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Systematic uncertainties that have been subdominant in past large-scale structure (LSS) surveys are likely to exceed statistical uncertainties of current and future LSS data sets, potentially limiting the extraction of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Tim Eifler , Elisabeth Krause , Scott Dodelson , Andrew Zentner , Andrew Hearin , Nickolay Gnedin

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

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) recently released the final results of its two principal probes of the expansion history: Type Ia Supernovae (SNe) and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). We explore the cosmological implications of these data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Acevedo , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , P. Armstrong , S. Avila , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , R. Camilleri , G. Campailla , A. Carnero Rosell , A. Carr , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , C. Chang , R. Chen , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , N. Deiosso , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , T. Jeltema , R. Kessler , O. Lahav , J. Lee , S. Lee , C. Lidman , H. Lin , M. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Muir , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , A. Palmese , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , B. Popovic , A. Porredon , J. Prat , H. Qu , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , D. Scolnic , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , P. Shah , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. E. C. Swanson , B. O. Sánchez , G. Tarle , G. Taylor , D. Thomas , C. To , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. Toy , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , B. Yanny

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide precise measurements of the cosmic expansion history through the comoving acoustic scale. The CMB angular scale measurement $\theta_*$ is particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Antony Lewis , Ewan Chamberlain

We study the evidence for dark energy (DE) evolution at low redshift, using baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs) from the DESI Early Data Release, Pantheon+ Type Ia supernovae (SNe-Ia), and redshift space distortions (RSDs) to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-30 Lili Orchard , Víctor H. Cárdenas

We develop a framework for self-consistently extracting cosmological information from the clustering of tracers in redshift space, $\textit{without}$ relying on model-dependent templates to describe the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) allow us to determine the expansion history of the Universe, thereby shedding light on the nature of dark energy. Recent observations of BAO's in the SDSS DR9 and DR11 have provided us with statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-25 Varun Sahni , Arman Shafieloo , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We conducted a review of the fundamental aspects of describing and detecting the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in galaxy surveys, emphasizing the optimal tools for constraining this probe based on the type of observation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We present general, analytic methods for Cosmological likelihood analysis and solve the "many-parameters" problem in Cosmology. Maxima are found by Newton's Method, while marginalization over nuisance parameters, and parameter errors and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. N. Taylor , T. D. Kitching

We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our BAO measurements include both the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul-Karim , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , M. Charles , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , D. Chebat , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , C. Gordon , D. Green , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , C. Hahn , M. Herbold , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , M. -F. Ho , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. -S. Kitaura , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , O. Lahav , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , Q. Li , T. S. Li , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , C. Magneville , M. Manera , P. Martini , W. L. Matthewson , P. McDonald , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , D. Muñoz Santos , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , W. J. Percival , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. M. Pieri , C. Poppett , F. Prada , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , J. Rich , C. Rockosi , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , S. Satyavolu , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , W. Turner , F. Valdes , M. Vargas-Magaña , M. Walther , B. A. Weaver , M. Wolfson , C. Yèche , P. Zarrouk , R. Zhou , H. Zou

In this work we introduce two new polynomial parametrizations of dark energy and explore their correlation properties. The parameters to fit are the equation of state values at z=0 and z=0.5, which have naturally low correlation and have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Irene Sendra , Ruth Lazkoz

We revisit the uncertainty in baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) forecasts and data analyses. In particular, we study how much the uncertainties on both the measured mean dilation scale and the associated error bar are affected by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wai-Hin Wayne Ngan , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ue-Li Pen , Patrick McDonald , Ilana MacDonald

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) or baryon wiggles which are present in the galaxy power spectrum at scales 100-150Mpc/h are powerful features with which to constrain cosmology. The potential of these probes is such that these are…

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

The measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from a galaxy redshift survey provides one of the most promising methods for probing dark energy. In this paper, we clarify the assumptions that go into the forecasts of dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Yun Wang

Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) is one of the important standard rulers in cosmology. The results of the latest BAO measurements by Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey have been reported. Cosmology with the varying electron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Osamu Seto , Yo Toda

We consider a 12-parameter cosmological model with non-phantom dynamical dark energy (NPDDE), where non-phantom implies that the equation of state (EoS) of dark energy (DE), $w(z)\geq-1$ for all redshifts $z$. Thus, the DE EoS covers the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-20 Shouvik Roy Choudhury , Teppei Okumura , Keiichi Umetsu

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…

We obtain constraints in a 12 parameter cosmological model using the recent Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Data Release (DR) 2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data, combined with cosmic microwave background (CMB) power spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Shouvik Roy Choudhury