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We investigate large-amplitude baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO's) in off-diagonal entries of cosmological power-spectrum covariance matrices. These covariance-matrix BAO's describe the increased attenuation of power-spectrum BAO's caused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-01 Mark C. Neyrinck , István Szapudi

An acoustic oscillation of the primeval photon-baryon fluid around the decoupling time imprints a characteristic scale in the galaxy distribution today, known as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale. Several on-going and/or future…

Measurements of the galaxy 4-Point Correlation Function (4PCF) from theSloan Digital Sky Survey Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS BOSS) have recently found strong statistical evidence for parity violation. If this signal is of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-08 Jiamin Hou , Zachary Slepian , Drew Jamieson

Anisotropic measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature within a galaxy survey enable joint inference about the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and angular diameter distance $D_A(z)$. These measurements are typically obtained from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera

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

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

Cosmic voids defined as a subset of Delaunay Triangulation (DT) circumspheres have been used to measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale; providing tighter constraints on cosmological parameters when combined with matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Daniel Forero-Sánchez , Cheng Zhao , Charling Tao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Andrei Variu , Amélie Tamone , Jean-Paul Kneib

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are frozen relics left over from the pre-decoupling universe. They are the standard rulers of choice for 21st century cosmology, providing distance estimates that are, for the first time, firmly rooted in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-12 Bruce A. Bassett , Renée Hlozek

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) phenomenon provides a unique opportunity to establish a standard ruler at any epoch in the history of the evolving universe. The key lies in identifying a suitable cosmological tracer to conduct the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Felipe Avila , Edilson de Carvalho , Armando Bernui , Hanna Lima , Rafael C. Nunes

We investigate the potential sources of theoretical systematics in the anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance scale measurements from the clustering of galaxies in configuration space using the final Data Release (DR12) of…

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, measured through the patterned distribution of galaxies or other baryon tracing objects on very large (100 Mpc) scales, offer a possible geometric probe of cosmological distances. Pluses and minuses in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric V. Linder

The physical scale corresponding to baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), the size of the sound horizon at recombination, is precisely determined by CMB experiments. Measuring the apparent size of the BAO scale imprinted in the clustering of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Ivana Babić , Fabian Schmidt , Beatriz Tucci

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

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a standard ruler of known physical length, making it a promising probe of the nature of dark energy. The detection of BAO requires measuring galaxy positions and redshifts. "Transversal" (angular…

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) datasets use very precise measurements of the spatial distribution of large-scale structures as a distance ladder to help constrain cosmological parameters. In a recent article \cite{Benisty:2020otr}, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 Denitsa Staicova

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

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 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 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