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Motivated by cosmological surveys that demand accurate theoretical modeling of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in galaxy clustering, we analyze N-body simulations in which a BAO-like gaussian bump modulates the linear theory…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Chris Orban , David H. Weinberg

A new computational scheme for the nonlinear cosmological matter power spectrum (PS) is presented. Our method is based on evolution equations in time, which can be cast in a form extremely convenient for fast numerical evaluations. A…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Stefano Anselmi , Massimo Pietroni

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…

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

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 three potential sources of bias in distance estimations made assuming that a very simple estimator of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale provides a standard ruler. These are the effects of the non-linear evolution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacek Guzik , Gary Bernstein , Robert E. Smith

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) represent one of the cleanest probes of dark energy, allowing for tests of the cosmological model through the measurement of distance and expansion rate from a 3D galaxy distribution. The signal appears at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Rossana Ruggeri , Chris Blake

We revisit the uncertainty in baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) forecasts and data analyses. In particular, we study how much the uncertainties on both the measured mean dilation scale and the associated error bar are affected by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wai-Hin Wayne Ngan , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ue-Li Pen , Patrick McDonald , Ilana MacDonald

In this paper, we report a significant recovery of the linear baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) signature by applying the isobaric reconstruction algorithm to the non-linear matter density field. Assuming only the longitudinal component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Xin Wang , Hao-Ran Yu , Hong-Ming Zhu , Yu Yu , Qiaoyin Pan , Ue-Li Pen

A model-agnostic description of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in redshift space requires a number of ingredients. Physically, one must describe the impact of cosmological bulk flows which progressively and anisotropically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

Cosmography provides a model-independent way to map the expansion history of the Universe. In this paper we simulate a Euclid-like survey and explore cosmographic constraints from future Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) observations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Ruth Lazkoz , Jailson Alcaniz , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Vincenzo Salzano , Irene Sendra

The baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) have proven to be an invaluable tool in constraining the expansion history of the Universe at late times and are characterized by the comoving sound horizon at the baryon drag epoch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-27 Andoni Aizpuru , Rubén Arjona , Savvas Nesseris

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 (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

Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) observations offer a robust method for measuring cosmological expansion. However, the BAO signal in a sample of galaxies can be diluted and shifted by interlopers -- galaxies that have been assigned the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Alan B. H. Nguyen , Elena Massara , Will J. Percival

We show that it is possible to build effective matter density power spectra in tomographic cosmic shear observations that exhibit the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) features once a nulling transformation has been applied to the data.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Francis Bernardeau , Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya

Standard rulers such as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale serve as workhorses for precision tests of cosmology, enabling distance measurements that probe the geometry and expansion history of our Universe. Aside from BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Hannah Fronenberg , Abhishek S. Maniyar , Adrian Liu , Anthony R. Pullen

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 use time-sliced perturbation theory (TSPT) to give an accurate description of the infrared non-linear effects affecting the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) present in the distribution of matter at very large scales. In TSPT this can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Diego Blas , Mathias Garny , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Sergey Sibiryakov

We investigate large-amplitude baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO's) in off-diagonal entries of cosmological power-spectrum covariance matrices. These covariance-matrix BAO's describe the increased attenuation of power-spectrum BAO's caused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-01 Mark C. Neyrinck , István Szapudi