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The spectroscopic survey of China's Space Survey Telescope (CSST) is expected to obtain a huge number of slitless spectra, including more than one hundred million galaxy spectra and millions of active galactic nuclei (AGN) spectra. By…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 Haitao Miao , Yan Gong , Xuelei Chen , Zhiqi Huang , Xiao-Dong Li , Hu Zhan

Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) is a powerful probe on the expansion of the universe, shedding light on elusive dark energy and gravity at cosmological scales. BAO measurements through biased tracers of the underlying matter density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 Pengjie Zhang

In this work, we develop a theoretical model for the cross-power spectrum of the galaxy density field before and after standard baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction. Using this model, we extract the redshift-space distortion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Weibing Zhang , Ruiyang Zhao , Xiaoyong Mu , Kazuya Koyama , Ryuichi Takahashi , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

The analysis of whole-sky galaxy surveys commonly suffers from the problems of shot-noise and incomplete sky coverage (e.g. at the Zone of Avoidance). The orthogonal set of spherical harmonics is utilized here to expand the observed galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 O. Lahav , K. B. Fisher , Y. Hoffman , C. A. Scharf , S. Zaroubi

We introduce a method to constrain general cosmological models using Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance measurements from galaxy samples covering different redshift ranges, and apply this method to analyse samples drawn from the…

We present a systematic comparison of statistical approaches to Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) analysis using DESI DR2 data. We evaluate four methods for handling the nuisance parameter $\beta=1/(H_0 r_d)$: marginalization, profiling,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Denitsa Staicova

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

We investigate the potential of large X-ray-selected AGN samples for detecting baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO). Though AGN selection in X-ray band is very clean and efficient, it does not provide redshift information, and thus needs to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Gert Hütsi , Marat Gilfanov , Alexander Kolodzig , Rashid Sunyaev

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

We investigate the damping of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signature in the matter power spectrum due to the quasi-nonlinear clustering of density perturbations. On the basis of the third order perturbation theory, we construct a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Hidenori Nomura , Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Takahiro Nishimichi

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation signal (BAO) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data. The definition is based on a colour and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Carnero Rosell , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , M. Crocce , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Porredon , I. Ferrero , J. Mena-Fernandez , R. Cawthon , J. De Vicente , E. Gaztanaga , A. J. Ross , E. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , K. C. Chan , A. Ferte , J. Muir , W. Riquelme , R. Rosenfeld , D. Sanchez Cid , W. G. Hartley , N. Weaverdyck , T. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Sahar , J. Annis , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. Burke , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. Castander , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , A. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , D. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. James , A. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Lima , M. Maia , U. Malik , J. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , A. Moller , R. Morgan , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , W. Percival , A. Pieres , A. Plazas Malagon , A. Roodman , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , R. Sharp , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , B. Tucker , D. Tucker , S. Uddin , T. N. Varga , DES Collaboration

Cosmological parameter estimation in the post-reionisation era via neutral hydrogen radio emission ($\text{\hi}$), is among the key science goals of the forthcoming SKA Observatory (SKAO). This paper explores detection capability for baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-18 Andrea Rubiola , Steven Cunnington , Stefano Camera

We present and test a framework that models the three-dimensional distribution of mass in the Universe as a function of cosmological and astrophysical parameters. Our approach combines two different techniques: a rescaling algorithm that…

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

We present a simple physically motivated picture for the mildly non-linear regime of structure formation, which captures the effects of the bulk flows. We apply this picture to develop a method to significantly reduce the sample variance in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Svetlin Tassev , Matias Zaldarriaga

Anisotropic measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature within a galaxy survey enable joint inference about the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and angular diameter distance $D_A(z)$. These measurements are typically obtained from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera

The baryon-acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest is one of the key probes of the cosmic expansion rate at redshifts z~2.5, well before dark energy is believed to have become dynamically significant. A key advantage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Christopher M. Hirata

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a standard ruler of known physical length, making it a promising probe of the nature of dark energy. The detection of BAO requires measuring galaxy positions and redshifts. "Transversal" (angular…

In this paper, we expand the theory of depth-unbiased source localization to unbiased parameter estimation and signal reconstruction of an arbitrary number of non-zero parameters to be recovered. The topic touches on the concept of exact…

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