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Standard analysis pipelines for measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in galaxy surveys make use of a fiducial cosmological model to guide the data compression required to transform from observed redshifts and angles to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Paul Carter , Florian Beutler , Will J. Percival , Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , Cheng Zhao

The degeneracy between geometric (Alcock-Paczynski) and dynamic (redshift space) distortions in the pattern of the galaxy distribution has been a long standing problem in the study of the large scale structure of the universe. We examine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. J. Hawken , F. B. Abdalla , G. Hütsi , O. Lahav

We present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained with the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation feature from galaxy clustering in the completed Dark Energy Survey, consisting of six years (Y6) of observations. We use the Y6 BAO galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , C. Chang , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , N. Deiosso , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) at low redshift provide a precise and largely model-independent way to measure the Hubble constant, H0. The 6dF Galaxy Survey measurement of the BAO scale gives a value of H0 = 67 +/- 3.2 km/s/Mpc,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthew Colless , Florian Beutler , Chris Blake

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

The low statistical errors on cosmological parameters promised by future galaxy surveys will only be realised with the development of new, fast, analysis methods that reduce potential systematic problems to low levels. We present an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Rossana Ruggeri , Will Percival , Héctor Gil-Marín , Fangzhou Zhu , Gongbo Zhao , Yuting Wang

The total mass of neutrinos can be constrained in a number of ways using galaxy redshift surveys. Massive neutrinos modify the expansion rate of the Universe, which can be measured using baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) or the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-26 Aoife Boyle , Eiichiro Komatsu

We present measurements of the angular diameter distance D_A(z) and the Hubble parameter H(z) at z=0.35 using the anisotropy of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal measured in the galaxy clustering distribution of the Sloan Digital…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xiaoying Xu , Antonio J. Cuesta , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Cameron K. McBride

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

As next-generation telescopes and observational surveys continue to expand the boundaries of our understanding, tensions and discrepancies between observational datasets are becoming increasingly prominent. In this work, we focus on one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ruchika

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…

This work serves two-fold purpose. Firstly, we provide an alternative to the traditional method of determining the growth rate of density perturbations $f(z)$. In usual practice, $f(z)$ can not be directly measured from tracer clustering at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Pankaj Chavan , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

The measurement of cosmological distances using baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) is crucial for studying the universe's expansion. The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST) galaxy redshift survey, with its vast volume and sky coverage,…

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler, and can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe at low redshift. Standard BAO analyses return a model-independent measurement of the expansion rate and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 José Luis Bernal , Tristan L. Smith , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski

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

We assess the detectability of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the power spectrum of galaxies using ultra large volume N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter and semi-analytical modelling of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Angulo , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) involve measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies to determine the growth rate of cosmic structure. We derive constraints on cosmological parameters from $17$ uncorrelated BAO measurements that were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 David Benisty , Denitsa Staicova

We show that redshift-space distortions of galaxy correlations have a strong effect on correlation functions with distinct, localized features, like the signature of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). Near the line of sight, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 H. J. Tian , Mark C. Neyrinck , Tamás Budavári , Alexander S. Szalay

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and their effects on the matter power spectrum can be studied by using the Lyman-alpha absorption signature of the matter density field along quasar (QSO) lines of sight. A measurement sufficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-21 Ch. Yeche , P. Petitjean , J. Rich , E. Aubourg , N. Busca , J. -Ch. Hamilton , J. -M. Le Goff , I. Paris , S. Peirani , Ch. Pichon , E. Rollinde , M. Vargas-Magana