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Baryon acoustic oscillations and dynamical dark energy

Michael Doran, +2 more
- 01 Apr 2007 - 
- Vol. 2007, Iss: 04, pp 015-015
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In this article, the impact of dark energy at last scattering on measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) was investigated and it was shown that an early dark energy component can contribute a systematic uncertainty to BAO measurements of up to 2.5%.
Abstract
We compute the impact of dark energy at last scattering on measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs). We show that an early dark energy component can contribute a systematic uncertainty to BAO measurements of up to 2.5%. Whilst this effect turns out to only slightly affect current BAO surveys, the results of future BAO surveys might become biased. We find that BAO surveys alone appear unable to resolve this systematic uncertainty, so supplementary measurements are necessary.

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Mapping the cosmological expansion

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The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe

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The Beginning and Evolution of the Universe

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Observational constraints on late-time Lambda(t) cosmology

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Cosmic dissonance: new physics or systematics behind a short sound horizon?

TL;DR: In this article, the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Type Ia supernovae with combinations of the distance indicators were used to obtain a joint and self-consistent measurement of the Hubble constant and sound horizon at low redshift, independent of cosmological models and CMB inference.
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Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

Daniel J. Eisenstein, +51 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is presented, which demonstrates the linear growth of structure by gravitational instability between z ≈ 1000 and the present and confirms a firm prediction of the standard cosmological theory.
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Cosmological Consequences of a Rolling Homogeneous Scalar Field

TL;DR: It is argued that a number of models in which the energy density of the scalar field red-shifts in a specific manner are studied could reconcile the low dynamical estimates of the mean mass density with the negligibly small spatial curvature preferred by inflation.
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Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

Max Tegmark, +70 more
- 01 Jan 2004 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured cosmological parameters using the three-dimensional power spectrum P(k) from over 200,000 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in combination with WMAP and other data.
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