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The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in the clustering of galaxies is a powerful standard ruler to measure cosmological distances and determine the geometry of the Universe. Past surveys have detected the BAO feature in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Ginevra Favole , Domenico Sapone , Javier Silva Lafaurie

We measure the length of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature, and the expansion rate of the recent Universe, from low-redshift data only, almost model-independently. We make only the following minimal assumptions: homogeneity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-17 Alan Heavens , Raul Jimenez , Licia Verde

We constrain a unified dark matter (UDM) model from the latest observational data. This model assumes that the dark sector is degenerate. Dark energy and dark matter are the same component. It can be described by an affine equation of state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-11 Kai Liao , Shuo Cao , Jun Wang , Xiaolong Gong , Zong-Hong Zhu

In this study, we introduce a novel late-time effective dark energy model characterized by a quadratic equation of state (EoS) and rigorously examine its observational constraints. Initially, we delve into the background dynamics of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-11 Hossein Moshafi , Alireza Talebian , Ebrahim Yusofi , Eleonora Di Valentino

In this letter, the effects of dark radiation (DR) are tested. Theoretically, the phase-space analysis method is applied to check whether the model is consist with the history of our universe which shows positive results. Observationally,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yi Zhang , Yungui Gong

We derive the Ultra-Violet (UV) luminosity function (LF) of star-forming galaxies in the redshift range $z = 0.6 - 1.2$, in the rest-frame far-UV ($1500$ \r{A}) wavelength. For this work, we are in particular interested in the bright end of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-16 M. Sharma , M. J. Page , I. Ferreras , A. A. Breeveld

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 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 discuss the indirect detection of the wino dark matter utilizing gamma-ray observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs). After carefully reviewing current limits with particular attention to astrophysical uncertainties, we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-03 Biplob Bhattacherjee , Masahiro Ibe , Koji Ichikawa , Shigeki Matsumoto , Kohei Nishiyama

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 major cornerstone of future ground-based astronomy is imaging and spectroscopy at the diffraction limit using adaptive optics. To exploit the potential of current AO systems, we have begun a survey around bright stars to study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. I. Davies , M. Lehnert , A. J. Baker , S. Rabien

We parameterize the Hubble function by adding Hermitian wavelets to the Hubble radius of $\Lambda$CDM. This allows us to build Hubble functions that oscillate around $\Lambda$CDM at late times without modifying its angular diameter distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Luis A. Escamilla , Emre Özülker , Özgür Akarsu , Eleonora Di Valentino , J. A. Vázquez

We show that coupling of ultralight dark matter (UDM) to quarks and gluons would lead to an oscillation of the nuclear charge radius for both the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) axion and scalar dark matter. Consequently, the resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Abhishek Banerjee , Dmitry Budker , Melina Filzinger , Nils Huntemann , Gil Paz , Gilad Perez , Sergey Porsev , Marianna Safronova

We study dust attenuation at UV wavelengths at high redshift, where the UV is redshifted to the observed visible. In particular, we search for a UV bump and related implications for dust attenuation determinations. We use data in the CDFS,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. Buat , S. Noll , D. Burgarella , E. Giovannoli , V. Charmandaris , M. Pannella , H. S. Hwang , D. Elbaz , M. Dickinson , G. Magdis , N. Reddy , E. J. Murphy

We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the presence of significant redshift uncertainties. The sample is…

The red-shift space distortions in the galaxy power spectrum can be used to measure the growth rate of matter density perturbations delta_m. For dynamical dark energy models in General Relativity we provide a convenient analytic formula of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shinji Tsujikawa , Antonio De Felice , Jailson Alcaniz

A fundamental prediction of the cold dark matter (CDM) model of structure formation is the existence of a vast population of dark matter haloes extending to subsolar masses. By contrast, other dark matter models, such as a warm thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-10 Qiuhan He , Andrew Robertson , James Nightingale , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Richard Massey , Aristeidis Amvrosiadis , Ran Li , Xiaoyue Cao , Amy Etherington

We study a new procedure to measure the sound horizon scale via Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Instead of fitting the measured power spectrum (PS) to a theoretical model containing the cosmological informations and all the nonlinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Takahiro Nishimichi , Eugenio Noda , Marco Peloso , Massimo Pietroni

We investigate if, for a fixed number density of targets and redshift, there is an optimal way to select a galaxy sample in order to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale, which is used as a standard ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-22 César Hernández-Aguayo , Marius Cautun , Alex Smith , Carlton M. Baugh , Baojiu Li

Observationally, weak lensing has been served so far by optical surveys due to the much larger number densities of background galaxies achieved, which is typically by two to three orders of magnitude compared to radio. However, the high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-18 Marzia Rivi , Lance Miller , Sphesihle Makhathini , Filipe Batoni Abdalla