1303.4666 (Lauren Anderson et al.)

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring D_A and H at z=0.57 from the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample    [PDF]

Lauren Anderson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Florian Beutler, Adam S. Bolton, J. Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Antonio J. Cuesta, Kyle S. Dawson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Klaus Honscheid, Eyal A. Kazin, David Kirkby, Marc Manera, Cameron K. McBride, O. Mena, Robert C. Nichol, Matthew D. Olmstead, Nikhil Padmanabhan, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, Will J. Percival, Francisco Prada, Ashley J. Ross, Nicolas P. Ross, Ariel G. Sanchez, Lado Samushia, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Hee-Jong Seo, Michael A. Strauss, Daniel Thomas, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Licia Verde, David H. Weinberg, Xiaoying Xu, Christophe Yeche

We present measurements of the angular diameter distance to and Hubble parameter at z=0.57 from the measurement of the baryon acoustic peak in the correlation of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. Our analysis is based on a sample from Data Release 9 of 264,283 galaxies over 3275 square degrees in the redshift range 0.43View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4666