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Confronting the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations with observation

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2009-03-24 v1

Abstract

We investigate the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the matter power spectrum due to the quasinonlinear clustering and redshift-space distortions by confronting the models with the observations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy sample. The chi-squared test suggests that the observed power spectrum is better matched by models with the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations rather than the ones without the damping.

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@article{arxiv.0903.1883,
  title  = {Confronting the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations with observation},
  author = {Hidenori Nomura and Kazuhiro Yamamoto and Gert Huetsi and Takahiro Nishimichi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1883},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, Physical Review D, in press