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Published on: December 27, 2012
First cosmological constraints on dark energy from the radial baryon acoustic scale
Enrique Gaztañaga1, Ramon Miquel, Eusebio Sánchez
1Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (IEEC-CSIC), Facultat de Ciències, Torre C5, Campus UAB, E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain. gazta@ice.cat
Abstract:
We present cosmological constraints arising from the first measurement of the radial (line-of-sight) baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale in the large scale structure traced by the galaxy distribution. Here we use these radial BAO measurements at z = 0.24 and z = 0.43 to derive new constraints on dark energy and its equation of state for a flat universe, without any other assumptions on the cosmological model: w = -1.14 + or - 0.39 (assumed constant), Omega(m) = 0.24(-0.05);(+0.06). If we drop the assumption of flatness and include previous cosmic microwave background and supernova data, we find w = -0.974 + or - 0.058, Omega(m) = 0.271 + or - 0.015, and Omega(k) = -0.002 + or - 0.006, in good agreement with a flat cold dark matter cosmology with a cosmological constant. To our knowledge, these are the most stringent constraints on these parameters to date under our stated assumptions.
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