Measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey

By Will J. Percival, Shaun Cole, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Robert Nichol, J. Peacock, Adrian Pope, A. Szalay. 2007

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Observational probes of cosmic acceleration (2012, methodology): “Percival et al. (2007) applied the FKP method to the combined DR5 LRG and main galaxy samples, along with the 2dFGRS sample, to measure the acoustic scale at two different redshifts (z = 0.20 and 0.35).”
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The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: single-probe measurements and the strong power of f(z)σ8(z) on constraining dark energy (2013, methodology): “…results delivered, using both the power spectrum (see, e.g., Tegmark et al. 2004; Hutsi 2005; Padmanabhan et al. 2007; Blake et al. 2007; Percival et al. 2007, 2010; Reid et al. 2010; Montesano et al. 2011), and the correlation function method (see, e.g., Eisenstein et al. 2005; Okumura…”
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