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The physical scale corresponding to baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), the size of the sound horizon at recombination, is precisely determined by CMB experiments. Measuring the apparent size of the BAO scale imprinted in the clustering of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Ivana Babić , Fabian Schmidt , Beatriz Tucci

We determine an optimized clustering statistic to be used for galaxy samples with significant redshift uncertainty, such as those that rely on photometric redshifts. To do so, we study the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) information…

This thesis presents the analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the 6dF Galaxy Survey (6dFGS). At large separation scales the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal is detected which allows to make an absolute distance measurement at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-15 Florian Beutler

Precise measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as a standard ruler in the clustering pattern of large-scale structure is a central goal of current and future galaxy surveys. The BAO peak may be sharpened using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ixandra Achitouv , Chris Blake

We propose a new and highly model-independent test of cosmic acceleration by comparing observations of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale at low and intermediate redshifts: we derive a new inequality relating BAO observables at two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-19 Will Sutherland

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to measure the accelerated expansion of the Universe. To extract all available information about dark energy, it is necessary to…

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) imprinted in the galaxy power spectrum can be used as a standard ruler to determine angular diameter distance and Hubble parameter at high redshift galaxies. Combining redshift distortion effect which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Atsushi Taruya , Shun Saito , Takahiro Nishimichi

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

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

Future galaxy surveys will measure baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) with high significance, and a complete understanding of the anisotropies of BAOs in redshift space will be important to exploit the cosmological information in BAOs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Donghui Jeong , Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski , Alexander S. Szalay

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 Oscillations feature (BAO) imprinted in the clustering correlation function is known to furnish us cosmic distance determinations that are independent of the cosmological-background model and the primordial perturbation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 Márcio O'Dwyer , Stefano Anselmi , Glenn D. Starkman , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Ravi K. Sheth , Idit Zehavi

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 report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the \Lya forest of high-redshift quasars. The study uses 48,640 quasars in the redshift…

We present an improved model-independent method for determining the cosmic curvature using the observations of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) and the Hubble parameter. The purpose of this work is to provide insights into late-universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Tonghua Liu , Shengjia Wang , Hengyu Wu , Jieci Wang

With the remarkable increase in scale and precision provided by upcoming galaxy redshift surveys, systematic errors that were previously negligible may become significant. In this paper, we explore the potential impact of low-magnitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Aaron Glanville , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis

We construct cosmic void catalogues with the DIVE void finder upon SDSS BOSS DR12 and eBOSS DR16 galaxy samples with BAO reconstruction applied, and perform a joint BAO analysis using different types of galaxies and the corresponding voids.…

Baryon acoustic oscillations, measured through the patterned distribution of galaxies or other baryon tracing objects on very large (100 Mpc) scales, offer a possible geometric probe of cosmological distances. Pluses and minuses in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric V. Linder

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