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We apply the reconstruction technique to the clustering of galaxies from the SDSS DR7 LRG sample, sharpening the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature and achieving a 1.9% measurement of the distance to z=0.35. This is the first…

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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

We develop a methodology to optimise the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) from a given galaxy sample. In our previous work, we demonstrated that one can measure BAO from tracers in under-dense regions (voids). In this study,…

Standard analysis pipelines for measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in galaxy surveys make use of a fiducial cosmological model to guide the data compression required to transform from observed redshifts and angles to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 Paul Carter , Florian Beutler , Will J. Percival , Joseph DeRose , Risa H. Wechsler , Cheng Zhao

A new fully non-linear reconstruction algorithm for the accurate recovery of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) scale in two-point correlation functions is proposed, based on the least-action principle and extending the Fast Action…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 E. Sarpa , C. Schimd , E. Branchini , S. Matarrese

A model-agnostic description of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in redshift space requires a number of ingredients. Physically, one must describe the impact of cosmological bulk flows which progressively and anisotropically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Aseem Paranjape , Ravi K. Sheth

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

Analyses of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) commonly employ template-based methods to extract compressed parameters from the clustering of dark-matter tracers, which are then interpreted in terms of ratios of the sound-horizon scale and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Francisco Asensio-Rivera , Nils Schöneberg , Héctor Gil-Marín , Licia Verde

We present a method to reconstruct the initial conditions of the universe using observed galaxy positions and luminosities under the assumption that the luminosities can be calibrated with weak lensing to give the mean halo mass. Our method…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chirag Modi , Yu Feng , Uros Seljak

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) phenomenon provides a unique opportunity to establish a standard ruler at any epoch in the history of the evolving universe. The key lies in identifying a suitable cosmological tracer to conduct the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Felipe Avila , Edilson de Carvalho , Armando Bernui , Hanna Lima , Rafael C. Nunes

