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    Pope, Adrian C; Matsubara, Takahiko; Szalay, Alexander S; Blanton, Michael R; Eisenstein, Daniel J; Gray, Jim; Jain, Bhuvnesh; Bahcall, Neta A; Brinkmann, Jon; Budavari, Tamas; Connolly, Andrew J; Frieman, Joshua A; Gunn, James E; Johnston, David; Kent, Stephen M; Lupton, Robert H; Meiksin, Avery; Nichol, Robert C; Schneider, Donald P; Scranton, Ryan; Strauss, Michael A; Szapudi, Istvan; Tegmark, Max; Vogeley, Michael S; Weinberg, David H; Zehavi, Idit

    The Astrophysical journal, 06/2004, Letnik: 607, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to the analysis of the three-dimensional power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxy redshifts. We use Omega sub(m)h and f sub(b) = Omega sub(b)/Omega sub(m) to describe the shape of the power spectrum, sigma super(L) sub(8g) for the (linearly extrapolated) normalization, and beta to parameterize linear theory redshift-space distortions. On scales k ~ 0.16 h Mpc super(-1), our maximum likelihood values are Omega sub(m)h = 0.264 plus or minus 0.043, f sub(b) = 0.286 plus or minus 0.065, sigma super(L) sub(8g) = 0.966 plus or minus 0.048, and beta = 0.45 plus or minus 0.12. When we take a prior on Omega sub(b) from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), we find Omega sub(m)h = 0.207 plus or minus 0.030, which is in excellent agreement with WMAP and the Two-Degree Field. This indicates that we have reasonably measured the gross shape of the power spectrum, but we have difficulty breaking the degeneracy between Omega sub(m)h and f sub(b), because the baryon oscillations are not resolved in the current spectroscopic survey window function.