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Effects of Mild Chronic Heat Exposure on the Concentrations of Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances, Glutathione, and Selenium, and Glutathione Peroxidase Activity in the Mouse Liver.
Differing carcinogenic activity in BD-rats of 1-phenyland 1-(pyridyl-3)-3,3-diethyltriazene after single doses on 1., 10. or 30. day of life
Interaction of alpha-interferon with chemotherapeutic agents: effects on cytotoxic drug metabolism and multiple drug resistance
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 10 and 11 galaxy samples
40 pages, 29 figures; replaced with final version in journalInternational audienceWe present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). Our results come from the Data Release 11 (DR11) sample, containing nearly one million galaxies and covering approximately square degrees and the redshift range . We also compare these results with those from the publicly released DR9 and DR10 samples. Assuming a concordance CDM cosmological model, the DR11 sample covers a volume of 13\,Gpc and is the largest region of the Universe ever surveyed at this density. We measure the correlation function and power spectrum, including density-field reconstruction of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature. The acoustic features are detected at a significance of over in both the correlation function and power spectrum. Fitting for the position of the acoustic features measures the distance relative to the sound horizon at the drag epoch, , which has a value of Mpc in our fiducial cosmology. We find at and at . At 1.0 per cent, this latter measure is the most precise distance constraint ever obtained from a galaxy survey. Separating the clustering along and transverse to the line-of-sight yields measurements at of and . Our measurements of the distance scale are in good agreement with previous BAO measurements and with the predictions from cosmic microwave background data for a spatially flat cold dark matter model with a cosmological constant