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We investigate the effects of galaxy formation on the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak by applying semi-analytic modelling techniques to the Millennium-XXL, a $3 \times 10^{11}$ particle N-body simulation of similar volume to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Raul E. Angulo , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Bruno Henriques

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 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) experiment requires a sufficiently dense sampling of large-scale structure tracers with spectroscopic redshift, which is observationally expensive especially at high redshifts $z\simgt 1$. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masamune Oguri , Masahiro Takada

We present a hybrid method for reconstructing the primordial density from late-time halos and galaxies. Our approach involves two steps: (1) apply standard Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) reconstruction to recover the large-scale features…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Liam Parker , Adrian E. Bayer , Uros Seljak

Future Baryon Acoustic Oscillation surveys aim at observing galaxy clustering over a wide range of redshift and galaxy populations at great precision, reaching tenths of a percent, in order to detect any deviation of dark energy from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Zhejie Ding , Hee-Jong Seo , Zvonimir Vlah , Yu Feng , Marcel Schmittfull , Florian Beutler

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) have recently been observed in the distribution of distant galaxies. The height and location of the BAO peak are strong discriminators of cosmological parameters. Here we consider the ways in which weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Vallinotto , Scott Dodelson , Carlo Schimd , Jean-Philippe Uzan

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

We study a new procedure to measure the sound horizon scale via Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Instead of fitting the measured power spectrum (PS) to a theoretical model containing the cosmological informations and all the nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Takahiro Nishimichi , Eugenio Noda , Marco Peloso , Massimo Pietroni

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…

Optimal transport theory has recently reemerged as a vastly resourceful field of mathematics with elegant applications across physics and computer science. Harnessing methods from geometry processing, we report on the efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Sebastian von Hausegger , Bruno Lévy , Roya Mohayaee

A shift of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale to smaller values than predicted by linear theory was observed in simulations. In this paper, we try to provide an intuitive physical understanding of why this shift occurs, explaining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Blake D. Sherwin , Matias Zaldarriaga

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature provides an important distance scale for the measurement of the expansion history of the Universe. Theoretical models of the BAO in the distribution of biased tracers of the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Tobias Baldauf , Vincent Desjacques

Since galaxy distribution reconstruction effectively reduces non-Gaussian terms in the power spectrum covariance matrix, it has attracted interest not only for Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signals but also for various cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Naonori Sugiyama

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 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

A theoretically interesting and practically important question in cosmology is the reconstruction of the initial density distribution provided a late-time density field. This is a long-standing question with a revived interest recently,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yanlong Shi , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are a feature imprinted in the galaxy distribution by acoustic waves traveling in the plasma of the early universe. Their detection at the expected scale in large-scale structures strongly supports current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Labatie , J. -L. Starck , M. Lachièze-Rey

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) are a powerful probe of the expansion history of our Universe and are typically measured in the two-point statistics of a galaxy survey, either in Fourier space or in configuration space. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-16 Tyann Dumerchat , Julian E. Bautista

We develop a framework for self-consistently extracting cosmological information from the clustering of tracers in redshift space, $\textit{without}$ relying on model-dependent templates to describe the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

We present results from fitting the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the correlation function obtained from the first application of reconstruction to a galaxy redshift survey, namely, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data…

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