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In the first paper of this series, we studied the effect of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), redshift space distortions (RSD) and weak lensing (WL) on measurements of angular cross-correlations in narrow redshift bins. Paper-II presented…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 Martin Eriksen , Enrique Gaztanaga

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

Recently discovered quasar pairs at high redshifts ($z\gtrsim$5) are likely precursors to supermassive black hole mergers, providing a promising window to high redshift quasar growth mechanisms. However, the large uncertainties on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-16 Huanqing Chen , Camille Avestruz , Jakob Wiest

We study how the properties of cosmic voids depend on those of the tracer galaxy populations in which they are identified. We use a suite of halo occupation distribution (HOD) mocks in a simulation, identify voids in these populations using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Seshadri Nadathur , Shaun Hotchkiss

We report a $5.3\sigma$ detection of the gravitational lensing effect of cosmic voids from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic (BOSS) Data Release 12 seen in the $Planck$ 2018 cosmic microwave background (CMB) lensing convergence map. To…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-27 Srinivasan Raghunathan , Seshadri Nadathur , Blake D. Sherwin , Nathan Whitehorn

Cosmic voids are underdense regions within the large-scale structure of the Universe, spanning a wide range of physical scales - from a few megaparsecs (Mpc) to the largest observable structures. Their distinctive properties make them…

We have analyzed the distribution of void sizes in the two-dimensional slices of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (LCRS). Fourteen volume-limited subsamples were extracted from the six slices to cover a large part of the survey and to test…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-30 V. Mueller , S. Arbabi-Bidgoli , J. Einasto , D. Tucker

We present results from the 2D anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal present in the final dataset from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We analyse the WiggleZ data in two ways: firstly using the full shape of the 2D…

We detect the peak of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the two-point correlation function of a spectroscopic sample of $25226$ clusters selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Galaxy clusters, as tracers of massive dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Veropalumbo , F. Marulli , L. Moscardini , M. Moresco , A. Cimatti

We present a new method of modelling time-series data based on the running optimal average (ROA). By identifying the effective number of parameters for the ROA model, in terms of the shape and width of its window function and the times and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Fergus R. Donnan , Keith Horne , Juan V. Hernández Santisteban

The shapes of dark matter haloes are sensitive to both cosmology and baryon physics, but are difficult to measure observationally. A promising way to constrain them is to use the positions of satellite galaxies as tracers of the underlying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 A. Herle , N. E. Chisari , H. Hoekstra , R. J. McGibbon , J. Schaye , M. Schaller , R. Kugel

The large under-dense regions in the cosmological matter density field, known as cosmic voids, are powerful probes of cosmology but their potential is currently under-exploited. Observationally, voids are identified within the large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Andrés N. Salcedo , Alice Pisani , Nico Hamaus

We revisit the uncertainty in baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) forecasts and data analyses. In particular, we study how much the uncertainties on both the measured mean dilation scale and the associated error bar are affected by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wai-Hin Wayne Ngan , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ue-Li Pen , Patrick McDonald , Ilana MacDonald

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of all previous spectroscopic surveys of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kyle S. Dawson , David J. Schlegel , Christopher P. Ahn , Scott F. Anderson , Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Robert H. Barkhouser , Julian E. Bautista , Alessandra Beifiori , Andreas A. Berlind , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Arnaud Borde , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , Howard Brewington , Jon Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , N. G. Busca , William Carithers , Aurelio R. Carnero , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Frances Cope , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Luiz N. da Costa , James R. A. Davenport , Timothée Delubac , Roland de Putter , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Daniel J. Eisenstein , S. Escoffier , Xiaohui Fan , N. Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Andreu Font-Ribera , R. Génova-Santos , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Daryl Haggard , Patrick B. Hall , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Ben Harris , David W. Harris , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Diana Holder , Klaus Honscheid , Joe Huehnerhoff , Beatrice Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Guinevere Kauffmann , Eyal A. Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Khee-Gan Lee , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Marcio A. G. Maia , Martin Makler , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Rachel Mandelbaum , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Patrick McDonald , Ian D. McGreer , Richard McMahon , Olga Mena , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francesco Montesano , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Matthew D. Olmstead , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel J. Oravetz , Russell Owen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Pâris , Will J. Percival , Ismael Pérez-Fournon , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Rafael Rebolo , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , Lado Samushia , Ariel G. Sánchez , Conor Sayres , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , C. G. Scóccola , Hee-Jong Seo , Alaina Shelden , Erin Sheldon , Yue Shen , Yiping Shu , Anže Slosar , Stephen A. Smee , Stephanie A. Snedden , Fritz Stauffer , Oliver Steele , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Nao Suzuki , Molly E. C. Swanson , Tomer Tal , Masayuki Tanaka , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , M. Vargas Magana , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Mike Watson , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Andrew A. West , Martin White , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yeche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng

Using 137,562 quasars in the redshift range $2.1\leq z\leq3.5$ from the Data Release 11 (DR11) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III, the BOSS-SDSS collaboration estimated the expansion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Suresh Kumar

Analyses of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) commonly employ template-based methods to extract compressed parameters from the clustering of dark-matter tracers, which are then interpreted in terms of ratios of the sound-horizon scale and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Francisco Asensio-Rivera , Nils Schöneberg , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

Voids have emerged as a novel probe of cosmology and large-scale structure. These regions of extreme underdensity are sensitive to physics beyond the standard model of cosmology, and can potentially be used as a testing ground to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-23 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde