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We present a cosmic density field reconstruction method that augments the traditional reconstruction algorithms with a convolutional neural network (CNN). Following Shallue $\&$ Eisenstein (2022), the key component of our method is to use…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Xinyi Chen , Fangzhou Zhu , Sasha Gaines , Nikhil Padmanabhan

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

Over the next decade, cosmological measurements of the large-scale structure of the Universe will be sensitive to the combined effects of dynamical dark energy and massive neutrinos. The matter power spectrum is a key repository of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-21 Amol Upadhye , Rahul Biswas , Adrian Pope , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Hal Finkel , Nicholas Frontiere

In this work we examine the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in 2D angular and redshift space $\{\theta, \Delta z\}$, with $\Delta z$ denoting the redshift difference between two given angular shells. We thus work in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Paula S. Ferreira , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo , Ribamar R. R. Reis

(abridged) The scale of the acoustic oscillation of baryons at the baryon-photon decoupling is imprinted on the spatial distribution of galaxies in the Universe, known as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO). The correlation functions and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-05 Kai T. Kono , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi , Suchetha Cooray , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Koya Murakami

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature, imprinted in the transverse and radial clustering of dark matter tracers, enables the simultaneous measurement of the angular diameter distance $D_A(z)$ and the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ at a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Pankaj Chavan , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature provides an important distance scale for the measurement of the expansion history of the Universe. Theoretical models of the BAO in the distribution of biased tracers of the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Tobias Baldauf , Vincent Desjacques

Understanding a behavior of galaxy biasing is crucial for future galaxy redshift surveys. One aim is to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) within the precision of a few percent level. Using 30 large cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-12 Masanori Sato , Takahiko Matsubara

A model-agnostic description of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in redshift space requires a number of ingredients. Physically, one must describe the impact of cosmological bulk flows which progressively and anisotropically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

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…

We present an iterative method to reconstruct the linear-theory initial conditions from the late-time cosmological matter density field, with the intent of improving the recovery of the cosmic distance scale from the baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 Ryuichiro Hada , Daniel J. Eisenstein

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

We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the \Lya forest of high-redshift quasars. The study uses 48,640 quasars in the redshift…

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) are oscillatory features in the galaxy power spectrum and are a standard rod to measure the cosmological expansion. These have been studied in Cartesian space (Fourier or real space) or in Spherical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Rassat , A. Refregier

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak, seen in the cosmic matter distribution at redshifts up to ~3.5, reflects the continued expansion of the sonic horizon first identified in temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 F. Melia , M. Lopez-Corredoira

A new determination of the sound horizon scale in angular coordinates is presented. It makes use of ~ 0.6 x 10^6 Luminous Red Galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data, with photometric redshifts. The analysis covers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. Carnero , E. Sanchez , M. Crocce , A. Cabre , E. Gaztanaga

We use the 2% distance measurement from our reconstructed baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) signature using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from Padmanabhan et al. (2012) and Xu et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kushal T. Mehta , Antonio J. Cuesta , Xiaoying Xu , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Nikhil Padmanabhan

Large-scale structures in the Universe are a powerful tool to test cosmological models and constrain cosmological parameters. A particular feature of interest comes from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs), which are sound waves traveling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-12 A. Labatie , J. -L. Starck , M. Lachièze-Rey

Next-generation cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will have lower noise and therefore increased sensitivity, enabling improved constraints on fundamental physics parameters such as the sum of neutrino masses and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-16 João Caldeira , W. L. Kimmy Wu , Brian Nord , Camille Avestruz , Shubhendu Trivedi , Kyle T. Story

We present a simple analytic approximation for the covariance between pre-reconstruction galaxy power spectrum measurements and post-reconstruction two-point correlation functions. This cross-covariance is essential for joint analyses that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 M. Maus , A. Baleato Lizancos , M. White , A. de Mattia , S. Chen