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We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We consider a sample of over 1.3 million galaxies distributed over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , S. Avila , M. Banerji , N. Banik , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , N. Kokron , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , F. Lacasa , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. Manera , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , A. Porredon , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Smith , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Studying the SDSS-DR16 quasar catalog, we detect a baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the two-point angular correlation function with a statistical significance of $3\sigma$, at an effective redshift of $z_{\rm eff}=1.725$. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui , Miguel A. Sabogal , Rafael C. Nunes

The use of standard rulers, such as the scale of the Baryonic Acoustic oscillations (BAO), has become one of the more powerful techniques employed in cosmology to probe the entity driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Caroline Zunckel , J. Richard Gott , Ragnhild Lunnan

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

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), known as one of the largest cosmological objects, is now recognized as standard cosmological tool to measure geometric distances via the Alcock-Paczynski effect, by which the observed BAO exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Yong-Seon Song , Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) and weak lensing (WL) are complementary probes of cosmology. We explore the distance and growth factor measurements from photometric BAO and WL techniques and investigate the roles of the distance and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Hu Zhan , Lloyd Knox , J. Anthony Tyson

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the clustering of matter in the universe serves as a robust standard ruler and hence can be used to map the expansion history of the universe. We use high force resolution simulations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Kushal T. Mehta , Hee-Jong Seo , Jonathan Eckel , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Marc Metchnik , Philip Pinto , Xiaoying Xu

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) imprinted a characteristic correlation length in the large-scale structure of the universe that can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history. Here, we discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Jailson S. Alcaniz , Gabriela C. Carvalho , Armando Bernui , Joel C. Carvalho , Micol Benetti

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) imprinted in the galaxy power spectrum can be used as a standard ruler to determine angular diameter distance and Hubble parameter at high redshift galaxies. Combining redshift distortion effect which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Atsushi Taruya , Shun Saito , Takahiro Nishimichi

We present a method for extracting the angular diameter distances, $D_A$, and the expansion rates, $H$, of the universe from the {\it two-dimensional} Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum. Our method builds upon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Masatoshi Shoji , Donghui Jeong , Eiichiro Komatsu

We use Monte Carlo techniques to simulate the ability of future large high-redshift galaxy surveys to measure the temporal evolution of the dark energy equation-of-state w(z), using the baryonic acoustic oscillations in the clustering power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Karl Glazebrook , Chris Blake

The measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from a galaxy redshift survey provides one of the most promising methods for probing dark energy. In this paper, we clarify the assumptions that go into the forecasts of dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Yun Wang

The linear point (LP) standard ruler was identified as the basis of a purely geometric method for exploiting the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The LP exploits the BAO feature imprinted in the galaxy two-point correlation function to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Stefano Anselmi , Glenn D. Starkman , Alessandro Renzi

Precise measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as a standard ruler in the clustering pattern of large-scale structure is a central goal of current and future galaxy surveys. The BAO peak may be sharpened using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ixandra Achitouv , Chris Blake

The accelerating expansion of the universe is the most surprising cosmological discovery in many decades, implying that the universe is dominated by some form of "dark energy" with exotic physical properties, or that Einstein's theory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 David H. Weinberg , Michael J. Mortonson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Christopher Hirata , Adam G. Riess , Eduardo Rozo

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) in the galaxy power spectrum allows us to extract the scale of the comoving sound horizon at recombination, a cosmological standard ruler accurately determined by the cosmic microwave background anisotropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yun Wang

Oscillations in the baryon-photon fluid prior to recombination imprint different signatures on the power spectrum and correlation function of matter fluctuations. The measurement of these features using galaxy surveys has been proposed as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ariel G. Sanchez , Carlton M. Baugh , Raul Angulo

Among the tools available for the study of the dark energy driving the expansion of the Universe, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and their effects on the matter power spectrum are particularly attractive. It was recently proposed to…

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