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Using almost one million galaxies from the final Data Release 12 of the SDSS's Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, we have obtained, albeit with low significance, a first model-independent determination of the radial BAO peak with 9%…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-20 Valerio Marra , Eddy G. Chirinos Isidro

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

The density field reconstruction technique, which was developed to partially reverse the nonlinear degradation of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy redshift surveys, has been successful in substantially improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Hee-Jong Seo , Florian Beutler , Ashley J. Ross , Shun Saito

Cosmological galaxy surveys aim at mapping the largest volumes to test models with techniques such as cluster abundance, cosmic shear correlations or baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), which are designed to be independent of galaxy bias.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Gaztanaga , M. Eriksen , M. Crocce , F. Castander , P. Fosalba , P. Marti , R. Miquel , A. Cabre

We develop a framework for self-consistently extracting cosmological information from the clustering of tracers in redshift space, $\textit{without}$ relying on model-dependent templates to describe the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the clustering of galaxies or quasars provides a ``standard ruler" for distance measurements in cosmology. In this work, we report a $2\sim3\sigma$ signal of the BAO dip feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-31 Kun Xu , Y. P. Jing , Gong-Bo Zhao , Antonio J. Cuesta

Reconstructing an estimate of linear Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from an evolved galaxy field has become a standard technique in recent analyses. By partially removing non-linear damping caused by bulk motions, the real-space BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Angela Burden , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera , Antonio J. Cuesta , Mariana Vargas Magana , Shirley Ho

A model-agnostic description of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in redshift space requires a number of ingredients. Physically, one must describe the impact of cosmological bulk flows which progressively and anisotropically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) involve measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies to determine the growth rate of cosmic structure. We derive constraints on cosmological parameters from $17$ uncorrelated BAO measurements that were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 David Benisty , Denitsa Staicova

We analyze clustering measurements of BOSS galaxies using a simulation-based emulator of two-point statistics. We focus on the monopole and quadrupole of the redshift-space correlation function, and the projected correlation function, at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-17 Zhongxu Zhai , Jeremy L. Tinker , Arka Banerjee , Joseph DeRose , Hong Guo , Yao-Yuan Mao , Sean McLaughlin , Kate Storey-Fisher , Risa H. Wechsler

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

We investigate the abundance, small-scale clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing signal of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). To this end, we present new measurements of the redshift and stellar mass dependence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Johannes U. Lange , Xiaohu Yang , Hong Guo , Wentao Luo , Frank C. van den Bosch

We calculate the correlation function of 79,091 galaxy clusters in the redshift region of $z \leq 0.5$ selected from the WH15 cluster catalog. With a weight of cluster mass, a significant baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak is detected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Tao Hong , J. L. Han , Z. L. Wen

Following a quasi model-independent approach we measure the transversal BAO mode at high redshift using the two-point angular correlation function (2PACF). The analyses done here are only possible now with the quasar catalogue from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 E. de Carvalho , A. Bernui , G. C. Carvalho , C. P. Novaes , H. S. Xavier

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies can be used as a standard ruler to probe the accelerated expansion of the Universe. In this paper, we study several galaxy selection schemes aiming at building…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 S. Escoffier , J. Comparat , A. Ealet , J. -P. Kneib , J. Zoubian , F. Lamareille

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

We construct cosmic void catalogues with the DIVE void finder upon SDSS BOSS DR12 and eBOSS DR16 galaxy samples with BAO reconstruction applied, and perform a joint BAO analysis using different types of galaxies and the corresponding voids.…

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…