[Phys-l] Baryon Acoustic Oscillations
Looking at http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6594v1
Have I got this right: there are discernible patterns in the
distribution of galaxies that derive from sound waves in the early
universe, when matter was still dense enough for this. The distance to
these features is accurately known (how is this calibration achieved?)
and thus provides a datum for getting distances to galaxies that lie on
the features.
Mark.
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