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Title: Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1

Abstract

We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We consider a sample of over 1.3 million galaxies distributed over a footprint of 1336 deg2 with 0.6 < zphoto < 1 and a typical redshift uncertainty of 0.03(1 + z). This sample was selected, as fully described in a companion paper, using a colour/magnitude selection that optimizes trade-offs between number density and redshift uncertainty. We investigate the BAO signal in the projected clustering using three conventions, the angular separation, the comoving transverse separation, and spherical harmonics. Further, we compare results obtained from template-based and machine-learning photometric redshift determinations. We use 1800 simulations that approximate our sample in order to produce covariance matrices and allow us to validate our distance scale measurement methodology. We measure the angular diameter distance, DA, at the effective redshift of our sample divided by the true physical scale of the BAO feature, rd. We obtain close to a 4 percent distance measurement of DA(zeff = 0.81)/rd = 10.75 ± 0.43. These results are consistent with the flat Λ cold dark matter concordance cosmological model supportedmore » by numerous other recent experimental results.« less

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  1. Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Casilla 603, La Serena, Chile
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; Department of Physics and Electronics, Rhodes University, PO Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
  3. Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC) and Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
  4. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA
  5. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Instituto de Fisica Teorica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  6. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK; Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
  7. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK; Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
  8. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; GRAPPA, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1090 GL, Amsterdam; Lorentz Institute, Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 2, Leiden, NL-2333 CA, The Netherlands
  9. LSST, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
  10. Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
  11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
  12. CNRS, UMR 7095, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, F-75014, Paris, France; Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7095, F-75014, Paris, France
  13. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
  14. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, PO Box 2450, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  15. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Departamento de Física Matemática, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 66318, São Paulo, SP-05314-970, Brazil
  16. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Observatório Nacional, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil
  17. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1002 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  18. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain
  19. Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  20. Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC) and Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain; School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  21. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, PO Box 2450, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  22. Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain
  23. George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
  24. Department of Physics, IIT Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana 502285, India
  25. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA; Department of Astronomy/Steward Observatory, 933 North Cherry Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85721-0065, USA
  26. Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
  27. Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  28. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, PO Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510, USA; Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
  29. Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
  30. Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK; Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK; Fakultät für Physik, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany
  31. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
  32. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
  33. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
  34. Fakultät für Physik, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany
  35. Event Horizon Telescope, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, MS-42, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
  36. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 West Clark St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
  37. Australian Astronomical Observatory, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia
  38. Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
  39. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Département de Physique Théorique and Center for Astroparticle Physics, Université de Genev́e, 24 quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
  40. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA; Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
  41. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
  42. Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain
  43. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany; Faculty of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 Munich, Germany; Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
  44. Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, UK
  45. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
  46. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Pevensey Building, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
  47. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
  48. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
  49. Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
  50. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Instituto de Física, UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, Porto Alegre, RS - 91501-970, Brazil
  51. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
  52. Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
  53. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bldg 510, Upton, NY 11973, USA
  54. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  55. Laboratório Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia - LIneA, Rua Gal. José Cristino 77, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 20921-400, Brazil; Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 13083-859 Campinas, SP, Brazil
  56. Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
  57. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, PO Box 2450, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Physics, Stanford University, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
  58. Fakultät für Physik, Universitäts-Sternwarte, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Scheinerstr. 1, D-81679 München, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching, Germany; Excellence Cluster Universe, Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Contributing Org.:
Dark Energy Survey Collaboration
OSTI Identifier:
1530012
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1431580; OSTI ID: 1507693; OSTI ID: 1529399; OSTI ID: 1727379
Report Number(s):
FERMILAB-PUB-17-586-A-AD-AE-SCD; arXiv:1712.06209; BNL-211562-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-07CH11359; SC0012704; SC0019193; AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Volume: 483 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711
Publisher:
Royal Astronomical Society
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; angular; scale; astronomy; galaxies; BAO; cosmology: observations, large-scale structure of Universe

