Calibrating the cosmic distance scale ladder: The role of the sound-horizon scale and the local expansion rate as distance anchors

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 448, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3463-3471

  Cuesta, Antonio J ^a   Verde, Licia ^a,b   Riess, Adam ^c,d   Jimenez, Raul ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Distance scale; Large scale structure of universe

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; COSMOLOGY; HADRONS; LADDERS;

ACOUSTIC OSCILLATION; COSMIC MICROWAVES BACKGROUND; COSMICS; COSMOLOGICAL MODELING; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; DISTANCE SCALE; LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF UNIVERSE; LOCAL EXPANSION RATES; MODEL INDEPENDENT; RED SHIFT;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 84942163299     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv261     Document Type: Article

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