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Reconstructing an estimate of linear Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from an evolved galaxy field has become a standard technique in recent analyses. By partially removing non-linear damping caused by bulk motions, the real-space BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-26 Angela Burden , Will J. Percival , Marc Manera , Antonio J. Cuesta , Mariana Vargas Magana , Shirley Ho

Current inferences of the BAO scale from galaxy clustering employ a reconstruction technique at fixed cosmology and bias parameters. Here, we present the first consistent joint Bayesian inference of the isotropic BAO scale, jointly varying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-21 Ivana Babić , Fabian Schmidt , Beatriz Tucci

We present results of field-level inference of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale $r_s$ on rest-frame dark matter halo catalogs. Our field-level constraint on $r_s$ is obtained by explicitly sampling the initial conditions along…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Ivana Babić , Fabian Schmidt , Beatriz Tucci

The density field reconstruction technique, which was developed to partially reverse the nonlinear degradation of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the galaxy redshift surveys, has been successful in substantially improving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Hee-Jong Seo , Florian Beutler , Ashley J. Ross , Shun Saito

We present a hybrid method for reconstructing the primordial density from late-time halos and galaxies. Our approach involves two steps: (1) apply standard Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) reconstruction to recover the large-scale features…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Liam Parker , Adrian E. Bayer , Uros Seljak

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

The density field reconstruction technique has been widely used for recovering the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in galaxy surveys that has been degraded due to nonlinearities. Recent studies advocated adopting iterative steps…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Hee-Jong Seo , Atsuhisa Ota , Marcel Schmittfull , Shun Saito , Florian Beutler

The physical scale corresponding to baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), the size of the sound horizon at recombination, is precisely determined by CMB experiments. Measuring the apparent size of the BAO scale imprinted in the clustering of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Ivana Babić , Fabian Schmidt , Beatriz Tucci

We propose a new scheme to reconstruct the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal, which contains key cosmological information, based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN). Trained with almost no fine-tuning, the network can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-09 Tian-Xiang Mao , Jie Wang , Baojiu Li , Yan-Chuan Cai , Bridget Falck , Mark Neyrinck , Alex Szalay

The process of density field reconstruction enhances the statistical power of distance scale measurements using baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO). During this process a fiducial cosmology is assumed in order to convert sky coordinates and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Blake D. Sherwin , Martin White

Gravitational non-linear evolution induces a shift in the position of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) peak together with a damping and broadening of its shape that bias and degrades the accuracy with which the position of the peak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Andrej Obuljen , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Emanuele Castorina , Matteo Viel

Precise measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as a standard ruler in the clustering pattern of large-scale structure is a central goal of current and future galaxy surveys. The BAO peak may be sharpened using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ixandra Achitouv , Chris Blake

Low redshift measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) test the late time evolution of the Universe and are a vital probe of Dark Energy. Over the past decade both the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Paul Carter , Florian Beutler , Will J. Percival , Chris Blake , Jun Koda , Ashley J. Ross

Acoustic waves traveling through the early Universe imprint a characteristic scale in the clustering of galaxies, QSOs and inter-galactic gas. This scale can be used as a standard ruler to map the expansion history of the Universe, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J. D. Cohn , Martin White , Tzu-Ching Chang , Gil Holder , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Olivier Doré

Future Baryon Acoustic Oscillation surveys aim at observing galaxy clustering over a wide range of redshift and galaxy populations at great precision, reaching tenths of a percent, in order to detect any deviation of dark energy from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-31 Zhejie Ding , Hee-Jong Seo , Zvonimir Vlah , Yu Feng , Marcel Schmittfull , Florian Beutler

A theoretically interesting and practically important question in cosmology is the reconstruction of the initial density distribution provided a late-time density field. This is a long-standing question with a revived interest recently,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yanlong Shi , Marius Cautun , Baojiu Li

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler, and can be used to constrain the expansion history of the Universe at low redshift. Standard BAO analyses return a model-independent measurement of the expansion rate and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-04 José Luis Bernal , Tristan L. Smith , Kimberly K. Boddy , Marc Kamionkowski

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 develop a framework for self-consistently extracting cosmological information from the clustering of tracers in redshift space, $\textit{without}$ relying on model-dependent templates to describe the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth
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