Constraints on neutrino masses from Planck and Galaxy clustering data
Abstract
We present here bounds on neutrino masses from the combination of recent Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements and galaxy clustering information from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, 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 ΛCDM scenario, spectroscopic galaxy clustering measurements improve significantly the existing neutrino mass bounds from Planck data. We find ∑ m_ν < 0.39 eV at 95% confidence level for the combination of the 3D power spectrum with Planck CMB data (wi 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 Hubble Space Telescope. In extended cosmological scenarios with a dark energy fluid or with nonflat 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 ∑ m_ν < 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 nonflat geometries provides the neutrino mass bound ∑ m_ν < 0.35 eV at 95% confidence level.
Additional Information
© 2013 American Physical Society. Received 26 June 2013; published 10 September 2013. The authors would like to thank Shun Saito for help concerning DR9 power spectrum measurements and Maria Archidiacono for useful help with the manuscript. Part of the research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. O. M. is supported by the Consolider Ingenio Project No. CSD2007-00060, by PROMETEO/2009/116, by the Spanish Ministry Science Project No. FPA2011-29678 and by the ITN Invisibles PITN-GA-2011-289442.Attached Files
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- NASA/JPL/Caltech
- CSD2007-00060
- Consolider Ingenio Project
- PROMETEO/2009/116
- FPA2011-29678
- Spanish Ministry Science project
- PITN-GA-2011-289442
- ITN Invisibles
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