We present the first end-to-end validation of the Euclid baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) analysis pipeline, encompassing density-field reconstruction, two-point correlation function measurement, and cosmological-parameter inference. Using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 Euclid Collaboration , E. Sarpa , A. Veropalumbo , M. Bonici , M. Kärcher , M. Crocce , E. Sefusatti , E. Maragliano , E. Branchini , C. Oliveri , G. Gambardella , B. Camacho Quevedo , C. Moretti , P. Monaco , J. Bautista , M. Viel , W. J. Percival , S. Nadathur , A. Pezzotta , A. Eggemeier , A. G. Sánchez , J. Bel , C. Carbone , A. Crespi , S. Radinović , G. Parimbelli , A. Farina , I. Risso , M. Guidi , G. Degni , D. Eisenstein , F. Beutler , C. García-García , G. Piccirilli , J. G. Sorce , B. Altieri , S. Andreon , C. Baccigalupi , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , P. Battaglia , A. Biviano , M. Brescia , S. Camera , G. Cañas-Herrera , V. Capobianco , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Castellano , G. Castignani , S. Cavuoti , K. C. Chambers , A. Cimatti , C. Colodro-Conde , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , H. Degaudenzi , S. de la Torre , G. De Lucia , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Escoffier , M. Farina , R. Farinelli , F. Faustini , S. Ferriol , F. Finelli , P. Fosalba , N. Fourmanoit , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , K. George , W. Gillard , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , L. Guzzo , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , K. Jahnke , M. Jhabvala , B. Joachimi , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , A. M. C. Le Brun , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , G. Mainetti , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , M. Martinelli , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. J. Massey , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , M. Melchior , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , A. Mora , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , C. Neissner , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , F. Raison , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , F. Rizzo , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , R. Saglia , Z. Sakr , D. Sapone , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , T. Schrabback , M. Scodeggio , A. Secroun , E. Sihvola , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , P. Tallada-Crespí , D. Tavagnacco , A. N. Taylor , I. Tereno , N. Tessore , S. Toft , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , T. Vassallo , G. Verdoes Kleijn , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , F. M. Zerbi , E. Zucca , M. Ballardini , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , R. Cabanac , M. Calabrese , A. Cappi , T. Castro , J. A. Escartin Vigo , G. Fabbian , J. García-Bellido , J. Macias-Perez , R. Maoli , J. Martín-Fleitas , N. Mauri , R. B. Metcalf , M. Pöntinen , V. Scottez , M. Sereno , M. Tenti , M. Tucci , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , I. T. Andika , M. Archidiacono , F. Atrio-Barandela , E. Aubourg , L. Bazzanini , D. Bertacca , M. Bethermin , A. Blanchard , L. Blot , S. Borgani , M. L. Brown , S. Bruton , A. Calabro , F. Caro , C. S. Carvalho , F. Cogato , S. Contarini , A. R. Cooray , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , T. de Boer , F. De Paolis , G. Desprez , A. Díaz-Sánchez , S. Di Domizio , J. M. Diego , V. Duret , M. Y. Elkhashab , Y. Fang , P. G. Ferreira , A. Finoguenov , A. Franco , K. Ganga , T. Gasparetto , E. Gaztanaga , Z. Ghaffari , F. Giacomini , F. Gianotti , E. J. Gonzalez , G. Gozaliasl , A. Gruppuso , C. M. Gutierrez , A. Hall , H. Hildebrandt , J. Hjorth , J. J. E. Kajava , Y. Kang , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , K. Kiiveri , J. Kim , C. C. Kirkpatrick , K. Koyama , S. Kruk , M. C. Lam , F. Leclercq , L. Legrand , M. Lembo , F. Lepori , G. Leroy , G. F. Lesci , J. Lesgourgues , T. I. Liaudat , S. J. Liu , M. Magliocchetti , C. J. A. P. Martins , L. Maurin , M. Migliaccio , M. Miluzio , G. Morgante , K. Naidoo , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Nesseris , F. Pace , D. Paoletti , K. Paterson , L. Patrizii , C. Pattison , A. Pisani , D. Potter , A. Pourtsidou , G. W. Pratt , S. Quai , M. Radovich , G. Rodighiero , W. Roster , S. Sacquegna , M. Sahlén , D. B. Sanders , A. Schneider , D. Sciotti , E. Sellentin , L. C. Smith , I. Szapudi , K. Tanidis , C. Tao , F. Tarsitano , G. Testera , R. Teyssier , S. Tosi , A. Troja , C. Uhlemann , C. Valieri , F. Vernizzi , G. Verza , S. Vinciguerra , M. von Wietersheim-Kramsta , N. A. Walton , A. H. Wright , H. W. Yeung

We conducted a review of the fundamental aspects of describing and detecting the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in galaxy surveys, emphasizing the optimal tools for constraining this probe based on the type of observation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-06 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We compute the power spectrum at one-loop order in standard perturbation theory for the matter density field to which a standard Lagrangian Baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) reconstruction technique is applied. The BAO reconstruction…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Chiaki Hikage , Kazuya Koyama , Alan Heavens

The baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) have proven to be an invaluable tool in constraining the expansion history of the Universe at late times and are characterized by the comoving sound horizon at the baryon drag epoch…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-27 Andoni Aizpuru , Rubén Arjona , Savvas Nesseris

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

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) represent one of the cleanest probes of dark energy, allowing for tests of the cosmological model through the measurement of distance and expansion rate from a 3D galaxy distribution. The signal appears at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Rossana Ruggeri , Chris Blake

The reconstruction of the initial conditions of the Universe is an important topic in cosmology, particularly in the context of sharpening the measurement of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak. Nonlinear reconstruction algorithms…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 Jack Birkin , Baojiu Li , Marius Cautun , Yanlong Shi

In this paper, we report a significant recovery of the linear baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) signature by applying the isobaric reconstruction algorithm to the non-linear matter density field. Assuming only the longitudinal component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Xin Wang , Hao-Ran Yu , Hong-Ming Zhu , Yu Yu , Qiaoyin Pan , Ue-Li Pen