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Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Avila, S., Banerji, M., Banik, N., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, R. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chan, K. C., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Estrada, J., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Kokron, N., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lacasa, F., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Manera, M., Marriner, J., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Neilsen, E., Percival, W. J., Plazas, A. A., Porredon, A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Smith, R. C., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., and Zhang, Y. Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1. United Kingdom: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty3351.
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Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Avila, S., Banerji, M., Banik, N., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, R. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chan, K. C., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Estrada, J., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Kokron, N., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lacasa, F., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Manera, M., Marriner, J., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Neilsen, E., Percival, W. J., Plazas, A. A., Porredon, A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Smith, R. C., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., & Zhang, Y. Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3351
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Abbott, T. M. C., Abdalla, F. B., Alarcon, A., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Avila, S., Banerji, M., Banik, N., Bechtol, K., Bernstein, R. A., Bernstein, G. M., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Buckley-Geer, E., Burke, D. L., Camacho, H., Carnero Rosell, A., Carrasco Kind, M., Carretero, J., Castander, F. J., Cawthon, R., Chan, K. C., Crocce, M., Cunha, C. E., D’Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Davis, C., De Vicente, J., DePoy, D. L., Desai, S., Diehl, H. T., Doel, P., Drlica-Wagner, A., Eifler, T. F., Elvin-Poole, J., Estrada, J., Evrard, A. E., Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., García-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Giannantonio, T., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., Hartley, W. G., Hollowood, D., Honscheid, K., Hoyle, B., Jain, B., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Johnson, M. D., Kent, S., Kokron, N., Krause, E., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Kuropatkin, N., Lacasa, F., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Lin, H., Maia, M. A. G., Manera, M., Marriner, J., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miller, C. J., Miquel, R., Mohr, J. J., Neilsen, E., Percival, W. J., Plazas, A. A., Porredon, A., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Rosenfeld, R., Ross, A. J., Rozo, E., Rykoff, E. S., Sako, M., Sanchez, E., Santiago, B., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Sheldon, E., Smith, R. C., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. E. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., Troxel, M. A., Tucker, D. L., Vikram, V., Walker, A. R., Wechsler, R. H., Weller, J., Yanny, B., and Zhang, Y. Mon . "Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3351.
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@article{osti_1530012,
title = {Dark Energy Survey Year 1 results: measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1},
author = {Abbott, T. M. C. and Abdalla, F. B. and Alarcon, A. and Allam, S. and Andrade-Oliveira, F. and Annis, J. and Avila, S. and Banerji, M. and Banik, N. and Bechtol, K. and Bernstein, R. A. and Bernstein, G. M. and Bertin, E. and Brooks, D. and Buckley-Geer, E. and Burke, D. L. and Camacho, H. and Carnero Rosell, A. and Carrasco Kind, M. and Carretero, J. and Castander, F. J. and Cawthon, R. and Chan, K. C. and Crocce, M. and Cunha, C. E. and D’Andrea, C. B. and da Costa, L. N. and Davis, C. and De Vicente, J. and DePoy, D. L. and Desai, S. and Diehl, H. T. and Doel, P. and Drlica-Wagner, A. and Eifler, T. F. and Elvin-Poole, J. and Estrada, J. and Evrard, A. E. and Flaugher, B. and Fosalba, P. and Frieman, J. and García-Bellido, J. and Gaztanaga, E. and Gerdes, D. W. and Giannantonio, T. and Gruen, D. and Gruendl, R. A. and Gschwend, J. and Gutierrez, G. and Hartley, W. G. and Hollowood, D. and Honscheid, K. and Hoyle, B. and Jain, B. and James, D. J. and Jeltema, T. and Johnson, M. D. and Kent, S. and Kokron, N. and Krause, E. and Kuehn, K. and Kuhlmann, S. and Kuropatkin, N. and Lacasa, F. and Lahav, O. and Lima, M. and Lin, H. and Maia, M. A. G. and Manera, M. and Marriner, J. and Marshall, J. L. and Martini, P. and Melchior, P. and Menanteau, F. and Miller, C. J. and Miquel, R. and Mohr, J. J. and Neilsen, E. and Percival, W. J. and Plazas, A. A. and Porredon, A. and Romer, A. K. and Roodman, A. and Rosenfeld, R. and Ross, A. J. and Rozo, E. and Rykoff, E. S. and Sako, M. and Sanchez, E. and Santiago, B. and Scarpine, V. and Schindler, R. and Schubnell, M. and Serrano, S. and Sevilla-Noarbe, I. and Sheldon, E. and Smith, R. C. and Smith, M. and Sobreira, F. and Suchyta, E. and Swanson, M. E. C. and Tarle, G. and Thomas, D. and Troxel, M. A. and Tucker, D. L. and Vikram, V. and Walker, A. R. and Wechsler, R. H. and Weller, J. and Yanny, B. and Zhang, Y.},
abstractNote = {We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We consider a sample of over 1.3 million galaxies distributed over a footprint of 1336 deg2 with 0.6 < zphoto < 1 and a typical redshift uncertainty of 0.03(1 + z). This sample was selected, as fully described in a companion paper, using a colour/magnitude selection that optimizes trade-offs between number density and redshift uncertainty. We investigate the BAO signal in the projected clustering using three conventions, the angular separation, the comoving transverse separation, and spherical harmonics. Further, we compare results obtained from template-based and machine-learning photometric redshift determinations. We use 1800 simulations that approximate our sample in order to produce covariance matrices and allow us to validate our distance scale measurement methodology. We measure the angular diameter distance, DA, at the effective redshift of our sample divided by the true physical scale of the BAO feature, rd. We obtain close to a 4 percent distance measurement of DA(zeff = 0.81)/rd = 10.75 ± 0.43. These results are consistent with the flat Λ cold dark matter concordance cosmological model supported by numerous other recent experimental results.},
doi = {10.1093/mnras/sty3351},
journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
number = 4,
volume = 483,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Mon Dec 10 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Mon Dec 10 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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Optimized clustering estimators for BAO measurements accounting for significant redshift uncertainty
journal, August 2017

