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We use lookback time versus redshift data from galaxy clusters (Capozziello et al., 2004) and passively evolving galaxies (Simon et al., 2005), and apply a bayesian prior on the total age of the Universe based on WMAP measurements, to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Lado Samushia , Abha Dev , Deepak Jain , Bharat Ratra

New statistical method is proposed to coherently combine Baryon Acoustic Oscillation statistics (BAO) and peculiar velocity measurements exploiting decomposed density-density and velocity-velocity spectra in real space from the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Yong-Seon Song

Tracing the cosmic evolution of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale with galaxy two point correlation functions is currently the most promising approach to detect dark energy at early times. A number of ongoing and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Faltenbacher , Cheng Li , Jie Wang

In parameter estimation, nuisance parameters refer to parameters that are not of interest but nevertheless affect the precision of estimating other parameters of interest. For instance, the strength of noises in a probe can be regarded as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jun Suzuki , Yuxiang Yang , Masahito Hayashi

In this letter, we propose an improved cosmological model-independent method to measure cosmic curvature, combining the recent measurements of transverse and line-of-sight directions in the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) with cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Xiaolong Gong , Yifei Xu , Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jianyong Jiang , Yalong Nan , Ruobin Ding

We study the impact of the cosmological parameters uncertainties on the measurements of primordial non-Gaussianity through the large-scale non-Gaussian halo bias effect. While this is not expected to be an issue for the standard LCDM model,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Carmelita Carbone , Olga Mena , Licia Verde

We investigate the robustness of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements with a photometric galaxy sample using mock galaxy catalogues with various sizes of photometric redshift (photo-$z$) uncertainties. We first conduct the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 Keitaro Ishikawa , Tomomi Sunayama , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Hironao Miyatake , Takahiro Nishimichi

We present cosmological constraints arising from the first measurement of the radial (line-of-sight) baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale in the large scale structure traced by the galaxy distribution. Here we use these radial BAO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Enrique Gaztanaga , Ramon Miquel , Eusebio Sanchez

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are a powerful probe of the expansion history of the universe, which can tell us about the nature of dark energy. In order to accurately characterize the dark energy equation of state using BAO, we must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nuala McCullagh , Alexander S. Szalay

We demonstrate the impact on forecasted neutrino mass constraints of extending galaxy clustering and CMB lensing predictions from linear to next-to-leading-order power spectra. The redshift-space 1-loop power spectrum model we adopt…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Aoife Boyle , Fabian Schmidt

Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) observations offer a robust method for measuring cosmological expansion. However, the BAO signal in a sample of galaxies can be diluted and shifted by interlopers -- galaxies that have been assigned the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Alan B. H. Nguyen , Elena Massara , Will J. Percival

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and their effects on the matter power spectrum can be studied by using the Lyman-alpha absorption signature of the matter density field along quasar (QSO) lines of sight. A measurement sufficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-21 Ch. Yeche , P. Petitjean , J. Rich , E. Aubourg , N. Busca , J. -Ch. Hamilton , J. -M. Le Goff , I. Paris , S. Peirani , Ch. Pichon , E. Rollinde , M. Vargas-Magana

We present a strategy for a statistically rigorous Bayesian approach to the problem of determining cosmological parameters from the results of observations of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave radiation background. We propose the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nelson Christensen , Renate Meyer

The recent local measurements of the Hubble constant $H_0$, indicate a significant discrepancy of over 5$\sigma$ compared to the value inferred from \textit{Planck} observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this paper, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Guanlin Liu , Yu Wang , Wen Zhao

The existence of the cosmic neutrino background is a fascinating prediction of the hot big bang model. These neutrinos were a dominant component of the energy density in the early universe and, therefore, played an important role in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-27 Daniel Baumann , Florian Beutler , Raphael Flauger , Daniel Green , Anže Slosar , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Benjamin Wallisch , Christophe Yèche

Measuring neutron star radii with spectroscopic and timing techniques relies on the combination of multiple observables to break the degeneracies between the mass and radius introduced by general relativistic effects. Here, we explore a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-21 Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

In this paper, we study the degeneracies among several cosmological parameters in detail and discuss their impacts on the determinations of these parameters from the current and future observations. By combining the latest data sets,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia

We use the latest compilation of observational H(z) measurements obtained with cosmic chronometers in the redshift range $0<z<2$ to place constraints on cosmological parameters. We consider the sample alone and in combination with other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Michele Moresco , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde , Andrea Cimatti , Lucia Pozzetti , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Thomas

Here, we present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained from the measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature using the completed Dark Energy Survey (DES) data, summarizing the main results of [Phys. Rev. D…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Juan Mena-Fernández , Dark Energy Survey Collaboration