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Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler, and can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe at low redshift. Standard BAO analyses return a model-independent measurement of the expansion rate and…

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Precise measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as a standard ruler in the clustering pattern of large-scale structure is a central goal of current and future galaxy surveys. The BAO peak may be sharpened using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ixandra Achitouv , Chris Blake

Accurate modeling for the evolution of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) is essential for using it as a standard ruler to probe cosmology. We explore the non-linearity of the BAO in different environments using the density-split…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Tengpeng Xu , Yan-Chuan Cai , Yun Chen , Mark Neyrinck , Liang Gao , Qiao Wang

We develop methods for investigating baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) features in cosmological models with non-trivial (but slowly varying) averaged spatial curvature: models that are not necessarily flat, close to flat, nor with constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Asta Heinesen , Chris Blake , Yong-Zhuang Li , David L. Wiltshire

Acoustic waves traveling through the early Universe imprint a characteristic scale in the clustering of galaxies, QSOs and inter-galactic gas. This scale can be used as a standard ruler to map the expansion history of the Universe, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J. D. Cohn , Martin White , Tzu-Ching Chang , Gil Holder , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Olivier Doré

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

With the remarkable increase in scale and precision provided by upcoming galaxy redshift surveys, systematic errors that were previously negligible may become significant. In this paper, we explore the potential impact of low-magnitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Aaron Glanville , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis

Low redshift measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) test the late time evolution of the Universe and are a vital probe of Dark Energy. Over the past decade both the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Paul Carter , Florian Beutler , Will J. Percival , Chris Blake , Jun Koda , Ashley J. Ross

We characterize the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) feature in halo two-point statistics using N-body simulations. We find that nonlinear damping of the BAO signal is less severe for halos in the mass range we investigate than for dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Qiao Wang , Hu Zhan

The density field reconstruction technique, which was developed to partially reverse the nonlinear degradation of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy redshift surveys, has been successful in substantially improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Hee-Jong Seo , Florian Beutler , Ashley J. Ross , Shun Saito

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler for observational cosmology, enabling precise constraints on the expansion history of the Universe. We present a weakly model-dependent measurement of the BAO angular scale…

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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 introduce a method to constrain general cosmological models using Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance measurements from galaxy samples covering different redshift ranges, and apply this method to analyse samples drawn from the…

We develop a methodology to optimise the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO from tracers in under-dense regions (voids). In this study,…

We investigate the necessary methodology to optimally measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal, from voids based on galaxy redshift catalogues. To this end, we study the dependency of the BAO signal on the population of voids…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Yu Liang , Cheng Zhao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Charling Tao

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in the clustering of galaxies is a powerful standard ruler to measure cosmological distances and determine the geometry of the Universe. Past surveys have detected the BAO feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Ginevra Favole , Domenico Sapone , Javier Silva Lafaurie

Analyses of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) commonly employ template-based methods to extract compressed parameters from the clustering of dark-matter tracers, which are then interpreted in terms of ratios of the sound-horizon scale and…

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