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In this paper, we set the new limits on the equation of state parameter (EoS) of dark energy with the observations of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) from Planck satellite, the type Ia supernovae from Pan-STARRS and the baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-15 Wei Zheng , Si-Yu Li , Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Mingzhe Li , Tan Lu

We investigate the consequences of a non-negligible baryon fraction for models of structure formation in Cold Dark Matter dominated cosmologies, emphasizing in particular the existence of oscillations in the present-day matter power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 A. Meiksin , Martin White , J. A. Peacock

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation signal (BAO) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data. The definition is based on a colour and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Carnero Rosell , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , M. Crocce , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Porredon , I. Ferrero , J. Mena-Fernandez , R. Cawthon , J. De Vicente , E. Gaztanaga , A. J. Ross , E. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , K. C. Chan , A. Ferte , J. Muir , W. Riquelme , R. Rosenfeld , D. Sanchez Cid , W. G. Hartley , N. Weaverdyck , T. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Sahar , J. Annis , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. Burke , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. Castander , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , A. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , D. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. James , A. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Lima , M. Maia , U. Malik , J. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , A. Moller , R. Morgan , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , W. Percival , A. Pieres , A. Plazas Malagon , A. Roodman , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , R. Sharp , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , B. Tucker , D. Tucker , S. Uddin , T. N. Varga , DES Collaboration

In this study, we explore the impact of various combinations of CMB-independent datasets, including the recent DESI BAO measurements, on the equation of state (EoS) of dark energy and other cosmological parameters within the framework of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Manisg Yadav , Archana Dixit , M. S. Barak , Anirudh Pradhan

Recent cosmological data reveal tension between parameters inferred from measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB), baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), and supernovae (SN) under $\Lambda$CDM. Typical dynamical dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Tanisha Jhaveri , Tanvi Karwal , Thomas Crawford , Wayne Hu , Ali Rida Khalife , Lennart Balkenhol , Fei Ge

We show that upcoming CMB satellite experiments and large redshift surveys can be used together to yield 5% determinations of H_0 and Omega_m, an order of magnitude improvement over CMB data alone. CMB anisotropies provide the sound horizon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Wayne Hu , Max Tegmark

Under the standard model for recombination of the primeval plasma, and the cold dark matter model for structure formation, recent measurements of the first peak in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. J. E. Peebles , Sara Seager , Wayne Hu

We use late Universe probes - Type Ia Supernovae from the PantheonPlus compilation, Quasars, and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 1 (DR1) BAO data - along with Cosmic Chronometers or Megamasers to constrain various…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Shubham Barua , Shantanu Desai

We investigate observational constraints on cosmological parameters combining 15 measurements of the transversal BAO scale (obtained free of any fiducial cosmology) with Planck-CMB data to explore the parametric space of some cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-10 Rafael C. Nunes , Santosh K. Yadav , J. F. Jesus , Armando Bernui

The main aim of this paper is to perform a model comparison for some reconstructions of the key properties that describe the dark energy of the Universe i.e. energy density and the equation of state (EoS). We carry out this process by using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Luis A. Escamilla , J. Alberto Vazquez

The calibration and validation of scientific analysis in simulations is a fundamental tool to ensure unbiased and robust results in observational cosmology. In particular, mock galaxy catalogs are a crucial resource to achieve these goals…

The coupling of photons and baryons by Thomson scattering in the early universe imprints features in both the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and matter power spectra. The former have been used to constrain a host of cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin White

We examine the signature of dynamic (redshift-space) distortions and geometric distortions (including the Alcock-Paczynski effect) in the context of the galaxy power spectrum measured in upcoming galaxy redshift surveys. Information comes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Jonathan Blazek , Uroš Seljak , Zvonimir Vlah , Teppei Okumura

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a standard ruler for studying cosmic expansion. The recent observations of BAO in SDSS DR9 and DR11 take measurements of $H(z)$ at several different redshifts. It is argued that the behavior of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Yazhou Hu , Miao Li , Zhenhui Zhang

Spatial curvature is one of the most fundamental parameters in our current concordance flat $\Lambda$CDM model of the Universe. The goal of this work is to investigate how the constraint on the spatial curvature is affected by an assumption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-21 Jordan Stevens , Hasti Khoraminezhad , Shun Saito

The reconstruction method was proposed more than a decade ago to boost the signal of baryonic acoustic oscillations measured in galaxy redshift surveys, which is one of key probes for dark energy. After moving the observed overdensities in…

It has been widely shown that the cosmological parameters and dark energy can be constrained by using data from type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy, the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , Zong-Hong Zhu

Anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) have proven to be a very powerful tool to constrain dark matter annihilation at the epoch of recombination. However, CMB constraints are currently derived using a number of reasonable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Silvia Galli , Tracy R. Slatyer , Marcos Valdes , Fabio Iocco

The Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a dedicated spectroscopic survey telescope being built in China, with an effective aperture of 4 meters and equiped with 4000 fibers. Using the LAMOST telescope, one could make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-09 Xin Wang , Xuelei Chen , Zheng Zheng , Fengquan Wu , Pengjie Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

This article looks at the combined constraints from a photometric and spectroscopic survey. These surveys will measure cosmology using weak lensing (WL), galaxy clustering, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and redshift space distortions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-22 Martin Eriksen , Enrique Gaztanaga