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An acoustic oscillation of the primeval photon-baryon fluid around the decoupling time imprints a characteristic scale in the galaxy distribution today, known as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale. Several on-going and/or future…

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

Future dark energy experiments will require better and more accurate theoretical predictions for the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) signature in the spectrum of cosmological perturbations. Here, we use large N-body simulations of the…

We study the nonlinear evolution of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the dark matter power spectrum and correlation function using renormalized perturbation theory (RPT). In a previous paper we showed that RPT successfully predicts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 M. Crocce , R. Scoccimarro

In the standard model of cosmology, the Universe is static in comoving coordinates; expansion occurs homogeneously and is represented by a global scale factor. The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak location is a statistical tracer that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 Boudewijn F. Roukema , Thomas Buchert , Hirokazu Fujii , Jan J. Ostrowski

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

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature provides an important distance scale for the measurement of the expansion history of the Universe. Theoretical models of the BAO in the distribution of biased tracers of the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Tobias Baldauf , Vincent Desjacques

We characterize the nonlinear evolution of the baryon acoustic feature as traced by the dark matter and halos, using a combination of perturbation theory and N-body simulations. We confirm that the acoustic peak traced by the dark matter is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White

We assess the detectability of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the power spectrum of galaxies using ultra large volume N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter and semi-analytical modelling of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Angulo , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

We investigate the non-linear evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the low-redshift matter power spectrum from the DEUS-FUR $\Lambda$CDM model simulation. This is the first cosmological N-body simulation encompassing the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-25 Yann Rasera , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Jean-Michel Alimi , Vincent Bouillot , Vincent Reverdy , Irène Balmès

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler, and can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe at low redshift. Standard BAO analyses return a model-independent measurement of the expansion rate and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 José Luis Bernal , Tristan L. Smith , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski

Accurate modeling for the evolution of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) is essential for using it as a standard ruler to probe cosmology. We explore the non-linearity of the BAO in different environments using the density-split…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Tengpeng Xu , Yan-Chuan Cai , Yun Chen , Mark Neyrinck , Liang Gao , Qiao Wang

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) are crucial in cosmological analysis, providing a standard ruler, as well as constraints on dark energy. In General Relativity models, the BAO Linear Point - the midpoint between the dip and the peak in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jaemyoung Jason Lee , Bartolomeo Fiorini , Farnik Nikakhtar , Ravi K. Sheth

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

We study a new procedure to measure the sound horizon scale via Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Instead of fitting the measured power spectrum (PS) to a theoretical model containing the cosmological informations and all the nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Takahiro Nishimichi , Eugenio Noda , Marco Peloso , Massimo Pietroni

We present an improved prescription for matter power spectrum in redshift space taking a proper account of both the non-linear gravitational clustering and redshift distortion, which are of particular importance for accurately modeling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-21 Atsushi Taruya , Takahiro Nishimichi , Shun Saito

For about a decade, the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak at about 105 Mpc/h has provided a standard ruler test of the LCDM cosmological model, a member of the Friedmann--Lemaitre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) family of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Boudewijn F. Roukema

Analyses of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) commonly employ template-based methods to extract compressed parameters from the clustering of dark-matter tracers, which are then interpreted in terms of ratios of the sound-horizon scale and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Francisco Asensio-Rivera , Nils Schöneberg , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are features in the matter power spectrum on scales of order 100-150 h^{-1} Mpc that promise to be a powerful tool to constrain and test cosmological models. The BAO have attracted such attention that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi

We study the non-linear behavior of the baryon acoustic oscillation in the power spectrum and the correlation function by decomposing the dark matter perturbations into the short- and long-wavelength modes. The evolution of the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-27 Naonori S. Sugiyama , David N. Spergel
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