articleThe Astrophysical JournalNov 7, 2005BRONZE OA

Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large‐Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies

DJDaniel J. EisensteinIZIdit ZehaviDWDavid W. HoggRSRoman ScoccimarroMRMichael R. Blanton

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation · University of Arizona · +27 more institutions

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Abstract

We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over 3816 square degrees and 0.16

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  • DJ
    Daniel J. EisensteinCorresponding

    Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Arizona

  • IZ
    Idit Zehavi

    University of Arizona

  • DW
    David W. Hogg

    New York University

  • RS
    Roman Scoccimarro

    New York University

  • MR
    Michael R. Blanton

    New York University

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Keywords
  • Baryon acoustic oscillations
  • Cosmic microwave background
  • Correlation function (quantum field theory)
  • Dark energy
  • Galaxy
  • Measure (data warehouse)
  • Baryon
  • Dark matter
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