Measuring the Matter Density Using Baryon Oscillations in the SDSS
Publication information:
Percival W, Nichol R, Eisenstein D, Weinberg D, Fukugita M, Pope A, Schneider D, Szalay A, Vogeley M, Zehavi I, et al. Measuring the Matter Density Using Baryon Oscillations in the SDSS. The Astrophysical Journal. 2007;657:51–55.
Abstract
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions ofbaryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the SloanDigital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyze the main galaxies and LRGsin the SDSS DR5 sample, using over half a million galaxies in total. The