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The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, and the mysterious anti-gravity agent of this acceleration has been called ``dark energy''. To measure the dynamics of dark energy, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) can be used.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tzu-Ching Chang , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Patrick McDonald

Leveraging the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature present in clustering 2-point statistics, we aim to measure cosmological distances independently of the underlying background cosmological model. However this inference is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-19 Stefano Anselmi , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Ariel G. Sanchez , Glenn D. Starkman , Ravi K. Sheth , Idit Zehavi

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler with which to measure the acceleration of the Universe. The BAO feature has so far been detected in optical galaxy surveys. Intensity mapping of neutral hydrogen emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Hee-Jong Seo , Scott Dodelson , John Marriner , Dave Mcginnis , Albert Stebbins , Chris Stoughton , Alberto Vallinotto

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are a feature imprinted in the galaxy distribution by acoustic waves traveling in the plasma of the early universe. Their detection at the expected scale in large-scale structures strongly supports current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Labatie , J. -L. Starck , M. Lachièze-Rey

Future galaxy surveys will measure baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) with high significance, and a complete understanding of the anisotropies of BAOs in redshift space will be important to exploit the cosmological information in BAOs.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Donghui Jeong , Liang Dai , Marc Kamionkowski , Alexander S. Szalay

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

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

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

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

Here, we present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained from the measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature using the completed Dark Energy Survey (DES) data, summarizing the main results of [Phys. Rev. D…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Juan Mena-Fernández , Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

We propose a new method for cosmological parameters extraction using the baryon acoustic oscillation scale as a standard ruler in deep galaxy surveys with photometric determination of redshifts. The method consists in a simple empirical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-25 E. Sanchez , A. Carnero , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , F. de Simoni , M. Crocce , A. Cabre , P. Fosalba , D. Alonso

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

Future dark energy experiments will require better and more accurate theoretical predictions for the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) signature in the spectrum of cosmological perturbations. Here, we use large N-body simulations of the…

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…

Low redshift measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) test the late time evolution of the Universe and are a vital probe of Dark Energy. Over the past decade both the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Paul Carter , Florian Beutler , Will J. Percival , Chris Blake , Jun Koda , Ashley J. Ross

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

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

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

Tracing the cosmic evolution of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale with galaxy two point correlation functions is currently the most promising approach to detect dark energy at early times. A number of ongoing and future…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Faltenbacher , Cheng Li , Jie Wang

We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), with particular emphasis on the design of the Wide-Field Multi-Object…