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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 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to probe the accelerated expansion of the Universe. The current surveys covering a comoving volume sufficient to unveil the BAO scale…

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) have recently been observed in the distribution of distant galaxies. The height and location of the BAO peak are strong discriminators of cosmological parameters. Here we consider the ways in which weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alberto Vallinotto , Scott Dodelson , Carlo Schimd , Jean-Philippe Uzan

We use the 2% distance measurement from our reconstructed baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) signature using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from Padmanabhan et al. (2012) and Xu et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kushal T. Mehta , Antonio J. Cuesta , Xiaoying Xu , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Nikhil Padmanabhan

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

A promising solution to the Hubble tension is a local void that is roughly 20% underdense out to 300 Mpc, as suggested by galaxy number counts in the near-infrared. Gravitationally driven outflows from this KBC void might inflate redshifts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Indranil Banik , Vasileios Kalaitzidis

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

We present a measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the cross-correlation of triply ionized carbon C IV absorption with the positions of quasars (QSO) and Emission Line Galaxies (ELG). We use quasars and ELGs from the second…

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…

We present results from fitting the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the correlation function obtained from the first application of reconstruction to a galaxy redshift survey, namely, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Xiaoying Xu , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Kushal T. Mehta , Antonio J. Cuesta

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 study the robustness of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) analysis to the underlying cosmological model. We focus on testing the standard BAO analysis that relies on the use of a template. These templates are constructed assuming a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jiaming Pan , Dragan Huterer , Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , Camille Avestruz

We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), which is part of the Sloan…

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation signal (BAO) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data. The definition is based on a colour and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Carnero Rosell , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , M. Crocce , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Porredon , I. Ferrero , J. Mena-Fernandez , R. Cawthon , J. De Vicente , E. Gaztanaga , A. J. Ross , E. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , K. C. Chan , A. Ferte , J. Muir , W. Riquelme , R. Rosenfeld , D. Sanchez Cid , W. G. Hartley , N. Weaverdyck , T. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Sahar , J. Annis , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. Burke , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. Castander , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , A. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , D. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. James , A. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Lima , M. Maia , U. Malik , J. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , A. Moller , R. Morgan , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , W. Percival , A. Pieres , A. Plazas Malagon , A. Roodman , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , R. Sharp , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , B. Tucker , D. Tucker , S. Uddin , T. N. Varga , DES Collaboration

We measure the length of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature, and the expansion rate of the recent Universe, from low-redshift data only, almost model-independently. We make only the following minimal assumptions: homogeneity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Alan Heavens , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

The imprint of Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) on the matter power spectrum can be constrained using the neutral hydrogen density in the intergalactic medium as a tracer of the matter density. One of the goals of the Baryon Oscillation…

We examine the impact of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale measurements on the discrepancy between the value of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) inferred from the local distance ladder and from Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 G. E. Addison , D. J. Watts , C. L. Bennett , M. Halpern , G. Hinshaw , J. L. Weiland

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

The recent release of the final, complete survey of Lyman-alpha baryonic acoustic oscillation measurements provides the most significant and accurate data base for studying cosmic geometry at an effective redshift z_eff=2.334, which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-20 Fulvio Melia