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Constraining cosmology with the Gaia-unWISE Quasar Catalog and CMB lensing: structure growth
David Alonso, Giulio Fabbian, Kate Storey-Fisher, Anna-Christina Eilers, Carlos García-García, David W. Hogg, Hans-Walter Rix
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We study the angular clustering of Quaia, a Gaia- and unWISE-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 at z=1.0 and z=2.1, and measure both overdensity auto-correlations and cross-correlations with maps of the Cosmic Microwave Background convergence measured by Planck. 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 with \planck at the ∼ 1.4σ level, and are found to be robust with respect to observational and theoretical uncertainties. We find that our slightly lower value of σ₈ is 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 beyond z∼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 Ωₘ and σ₈.
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