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Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in tomographic Angular Density and Redshift Fluctuations

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2025-12-22 v3

Abstract

In this work we examine the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in 2D angular and redshift space {θ,Δz}\{\theta, \Delta z\}, with Δz\Delta z denoting the redshift difference between two given angular shells. We thus work in the context of tomographic analyses of the large scale structure (LSS) where data are sliced in different redshift shells and constraints on Cosmology are extracted from the auto and cross-angular spectra of two different probes, namely the standard galaxy angular density fluctuations (ADF, or 2D clustering), and the galaxy angular redshift fluctuations (ARF). For these two observables we study by first time how the BAO peak arises in the {θ,Δz}\{\theta, \Delta z\} plane. Despite being a weak feature (particularly for Δz0\Delta z \neq 0), a Fisher forecast analysis shows that, a priori, most of the information on cosmological and galaxy bias parameters is carried by the BAO features in shell auto- and cross-angular power spectra. The same study shows that a joint probe analysis (ADF+ARF) increases the Fisher determinant associated to cosmological parameters such as H0H_0 or the Dark Energy Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) parameters {w0,wa}\{w_0,w_a\} by at least an order of magnitude. We also study how the Fisher information on cosmological and galaxy bias-related parameters behaves under different redshift shell configurations: including cross-correlations to neighbour shells extending up to (Δz)tot0.6(\Delta z)^{\rm tot}\sim 0.6 ((Δz)tot0.4(\Delta z)^{\rm tot}\sim 0.4) for ADF (ARF) is required for Fisher information to converge. At the same time, configurations using narrow shell widths (σz0.02\sigma_z \leq 0.02) preserve the cosmological information associated to peculiar velocities and typically yield Fisher determinants that are about two orders of magnitudes larger than for wider shell (σz>0.02\sigma_z>0.02) configurations.

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@article{arxiv.2504.15506,
  title  = {Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in tomographic Angular Density and Redshift Fluctuations},
  author = {Paula S. Ferreira and Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo and Ribamar R. R. Reis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15506},
  year   = {2025}
}

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