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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 present the measurements of the small-scale clustering for the emission line galaxy (ELG) sample from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). We use conditional abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-21 Sicheng Lin , Jeremy L. Tinker , Michael R. Blanton , Hong Guo , Anand Raichoor , Johan Comparat , Joel R. Brownstein

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) in the early Universe are predicted to leave an as yet undetected signature on the relative clustering of total mass versus luminous matter. This signature, a modulation of the relative large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 M. T. Soumagnac , C. G. Sabiu , R. Barkana , J. Yoo

The $H_0$ tension and the accompanying $r_d$ tension are a hot topic in current cosmology. In order to remove the degeneracy between the Hubble parameter $H_0$ and the sound horizon scale $r_d$ from the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Denitsa Staicova , David Benisty

An anisotropic measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature fixes the product of the Hubble constant and the acoustic scale $H_0 r_d$. Therefore, regardless of the dark energy dynamics, to accommodate a higher value of $H_0$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Jarah Evslin , Anjan A Sen , Ruchika

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 U. Ribeiro , F. Avila , C. R. Bom , C. Franco , A. Cortesi , C. Mendes de Oliveira , A. Kanaan , T. Ribeiro , W. Schoenell , E. Telles , A. Bernui

We present the analysis of the full shape of anisotropic clustering measurement from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) quasar sample together with the combined galaxy sample from the Baryon Oscillation…

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) represent one of the cleanest probes of dark energy, allowing for tests of the cosmological model through the measurement of distance and expansion rate from a 3D galaxy distribution. The signal appears at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Rossana Ruggeri , Chris Blake

We present a void clustering analysis in configuration-space using the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) DR16 samples. These samples consist of Luminous Red Galaxies…

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

Large redshift surveys capable of measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal have proven to be an effective way of measuring the distance-redshift relation in cosmology. Building off the work in Zhu et al. (2015), we develop a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Fangzhou Zhu , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White , Ashley J. Ross , Gongbo Zhao

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) involve measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies to determine the growth rate of cosmic structure. We derive constraints on cosmological parameters from $17$ uncorrelated BAO measurements that were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 David Benisty , Denitsa Staicova

We describe mock data-sets generated to simulate the high-redshift quasar sample in Data Release 11 (DR11) of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The mock spectra contain Ly{\alpha} forest correlations useful for…

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

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the distribution of galaxies has been widely studied as an excellent standard ruler for probing cosmic distances and expansion history, and hence dark energy. In contrast, the amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Will Sutherland , Lukasz Mularczyk

The measurement of the scale of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum as a function of redshift is a promising method to constrain the equation-of-state parameter of the dark energy w. To measure the scale of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christian Wagner , Volker Müller , Matthias Steinmetz

The calibration and validation of scientific analysis in simulations is a fundamental tool to ensure unbiased and robust results in observational cosmology. In particular, mock galaxy catalogs are a crucial resource to achieve these goals…