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We study the performance of the spatially-flat dynamical dark energy (DE) $w_0w_a$CDM parameterization, with redshift-dependent DE fluid equation of state parameter $w(z) = w_0 + w_a z/(1+z)$, with and without a varying CMB lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Chan-Gyung Park , Javier de Cruz Perez , Bharat Ratra

One of the algorithms typically used for fitting anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO), $\alpha_{\perp}D_{M, \text{fid}}(z)/r_{d, \text{fid}}=D_{M}(z)/r_{d}$, provides an excellent fit as $z\Rightarrow 0$. Yet, at $ z_{\text{drag}}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Joel S. Jayson

We constrain two vacuum decay models ($\Lambda(t)$CDM, proposed by the authors of~\cite{Brito:2024bhh}) utilizing the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) data released by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), distance prior from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yupeng Yang , Yicheng Wang , Xinyi Dai

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration recently released the first year data of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs). Based on the five different tracers, the cosmological constraint shows a hint of deviation from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-16 X. D. Jia , J. P. Hu , S. X. Yi , F. Y. Wang

We present cosmological parameter results from the final full-mission Planck measurements of the CMB anisotropies. We find good consistency with the standard spatially-flat 6-parameter $\Lambda$CDM cosmology having a power-law spectrum of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 Planck Collaboration , N. Aghanim , Y. Akrami , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , S. Basak , R. Battye , K. Benabed , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , R. C. Butler , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , J. Carron , A. Challinor , H. C. Chiang , J. Chluba , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , D. Contreras , B. P. Crill , F. Cuttaia , P. de Bernardis , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , E. Di Valentino , J. M. Diego , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , Y. Fantaye , M. Farhang , J. Fergusson , R. Fernandez-Cobos , F. Finelli , F. Forastieri , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frolov , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , R. T. Génova-Santos , M. Gerbino , T. Ghosh , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , J. Hamann , W. Handley , F. K. Hansen , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , Z. Huang , A. H. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , A. Karakci , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , T. S. Kisner , L. Knox , N. Krachmalnicoff , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , P. Lemos , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , A. Lewis , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Lilley , V. Lindholm , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , Y. -Z. Ma , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , A. Marcos-Caballero , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , M. Martinelli , E. Martínez-González , S. Matarrese , N. Mauri , J. D. McEwen , P. R. Meinhold , A. Melchiorri , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , M. Millea , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , D. Molinari , L. Montier , G. Morgante , A. Moss , P. Natoli , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , L. Pagano , D. Paoletti , B. Partridge , G. Patanchon , H. V. Peiris , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , L. Polastri , G. Polenta , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , A. Renzi , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , G. Roudier , J. A. Rubiño-Martín , B. Ruiz-Granados , L. Salvati , M. Sandri , M. Savelainen , D. Scott , E. P. S. Shellard , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. D. Spencer , R. Sunyaev , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. A. Tauber , D. Tavagnacco , M. Tenti , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , T. Trombetti , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , N. Vittorio , B. D. Wandelt , I. K. Wehus , M. White , S. D. M. White , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

Recent baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration have renewed interest in dynamical dark energy models, particularly those that cross the "phantom divide" ($w_{\rm DE}…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Samuel Goldstein , Marco Celoria , Fabian Schmidt

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) and weak lensing (WL) are complementary probes of cosmology. We explore the distance and growth factor measurements from photometric BAO and WL techniques and investigate the roles of the distance and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Hu Zhan , Lloyd Knox , J. Anthony Tyson

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

The second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), containing data from the first three years of observations, doubles the number of Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest spectra in DR1 and it provides the…

Recent results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration have been interpreted as evidence for evolving dark energy. However, this interpretation is strongly dependent on which Type Ia supernova (SN) sample is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-04 George Efstathiou

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…

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) imprinted a characteristic correlation length in the large-scale structure of the universe that can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history. Here, we discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-28 Jailson S. Alcaniz , Gabriela C. Carvalho , Armando Bernui , Joel C. Carvalho , Micol Benetti

The next generation mass probes will obtain information on non--linear power spectra P(k,z) and their evolution, allowing us to investigate the nature of Dark Energy. To exploit such data we need high precision simulations, extending at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Luciano Casarini , Andrea V. Maccio' , Silvio A. Bonometto , Greg S. Stinson

Cosmographic reconstructions provide a model-agnostic approach towards constraining cosmic evolution. In this work, we develop a semi-cosmographic framework that adopts a Pad\'e-rational fraction parametrization of the Luminosity distance,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Mohit Yadav , Pankaj Chavan , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar

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

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

This work delves into the dynamical dark energy models of the wCDM parameterisation that are defined by their equation of state by comparing different, well-known parameterisation models, in an attempt to lessen the tensions of {H_0} and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Kathleen Sammut

We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyse the main galaxies and LRGs in the SDSS DR5…

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) distributed…

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are considered to be a very robust standard ruler against various systematics. This premise has been tested against observational systematics, but not to the level required for the next generation of galaxy…