-redshift extragalactic foregrounds, which should also affect other cross-correlations with tracers of large-scale structure beyondz∼ 1.5. Our constraints are competitive with those from state-of-the-art 3×2-point analyses, but arise from a range of scales and redshifts that is highly complementary to those covered by cosmic shear data and most galaxy clustering samples. This, coupled with the unprecedented combination of volume and redshift precision achieved by Quaia, allows us to break the usual degeneracy between Ωmandσ8.

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Subject

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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