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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

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum allows us to extract the scale of the comoving sound horizon at recombination, a cosmological standard ruler accurately determined by the cosmic microwave background anisotropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yun Wang

Gravitational non-linear evolution induces a shift in the position of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak together with a damping and broadening of its shape that bias and degrades the accuracy with which the position of the peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Andrej Obuljen , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Emanuele Castorina , Matteo Viel

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

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

This work reexamines cosmological parameter constraints from the DESI Data Release 2 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements using the distance-basis representation (D_V/r_d, D_M/D_H), which separates the isotropic BAO scale from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Seokcheon Lee

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler with which to measure the acceleration of the Universe. The BAO feature has so far been detected in optical galaxy surveys. Intensity mapping of neutral hydrogen emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Hee-Jong Seo , Scott Dodelson , John Marriner , Dave Mcginnis , Albert Stebbins , Chris Stoughton , Alberto Vallinotto

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale acts as a standard ruler for measuring cosmological distances and has therefore emerged as a leading probe of cosmic expansion history. However, any physical effect that alters the length of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Jahmour J. Givans , Christopher M. Hirata

We measure the transverse baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal in the local Universe using a sample of blue galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) survey as a cosmological tracer. The method is weakly dependent on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-06 E. de Carvalho , A. Bernui , F. Avila , C. P. Novaes , J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) experiment requires a sufficiently dense sampling of large-scale structure tracers with spectroscopic redshift, which is observationally expensive especially at high redshifts $z\simgt 1$. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masamune Oguri , Masahiro Takada

Sound waves from the primordial fluctuations of the Universe imprinted in the large-scale structure, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), can be used as standard rulers to measure the scale of the Universe. These oscillations have…

The sound horizon is a key theoretical prediction of the cosmological model that depends on the speed of sound and the rate of expansion in the early universe, before matter and radiation decoupled. The standard ruler for low redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-02 Tonghua Liu , Xinyi Zhong , Jieci Wang , Marek Biesiada

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 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2), based on three years of operation. For cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul-Karim , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , L. Allen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , P. Bansal , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , M. Charles , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , D. Chebat , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , R. Demina , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , E. Fernández-García , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , D. Gonzalez , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , C. Gordon , D. Green , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , S. He , M. Herbold , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , M. Ho , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. V. Kamble , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. G. Kim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , Q. Li , T. S. Li , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , F. Lozano-Rodríguez , C. Magneville , M. Manera , P. Martini , W. L. Matthewson , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Menegas , T. Mergulhão , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , D. Muñoz-Santos , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , K. Naidoo , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , J. Peacock , Marcos Pellejero Ibanez , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. M. Pieri , C. Poppett , F. Prada , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , J. Rohlf , J. O. Román-Herrera , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , W. Turner , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , F. Valdes , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. A. Weaver , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , M. Wolfson , C. Yèche , J. Yu , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , Z. Zhai , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , G. B. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

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

The cosmic structure formed from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the early universe is imprinted in the galaxy distribution observable in large scale surveys, and is used as a standard ruler in contemporary cosmology. BAO are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Z. Brown , G. Mishtaku , R. Demina , Y. Liu , C. Popik

We define a procedure to extract the oscillating part of a given nonlinear Power Spectrum, and derive an equation describing its evolution including the leading effects at all scales. The intermediate scales are taken into account by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-16 Eugenio Noda , Marco Peloso , Massimo Pietroni

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 study the robustness of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in galaxy clustering in the presence of massive neutrinos. In the standard BAO analysis pipeline a reference cosmological model is assumed to boost the BAO peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-17 Adriana Nadal-Matosas , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde