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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

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

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are a powerful probe of the expansion history of the universe, which can tell us about the nature of dark energy. In order to accurately characterize the dark energy equation of state using BAO, we must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nuala McCullagh , Alexander S. Szalay

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…

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the clustering of matter in the universe serves as a robust standard ruler and hence can be used to map the expansion history of the universe. We use high force resolution simulations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Kushal T. Mehta , Hee-Jong Seo , Jonathan Eckel , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Marc Metchnik , Philip Pinto , Xiaoying Xu

The cosmic structure formed from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the early universe is imprinted in the galaxy distribution observable in large scale surveys, and is used as a standard ruler in contemporary cosmology. BAO are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Z. Brown , G. Mishtaku , R. Demina , Y. Liu , C. Popik

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

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

We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over 3816 square degrees and 0.16<z<0.47,…

Here, we present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained from the measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature using the completed Dark Energy Survey (DES) data, summarizing the main results of [Phys. Rev. D…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Juan Mena-Fernández , Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), known as one of the largest cosmological objects, is now recognized as standard cosmological tool to measure geometric distances via the Alcock-Paczynski effect, by which the observed BAO exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Yong-Seon Song , Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

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

The possibility of measuring redshift space (RSD) distortions using photometric data have been recently highlighted. This effect complements and significantly alters the detectability of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Martin Crocce , Enrique Gaztanaga , Anna Cabre , Aurelio Carnero , Eusebio Sanchez

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the two-point correlation function of galaxies supplies a standard ruler to probe the expansion history of the Universe. We study here several galaxy selection schemes, aiming at building an…

In this paper we present a new method to extract cosmological parameters using the radial scale of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations as a standard ruler in deep galaxy surveys. The method consists in an empirical parametrization of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-30 E. Sanchez , D. Alonso , F. J. Sanchez , J. Garcia-Bellido , I. Sevilla

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are features in the matter power spectrum on scales of order 100-150 h^{-1} Mpc that promise to be a powerful tool to constrain and test cosmological models. The BAO have attracted such attention that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi

We investigate the feasibility of extracting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from cosmic shear tomography. We particularly focus on the BAO scale precision that can be achieved by future spectroscopy-based, kinematic weak lensing (KWL)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Zhejie Ding , Hee-Jong Seo , Eric Huff , Shun Saito , Douglas Clowe

Photometric data can be analyzed using the three-dimensional correlation function $\xi_{\rm p}$ to extract cosmological information via e.g., measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Previous studies modeled $\xi_{\rm p} $…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Kwan Chuen Chan , Ismael Ferrero , Santiago Avila , Ashley J. Ross , Martin Crocce , Enrique Gaztanaga

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

We present a measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale at redshift $z=2.35$ from the three-dimensional correlation of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest absorption and quasars. The study uses 266,590 quasars in the redshift…