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4 claims from 2 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

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

   Eisenstein, Zehavi, Hogg et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2005

   Using 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the authors measure large-scale galaxy clustering and report a baryon acoustic peak that they use to constrain cosmological parameters.

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   1. UncheckedA clear bump in galaxy clustering at about 100 h^-1 Mpc separation matches the predicted size and position of the early-universe sound-wave imprint.“We find a well-detected peak in the correlation function at 100h^{-1} Mpc separation that is an excellent match to the predicted shape and location of the imprint of the recombination-epoch acoustic oscillations on the low-redshift clustering of matter.”
   2. UncheckedThe baryon acoustic peak works as a standard ruler, giving distance ratios to z=0.35 and z=1089 to 4% and the distance to z=0.35 to 5%.“The acoustic peak provides a standard ruler by which we can measure the ratio of the distances to z=0.35 and z=1089 to 4% fractional accuracy and the absolute distance to z=0.35 to 5% accuracy.”
   3. UncheckedCombining galaxy clustering with the CMB acoustic scale, the paper reports spatial curvature of -0.010 ± 0.009, assuming dark energy is a cosmological constant.“Including the CMB acoustic scale, we find that the spatial curvature is Omega_K=-0.010+-0.009 if the dark energy is a cosmological constant.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Optimal parameterizations for observational constraints on thawing dark energy

   Shlivko, Steinhardt and Steinhardt · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We find that a targeted parameterization derived from a Padé expansion of $w$ is the most reliable of these, producing accurate reconstructions of $w(z)$, the expansion history $H(z)$, and cosmological parameters such as $H_0$ and $Ω_m$ for a broad range of…