Equation 15 · Part 2 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Precision Cosmology
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
A third, independent method has entered the field in the past two decades: baryon acoustic oscillations imprinted not on the CMB but on the later, three-dimensional distribution of galaxies themselves. The same sound waves that set the CMB’s acoustic scale also left a faint, statistically detectable preferred separation between galaxies — a standard ruler that can be measured at many different cosmic epochs by surveying galaxy positions and redshifts in bulk. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, operating at Kitt Peak with roughly five thousand robotically positioned optical fibers that can each be aimed at a separate pre-selected galaxy or quasar every exposure, released its first-year…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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