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    The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a cosmological forecast
    (MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 457 (3):2377-2390, 2016-04) Zhao, Gong-Bo; Wang, Yuting; Ross, Ashley J.; Shandera, Sarah; Percival, Will J.; Dawson, Kyle S.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Myers, Adam D.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Comparat, Johan; Delubac, Timothee; Gao, Pengyuan; Hojjati, Alireza; Koyama, Kazuya; McBride, Cameron K.; Meza, Andres; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Pogosian, Levon; Prada, Francisco; Rossi, Graziano; Schneider, Donald P.; Seo, Hee-Jong; Tao, Charling; Wang, Dandan; Yeche, Christophe; Zhang, Hanyu; Zhang, Yuecheng; Zhou, Xu; Zhu, Fangzhou; Zou, Hu
    We present a science forecast for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) survey. Focusing on discrete tracers, we forecast the expected accuracy of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO), the redshift-space distortion (RSD) measurements, the fNL parameter quantifying the primordial non-Gaussianity, the dark energy and modified gravity parameters. We also use the line-of-sight clustering in the Lyman a forest to constrain the total neutrino mass. We find that eBOSS luminous red galaxies, emission line galaxies and clustering quasars can achieve a precision of 1, 2.2 and 1.6 per cent, respectively, for spherically averaged BAO distance measurements. Using the same samples, the constraint on fob is expected to be 2.5, 3.3 and 2.8 per cent, respectively. For primordial non-Gaussianity, eBOSS alone can reach an accuracy of a (f(NL)) similar to 10-15. eBOSS can at most improve the dark energy figure of merit by a factor of 3 for the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder parametrization, and can well constrain three eigenmodes for the general equation-of-state parameter. eBOSS can also significantly improve constraints on modified gravity parameters by providing the RSD information, which is highly complementary to constraints obtained from weak lensing measurements. A principal component analysis shows that eBOSS can measure the eigenmodes of the effective Newton's constant to 2 per cent precision; this is a factor of 10 improvement over that achievable without eBOSS. Finally, we derive the eBOSS constraint (combined with Planck, Dark Energy Survey and BOSS) on the total neutrino mass, sigma (Em(upsilon)) = 0.03 eV (68 per cent CL), which in principle makes it possible to distinguish between the two scenarios of neutrino mass hierarchies.
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    The SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Overview and early data
    (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2016-02) Dawson, Kyle S.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Percival, Will J.; Alam, Shadab; Albareti, Franco D.; Anderson, Scott F.; Armengaud, Eric; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Bautista, Julian E.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bershady, Matthew A.; Beutler, Florian; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanton, Michael R.; Blomqvist, Michael; Bolton, Adam S.; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W.N.; Brinkmann, Jon; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burtin, Etienne; Busca, N.G.; Cai, Zheng; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Clerc, Nicolas; Comparat, Johan; Cope, Frances; Croft, Rupert A. C.; Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene; Da Costa, Luiz N; Cousinou, Marie-Claude; Darling, Jeremy; De La MacOrra, Axel; De La Torre, Sylvain; Delubac, Timothée; Du Mas Des Bourboux, Hélion; Dwelly, Tom; Ealet, Anne; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Eracleous, Michael; Escoffier, S.; Fan, Xiaohui; Finoguenov, Alexis; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Frinchaboy, Peter; Gaulme, Patrick; Georgakakis, Antonis; Green, Paul; Guo, Hong; Guy, Julien; Ho, Shirley; Holder, Diana; Huehnerhoff, Joe; Hutchinson, Timothy; Jing, Yipeng; Jullo, Eric; Kamble, Vikrant; Kinemuchi, Karen; Kirkby, David; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu; Klaene, Mark A.; Laher, Russ R.; Lang, Dustin; Laurent, Pierre; Goff, Jean-Marc Le; Li, Cheng; Liang, Yu; Lima, Marcos; Lin, Qiufan; Lin, Weipeng; Lin, Yen-Ting; Long, Daniel C.; Lundgren, Britt; MacDonald, Nicholas; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Mariappan, Vivek; McBride, Cameron K.; McGreer, Ian D.; Ménard, Brice; Merloni, Andrea; Meza, Andres; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Muna, Demitri; Myers, Adam D.; Nandra, Kirpal; Naugle, Tracy; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; Nugent, Peter; Ogando, Ricardo; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Audrey; Oravetz, Daniel J.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Pan, Kaike; Parejko, John K.; Pâris, Isabelle; Peacock, John A.; Petitjean, Patrick; Pieri, Matthew M.; Pisani, Alice; Prada, Francisco; Prakash, Abhishek; Raichoor, Anand; Reid, Beth; Rich, James; Ridl, Jethro; Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio; Rosell, Aurelio Carnero; Ross, Ashley J.; Rossi, Graziano; Ruan, John; Salvato, Mara; Sayres, Conor; Schneider, Donald P.; Schlegel, David J.; Seljak, Uros; Seo, Hee-Jong; Sesar, Branimir; Shandera, Sarah; Shu, Yiping; Slosar, Anže; Sobreira, Flavia; Streblyanska, Alina; Suzuki, Nao; Taylor, Donna; Tao, Charling; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Tojeiro, Rita; Vargas-Magaña, Mariana; Wang, Yuting; Weaver, Benjamin A.; Weinberg, David H.; White, Martin; Wood-Vasey, W.M.; Yeche, Christophe; Zhai, Zhongxu; Zhao, Cheng; Zhao, Gong-Bo; Zheng, Zheng; Zhu, Guangtun Ben; Zou, Hu
    In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. These observations will be conducted simultaneously with the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) designed for variability studies and the Spectroscopic Identification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS) program designed for studies of X-ray sources. In particular, eBOSS will measure with percent-level precision the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter. eBOSS will use four different tracers of the underlying matter density field to vastly expand the volume covered by BOSS and map the large-scale structures over the relatively unconstrained redshift range 0.6 < z < 2.2. Using more than 250,000 new, spectroscopically confirmed luminous red galaxies at a median redshift z = 0.72, we project that eBOSS will yield measurements of the angular diameter distance dA(z) to an accuracy of 1.2% and measurements of H(z) to 2.1% when combined with the z > 0.6 sample of BOSS galaxies. With ∼195,000 new emission line galaxy redshifts, we expect BAO measurements of dA(z) to an accuracy of 3.1% and H(z) to 4.7% at an effective redshift of z = 0.87. A sample of more than 500,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars will provide the first BAO distance measurements over the redshift range 0.9 < z < 2.2, with expected precision of 2.8% and 4.2% on dA(z) and H(z), respectively. Finally, with 60,000 new quasars and re-observation of 60,000 BOSS quasars, we will obtain new Lyα forest measurements at redshifts z > 2.1; these new data will enhance the precision of dA(z) and H(z) at z > 2.1 by a factor of 1.44 relative to BOSS. Furthermore, eBOSS will provide improved tests of General Relativity on cosmological scales through redshift-space distortion measurements, improved tests for non Gaussianity in the primordial density field, and new constraints on the summed mass of all neutrino species. Here, we provide an overview of the cosmological goals, spectroscopic target sample, demonstration of spectral quality from early data, and projected cosmological constraints from eBOSS.