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We detect the peak of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the two-point correlation function of a spectroscopic sample of $25226$ clusters selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Galaxy clusters, as tracers of massive dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Veropalumbo , F. Marulli , L. Moscardini , M. Moresco , A. Cimatti

In this work, we propose to utilize the observed ratio of spherically-averaged distance to the sound horizon scale from Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data to test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) by comparing the luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Fan Yang , Xiangyun Fu , Bing Xu , Kaituo Zhang , Yang Huang , Ying Yang

In the standard model of cosmology, the Universe is static in comoving coordinates; expansion occurs homogeneously and is represented by a global scale factor. The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak location is a statistical tracer that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 Boudewijn F. Roukema , Thomas Buchert , Hirokazu Fujii , Jan J. Ostrowski

Ordinary 3D Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data are model-dependent, requiring the assumption of a cosmological model to calculate comoving distances during data reduction. Throughout the present-day literature, the assumed model is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Sowmaydeep Dwivedi , Marcus Högås

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

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

The location of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the two-point correlation function (2PCF) of matter produces a standard ruler that is useful for the measurement of the expansion history of the Universe. Inspired by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 Sasha Gaines , Farnik Nikakhtar , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Ravi K. Sheth

We review three distance measurement techniques beyond the local universe: (1) gravitational lens time delays, (2) baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO), and (3) HI intensity mapping. We describe the principles and theory behind each method,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Sherry H. Suyu , Tzu-Ching Chang , Frédéric Courbin , Teppei Okumura

We develop a formalism for measuring the cosmological distance scale from baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) using the cross-correlation of a sparse redshift survey with a denser photometric sample. This reduces the shot noise that would…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 Anna Patej , Daniel J. Eisenstein

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

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) are crucial in cosmological analysis, providing a standard ruler, as well as constraints on dark energy. In General Relativity models, the BAO Linear Point - the midpoint between the dip and the peak in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jaemyoung Jason Lee , Bartolomeo Fiorini , Farnik Nikakhtar , Ravi K. Sheth

We investigate the possibility of using the cross-correlation of the Lyman-alpha forest and redshifted 21-cm emission to detect the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). The standard Fisher matrix formalism is used to determine the accuracy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-13 Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Somnath Bharadwaj

The Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) three-dimensional correlation functions have been widely used to perform cosmological inference using the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale. While the traditional inference approach employs a data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Francesca Gerardi , Andrei Cuceu , Benjamin Joachimi , Seshadri Nadathur , Andreu Font-Ribera

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

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) or baryon wiggles which are present in the galaxy power spectrum at scales 100-150Mpc/h are powerful features with which to constrain cosmology. The potential of these probes is such that these are…

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the distribution of galaxies has been widely studied as an excellent standard ruler for probing cosmic distances and expansion history, and hence dark energy. In contrast, the amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Will Sutherland , Lukasz Mularczyk

The cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR) is a fundamental and practical condition in observational cosmology that connects the luminosity distance and angular diameter distance. Testing its validity offers a powerful tool to probe new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-09 Jie Zheng , Da-Chun Qiang , Zhi-Qiang You , Darshan Kumar

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

The spatial curvature ($K$ or $\Omega_K$) is one of the most fundamental parameters of an isotropic and homogeneous universe and has a close link to the physics of the early Universe. Combining the radial and angular diameter distances…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-19 Masahiro Takada , Olivier Dore

We present a calibration-free consistency test of spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM based on baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) distance measurements. The method forms ratios of BAO distances including the Hubble distance, the comoving angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xing-Han A. Zhao , Zheng Cai