The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: mapping the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations

@article{Blake2011TheWD,
  title={The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: mapping the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations},
  author={Chris Blake and Eyal A. Kazin and Florian Beutler and Tamara M. Davis and David Parkinson and Sarah Brough and Matthew Colless and Carlos Contreras and Warrick J. Couch and Scott M. Croom and Darren J. Croton and Michael J. Drinkwater and Karl Forster and David Gilbank and Michael G. Gladders and Karl Glazebrook and Ben Jelliffe and Russell J. Jurek and I. H. Li and Barry F. Madore and Christopher D. Martin and Kevin Pimbblet and Gregory B. Poole and Michael B. Pracy and Rob Sharp and Emily Wisnioski and David Woods and Ted K. Wyder and Howard K. C. Yee},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2011},
  volume={418},
  pages={1707-1724}
}
  • C. Blake, E. Kazin, H. Yee
  • Published 12 August 2011
  • Physics
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
We present measurements of the baryon acoustic peak at redshifts z = 0.44, 0.6 and 0.73 in the galaxy correlation function of the final dataset of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We combine our correlation function with lower-redshift measurements from the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey, producing a stacked survey correlation function in which the statistical significance of the detection of the baryon acoustic peak is 4.9-σ relative to a zero-baryon model with no… 
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