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We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2), based on three years of operation. For cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul-Karim , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , L. Allen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , P. Bansal , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , S. Brieden , 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 , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , R. Demina , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , E. Fernández-García , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , D. Gonzalez , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , C. Gordon , D. Green , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , S. He , M. Herbold , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , M. Ho , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. V. Kamble , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. G. Kim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , 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 , F. Lozano-Rodríguez , C. Magneville , M. Manera , P. Martini , W. L. Matthewson , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Menegas , T. Mergulhão , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , D. Muñoz-Santos , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , K. Naidoo , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , J. Peacock , Marcos Pellejero Ibanez , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. M. Pieri , C. Poppett , F. Prada , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , J. Rohlf , J. O. Román-Herrera , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , W. Turner , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , F. Valdes , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. A. Weaver , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , M. Wolfson , C. Yèche , J. Yu , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , Z. Zhai , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , G. B. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) involve measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies to determine the growth rate of cosmic structure. We derive constraints on cosmological parameters from $17$ uncorrelated BAO measurements that were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 David Benisty , Denitsa Staicova

We revisit a cosmological model where dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) follow barotropic equations of state, allowing deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM framework (i.e. $w_{dm} \neq 0$, $w_{de} \neq -1$), considering both flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Dorian Araya , Cristian Castillo , Genly Leon , Juan Magaña , Angie Barr Domínguez , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia

We investigate the observational viability of a class of cosmological models in which the vacuum energy density decays linearly with the Hubble parameter, resulting in a production of cold dark matter particles at late times. Similarly to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-01 C. Pigozzo , M. A. Dantas , S. Carneiro , J. S. Alcaniz

We define Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) observables $\hat{d}_\alpha(z, z_c)$, $\hat{d}_z(z, z_c)$, and $\hat{d}_/(z, z_c)$ that do not depend on any cosmological parameter. From each of these observables we recover the BAO correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Hoeneisen

In this article, we investigate two phenomenological decaying vacuum cosmological models describing the accelerated expansion of the Universe. We constrain the model parameters using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique with recent…

General Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 D. Revanth Kumar , Santosh Kumar Yadav , S. A. Kadam

We constrain two non-flat time-evolving dark energy cosmological models by using Hubble parameter data, Type Ia supernova apparent magnitude measurements, and baryonic acoustic oscillation peak length scale observations. The inclusion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-22 Omer Farooq , Data Mania , Bharat Ratra

Recent measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest a preference for a dynamic dark energy model over a cosmological constant. This conclusion emerges from the combination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-15 Guanlin Liu , Yu Wang , Wen Zhao

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 limits on the parameters of the o$\Lambda$CDM, $w_0$CDM, and $w_0 w_a$CDM models obtained from the joint analysis of the full-shape, baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) and supernovae data. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-16 Anton Chudaykin , Konstantin Dolgikh , Mikhail M. Ivanov

Recent measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey (DESI DR2), combined with data from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Ia supernovae (SNe), challenge the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-16 Agripino Sousa-Neto , Carlos Bengaly , Javier E. Gonzalez , Jailson Alcaniz

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Ia supernova (SN) data. We take…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Julian E. Bautista , Florian Beutler , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , Howard Brewington , J. Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Angela Burden , Nicolás G. Busca , William Carithers , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Antonio J. Cuesta , Kyle S. Dawson , Timothée Delubac , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , J. -M. Le Goff , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Richard Gott , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Shirley Ho , Klaus Honscheid , Cullan Howlett , David Kirkby , Francisco S. Kitaura , Jean-Paul Kneib , Khee-Gan Lee , Dan Long , Robert H. Lupton , Mariana Vargas Magaña , Viktor Malanushenko , Elena Malanushenko , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Cameron K. McBride , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Adam D. Myers , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel Oravetz , Isabelle Pâris , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Beth Reid , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Ariel G. Sánchez , Lado Samushia , Ricardo Tanausú Génova Santos , Claudia G. Scóccola , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Erin Sheldon , Audrey Simmons , Ramin A. Skibba , Anže Slosar , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao

We use updated Hubble parameter and baryon acoustic oscillation data, as well as other lower-redshift Type Ia supernova, Mg II reverberation-measured quasar, quasar angular size, H II starburst galaxy, and Amati-correlated gamma-ray burst…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Shulei Cao , Bharat Ratra

We present a calibration-free consistency test of spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM based on baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) distance measurements. The method forms ratios of BAO distances including the Hubble distance, the comoving angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Xing-Han A. Zhao , Zheng Cai

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

To elucidate the robustness of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data measured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in capturing the dynamical behavior of dark energy, we assess the model dependence of the evidence for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 Qing Gao , Zhiqian Peng , Shengqing Gao , Yungui Gong

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) datasets use very precise measurements of the spatial distribution of large-scale structures as a distance ladder to help constrain cosmological parameters. In a recent article \cite{Benisty:2020otr}, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 Denitsa Staicova

We present a systematic comparison of statistical approaches to Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) analysis using DESI DR2 data. We evaluate four methods for handling the nuisance parameter $\beta=1/(H_0 r_d)$: marginalization, profiling,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Denitsa Staicova

Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) provides a powerful tool to measure cosmic expansion and consequently the nature of the Dark Energy (DE). Recent precise BAO measurements by Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument data release 1 (DESI DR1),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Ramy Fikri , Esraa Elkhateeb , E. I. Lashin , Waleed El Hanafy

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