New constraints on the linear growth rate using cosmic voids in the SDSS DR12 datasets

Abstract

We present a new analysis of the inferred growth rate of cosmic structure measured around voids, using the LOWZ and the CMASS samples in the 12th data release (DR12) of SDSS. Using a simple multipole analysis we recover a value consistent with ΛCDM for the inferred linear growth rate normalized by the linear bias: the β parameter. We find β=0.33±0.11 for the LOWZ sample and β=0.36±0.05 for the CMASS sample. This work demonstrates that we can expect redshift-space distortions around voids to provide unbiased and accurate constraints on the growth rate, complementary to galaxy clustering, using simple linear modeling.