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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…

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

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

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

Acoustic waves traveling through the early Universe imprint a characteristic scale in the clustering of galaxies, QSOs and inter-galactic gas. This scale can be used as a standard ruler to map the expansion history of the Universe, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J. D. Cohn , Martin White , Tzu-Ching Chang , Gil Holder , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Olivier Doré

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y6 data. The definition is based on a color and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

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

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

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

The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, and the mysterious anti-gravity agent of this acceleration has been called ``dark energy''. To measure the dynamics of dark energy, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) can be used.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tzu-Ching Chang , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Patrick McDonald

The Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a dedicated spectroscopic survey telescope being built in China, with an effective aperture of 4 meters and equiped with 4000 fibers. Using the LAMOST telescope, one could make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-09 Xin Wang , Xuelei Chen , Zheng Zheng , Fengquan Wu , Pengjie Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

The use of standard rulers, such as the scale of the Baryonic Acoustic oscillations (BAO), has become one of the more powerful techniques employed in cosmology to probe the entity driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Caroline Zunckel , J. Richard Gott , Ragnhild Lunnan

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…

We investigate if, for a fixed number density of targets and redshift, there is an optimal way to select a galaxy sample in order to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale, which is used as a standard ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 César Hernández-Aguayo , Marius Cautun , Alex Smith , Carlton M. Baugh , Baojiu Li

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

We measure the length of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature, and the expansion rate of the recent Universe, from low-redshift data only, almost model-independently. We make only the following minimal assumptions: homogeneity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Alan Heavens , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the presence of significant redshift uncertainties. The sample is…

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in the clustering of galaxies is a powerful standard ruler to measure cosmological distances and determine the geometry of the Universe. Past surveys have detected the BAO feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Ginevra Favole , Domenico Sapone , Javier Silva Lafaurie

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to probe the accelerated expansion of the Universe. The current surveys covering a comoving volume sufficient to unveil the BAO scale…

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