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We present a systematic comparison of statistical approaches to Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) analysis using DESI DR2 data. We evaluate four methods for handling the nuisance parameter $\beta=1/(H_0 r_d)$: marginalization, profiling,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Denitsa Staicova

We measure the imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) in the galaxy clustering pattern at the highest redshift achieved to date, z=0.6, using the distribution of N=132,509 emission-line galaxies in the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We…

Anisotropic measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature within a galaxy survey enable joint inference about the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and angular diameter distance $D_A(z)$. These measurements are typically obtained from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-01 Ashley J. Ross , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera

We present a low-redshift-agnostic compression of anisotropic baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) distances to constrain the normalized dark-energy density evolution, $X(z)\equiv \rho_{\rm DE}(z)/\rho_{\rm DE}(0)$, above the lowest BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Qian-Mo Liu , Gong-Bo Zhao

We use a simplified version of the halo model with a power law power spectrum to study scale dependence in galaxy bias at the very large scales relevant to baryon oscillations. In addition to providing a useful pedagogical explanation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. E. Schulz , Martin White

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y6 data. The definition is based on a color and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

We investigate constraints on the Hubble constant ($H_0$) using Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and baryon density measurements from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN). We start by investigating the tension between galaxy BAO measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-24 Andrei Cuceu , James Farr , Pablo Lemos , Andreu Font-Ribera

Understanding a behavior of galaxy biasing is crucial for future galaxy redshift surveys. One aim is to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) within the precision of a few percent level. Using 30 large cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-12 Masanori Sato , Takahiko Matsubara

The expansion of the universe appears to be accelerating, and the mysterious anti-gravity agent of this acceleration has been called ``dark energy''. To measure the dynamics of dark energy, Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) can be used.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tzu-Ching Chang , Ue-Li Pen , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Patrick McDonald

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…

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

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

We propose a new and highly model-independent test of cosmic acceleration by comparing observations of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale at low and intermediate redshifts: we derive a new inequality relating BAO observables at two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-19 Will Sutherland

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) underpin the key cosmological results from modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys, but nonlinear gravitational evolution limits the precision achievable with traditional analysis methods. To overcome this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Adrian E. Bayer , Liam Parker , David Valcin , Shi-Fan Chen , Chirag Modi , Uros Seljak

The baryonic acoustic signature in the large-scale clustering pattern of galaxies has been detected in the two-point correlation function. Its precise spatial scale has been forwarded as a rigid-rod ruler test for the space-time geometry,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert E. Smith , Roman Scoccimarro , Ravi K. Sheth

We present a set of ultra-large particle-mesh simulations of the LyA forest targeted at understanding the imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the inter-galactic medium. We use 9 dark matter only simulations which can, for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Martin White , Adrian Pope , Jordan Carlson , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , Patricia Fasel , David Daniel , Zarija Lukic

A new fully non-linear reconstruction algorithm for the accurate recovery of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale in two-point correlation functions is proposed, based on the least-action principle and extending the Fast Action…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 E. Sarpa , C. Schimd , E. Branchini , S. Matarrese

In this work we use a template method to extract the scale associated with the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal in 21cm neutral hydrogen intensity maps. We then forecast the constraints on the standard deviations of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Benjamin Ostergaard , André Alencar da Costa , Yu Sang