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In a broad class of cosmological models where spacetime is described by a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, photons propagate along null geodesics, and their number is conserved, upcoming Gravitational Wave (GW) observations can be combined with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-18 William Giarè , Jonathan Betts , Carsten van de Bruck , Eleonora Di Valentino

Using measurements of $H(z)$ and $d_\mathrm{A}(z)$ from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) DR12 and luminosity distances from the Joint Lightcurve Analysis (JLA) compilation of supernovae (SN), we measure $H_0 r_\mathrm{d}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-12 Benjamin L'Huillier , Arman Shafieloo

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

We investigate the robustness of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements with a photometric galaxy sample using mock galaxy catalogues with various sizes of photometric redshift (photo-$z$) uncertainties. We first conduct the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-17 Keitaro Ishikawa , Tomomi Sunayama , Atsushi J. Nishizawa , Hironao Miyatake , Takahiro Nishimichi

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

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

Standard rulers such as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale serve as workhorses for precision tests of cosmology, enabling distance measurements that probe the geometry and expansion history of our Universe. Aside from BAO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-13 Hannah Fronenberg , Abhishek S. Maniyar , Adrian Liu , Anthony R. Pullen

This work reexamines cosmological parameter constraints from the DESI Data Release 2 baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements using the distance-basis representation (D_V/r_d, D_M/D_H), which separates the isotropic BAO scale from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Seokcheon Lee

We present a joint test of cosmic curvature, $\Omega_{k0}$, and the cosmic distance-duality relation (CDDR) using the Etherington relation, which connects the luminosity and angular diameter distances at the same redshift. In this work, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Darshan Kumar , Jie Zheng , Zhi-Qiang You , Da-Chun Qiang

We compare the performance of four state-of-the-art models for extracting isotropic measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale. To do this, we created a new, public, modular code Barry, which contains datasets, model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Samuel R. Hinton , Cullan Howlett , Tamara M. Davis

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 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 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

The DESI DR2 BAO data, in combination with CMB and different SNIa datasets, exclude the flat $\Lambda$CDM model at more than 2.5$\sigma$ when analyzed through the $w_0w_a$CDM parametrization for evolving dark energy. This simple…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Bikash R. Dinda , Roy Maartens , Shun Saito , Chris Clarkson

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

We define Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distances $\hat{d}_\alpha(z, z_c)$, $\hat{d}_z(z, z_c)$, and $\hat{d}_/(z, z_c)$ that do not depend on cosmological parameters. These BAO distances are measured as a function of redshift $z$ with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-11 B. Hoeneisen

We revisit the uncertainty in baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) forecasts and data analyses. In particular, we study how much the uncertainties on both the measured mean dilation scale and the associated error bar are affected by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Wai-Hin Wayne Ngan , Joachim Harnois-Déraps , Ue-Li Pen , Patrick McDonald , Ilana MacDonald

We present results from the 2D anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal present in the final dataset from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We analyse the WiggleZ data in two ways: firstly using the full shape of the 2D…

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