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Probing Dark Energy with Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations from Future Large Galaxy Redshift Surveys
journal, December 2003

  • Seo, Hee‐Jong; Eisenstein, Daniel J.
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Clustering of photometric luminous red galaxies - II. Cosmological implications from the baryon acoustic scale: Implications from the baryon acoustic scale
journal, November 2011

The 6dF Galaxy Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations and the local Hubble constant: 6dFGS: BAOs and the local Hubble constant
journal, July 2011

Efficient Computation of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies in Closed Friedmann‐Robertson‐Walker Models
journal, August 2000

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Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with the Euclid Satellite
journal, September 2013

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HEALPix: A Framework for High‐Resolution Discretization and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere
journal, April 2005

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The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: theoretical systematics and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the galaxy correlation function
journal, March 2018

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The clustering of luminous red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data
journal, June 2007

  • Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Schlegel, David J.; Seljak, Uroš
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 378, Issue 3
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The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: the power spectrum and the matter content of the Universe
journal, November 2001

The dark Energy Camera
journal, October 2015

Baryon acoustic oscillations from the complete SDSS-III Ly α -quasar cross-correlation function at z = 2.4
journal, December 2017

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The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: first measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2
journal, October 2017

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The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample
journal, March 2017

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The Correlation Function of Optically Selected Galaxy Clusters in the Sloan Digital sky Survey
journal, February 2009

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: improved distance measurements to z = 1 with reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature
journal, May 2014

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Planck 2015 results : XIII. Cosmological parameters
journal, September 2016

Baryonic Features in the Matter Transfer Function
journal, April 1998

  • Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Hu, Wayne
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A 2 per cent distance to z = 0.35 by reconstructing baryon acoustic oscillations – II. Fitting techniques : A 2 per cent distance to z = 0.35
journal, November 2012

  • Xu, Xiaoying; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Eisenstein, Daniel J.
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 427, Issue 3
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The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: testing the cosmological model with baryon acoustic oscillations at z= 0.6: WiggleZ survey: BAOs at z = 0.6
journal, June 2011

The SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at Redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample
journal, August 2018

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The Dark Energy Survey data management system
conference, July 2008

