Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
@article{Eisenstein2005DetectionOT, title={Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies}, author={Daniel J. Eisenstein and Idit Zehavi and David W. Hogg and Rom'an Scoccimarro and Michael R. Blanton and Robert C. Nichol and Ryan Scranton and H. J. Seo and Max Tegmark and Zheng Zheng and Scott F. Anderson and James T. Annis and Neta A. Bahcall and Jonathan Brinkmann and Scott M. Burles and Francisco Javier Castander and Andrew J. Connolly and Istv{\'a}n Csabai and Mamoru Doi and Masataka Fukugita and Joshua A. Frieman and Karl Glazebrook and James E. Gunn and John S. Hendry and Gregory S. Hennessy and Željko Ivezi{\'c} and Stephen Kent and Gillian R. Knapp and Huan Lin and Yeong Shang Loh and Robert H. Lupton and Bruce Margon and Timothy A. Mckay and Avery Meiksin and Jeffery A. Munn and Adrian Pope and Michael Richmond and David J. Schlegel and Donald P. Schneider and Kazuhiro Shimasaku and Chris Stoughton and Michael A. Strauss and Mark SubbaRao and Alexander S. Szalay and Istv{\'a}n Szapudi and Douglas L. Tucker and Brian Yanny and Donald G. York}, journal={The Astrophysical Journal}, year={2005}, volume={633}, pages={560 - 574} }
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h-3 Gpc3 over 3816 deg2 and 0.16 < z < 0.47, making it the best sample yet for the study of large-scale structure. We find a well-detected peak in the correlation function at 100 h-1 Mpc separation that is an excellent match to the predicted shape and location of the imprint of the recombination-epoch acoustic…
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