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8 claims from 3 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

   Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements

   Aubourg, Bailey, Bautista et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Combining BAO and SN data into an "inverse distance ladder" yields a 1.7% measurement of $H_0=67.3 \pm1.1$ km/s/Mpc.”
   2. Unchecked“For open LCDM, our BAO+SN+CMB combination yields $Ω_m=0.301 \pm 0.008$ and curvature $Ω_k=-0.003 \pm 0.003$.”
   3. Unchecked“Expansion history alone yields an upper limit of 0.56 eV on the summed mass of neutrino species, improving to 0.26 eV if we include Planck CMB lensing.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Multifield dark energy: Interplay between curved field space and curved spacetime

   Gallego and Orjuela-Quintana · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2026

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   1. Unchecked“However, we show that these mechanisms arise in distinct invariant manifolds and cannot be simultaneously realized in the presence of a background fluid: no non-geodesic scaling fixed point exists within an open region of parameter space.”
   2. Unchecked“As a consequence, in the observationally viable thawing regime the axion does not track the background fluid and spatial curvature becomes dynamically subdominant, leading to an effectively single-field evolution.”