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MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS A
Volume 25, Issue 37, Pages 3093-3113Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0217732310034316
Keywords
Cosmology
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The measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from a galaxy redshift survey provides one of the most promising methods for probing dark energy. In this paper, we clarify the assumptions that go in to the forecasts of dark energy constraints from BAO. We show that assuming a constant nP(0.2)/G(2)(z) (where P-0.2 is the real space galaxy power spectrum at k = 0.2h/Mpc and redshift z) gives a good approximation of the observed galaxy number density expected from a realistic flux-limited galaxy red shift survey. We find that assuming nP(0.2)/G(2)(z) = 10 gives very similar dark energy constraints to assuming nP(0.2) = 3, but the latter corresponds to a galaxy number density larger than similar to 70% at z = 2. We show how the Figure-of-Merit (FoM) for constraining dark energy depends on the assumed galaxy number density, redshift accuracy, redshift range, survey area, and the systematic errors due to calibration and uncertainties in the theory of nonlinear evolution and galaxy biasing. We find that an additive systematic noise of up to 0.4-0.5% per Delta z = 0.1 redshift slice does not lead to significant decrease in the BAO FoM.
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