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1. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

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

   Ross, Samushia, Howlett, Percival, Burden and Manera · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015

   The authors built a low-redshift SDSS DR7 galaxy sample, sharpened its BAO signal by reconstruction, and measured a distance at z = 0.15 that tightens constraints on dark energy and H0.

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   1. UncheckedUsing BAO in SDSS DR7 galaxies at redshift 0.15, the authors measure a volume-averaged distance of 664 ± 25 Mpc, better than 4 per cent precision.“Fitting to these measurements, we determine DV(zeff = 0.15) = (664 ± 25)(rd/rd, fid) Mpc; this is a better than 4 per cent distance measurement.”
   2. UncheckedThe paper's BAO distance measurement at z = 0.15 matches Planck and standard ΛCDM, but widens the gap between Planck+BAO and direct H0 values.“Our measurement is fully consistent with the Planck results and the Λ cold dark matter concordance cosmology, but increases the tension between Planck+BAO H0 determinations and direct H0 measurements.”