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In this work we use a template method to extract the scale associated with the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal in 21cm neutral hydrogen intensity maps. We then forecast the constraints on the standard deviations of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Benjamin Ostergaard , André Alencar da Costa , Yu Sang

We investigate the possibility of using the cross-correlation of the Lyman-alpha forest and redshifted 21-cm emission to detect the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). The standard Fisher matrix formalism is used to determine the accuracy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-13 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj

This work reexamines cosmological parameter constraints from the DESI Data Release 2 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements using the distance-basis representation (D_V/r_d, D_M/D_H), which separates the isotropic BAO scale from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Seokcheon Lee

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…

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum allows us to extract the scale of the comoving sound horizon at recombination, a cosmological standard ruler accurately determined by the cosmic microwave background anisotropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yun Wang

The recent release of the final, complete survey of Lyman-alpha baryonic acoustic oscillation measurements provides the most significant and accurate data base for studying cosmic geometry at an effective redshift z_eff=2.334, which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Fulvio Melia

We measure the imprint of primordial baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the correlation function of Ly$\alpha$ absorption in quasar spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and the extended BOSS (eBOSS) in Data…

One of the algorithms typically used for fitting anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), $\alpha_{\perp}D_{M, \text{fid}}(z)/r_{d, \text{fid}}=D_{M}(z)/r_{d}$, provides an excellent fit as $z\Rightarrow 0$. Yet, at $ z_{\text{drag}}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Joel S. Jayson

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of all previous spectroscopic surveys of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kyle S. Dawson , David J. Schlegel , Christopher P. Ahn , Scott F. Anderson , Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Robert H. Barkhouser , Julian E. Bautista , Alessandra Beifiori , Andreas A. Berlind , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Arnaud Borde , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , Howard Brewington , Jon Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , N. G. Busca , William Carithers , Aurelio R. Carnero , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Frances Cope , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Luiz N. da Costa , James R. A. Davenport , Timothée Delubac , Roland de Putter , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Daniel J. Eisenstein , S. Escoffier , Xiaohui Fan , N. Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Andreu Font-Ribera , R. Génova-Santos , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Daryl Haggard , Patrick B. Hall , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Ben Harris , David W. Harris , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Diana Holder , Klaus Honscheid , Joe Huehnerhoff , Beatrice Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Guinevere Kauffmann , Eyal A. Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Khee-Gan Lee , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Marcio A. G. Maia , Martin Makler , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Rachel Mandelbaum , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Patrick McDonald , Ian D. McGreer , Richard McMahon , Olga Mena , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francesco Montesano , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Matthew D. Olmstead , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel J. Oravetz , Russell Owen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Pâris , Will J. Percival , Ismael Pérez-Fournon , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Rafael Rebolo , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , Lado Samushia , Ariel G. Sánchez , Conor Sayres , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , C. G. Scóccola , Hee-Jong Seo , Alaina Shelden , Erin Sheldon , Yue Shen , Yiping Shu , Anže Slosar , Stephen A. Smee , Stephanie A. Snedden , Fritz Stauffer , Oliver Steele , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Nao Suzuki , Molly E. C. Swanson , Tomer Tal , Masayuki Tanaka , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , M. Vargas Magana , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Mike Watson , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Andrew A. West , Martin White , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yeche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng

We define Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distances $\hat{d}_\alpha(z, z_c)$, $\hat{d}_z(z, z_c)$, and $\hat{d}_/(z, z_c)$ that do not depend on cosmological parameters. These BAO distances are measured as a function of redshift $z$ with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-11 B. Hoeneisen

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

The $\Lambda$CDM model has long served as the cornerstone of modern cosmology, offering an elegant and successful framework for interpreting a wide range of cosmological observations. However, the rise of high-precision datasets has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Manish Yadav , Archana Dixit , Anirudh Pradhan , M S Barak

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) datasets use very precise measurements of the spatial distribution of large-scale structures as a distance ladder to help constrain cosmological parameters. In a recent article \cite{Benisty:2020otr}, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 Denitsa Staicova

We present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained with the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation feature from galaxy clustering in the completed Dark Energy Survey, consisting of six years (Y6) of observations. We use the Y6 BAO galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , C. Chang , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , N. Deiosso , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide precise measurements of the cosmic expansion history through the comoving acoustic scale. The CMB angular scale measurement $\theta_*$ is particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Antony Lewis , Ewan Chamberlain

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 conduct a selective analysis of the isotropic ($D_V$) and anisotropic ($AP$) components of the most recent Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data. We find that these components provide significantly different constraints and could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Balakrishna S. Haridasu , Vladimir V. Luković , Nicola Vittorio

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak, seen in the cosmic matter distribution at redshifts up to ~3.5, reflects the continued expansion of the sonic horizon first identified in temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 F. Melia , M. Lopez-Corredoira