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We propose an anisotropic generalisation of the line correlation function (ALCF) to separate and quantify phase information in the large-scale structure of galaxies. The line correlation function probes the strictly non-linear regime of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-22 Alexander Eggemeier , Thorsten Battefeld , Robert E. Smith , Jens Niemeyer

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) method is a promising method that uses the redshift evolution of the anisotropic clustering in redshift space to calibrate cosmology. It extends the applicable range of AP method to substantially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-28 Liang Xiao , Zhiqi Huang , Yi Zheng , Xin Wang , Xiaodong Li

We apply an extended Alcock-Paczy\'nski (AP) test to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data to constrain the dark energy models with the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL) parametrization of the dark energy equation of state. The extended AP test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-12 Fuyu Dong , Changbom Park

We present a measurement of the anisotropic void-galaxy cross-correlation function in the CMASS galaxy sample of the BOSS DR12 data release. We perform a joint fit to the data for redshift space distortions (RSD) due to galaxy peculiar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Seshadri Nadathur , Paul M. Carter , Will J. Percival , Hans A. Winther , Julian Bautista

We apply the methodology developed in \cite{Li2014,Li2015} to BOSS DR12 galaxies and derive cosmological constraints from the redshift dependence of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect. The apparent anisotropy in the distribution of observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 Xiao-Dong Li , Changbom Park , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Hyunbae Park , David H. Weinberg , Donald P. Schneider , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

We present a new cosmological test using the distribution of galaxies around cosmic voids without assuming a fiducial cosmology. The test is based on a physical model for the void-galaxy cross-correlation function projected along and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Carlos M. Correa , Dante J. Paz , Nelson D. Padilla , Andrés N. Ruiz , Raúl E. Angulo , Ariel G. Sánchez

In order to test the expansion of the universe and its geometry, we carry out an Alcock & Paczynski cosmological test, that is, an evaluation of the ratio of observed angular size to radial/redshift size. The main advantage of this test is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We study the orientation and density profiles of the cosmological voids with SDSS10 data. Using voids to test Alcock-Paczynski effect has been proposed and tested in both simulations and actual SDSS data. Previous observations imply that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-12 De-Chang Dai

The isotropy of the Lyman-alpha forest in real-space uniquely provides a measurement of cosmic geometry at z > 2. The angular diameter distance for which the correlation function along the line of sight and in the transverse direction agree…

Cosmic voids in the large-scale structure of the Universe affect the peculiar motions of objects in their vicinity. Although these motions are difficult to observe directly, the clustering pattern of their surrounding tracers in redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-01 Nico Hamaus , P. M. Sutter , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We investigate the possibility of probing dark energy by measuring the isotropy of the galaxy cluster autocorrelation function (an Alcock-Paczynski test). The correlation function is distorted in redshift space because of the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Young-Rae Kim , Rupert Croft

The tomographic AP method is so far the best method in separating the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) signal from the redshift space distortion (RSD) effects and deriving powerful constraints on cosmological parameters using the $\lesssim40h^{-1}\…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-11 Qinglin Ma , Yiqing Guo , Xiao-Dong Li , Xin Wang , Haitao Miao , Zhigang Li , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Hyunbae Park

The apparent anisotropies of the galaxy clustering in observable redshift space provide a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales via the Alcock--Paczynski effect and redshift-space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-25 Yong-Seon Song , Atsushi Taruya , Akira Oka

We propose a method based on the redshift dependence of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test to measure the expansion history of the Universe. It uses the isotropy of the galaxy density gradient field to constrain cosmological parameters. If the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-30 Xiao-Dong Li , Changbom Park , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Juhan Kim

We present a new definition of cosmic void and a publicly available code with the algorithm that implements it. Underdense regions are defined as free-form objects, called popcorn voids, made from the union of spheres of maximum volume with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Dante J. Paz , Carlos M. Correa , Sebastián R. Gualpa , Andres N. Ruiz , Carlos S. Bederián , R. Dario Graña , Nelson D. Padilla

We report novel cosmological constraints obtained from cosmic voids in the final BOSS DR12 dataset. They arise from the joint analysis of geometric and dynamic distortions of average void shapes (i.e., the stacked void-galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-17 Nico Hamaus , Alice Pisani , Jin-Ah Choi , Guilhem Lavaux , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Jochen Weller

We perform an anisotropic clustering analysis of 1,133,326 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release (DR) 12 covering the redshift range $0.15<z<0.69$. The geometrical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Xiao-Dong Li , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Changbom Park , Yuting Wang , Gong-bo Zhao , Hyunbae Park , Arman Shafieloo , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

We introduce a novel extension of the volume-averaged correlation function (VACF) framework by replacing the traditional spherical smoothing kernels with anisotropic, ellipsoidal windows. This generalized approach enables the study of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Paweł Drozda , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Maciej Bilicki

The apparent anisotropies of galaxy clustering and 21-cm mapping in redshift space offer a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales through the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Kyungjin Ahn , Feng Shi

As well as the galaxy number density and peculiar velocity, the galaxy intrinsic alignment can be used to test the cosmic isotropy. We study distinctive impacts of the isotropy breaking on the configuration-space two-point correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-11 Maresuke Shiraishi , Teppei Okumura , Kazuyuki Akitsu