  • Mohr, Joseph J.; Adams, Darren; Barkhouse, Wayne
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An algorithm to build mock galaxy catalogues using MICE simulations
journal, December 2014

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DES Y1 Results: validating cosmological parameter estimation using simulated Dark Energy Surveys
journal, July 2018

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The MICE Grand Challenge lightcone simulation – II. Halo and galaxy catalogues
journal, August 2015

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The Blanco Cosmology Survey: data Acquisition, Processing, Calibration, Quality Diagnostics, and data Release
journal, September 2012

The clustering of the SDSS DR7 main Galaxy sample – I. A 4 per cent distance measure at z = 0.15
journal, March 2015

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Clustering of luminous red galaxies - IV. Baryon acoustic peak in the line-of-sight direction and a direct measurement of H ( z )
journal, November 2009

HALOGEN: a tool for fast generation of mock halo catalogues
journal, April 2015

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Acoustic Scale from the Angular Power Spectra of Sdss-Iii dr8 Photometric Luminous Galaxies
journal, November 2012

Distance, Growth Factor, and dark Energy Constraints from Photometric Baryon Acoustic Oscillation and weak Lensing Measurements
journal, December 2008

Bayesian Photometric Redshift Estimation
journal, June 2000

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journal, November 2012

Nonlinear evolution of baryon acoustic oscillations
journal, January 2008

Tracing the sound horizon scale with photometric redshift surveys: Tracing the sound horizon scale
journal, October 2010

Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxy sample
journal, February 2010

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Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Ly α forest of BOSS DR11 quasars
journal, January 2015

MASTER of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy Power Spectrum: A Fast Method for Statistical Analysis of Large and Complex Cosmic Microwave Background Data Sets
journal, March 2002

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The effect of covariance estimator error on cosmological parameter constraints
journal, September 2013

Dark Energy Survey Year-1 results: galaxy mock catalogues for BAO
journal, May 2018

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BAO from angular clustering: optimization and mitigation of theoretical systematics
journal, July 2018

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The clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: including covariance matrix errors
journal, February 2014

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Clustering of photometric luminous red galaxies - I. Growth of structure and baryon acoustic feature: RSD and BAO with photometric LRGs from SDSS
journal, September 2011

Improved Forecasts for the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and Cosmological Distance Scale
journal, August 2007

  • Seo, Hee‐Jong; Eisenstein, Daniel J.
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The information content of anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale measurements
journal, June 2015

  • Ross, Ashley J.; Percival, Will J.; Manera, Marc
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DNF – Galaxy photometric redshift by Directional Neighbourhood Fitting
journal, April 2016

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Optimal redshift weighting for baryon acoustic oscillations
journal, May 2015

  • Zhu, Fangzhou; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; White, Martin
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 451, Issue 1
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Cosmology with photometric redshift surveys: Cosmology with photometric redshift surveys
journal, September 2005

Power spectrum of the maxBCG sample: detection of acoustic oscillations using galaxy clusters
journal, February 2010

Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Galaxy clustering for combined probes
journal, August 2018

Bias and variance of angular correlation functions
journal, July 1993

  • Landy, Stephen D.; Szalay, Alexander S.
  • The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 412
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The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey: power-spectrum analysis of the final data set and cosmological implications
journal, September 2005

Clustering in real space and in redshift space
journal, July 1987

  • Kaiser, Nick
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Why your model parameter confidences might be too optimistic. Unbiased estimation of the inverse covariance matrix
journal, December 2006

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: observational systematics and baryon acoustic oscillations in the correlation function
journal, September 2016

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The MICE Grand Challenge light-cone simulation – III. Galaxy lensing mocks from all-sky lensing maps
journal, December 2014

  • Fosalba, P.; Gaztañaga, E.; Castander, F. J.
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Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: galaxy sample for BAO measurement
journal, September 2018

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Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large‐Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
journal, November 2005

  • Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Zehavi, Idit; Hogg, David W.
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Including parameter dependence in the data and covariance for cosmological inference
journal, December 2015

Putting the precision in precision cosmology: How accurate should your data covariance matrix be?
journal, May 2013

  • Taylor, A.; Joachimi, B.; Kitching, T.
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