Abstract
We show that the detection of acoustic oscillations in both upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) satellite experiments and large-redshift surveys can yield 5% determinations of H0 and Ωm, an order-of-magnitude improvement over CMB data alone. CMB anisotropies provide the sound horizon at recombination as a standard ruler. For reasonable baryon fractions, this scale is imprinted on the galaxy power spectrum as a series of spectral features. Measuring these features in redshift space determines the Hubble constant, which in turn yields Ωm once combined with CMB data. Since the oscillations in both power spectra are frozen-in at recombination, this test is insensitive to low-redshift cosmology.
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