Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-08-30
Astrophys.J.657:51-55,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 3 figures, updated to match version accepted by ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/510772
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyse the main galaxies and LRGs in the SDSS DR5 sample, using over half a million galaxies in total. The oscillations are detected with 99.74% confidence (3.0sigma assuming Gaussianity) compared to a smooth power spectrum. When combined with the observed scale of the peaks within the CMB, we find a best-fit value of Omega_m=0.256+0.029-0.024 (68% confidence interval), for a flat Lambda cosmology when marginalising over the Hubble parameter and the baryon density. This value of the matter density is derived from the locations of the baryon oscillations in the galaxy power spectrum and in the CMB, and does not include any information from the overall shape of the power spectra. This is an extremely clean cosmological measurement as the physics of the baryon acoustic oscillation production is well understood, and the positions of the oscillations are expected to be independent of systematics such as galaxy bias.
Bahcall Neta A.
Brinkmann Jon
Connolly Andrew J.
Eisenstein Daniel J.
Fukugita Masataka
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