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The Hubble Sphere Hydrogen Survey

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

An all sky redshift survey, using hydrogen 21 cm emission to locate galaxies, can be used to track the wavelength of baryon acoustic oscillations imprints from z ~ 1.5 to z = 0. This will allow precise determination of the evolution of dark energy. A telescope made of fixed parabolic cylindrical reflectors offers substantial benefit for such a redshift survey. Fixed cylinders can be built for low cost, and long cylinders also allow low cost fast fourier transform techniques to be used to define thousands of simultaneous beams. A survey made with fixed reflectors naturally covers all of the sky available from it's site with good uniformity, minimizing sample variance in the measurement of the acoustic peak wavelength. Such a survey will produce about a billion redshifts, nearly a thousand times the number available today. The survey will provide a three dimensional mapping of a substantial fraction of the Hubble Sphere.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606104,
  title  = {The Hubble Sphere Hydrogen Survey},
  author = {Jeffrey B. Peterson and Kevin Bandura and Ue Li Pen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606104},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Presented at Moriond Cosmology 2006

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