Daniel Eisenstein led a study detecting a characteristic acoustic feature in the spatial correlations of distant galaxies. The analysis links late-time clustering with the earlier sound-wave physics encoded in the baryon acoustic oscillation scale.[ref]
The feature acts as a statistical ruler, rather than a repeated fixed separation between every pair of galaxies. Inferring distances from it requires a survey selection model and a prediction for the physical scale.

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