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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

The imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in large-scale structure can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history, and hence for testing cosmological models. In this article we briefly describe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Philip Bull , Stefano Camera , Alvise Raccanelli , Chris Blake , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos , Dominik J. Schwarz

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

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) are a powerful probe of the expansion history of the universe, which can tell us about the nature of dark energy. In order to accurately characterize the dark energy equation of state using BAO, we must…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nuala McCullagh , Alexander S. Szalay

We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We consider a sample of over 1.3 million galaxies distributed over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , S. Avila , M. Banerji , N. Banik , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , N. Kokron , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , F. Lacasa , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. Manera , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , A. Porredon , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Smith , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum allows us to extract the scale of the comoving sound horizon at recombination, a cosmological standard ruler accurately determined by the cosmic microwave background anisotropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yun Wang

Studying the SDSS-DR16 quasar catalog, we detect a baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the two-point angular correlation function with a statistical significance of $3\sigma$, at an effective redshift of $z_{\rm eff}=1.725$. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui , Miguel A. Sabogal , Rafael C. Nunes

We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), with particular emphasis on the design of the Wide-Field Multi-Object…

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

We present a measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale at redshift $z=2.35$ from the three-dimensional correlation of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest absorption and quasars. The study uses 266,590 quasars in the redshift…

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are one of the most used probes to understand the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Traditional methods rely on fiducial model information within their statistical analysis, which may be a problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We develop a methodology to optimise the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO from tracers in under-dense regions (voids). In this study,…

We investigate large-amplitude baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO's) in off-diagonal entries of cosmological power-spectrum covariance matrices. These covariance-matrix BAO's describe the increased attenuation of power-spectrum BAO's caused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-01 Mark C. Neyrinck , István Szapudi

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Ia supernova (SN) data. We take…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Julian E. Bautista , Florian Beutler , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , Howard Brewington , J. Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Angela Burden , Nicolás G. Busca , William Carithers , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Antonio J. Cuesta , Kyle S. Dawson , Timothée Delubac , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , J. -M. Le Goff , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Richard Gott , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Shirley Ho , Klaus Honscheid , Cullan Howlett , David Kirkby , Francisco S. Kitaura , Jean-Paul Kneib , Khee-Gan Lee , Dan Long , Robert H. Lupton , Mariana Vargas Magaña , Viktor Malanushenko , Elena Malanushenko , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Cameron K. McBride , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Adam D. Myers , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel Oravetz , Isabelle Pâris , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Beth Reid , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Ariel G. Sánchez , Lado Samushia , Ricardo Tanausú Génova Santos , Claudia G. Scóccola , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Erin Sheldon , Audrey Simmons , Ramin A. Skibba , Anže Slosar , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao

We assess the detectability of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the power spectrum of galaxies using ultra large volume N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of dark matter and semi-analytical modelling of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Angulo , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk , C. G. Lacey

We measure the halo power spectrum in redshift space from cosmological N-body simulations, and test the analytical models of redshift distortions particularly focusing on the scales of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs). Remarkably, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-08 Takahiro Nishimichi , Atsushi Taruya

As next-generation telescopes and observational surveys continue to expand the boundaries of our understanding, tensions and discrepancies between observational datasets are becoming increasingly prominent. In this work, we focus on one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 Ruchika

We measure the acoustic scale from the angular power spectra of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) Data Release 8 imaging catalog that includes 872,921 galaxies over ~ 10,000 deg^2 between 0.45<z<0.65. The extensive spectroscopic…