Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys - II. Curvature, redshifts and external data sets

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 401, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2169-2180

  Parkinson, David ^a   Kunz, Martin ^a   Liddle, Andrew R ^a   Bassett, Bruce A ^b,c   Nichol, Robert C ^d   Vardanyan, Mihran ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmological parameters; Large scale structure of Universe; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; COSMOLOGY; CURVE FITTING; GALAXIES; HADRONS; SUPERNOVAE;

ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; DARK ENERGY; DATA SET; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; OPTIMISATIONS; RED SHIFT; REDSHIFT RANGE; STAR FORMING GALAXY; SURVEYS-GALAXIES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 74549156418     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15818.x     Document Type: Article

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