Cosmological baryonic and matter densities from 600,000 SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies with photometric redshifts

We analyse MegaZ-LRG, a photometric-redshift catalogue of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 4th Data Release. MegaZ-LRG, presented in a companion paper, contains >106 photometric redshifts derived with annz, an artificial neural network method, constrained by a spectroscopic subsample of ≈13 000 galaxies obtained by the 2dF-SDSS LRG and Q...