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The Universe is currently undergoing accelerated expansion driven by dark energy. Dark energy's essential nature remains mysterious: one means of revealing it is by measuring the Universe's size at different redshifts. This may be done…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Matthew Hansen , Alex Krolewski , Zachary Slepian

With a statistical detection of the 21 cm signal fluctuations from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) expected in the next few years, there is an interest in developing robust and precise techniques to constrain the underlying astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Evan Eames , Aristide Doussot , Benoît Semelin

The presence of dark energy at high redshift influences both the cosmic sound horizon and the distance to last scattering of the cosmic microwave background. We demonstrate that through the degeneracy in their ratio, early dark energy can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Eric V. Linder , Georg Robbers

Recent studies report a mild discrepancy between baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) measurements within the $\Lambda$CDM framework. This discrepancy could be explained if the optical depth $\tau$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-15 Yuta Kageura , Masami Ouchi , Fumihiro Naokawa , Hiroya Umeda , Akinori Matsumoto , Yuichi Harikane , Minami Nakane , Tran Thi Thai

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

Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) is a powerful probe on the expansion of the universe, shedding light on elusive dark energy and gravity at cosmological scales. BAO measurements through biased tracers of the underlying matter density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 Pengjie Zhang

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 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction plays a crucial role in cosmological analysis for spectroscopic galaxy surveys because it can make the density field effectively more linear and more Gaussian. The combination of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Ruiyang Zhao , Kazuya Koyama , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are a feature imprinted in the galaxy distribution by acoustic waves traveling in the plasma of the early universe. Their detection at the expected scale in large-scale structures strongly supports current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Labatie , J. -L. Starck , M. Lachièze-Rey

We develop an analytic method for implementing the IR-resummation of arXiv:1404.5954, which allows one to correctly and consistently describe the imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) on statistical observables in large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Matthew Lewandowski , Leonardo Senatore

The 21 cm intensity mapping provides a promising probe of the large-scale structure. Astrophysical foregrounds, as the main source of contamination to the cosmological 21 cm signal, persist in a wedge-like region of Fourier space due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 Kaifeng Yu , Xin Wang

Feedback processes from baryons are expected to strongly affect weak-lensing observables of current and future cosmological surveys. In this paper we present a new parametrisation of halo profiles based on gas, stellar, and dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-02 Aurel Schneider , Romain Teyssier , Joachim Stadel , Nora Elisa Chisari , Amandine M. C. Le Brun , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

We present a new method to resum the effect of large scale motions in the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structures. Because the linear power spectrum in $\Lambda$CDM is not scale free the effects of the large scale flows are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonardo Senatore , Matias Zaldarriaga

The degeneracy between geometric (Alcock-Paczynski) and dynamic (redshift space) distortions in the pattern of the galaxy distribution has been a long standing problem in the study of the large scale structure of the universe. We examine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. J. Hawken , F. B. Abdalla , G. Hütsi , O. Lahav

Local-type primordial non-Gaussianity (PNG), predicted by many non-minimal models of inflation, creates a scale-dependent contribution to the power spectrum of large-scale structure (LSS) tracers. Its amplitude is characterized by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 Boryana Hadzhiyska , Simone Ferraro

Measurement of the global 21-cm signal during Cosmic Dawn (CD) and the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is made difficult by bright foreground emission which is 2-5 orders of magnitude larger than the expected signal. Fitting for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-20 Michael Pagano , Peter Sims , Adrian Liu , Dominic Anstey , Will Handley , Eloy De Lera Acedo

Generative models, including diffusion and flow-based models, often exhibit systematic biases that degrade sample quality, particularly in high-dimensional settings. We revisit refinement methods and show that effective bias correction can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xin Peng , Ang Gao

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

As galaxy surveys begin to measure the imprint of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) on large-scale structure at the sub-percent level, reconstruction techniques that reduce the contamination from nonlinear clustering become increasingly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-24 Marcel Schmittfull , Yu Feng , Florian Beutler , Blake Sherwin , Man Yat Chu