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Baryon acoustic oscillations, an Uncommon card
In cosmology, baryon acoustic oscillations are fluctuations in the density of the visible baryonic matter of the universe, caused by acoustic density waves in the primordial plasma of the early universe.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 58
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 50,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In the same way that supernovae provide a "standard candle" for astronomical observations, BAO matter clustering provides a "standard ruler" for length scale in cosmology.
- The length of this standard ruler is given by the maximum distance the acoustic waves could travel in the primordial plasma before the plasma cooled to the point where it became neutral atoms, which stopped the expansion of the plasma density waves, "freezing" them into place.
- The length of this standard ruler can be measured by looking at the large scale structure of matter using astronomical surveys.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Baryon acoustic oscillations (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA / WMAP Science Team, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
