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Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are considered to be a very robust standard ruler against various systematics. This premise has been tested against observational systematics, but not to the level required for the next generation of galaxy…
Standard analysis pipelines for measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in galaxy surveys make use of a fiducial cosmological model to guide the data compression required to transform from observed redshifts and angles to the…
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An effective equation describes a weakly nonlinear wave field evolution governed by nonlinear dispersive PDEs \emph{via} the set of its resonances in an arbitrary big but finite domain in the Fourier space. We consider the Schr\"{o}dinger…