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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide precise measurements of the cosmic expansion history through the comoving acoustic scale. The CMB angular scale measurement $\theta_*$ is particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Antony Lewis , Ewan Chamberlain

In this work we use a template method to extract the scale associated with the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal in 21cm neutral hydrogen intensity maps. We then forecast the constraints on the standard deviations of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Benjamin Ostergaard , André Alencar da Costa , Yu Sang

We constrain cosmological parameters using combined measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the correlation function of galaxies and Ly-\alpha absorbers that together cover 0.1 < z < 2.4. The BAO position…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Graeme E. Addison , Gary Hinshaw , Mark Halpern

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

Studying the SDSS-DR16 quasar catalog, we detect a baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the two-point angular correlation function with a statistical significance of $3\sigma$, at an effective redshift of $z_{\rm eff}=1.725$. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui , Miguel A. Sabogal , Rafael C. Nunes

We conducted a review of the fundamental aspects of describing and detecting the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in galaxy surveys, emphasizing the optimal tools for constraining this probe based on the type of observation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We measure the transverse baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal in the local Universe using a sample of blue galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) survey as a cosmological tracer. The method is weakly dependent on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-06 E. de Carvalho , A. Bernui , F. Avila , C. P. Novaes , J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante

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

Large redshift surveys capable of measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal have proven to be an effective way of measuring the distance-redshift relation in cosmology. Building off the work in Zhu et al. (2015), we develop a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Fangzhou Zhu , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White , Ashley J. Ross , Gongbo Zhao

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y6 data. The definition is based on a color and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

A new fully non-linear reconstruction algorithm for the accurate recovery of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale in two-point correlation functions is proposed, based on the least-action principle and extending the Fast Action…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 E. Sarpa , C. Schimd , E. Branchini , S. Matarrese

Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) analyses usually report the anisotropic shift parameters $\alpha_\perp(z)$ and $\alpha_\parallel(z)$ relative to a fiducial cosmology, and these quantities are primarily used for cosmological parameter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Domenico Sapone , 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 process of density field reconstruction enhances the statistical power of distance scale measurements using baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). During this process a fiducial cosmology is assumed in order to convert sky coordinates and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Blake D. Sherwin , Martin White

We report on measurements of the cosmological constant, Lambda, and the redshift space distortion parameter beta=Omega_m^0.6/b, based on an analysis of the QSO power spectrum parallel and perpendicular to the observer's line of sight, from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. J. Outram , T. Shanks , B. J. Boyle , S. M. Croom , Fiona Hoyle , N. S. Loaring , L. Miller , R. J. Smith

We develop methods for investigating baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) features in cosmological models with non-trivial (but slowly varying) averaged spatial curvature: models that are not necessarily flat, close to flat, nor with constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-06 Asta Heinesen , Chris Blake , Yong-Zhuang Li , David L. Wiltshire

The measurement of the scale of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum as a function of redshift is a promising method to constrain the equation-of-state parameter of the dark energy w. To measure the scale of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christian Wagner , Volker Müller , Matthias Steinmetz

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 investigate the potential of large X-ray-selected AGN samples for detecting baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO). Though AGN selection in X-ray band is very clean and efficient, it does not provide redshift information, and thus needs to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Gert Hütsi , Marat Gilfanov , Alexander Kolodzig , Rashid Sunyaev

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