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The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) imprinted a characteristic correlation length in the large-scale structure of the universe that can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history. Here, we discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Jailson S. Alcaniz , Gabriela C. Carvalho , Armando Bernui , Joel C. Carvalho , Micol Benetti

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) refer to the ripples of material density in the Universe. As the most direct density tracers in the universe, galaxies have been commonly used in studies of BAO peak detection. The spatial number…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-05 Yu Liu , Yu Liang , Hao-Ran Yu , Cheng Zhao , Jian Qin , Tong-Jie Zhang

A shift of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale to smaller values than predicted by linear theory was observed in simulations. In this paper, we try to provide an intuitive physical understanding of why this shift occurs, explaining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Matias Zaldarriaga

In this paper, we report a significant recovery of the linear baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) signature by applying the isobaric reconstruction algorithm to the non-linear matter density field. Assuming only the longitudinal component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Xin Wang , Hao-Ran Yu , Hong-Ming Zhu , Yu Yu , Qiaoyin Pan , Ue-Li Pen

The baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide an important bridge between the early universe and the expansion history at late times. While the BAO has primarily been used as a standard ruler, it also encodes recombination era physics, as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Daniel Green , Alexander K. Ridgway

We investigate if, for a fixed number density of targets and redshift, there is an optimal way to select a galaxy sample in order to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale, which is used as a standard ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 César Hernández-Aguayo , Marius Cautun , Alex Smith , Carlton M. Baugh , Baojiu Li

The fitting formula for the location of the first acoustic peak in the matter power spectrum is revised. We discuss the physics that leads to baryon acoustic oscillations: the recombination history, the tight coupling approximation and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-26 Francesco Montanari , Ruth Durrer

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction plays a crucial role in cosmological analysis for spectroscopic galaxy surveys because it can make the density field effectively more linear and more Gaussian. The combination of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Ruiyang Zhao , Kazuya Koyama , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

We investigate the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signature in the matter power spectrum due to the quasi-nonlinear clustering of density perturbations. On the basis of the third order perturbation theory, we construct a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hidenori Nomura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Takahiro Nishimichi

The imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in large-scale structure can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history, and hence for testing cosmological models. In this article we briefly describe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Philip Bull , Stefano Camera , Alvise Raccanelli , Chris Blake , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos , Dominik J. Schwarz

We present an improved prescription for matter power spectrum in redshift space taking a proper account of both the non-linear gravitational clustering and redshift distortion, which are of particular importance for accurately modeling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Nishimichi , Shun Saito

The baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) prior to recombination should be imprinted onto the 21cm emission background from the epoch of reionization through the underlying density perturbations. Using an analytical approach for both matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Chun Mao , Xiang-Ping Wu

We investigate the Alcock Paczynski (AP) test applied to the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy correlation function. By using a general formalism that includes relativistic effects, we quantify the importance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-27 Francesca Lepori , Enea Di Dio , Matteo Viel , Carlo Baccigalupi , Ruth Durrer

Density-reconstruction sharpens the baryon acoustic oscillations signal by undoing some of the smoothing incurred by nonlinear structure formation. In this paper we present an analytical model for reconstruction based on the Zeldovich…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-18 Shi-Fan Chen , Zvonimir Vlah , Martin White

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) underpin the key cosmological results from modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys, but nonlinear gravitational evolution limits the precision achievable with traditional analysis methods. To overcome this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Adrian E. Bayer , Liam Parker , David Valcin , Shi-Fan Chen , Chirag Modi , Uros Seljak

We investigate the effects of galaxy formation on the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak by applying semi-analytic modelling techniques to the Millennium-XXL, a $3 \times 10^{11}$ particle N-body simulation of similar volume to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Bruno Henriques

A theoretically interesting and practically important question in cosmology is the reconstruction of the initial density distribution provided a late-time density field. This is a long-standing question with a revived interest recently,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yanlong Shi , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are features in the matter power spectrum on scales of order 100-150 h^{-1} Mpc that promise to be a powerful tool to constrain and test cosmological models. The BAO have attracted such attention that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi

We present results from fitting the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the correlation function obtained from the first application of reconstruction to a galaxy redshift survey, namely, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Xiaoying Xu , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Kushal T. Mehta , Antonio J. Cuesta