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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 oscillation (BAO) feature in the clustering of matter in the universe serves as a robust standard ruler and hence can be used to map the expansion history of the universe. We use high force resolution simulations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Kushal T. Mehta , Hee-Jong Seo , Jonathan Eckel , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Marc Metchnik , Philip Pinto , Xiaoying Xu

We directly compare the concordance LCDM model to the inhomogeneous matter-only alternative represented by LTB void models. To achieve a "democratic" confrontation we explore LLTB models with non-vanishing cosmological constant and perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-24 Valerio Marra , Mikko Paakkonen

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

We assess dataset agreement and late-time predictive adequacy in $\Lambda$CDM and its sign-switching extension, $\Lambda_{\rm s}$CDM, using a suite of Gaussian and exact non-Gaussian consistency diagnostics. Both models are constrained with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Sehjal Khandelwal , Abraão J. S. Capistrano , Suresh Kumar

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) experiment requires a sufficiently dense sampling of large-scale structure tracers with spectroscopic redshift, which is observationally expensive especially at high redshifts $z\simgt 1$. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Masamune Oguri , Masahiro Takada

In this paper, we test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR), as required by the Etherington reciprocity theorem, which connects the angular diameter distance and the luminosity distance via the relation \( D_{\rm L}(z) = D_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Qiumin Wang , Shuo Cao , Jianyong Jiang , Kaituo Zhang , Xinyue Jiang , Tonghua Liu , Chengsheng Mu , Dadian Cheng

We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Our analysis uses over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-03 DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , D. M. Alexander , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , S. Avila , A. Aviles , H. Awan , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Bautista , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , R. Cereskaite , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , A. Dey , B. Dey , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , A. Elliott , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , N. Findlay , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , D. Green , D. Gruen , R. Gsponer , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçayli , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , Y. Lai , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , E. Linder , K. Lodha , C. Magneville , M. Manera , D. Margala , P. Martini , M. Maus , P. McDonald , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , E. Mueller , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , N. M. Nguyen , J. Nie , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , N. Padmanabhan , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , M. M. Pieri , M. Pinon , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , M. Rezaie , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , N. A. Roe , A. Rosado-Marin , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , A. Slosar , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , S. Trusov , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , J. Yu , Y. Yu , S. Yuan , C. Yèche , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , R. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

An observational tension on estimates of the Hubble parameter, $H_0$, using early and late Universe information, is being of intense discussion in the literature. Additionally, it is of great importance to measure $H_0$ independently of CMB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-10 Rafael C. Nunes , Armando Bernui

We investigate the impact of different redshift distributions of random samples on the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements of $D_V(z)r_\mathrm{d}^\mathrm{fid}/r_\mathrm{d}$ from the two-point correlation functions (2PCF) of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Shao-Jiang Wang , Qi Guo , Rong-Gen Cai

We investigate the null tests of cosmic accelerated expansion by using the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) data measured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and reconstruct the dimensionless Hubble parameter $E(z)$ from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-23 Xuchen Lu , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong

In this analysis we apply a model-independent framework to test the flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmology using simulated SNIa data from the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and combined with simulated Dark Energy Spectroscopic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Benjamin L'Huillier , Ayan Mitra , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Hanwool Koo

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 the CDM paradigm, the halo mass function is a sensitive probe of the cosmic structure. In observations, halo mass is typically estimated from its relation with other observables. The resulting halo mass function is subject to systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Fuyu Dong , Jun Zhang , Xiaohu Yang , Jiajun Zhang , Wentao Luo

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are features in the matter power spectrum on scales of order 100-150 h^{-1} Mpc that promise to be a powerful tool to constrain and test cosmological models. The BAO have attracted such attention that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi

Current measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey (DESI DR2), when combined with data from Type Ia supernovae (SNe), challenge the observational viability of the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Thais Lemos

One of the most fundamental relationships in modern cosmology is the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR), which describes the relationship between the angular diameter distance ($D_{\rm A}$) and the luminosity distance ($D_{\rm L}$),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-27 Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Peng-Ju Wu , Jing-Zhao Qi , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler for observational cosmology, enabling precise constraints on the expansion history of the Universe. We present a weakly model-dependent measurement of the BAO angular scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 U. Ribeiro , F. Avila , C. R. Bom , C. Franco , A. Cortesi , C. Mendes de Oliveira , A. Kanaan , T. Ribeiro , W. Schoenell , E. Telles , A. Bernui

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak, seen in the cosmic matter distribution at redshifts up to ~3.5, reflects the continued expansion of the sonic horizon first identified in temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 F. Melia , M. Lopez-Corredoira

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