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We characterize the nonlinear evolution of the baryon acoustic feature as traced by the dark matter and halos, using a combination of perturbation theory and N-body simulations. We confirm that the acoustic peak traced by the dark matter is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-24 Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin White

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

The cosmic structure formed from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the early universe is imprinted in the galaxy distribution observable in large scale surveys, and is used as a standard ruler in contemporary cosmology. BAO are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Z. Brown , G. Mishtaku , R. Demina , Y. Liu , C. Popik

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are a feature imprinted in the density field by acoustic waves travelling in the plasma of the early universe. Their fixed scale can be used as a standard ruler to study the geometry of the universe. BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-14 P. Arnalte-Mur , A. Labatie , N. Clerc , V. J. Martínez , J. -L. Starck , M. Lachièze-Rey , E. Saar , S. Paredes

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature, imprinted in the transverse and radial clustering of dark matter tracers, enables the simultaneous measurement of the angular diameter distance $D_A(z)$ and the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ at a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-08 Pankaj Chavan , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A Sen

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) in the early Universe are predicted to leave an as yet undetected signature on the relative clustering of total mass versus luminous matter. This signature, a modulation of the relative large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 M. T. Soumagnac , C. G. Sabiu , R. Barkana , J. Yoo

Recent measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) show hints of tension with data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) when interpreted within the standard model of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-13 Shi-Fan Chen , Matias Zaldarriaga

Astrophysical data analysis of the weak-field predictions support the claim that modified gravity (MOG) theories provide a self-consistent, scale-invariant, universal description of galaxy rotation curves, without the need of non-baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-09 J. R. Brownstein

Tensions often arise between different datasets in cosmology, and consistency tests can serve as a powerful tool for diagnosing potential issues. The density-shear Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (GI BAO) are the imprint of the BAO feature on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kwan Chuen Chan , Yin Li , Jamie McCullough

Gaztanaga et al. have recently claimed to measure the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in the radial direction from the publicly available SDSS DR6 data. They focus on the correlation function of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRG) close to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-23 Jordi Miralda-Escude

We present the first high significance detection ($4.1\sigma$) of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the galaxy bispectrum of the twelfth data release (DR12) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 David W. Pearson , Lado Samushia

We compare our analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the correlation functions of SDSS BOSS DR12 LOWZ and CMASS galaxy samples with the findings of arXiv:1509.06371v2. Using subsets of the data we obtain an empirical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Behzad Ansarinejad , Tom Shanks

We characterize the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) feature in halo two-point statistics using N-body simulations. We find that nonlinear damping of the BAO signal is less severe for halos in the mass range we investigate than for dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Qiao Wang , Hu Zhan

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 suggested solution to the dark energy problem is the void model, where accelerated expansion is replaced by Hubble-scale inhomogeneity. In these models, density perturbations grow on a radially inhomogeneous background. This large scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-22 Sean February , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens

We study the uncertainty in different two-point correlation function (2PCF) estimators in currently available galaxy surveys. This is motivated by the active subject of using the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-08 Antoine Labatie , Jean-Luc Starck , Marc Lachièze-Rey , Pablo Arnalte-Mur

New constraints on inhomogeneous Lema\^itre-Tolman-Bondi (LTB) models alternative to Dark Energy are presented, focusing on adiabatic profiles with space-independent Big Bang and baryon fraction. The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-25 Miguel Zumalacarregui , Juan Garcia-Bellido , Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

We investigate the Alcock Paczynski (AP) test applied to the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy correlation function. By using a general formalism that includes relativistic effects, we quantify the importance of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-27 Francesca Lepori , Enea Di Dio , Matteo Viel , Carlo Baccigalupi , Ruth Durrer

Recent DESI DR2 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurement shows inconsistency with the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation in $\Lambda$CDM. We used the Bayesian suspiciousness and goodness-of-fit tension metrics to quantify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Gen Ye , Shi-Jie Lin