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Age-dating Luminous Red Galaxies observed with the Southern African Large Telescope

arXiv:1702.00418 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stx301

Abstract

We measure a value for the cosmic expansion of (stat) 44(syst) km s Mpc at a redshift of based on the differential age technique. This technique, also known as cosmic chronometers, uses the age difference between two redshifts for a passively evolving population of galaxies to calculate the expansion rate of the Universe. Our measurement is based on analysis of high quality spectra of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) obtained with the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) in two narrow redshift ranges of and as part of an initial pilot study. Ages were estimated by fitting single stellar population models to the observed spectra. This measurement presents one of the best estimates of via this method at to date.

16 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables, fixed typos on H(z) values for figure 4, also for section 4

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