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The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, and the mysterious anti-gravity agent of this acceleration has been called ``dark energy''. To measure the dynamics of dark energy, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) can be used.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tzu-Ching Chang , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Patrick McDonald

Consistency Relations (CR) for the Large Scale Structure are exact equalities between correlation functions of different order. These relations descend from the equivalence principle and hold for primordial perturbations generated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Marco Marinucci , Takahiro Nishimichi , Massimo Pietroni

The Universe is currently undergoing accelerated expansion driven by dark energy. Dark energy's essential nature remains mysterious: one means of revealing it is by measuring the Universe's size at different redshifts. This may be done…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Matthew Hansen , Alex Krolewski , Zachary Slepian

In order to test the expansion of the universe and its geometry, we carry out an Alcock & Paczynski cosmological test, that is, an evaluation of the ratio of observed angular size to radial/redshift size. The main advantage of this test is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

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

We measure the acoustic scale from the angular power spectra of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) Data Release 8 imaging catalog that includes 872,921 galaxies over ~ 10,000 deg^2 between 0.45<z<0.65. The extensive spectroscopic…

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature, imprinted in the transverse and radial clustering of dark matter tracers, enables the simultaneous measurement of the angular diameter distance $D_A(z)$ and the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ at a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Pankaj Chavan , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

Reconstructing an estimate of linear Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from an evolved galaxy field has become a standard technique in recent analyses. By partially removing non-linear damping caused by bulk motions, the real-space BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Angela Burden , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera , Antonio J. Cuesta , Mariana Vargas Magana , Shirley Ho

In a series of papers we have recently studied the clustering of LRG galaxies in the latest spectroscopic SDSS data release, which has 75000 LRG galaxies sampling 1.1 Gpc^3/h^3 to z=0.47. Here we focus on detecting a local maxima shaped as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-16 Enrique Gaztanaga , Anna Cabre

We extend our study of the optimization of large baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) surveys to return the best constraints on the dark energy, building on Paper I of this series (Parkinson et al. 2007). The survey galaxies are assumed to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-18 David Parkinson , Martin Kunz , Andrew R. Liddle , Bruce A. Bassett , Robert C. Nichol , Mihran Vardanyan

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of all previous spectroscopic surveys of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kyle S. Dawson , David J. Schlegel , Christopher P. Ahn , Scott F. Anderson , Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Robert H. Barkhouser , Julian E. Bautista , Alessandra Beifiori , Andreas A. Berlind , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Arnaud Borde , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , Howard Brewington , Jon Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , N. G. Busca , William Carithers , Aurelio R. Carnero , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Frances Cope , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Luiz N. da Costa , James R. A. Davenport , Timothée Delubac , Roland de Putter , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Daniel J. Eisenstein , S. Escoffier , Xiaohui Fan , N. Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Andreu Font-Ribera , R. Génova-Santos , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Daryl Haggard , Patrick B. Hall , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Ben Harris , David W. Harris , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Diana Holder , Klaus Honscheid , Joe Huehnerhoff , Beatrice Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Guinevere Kauffmann , Eyal A. Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Khee-Gan Lee , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Marcio A. G. Maia , Martin Makler , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Rachel Mandelbaum , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Patrick McDonald , Ian D. McGreer , Richard McMahon , Olga Mena , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francesco Montesano , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Matthew D. Olmstead , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel J. Oravetz , Russell Owen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Pâris , Will J. Percival , Ismael Pérez-Fournon , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Rafael Rebolo , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , Lado Samushia , Ariel G. Sánchez , Conor Sayres , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , C. G. Scóccola , Hee-Jong Seo , Alaina Shelden , Erin Sheldon , Yue Shen , Yiping Shu , Anže Slosar , Stephen A. Smee , Stephanie A. Snedden , Fritz Stauffer , Oliver Steele , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Nao Suzuki , Molly E. C. Swanson , Tomer Tal , Masayuki Tanaka , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , M. Vargas Magana , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Mike Watson , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Andrew A. West , Martin White , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yeche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng

The reconstruction method has been widely employed to improve the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) measurement in spectroscopic survey data analysis. In this study, we explore the reconstruction of the BAO signals in the realm of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Kwan Chuen Chan , Guoyuan Lu , Xin Wang

Cosmic voids defined as a subset of Delaunay Triangulation (DT) circumspheres have been used to measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale; providing tighter constraints on cosmological parameters when combined with matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Cheng Zhao , Charling Tao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Andrei Variu , Amélie Tamone , Jean-Paul Kneib

Leveraging the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature present in clustering 2-point statistics, we aim to measure cosmological distances independently of the underlying background cosmological model. However this inference is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Stefano Anselmi , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Ariel G. Sanchez , Glenn D. Starkman , Ravi K. Sheth , Idit Zehavi

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) have recently been observed in the distribution of distant galaxies. The height and location of the BAO peak are strong discriminators of cosmological parameters. Here we consider the ways in which weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Vallinotto , Scott Dodelson , Carlo Schimd , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We explore the possibility of detecting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) solely from gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star mergers with third generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors like Cosmic Explorer and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-09 Sumit Kumar , Aditya Vijaykumar , Alexander H. Nitz

We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Our analysis uses over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , D. M. Alexander , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Bautista , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , A. Dey , B. Dey , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , A. Elliott , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , N. Findlay , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçayli , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , Y. Lai , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , E. Linder , K. Lodha , C. Magneville , M. Manera , D. Margala , P. Martini , M. Maus , P. McDonald , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , E. Mueller , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , N. M. Nguyen , J. Nie , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , M. M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , M. Rezaie , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , N. A. Roe , A. Rosado-Marin , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , A. Slosar , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , S. Trusov , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , J. Yu , Y. Yu , S. Yuan , C. Yèche , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

In this work, we propose to utilize the observed ratio of spherically-averaged distance to the sound horizon scale from Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data to test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) by comparing the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Fan Yang , Xiangyun Fu , Bing Xu , Kaituo Zhang , Yang Huang , Ying Yang