2 code implementations • 18 Mar 2013 • Eyal A. Kazin, Ariel G. Sanchez, Antonio J. Cuesta, Florian Beutler, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Marc Manera, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Will J. Percival, Francisco Prada, Ashley J. Ross, Hee-Jong Seo, Jeremy Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Xiaoying Xu, J. Brinkmann, Brownstein Joel, Robert C. Nichol, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Daniel Thomas
The baryonic acoustic feature is used to obtain model independent constraints cz/H/r_s = 12. 28 +- 0. 82 (6. 7 per-cent accuracy) and D_A/r_s = 9. 05 +- 0. 27 (3. 0 per-cent) with a correlation coefficient of -0. 5, where r_s is the sound horizon scale at the end of the baryonic drag era.
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