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We propose an improved method to determine the sound horizon in a cosmological model-independent way by using the latest observations of BAO measurements from DES, BOSS/eBOSS, and DESI surveys and gravitationally time-delay lensed quasars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 Tonghua Liu , Shuo Cao , Jieci Wang

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

We study the robustness of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) analysis to the underlying cosmological model. We focus on testing the standard BAO analysis that relies on the use of a template. These templates are constructed assuming a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jiaming Pan , Dragan Huterer , Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , Camille Avestruz

The matter sound horizon can be inferred from the cosmic microwave background within the Standard Model. Independent direct measurements of the sound horizon are then a probe of possible deviations from the Standard Model. We aim at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-20 Nikki Arendse , Adriano Agnello , Radosław Wojtak

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) at low redshift provide a precise and largely model-independent way to measure the Hubble constant, H0. The 6dF Galaxy Survey measurement of the BAO scale gives a value of H0 = 67 +/- 3.2 km/s/Mpc,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew Colless , Florian Beutler , Chris Blake

We characterize the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) feature in halo two-point statistics using N-body simulations. We find that nonlinear damping of the BAO signal is less severe for halos in the mass range we investigate than for dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Qiao Wang , Hu Zhan

In the upcoming era of high-precision galaxy surveys, it becomes necessary to understand the impact of redshift uncertainties on cosmological observables. In this paper we explore the effect of sub-percent photometric redshift errors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Jonás Chaves-Montero , Raúl E. Angulo , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo

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

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the 2-point clustering of biased tracers in redshift space can be described in a model-agnostic manner, relying only on the assumption that nonlinear growth approximately smears this feature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-09 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

We propose a new and highly model-independent test of cosmic acceleration by comparing observations of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale at low and intermediate redshifts: we derive a new inequality relating BAO observables at two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-19 Will Sutherland

Future galaxy surveys will measure baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) with high significance, and a complete understanding of the anisotropies of BAOs in redshift space will be important to exploit the cosmological information in BAOs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Donghui Jeong , Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski , Alexander S. Szalay

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

As next-generation telescopes and observational surveys continue to expand the boundaries of our understanding, tensions and discrepancies between observational datasets are becoming increasingly prominent. In this work, we focus on one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ruchika

We present a method for extracting the angular diameter distances, $D_A$, and the expansion rates, $H$, of the universe from the {\it two-dimensional} Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum. Our method builds upon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Masatoshi Shoji , Donghui Jeong , Eiichiro Komatsu

We investigate the Alcock Paczynski (AP) test applied to the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy correlation function. By using a general formalism that includes relativistic effects, we quantify the importance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-27 Francesca Lepori , Enea Di Dio , Matteo Viel , Carlo Baccigalupi , Ruth Durrer

In this study, we investigate a cosmological model involving a negative cosmological constant (AdS vacua in the dark energy sector). We consider a quintessence field on top of a negative cosmological constant and study its impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Chandrachud B. V. Dash , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A. Sen

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to probe the accelerated expansion of the Universe. The current surveys covering a comoving volume sufficient to unveil the BAO scale…

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to measure the accelerated expansion of the Universe. To extract all available information about dark energy, it is necessary to…

Observations of galaxy clustering are made in redshift space, which results in distortions to the underlying isotropic distribution of galaxies. These redshift-space distortions (RSD) not only degrade important features of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Yuchan Wang , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun