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We present the first high significance detection ($4.1\sigma$) of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the galaxy bispectrum of the twelfth data release (DR12) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 David W. Pearson , Lado Samushia

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration recently released the first year data of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs). Based on the five different tracers, the cosmological constraint shows a hint of deviation from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 X. D. Jia , J. P. Hu , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

Tracing the cosmic evolution of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale with galaxy two point correlation functions is currently the most promising approach to detect dark energy at early times. A number of ongoing and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Faltenbacher , Cheng Li , Jie Wang

We use the 2% distance measurement from our reconstructed baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) signature using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from Padmanabhan et al. (2012) and Xu et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kushal T. Mehta , Antonio J. Cuesta , Xiaoying Xu , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Nikhil Padmanabhan

The value of the Hubble constant determined from CMB and BAO measurements is directly dependent on the sound horizon at the photon-baryon decoupling. There has been significant interest in the possibility of new physics at the epoch around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Levon Pogosian , Gong-Bo Zhao , Karsten Jedamzik

The isotropy of the Lyman-alpha forest in real-space uniquely provides a measurement of cosmic geometry at z > 2. The angular diameter distance for which the correlation function along the line of sight and in the transverse direction agree…

The baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) prior to recombination should be imprinted onto the 21cm emission background from the epoch of reionization through the underlying density perturbations. Using an analytical approach for both matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Chun Mao , Xiang-Ping Wu

Recent studies report a mild discrepancy between baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements within the $\Lambda$CDM framework. This discrepancy could be explained if the optical depth $\tau$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Yuta Kageura , Masami Ouchi , Fumihiro Naokawa , Hiroya Umeda , Akinori Matsumoto , Yuichi Harikane , Minami Nakane , Tran Thi Thai

In this study we show that the skewness S_3 of the cosmic density field contains a significant and potentially detectable and clean imprint of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations. Although the BAO signal in the skewness has a lower amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Roman Juszkiewicz , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Rien van de Weygaert

Cosmological tests based on the statistical analysis of galaxy distributions usually depend on source evolution. An exception is the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test, which is based on the changing ratio of angular to spatial/redshift size of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-25 Fulvio Melia , Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We present a unified Bayesian assessment of model comparison and data-set consistency for LCDM (cold dark matter plus a cosmological constant) and minimal extensions (neutrino mass, spatial curvature, constant or evolving dark energy) using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Lukas Tobias Hergt , Sophie Henrot-Versillé , Matthieu Tristram , Douglas Scott

A flat Friedman-Roberson-Walker universe dominated by a cosmological constant ($\Lambda$) and cold dark matter (CDM) has been the working model preferred by cosmologists since the discovery of cosmic acceleration. However, tensions of…

To elucidate the robustness of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data measured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in capturing the dynamical behavior of dark energy, we assess the model dependence of the evidence for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Qing Gao , Zhiqian Peng , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong

The second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), containing data from the first three years of observations, doubles the number of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest spectra in DR1 and it provides the…

We model the nonlinear growth of cosmic structure in different dark energy models, using large volume N-body simulations. We consider a range of quintessence models which feature both rapidly and slowly varying dark energy equations of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Jennings , C. M. Baugh , R. E. Angulo , S. Pascoli

[abridged] We present an anisotropic analysis of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale in the twelfth and final data release of the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We independently analyse the LOWZ and CMASS galaxy…

We measure the expansion rate of the recent Universe and the calibration scale of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) from low-redshift data. BAO relies on the calibration scale, i.e., the sound horizon at the end of drag epoch $r_d$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-17 Xue Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang

We present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the pre- and post-reconstruction galaxy power spectrum multipoles from the final data release of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Geometric constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Marko Simonović , Matias Zaldarriaga

We present new constraints on the scale dependence of the primordial power spectrum by combining Planck, ACT DR6, SPT-3G and eBOSS Lyman-$\alpha$ forest data, extending sensitivity to smaller comoving scales. While ACT results previously…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Malcolm Fairbairn , Lucien Heurtier , María Olalla Olea-Romacho

The intergalactic neutral hydrogen which is responsible for the Lyman alpha forest of quasar absorption is a tracer of much larger amounts of ionised hydrogen. The ionised component has yet to be detected directly, but is expected to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rupert A. C. Croft , A. J. Banday , Lars Hernquist