Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements
Publication information:
Aubourg É, Bailey S, Bautista J, Beutler F, Bhardwaj V, Bizyaev D, Blanton M, Blomqvist M, Bolton A, Bovy J, et al. Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements. ArXiv e-prints. 2014;1411:1074.
Abstract
We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of darkenergy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Iasupernova (SN) data. We take advantage of high-precision BAOmeasurements from galaxy clustering and the Ly-alpha forest (LyaF) inthe BOSS survey of SDSS-III. BAO data alone yield a high confidencedetection of dark energy, and in combination with the CMB angularacoustic scale they further imply a nearly flat universe. Combining BAO