Comment on the claimed radial BAO detection by Gaztanaga et al
arXiv:0901.1219
Abstract
Gaztanaga et al. have recently claimed to measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in the radial direction from the publicly available SDSS DR6 data. They focus on the correlation function of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG) close to the line-of-sight direction to find a feature that they identify as the BAO peak, arguing that a magnification bias effect from gravitational lensing increases the amplitude of the BAO peak, facilitating its detection. In this Comment, we clarify that lensing has a negligible impact on the measurement of the BAO peak, and that the interpretation by Gaztanaga et al. is incorrect. The feature they identify in the LRG correlation function near the line-of-sight cannot be explained by any known physical effect and is in fact consistent with noise.
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