Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys - I. Testing the concordance ΛcDM cosmology

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 185-197

  Parkinson, David ^a   Blake, Chris ^b,c   Kunz, Martin ^d   Bassett, Bruce A ^e,f,g   Nichol, Robert C ^e   Glazebrook, Karl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^f SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters; Large scale structure of Universe; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; COSMOLOGY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GALAXIES; HADRONS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SUPERNOVAE;

ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; DARK ENERGY; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; MEASUREMENTS OF; NUMBER DENSITY; PARAMETER SPACES; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; RED SHIFT; WIDE-FIELD;

SURVEYS;

EID: 34247893883     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11586.x     Document Type: Article

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