Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 3:30 pm — Large Seminar Room, Bldg. 510
I present galaxy clustering results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that reveal the signature of acoustic oscillations of the photon-baryon fluid in the first million years of the Universe. The scale of this feature can be computed and hence the detection in the galaxy clustering serves as a standard ruler, giving a geometric distance to a redshift of 0.35.
I will discuss the implications of this measurement for the composition of the universe, including dark energy and spatial curvature. I will close with a more general discussion of SDSS-III, a new collaborative project that will feature a large redshift survey aimed at refining the acoustic oscillation distance scale to 1%.
Hosted by: Morgan May
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