Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 633, Issue 2 I, 2005, Pages 560-574

  Eisenstein, Daniel J ^a   Zehavi, Idit ^a   Hogg, David W ^b   Scoccimarro, Roman ^b   Blanton, Michael R ^b   Nichol, Robert C ^c   Scranton, Ryan ^d   Seo, Hee Jong ^a   Tegmark, Max ^e,f   Zheng, Zheng ^g   Anderson, Scott F ^h   Annis, Jim ⁱ   Bahcall, Neta ^j   Brinkmann, Jon ^k   Burles, Scott ^f   Castander, Francisco J ^l   Connolly, Andrew ^d   Csabai, Istvan ^m   Doi, Mamoru ⁿ   Fukugita, Masataka ⁿ   Frieman, Joshua A ^i,o   Glazebrook, Karl ^p   Gunn, James E ^j   Hendry, John S ⁱ   Hennessy, Gregory ^q   Ivezić, Zeljko ^h   Kent, Stephen ⁱ   Knapp, Gillian R ^j   Lin, Huan ⁱ   Loh, Yeong Shang ^r   Lupton, Robert H ^j   Margon, Bruce ^s   McKay, Timothy A ^t   Meiksin, Avery ^u   Munn, Jeffery A ^q   Pope, Adrian ^p   Richmond, Michael W ^v   Schledel, David ^w   Schneider, Donald P ^x   Shimasaku, Kazuhiro ⁿ   Stoughton, Christopher ⁱ   Strauss, Michael A ^j   Subbarao, Mark ^o,y   Szalay, Alexander S ^p   Szapudi, Istvan ^z   Tucker, Douglas L ⁱ   Yanny, Brian ⁱ   York, Donald G ^o   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^j PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^k APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^m EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^p JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^s AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^v ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^w LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^x PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y ADLER PLANETARIUM   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmic microwave background; Cosmological parameters; Cosmology: observations distance scale; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Large scale structure of universe

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444457392     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/466512     Document Type: Article

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