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We study the large-scale clustering of galaxies in the overlap region of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample and the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We calculate the auto-correlation and cross-correlation functions…

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Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16, we have detected the large-scale structure of Ly$\alpha$ emission in the Universe at redshifts $z = 2$--3.5 by cross-correlating quasar positions and Ly$\alpha$ emission imprinted in…

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The Lyman-alpha forest is the large-scale structure probe for which we appear to have modeling control to the highest wavenumbers. This makes the Lyman-alpha forest of great interest for constraining the warmness/fuzziness of dark matter…

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Carbon monoxide (CO) absorption in the sub-damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorber at redshift $z_{abs} \simeq 2.69$, toward the background quasar SDSS J123714.60+064759.5 (J1237+0647), was investigated for the first time in order to search for a…

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The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the clustering of matter in the universe serves as a robust standard ruler and hence can be used to map the expansion history of the universe. We use high force resolution simulations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Kushal T. Mehta , Hee-Jong Seo , Jonathan Eckel , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Marc Metchnik , Philip Pinto , Xiaoying Xu

We present a new measurement of the Ly${\alpha}$ forest power spectrum at $1.8 < z < 3.4$ using 74 Keck/HIRES and VLT/UVES high-resolution, high-S/N quasar spectra. We developed a custom pipeline to measure the power spectrum and its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-03 Michael Walther , Joseph F. Hennawi , Hector Hiss , Jose Oñorbe , Khee-Gan Lee , Alberto Rorai , John O'Meara

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the distribution of galaxies provides a fundamental standard ruler which is widely used to constrain cosmological parameters. In most analyses, the comoving length of the ruler is inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-12 Will Sutherland

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 clustering properties of the Universe at large-scales are currently being probed at various redshifts through several cosmological tracers and with diverse statistical estimators. Here we use the three-point angular correlation function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 E. de Carvalho , A. Bernui , H. S. Xavier , C. P. Novaes

We have studied the possibility of measuring the cross-correlation of the redshifted HI 21-cm signal and the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest using an upcoming radio-interferometric array OWFA and an spectroscopic observation like SDSS-IV. Our results…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Anjan Kumar Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

We explore the feasibility of using Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forests to calibrate the ensemble redshift distribution of the high-redshift tail ($2<z<3$) of photometric galaxies. We use \texttt{CoLoRe} simulations to create mock DESI…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Qianjun Hang , Laura Casas , William d'Assignies , Wynne Turner , Andreu Font-Ribera , Benjamin Joachimi

We measure the three-dimensional power spectrum (P3D) of the transmitted flux in the Lyman-a (Ly-a) forest using the complete extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data release 16 (eBOSS DR16). This sample consists of 205,012…

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We review the different approaches for combining the cosmological information from the full shape of the pre-reconstructed power spectrum - usually referred as redshift-space distortion (RSD) analysis - and from the baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Héctor Gil-Marín

An analytical framework is presented to understand the effects of a fluctuating intensity of the cosmic ionising background on the correlations of the Ly{\alpha} forest transmission fraction measured in quasar spectra. In the absence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Nicolás G. Busca

We present a measurement of the anisotropic void-galaxy cross-correlation function in the CMASS galaxy sample of the BOSS DR12 data release. We perform a joint fit to the data for redshift space distortions (RSD) due to galaxy peculiar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Seshadri Nadathur , Paul M. Carter , Will J. Percival , Hans A. Winther , Julian Bautista

We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), with particular emphasis on the design of the Wide-Field Multi-Object…

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the clustering of galaxies or quasars provides a ``standard ruler" for distance measurements in cosmology. In this work, we report a $2\sim3\sigma$ signal of the BAO dip feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-31 Kun Xu , Y. P. Jing , Gong-Bo Zhao , Antonio J. Cuesta

We determine the product of the expansion rate and angular-diameter distance at redshift $z=2.3$ from the anisotropy of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest correlations measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our result is the most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Seshadri Nadathur , Benjamin Joachimi , Paul Martini

We present the first high significance detection ($4.1\sigma$) of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the galaxy bispectrum of the twelfth data release (DR12) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample…

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