Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations,
and Cosmological Implications
David Schlegel (LBL)
Luminous Red Galaxies have become the tool du jour for measuring
the clustering of galaxies on the largest scales. I will present
results from both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic and
imaging surveys that probe this clustering in volumes of up to
1.5 cubic Gpc. These measures constrain cosmological models
by detecting sound waves in the early universe, and the epoch
of matter-radiation equality. Future surveys such as SDSS-III
will also be discussed.
