Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
18 pages, 3 figures; minor, but incisive, updates
Scientific paper
Baryon acoustic oscillations, measured through the patterned distribution of galaxies or other baryon tracing objects on very large (100 Mpc) scales, offer a possible geometric probe of cosmological distances. Pluses and minuses in this approach's leverage for understanding dark energy are discussed, as are systematic uncertainties requiring further investigation. Conclusions are that 1) BAO offer promise of a new avenue to distance measurements and further study is warranted, 2) the measurements will need to attain ~1% accuracy (requiring a 10000 square degree spectroscopic survey) for their dark energy leverage to match that from supernovae, but do give complementary information at 2% accuracy. Because of the ties to the matter dominated era, BAO is not a replacement probe of dark energy, but a valuable complement.
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