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We present the Damped Ly$\alpha$ Toolkit for automated detection and characterization of Damped Ly$\alpha$ absorbers (DLA) in quasar spectra. Our method uses quasar spectral templates with and without absorption from intervening DLAs to…

The measurement of the scale of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum as a function of redshift is a promising method to constrain the equation-of-state parameter of the dark energy w. To measure the scale of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christian Wagner , Volker Müller , Matthias Steinmetz

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) represent one of the cleanest probes of dark energy, allowing for tests of the cosmological model through the measurement of distance and expansion rate from a 3D galaxy distribution. The signal appears at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Rossana Ruggeri , Chris Blake

We measure the transverse baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal in the local Universe using a sample of blue galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) survey as a cosmological tracer. The method is weakly dependent on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-06 E. de Carvalho , A. Bernui , F. Avila , C. P. Novaes , J. P. Nogueira-Cavalcante

We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using galaxies, quasars, and Ly$\alpha$ forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) lineage of experiments in large-scale structure. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 eBOSS Collaboration , Shadab Alam , Marie Aubert , Santiago Avila , Christophe Balland , Julian E. Bautista , Matthew A. Bershady , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael R. Blanton , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Etienne Burtin , Solene Chabanier , Michael J. Chapman , Peter Doohyun Choi , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Andrei Cuceu , Kyle S. Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Sylvain de la Torre , Arnaud de Mattia , Victoria de Sainte Agathe , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Stephanie Escoffier , Thomas Etourneau , James Farr , Andreu Font-Ribera , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Sebastien Fromenteau , Héctor Gil-Marín , Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Kathleen Grabowski , Julien Guy , Adam J. Hawken , Jiamin Hou , Hui Kong , Mark Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Sicheng Lin , Daniel Long , Brad W. Lyke , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Paul Martini , Karen Masters , Faizan G. Mohammad , Jeongin Moon , Eva-Maria Mueller , Andrea Munõz-Gutieŕrez , Adam D. Myers , Seshadri Nadathur , Richard Neveux , Jeffrey A. Newman , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , James Parker , Romain Paviot , Will J. Percival , Ignasi Peŕez-Rafols , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Abhishek Prakash , Anand Raichoor , Corentin Ravoux , Mehdi Rezaie , James Rich , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Rossana Ruggeri , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Ariel G. Sańchez , F. Javier Sańchez , José R. Sańchez-Gallego , Conor Sayres , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Arman Shafieloo , Anže Slosar , Alex Smith , Julianna Stermer , Amelie Tamone , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Andrei Variu , Yuting Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , Christophe Yeche , Pauline Zarrouk , Cheng Zhao , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng

The Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a dedicated spectroscopic survey telescope being built in China, with an effective aperture of 4 meters and equiped with 4000 fibers. Using the LAMOST telescope, one could make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-09 Xin Wang , Xuelei Chen , Zheng Zheng , Fengquan Wu , Pengjie Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

One of the algorithms typically used for fitting anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), $\alpha_{\perp}D_{M, \text{fid}}(z)/r_{d, \text{fid}}=D_{M}(z)/r_{d}$, provides an excellent fit as $z\Rightarrow 0$. Yet, at $ z_{\text{drag}}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Joel S. Jayson

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 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…

The clustering properties of the Universe at large-scales are currently being probed at various redshifts through several cosmological tracers and with diverse statistical estimators. Here we use the three-point angular correlation function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 E. de Carvalho , A. Bernui , H. S. Xavier , C. P. Novaes

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration recently released the first year data of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs). Based on the five different tracers, the cosmological constraint shows a hint of deviation from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 X. D. Jia , J. P. Hu , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

We investigate the non-linear evolution of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the low-redshift matter power spectrum from the DEUS-FUR $\Lambda$CDM model simulation. This is the first cosmological N-body simulation encompassing the full…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-25 Yann Rasera , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti , Jean-Michel Alimi , Vincent Bouillot , Vincent Reverdy , Irène Balmès

We present measurements of the baryon acoustic peak at redshifts z = 0.44, 0.6 and 0.73 in the galaxy correlation function of the final dataset of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We combine our correlation function with lower-redshift…

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to measure the accelerated expansion of the Universe. To extract all available information about dark energy, it is necessary to…

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…

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the radial direction offer a method to directly measure the Universe expansion history, and to set limits to space curvature when combined to the angular BAO signal. In addition to spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 Daniel Roig , Licia Verde , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Raul Jimenez , Carlos Pena-Garay

DESI DR2 data have been widely interpreted as evidence for late-time evolving dark energy (DE) with an apparent phantom crossing. Here we investigate an alternative explanation, based on early-Universe physics. If dark acoustic oscillations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Mathias Garny , Florian Niedermann , Martin S. Sloth

Future Baryon Acoustic Oscillation surveys aim at observing galaxy clustering over a wide range of redshift and galaxy populations at great precision, reaching tenths of a percent, in order to detect any deviation of dark energy from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Zhejie Ding , Hee-Jong Seo , Zvonimir Vlah , Yu Feng , Marcel Schmittfull , Florian Beutler

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the distribution of galaxies provides a fundamental standard ruler which is widely used to constrain cosmological parameters. In most analyses, the comoving length of the ruler is inferred…

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