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We investigate if, for a fixed number density of targets and redshift, there is an optimal way to select a galaxy sample in order to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale, which is used as a standard ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 César Hernández-Aguayo , Marius Cautun , Alex Smith , Carlton M. Baugh , Baojiu Li

We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined galaxy sample comprises 1.2 million massive galaxies over an…

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…

We use a galaxy sample derived from the DECaLS DR9 to measure the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The magnitude-limited sample consists of 10.6 million galaxies in an area of 4974 deg$^2$ over the redshift range of [0.6, 1]. A key…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-15 Ruiyu Song , Kwan Chuen Chan , Haojie Xu , Weilun Zheng

We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2), based on three years of operation. For cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul-Karim , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , L. Allen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , P. Bansal , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , M. Charles , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , D. Chebat , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , R. Demina , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , E. Fernández-García , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , D. Gonzalez , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , C. Gordon , D. Green , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , S. He , M. Herbold , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , M. Ho , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. V. Kamble , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. G. Kim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , O. Lahav , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , Q. Li , T. S. Li , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , F. Lozano-Rodríguez , C. Magneville , M. Manera , P. Martini , W. L. Matthewson , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Menegas , T. Mergulhão , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , D. Muñoz-Santos , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , K. Naidoo , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , J. Peacock , Marcos Pellejero Ibanez , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. M. Pieri , C. Poppett , F. Prada , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , J. Rohlf , J. O. Román-Herrera , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , W. Turner , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , F. Valdes , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. A. Weaver , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , M. Wolfson , C. Yèche , J. Yu , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , Z. Zhai , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , G. B. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 Luminous Red Galaxies. By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail of the BOSS galaxy sample, we form a sample of LRGs at an…

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Ia supernova (SN) data. We take…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Julian E. Bautista , Florian Beutler , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , Howard Brewington , J. Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Angela Burden , Nicolás G. Busca , William Carithers , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Antonio J. Cuesta , Kyle S. Dawson , Timothée Delubac , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , J. -M. Le Goff , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Richard Gott , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Shirley Ho , Klaus Honscheid , Cullan Howlett , David Kirkby , Francisco S. Kitaura , Jean-Paul Kneib , Khee-Gan Lee , Dan Long , Robert H. Lupton , Mariana Vargas Magaña , Viktor Malanushenko , Elena Malanushenko , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Cameron K. McBride , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Adam D. Myers , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel Oravetz , Isabelle Pâris , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Beth Reid , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Ariel G. Sánchez , Lado Samushia , Ricardo Tanausú Génova Santos , Claudia G. Scóccola , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Erin Sheldon , Audrey Simmons , Ramin A. Skibba , Anže Slosar , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao

We introduce a method to constrain general cosmological models using Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance measurements from galaxy samples covering different redshift ranges, and apply this method to analyse samples drawn from the…

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

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler for observational cosmology, enabling precise constraints on the expansion history of the Universe. We present a weakly model-dependent measurement of the BAO angular scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 U. Ribeiro , F. Avila , C. R. Bom , C. Franco , A. Cortesi , C. Mendes de Oliveira , A. Kanaan , T. Ribeiro , W. Schoenell , E. Telles , A. Bernui

We measure the imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) in the galaxy clustering pattern at the highest redshift achieved to date, z=0.6, using the distribution of N=132,509 emission-line galaxies in the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We…

In this study we show that the skewness S_3 of the cosmic density field contains a significant and potentially detectable and clean imprint of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations. Although the BAO signal in the skewness has a lower amplitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 Roman Juszkiewicz , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Rien van de Weygaert

We present measurements of galaxy clustering from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). These use the Data Release 9 (DR9) CMASS sample, which contains 264,283…

We investigate the impact of different redshift distributions of random samples on the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements of $D_V(z)r_\mathrm{d}^\mathrm{fid}/r_\mathrm{d}$ from the two-point correlation functions (2PCF) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Shao-Jiang Wang , Qi Guo , Rong-Gen Cai

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey is a survey of 240,000 emission line galaxies in the distant universe, measured with the AAOmega spectrograph on the 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). The target galaxies are selected using ultraviolet…

Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) is a powerful probe on the expansion of the universe, shedding light on elusive dark energy and gravity at cosmological scales. BAO measurements through biased tracers of the underlying matter density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 Pengjie Zhang

We present clustering redshift measurements for Dark Energy Survey (DES) lens sample galaxies to be used in weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering studies. To perform this measurement, we cross-correlate with spectroscopic…