Acoustic Scale from the Angular Power Spectra of SDSS-III DR8 Photometric Luminous Galaxies

Abstract

We measure the acoustic scale from the angular power spectra of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) Data Release 8 imaging catalog that includes 872, 921 galaxies over ~10,000 deg2 between 0.45 ~ 0.35. We report constraints on cosmological parameters from our measurement in combination with the WMAP7 data and the previous spectroscopic BAO measurements of SDSS and WiggleZ. We refer to our companion papers (Ho et al. de Putter et al.) for investigations on information of the full power spectrum