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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

We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We consider a sample of over 1.3 million galaxies distributed over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , S. Avila , M. Banerji , N. Banik , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , N. Kokron , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , F. Lacasa , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. Manera , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , A. Porredon , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Smith , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1<z<2.1. Divided by tracer type, we utilize 300,017 galaxies from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , D. M. Alexander , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , A. Elliott , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , N. Findlay , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , Y. Lai , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , E. Linder , K. Lodha , C. Magneville , M. Manera , D. Margala , P. Martini , M. Maus , P. McDonald , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , N. Mudur , E. Mueller , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , N. M. Nguyen , J. Nie , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , M. Rezaie , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , N. A. Roe , A. Rosado-Marin , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , A. Slosar , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , J. Swanson , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , S. Trusov , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , J. Yu , Y. Yu , S. Yuan , C. Yèche , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

Reconstructing an estimate of linear Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from an evolved galaxy field has become a standard technique in recent analyses. By partially removing non-linear damping caused by bulk motions, the real-space BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Angela Burden , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera , Antonio J. Cuesta , Mariana Vargas Magana , Shirley Ho

The cosmic distance can be precisely determined using a `standard ruler' imprinted by primordial baryon acoustic oscillation (hereafter BAO) in the early Universe. The BAO at the targeted epoch is observed by analysing galaxy clustering in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Cristiano G. Sabiu , Yong-Seon Song

Accurate modeling for the evolution of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) is essential for using it as a standard ruler to probe cosmology. We explore the non-linearity of the BAO in different environments using the density-split…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Tengpeng Xu , Yan-Chuan Cai , Yun Chen , Mark Neyrinck , Liang Gao , Qiao Wang

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are a feature imprinted in the density field by acoustic waves travelling in the plasma of the early universe. Their fixed scale can be used as a standard ruler to study the geometry of the universe. BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 P. Arnalte-Mur , A. Labatie , N. Clerc , V. J. Martínez , J. -L. Starck , M. Lachièze-Rey , E. Saar , S. Paredes

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the distribution of galaxies provides a fundamental standard ruler which is widely used to constrain cosmological parameters. In most analyses, the comoving length of the ruler is inferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-12 Will Sutherland

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) distributed…

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

The large-scale clustering of galaxies encodes both geometric and dynamical information about the Universe. The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) phenomenon provides a standard ruler that constrains the cosmic expansion history, while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 C. Franco , H. M. Courtois , A. Bernui

We study a new procedure to measure the sound horizon scale via Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Instead of fitting the measured power spectrum (PS) to a theoretical model containing the cosmological informations and all the nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Takahiro Nishimichi , Eugenio Noda , Marco Peloso , Massimo Pietroni

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…

We determine an optimized clustering statistic to be used for galaxy samples with significant redshift uncertainty, such as those that rely on photometric redshifts. To do so, we study the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) information…

[abridged] We present an anisotropic analysis of the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale in the twelfth and final data release of the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We independently analyse the LOWZ and CMASS galaxy…

Acoustic waves traveling through the early Universe imprint a characteristic scale in the clustering of galaxies, QSOs and inter-galactic gas. This scale can be used as a standard ruler to map the expansion history of the Universe, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J. D. Cohn , Martin White , Tzu-Ching Chang , Gil Holder , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Olivier Doré

The measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from a galaxy redshift survey provides one of the most promising methods for probing dark energy. In this paper, we clarify the assumptions that go into the forecasts of dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Yun Wang

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies can be used as a standard ruler to probe the accelerated expansion of the Universe. In this paper, we study several galaxy selection schemes aiming at building…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 S. Escoffier , J. Comparat , A. Ealet , J. -P. Kneib , J. Zoubian , F. Lamareille

We create a sample of spectroscopically identified galaxies with $z < 0.2$ from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7, covering 6813 deg$^2$. Galaxies are chosen to sample the highest mass haloes, with an effective bias of 1.5,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ashley J. Ross , Lado Samushia , Cullan Howlett , Will J. Percival , Angela Burden , Marc Manera