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When performing cosmological inference, standard analyses of the Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) three-dimensional correlation functions only consider the information carried by the distinct peak produced by baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Francesca Gerardi , Andrei Cuceu , Andreu Font-Ribera , Benjamin Joachimi , Pablo Lemos

We use hydrodynamic cosmological simulations in a (600 Mpc)^3 volume to study the observability of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the intergalactic medium as probed by Lyman alpha forest (LAF) absorption. The large scale separation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael L. Norman , Pascal Paschos , Robert Harkness

We present a new test of the validity of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) metric, based on comparing the distance from redshift 0 to $z_1$ and from $z_1$ to $z_2$ to the distance from $0$ to $z_2$. If the universe is described…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Syksy Rasanen , Krzysztof Bolejko , Alexis Finoguenov

We conduct a selective analysis of the isotropic ($D_V$) and anisotropic ($AP$) components of the most recent Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data. We find that these components provide significantly different constraints and could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 Balakrishna S. Haridasu , Vladimir V. Luković , Nicola Vittorio

We present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained with the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation feature from galaxy clustering in the completed Dark Energy Survey, consisting of six years (Y6) of observations. We use the Y6 BAO galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-04 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Adamow , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , C. Chang , 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 , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , S. Kent , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Myles , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , L. Toribio San Cipriano , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , B. Yanny

In this work, we present comprehensive observational constraints on the time-varying vacuum $\Lambda(t)$CDM cosmology using the latest baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-05 Olga Avsajanishvili

We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman-$\alpha$ forest tracers from the first year of observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 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 , B. Bahr-Kalus , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , A. Bera , 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 , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , A. Dey , B. Dey , 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. S. Frenk , 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. Karaçaylı , 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 , N. Mudur , 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 , C. Ravoux , M. Rashkovetskyi , 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 , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , A. Slosar , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , S. Trusov , L. A. Ureña-López , 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 , T. Zhuang , H. Zou

In this work, we explore the cosmological implications of different baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data, including the BAO data extracted by using the spherically averaged one-dimensional galaxy clustering (GC) statistics (hereafter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Shuang Wang , Yazhou Hu , Miao Li

We present a new, model-independent approach for measuring non-Gaussianity of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy pattern. Our approach is based on the empirical distribution function of the normalized spherical harmonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-10 Frode K. Hansen , Domenico Marinucci , Paolo Natoli , Nicola Vittorio

We present the first simulation of the signature of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) in Lyman alpha forest data containing 180,000 mock quasar sight-lines. We use eight large dark-matter only simulations onto which we paint the Lyman…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 Anže Slosar , Shirley Ho , Martin White , Thibaut Louis

For about a decade, the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak at about 105 Mpc/h has provided a standard ruler test of the LCDM cosmological model, a member of the Friedmann--Lemaitre--Robertson--Walker (FLRW) family of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Boudewijn F. Roukema

We combine model-independent reconstructions of the expansion history from the latest Pantheon supernovae distance modulus compilation and measurements from baryon acoustic oscillation to test some important aspects of the concordance model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-25 Arman Shafieloo , Benjamin L'Huillier , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Oscillations in the baryon-photon fluid prior to recombination imprint different signatures on the power spectrum and correlation function of matter fluctuations. The measurement of these features using galaxy surveys has been proposed as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ariel G. Sanchez , Carlton M. Baugh , Raul Angulo

In this work we examine the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in 2D angular and redshift space $\{\theta, \Delta z\}$, with $\Delta z$ denoting the redshift difference between two given angular shells. We thus work in the context of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Paula S. Ferreira , Carlos Hernández-Monteagudo , Ribamar R. R. Reis

Results are reported from the first flight of a new balloon-borne instrument, BAM (Balloon-borne Anisotropy Measurement), designed to search for cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. The instrument uses a cryogenic differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. S. Tucker , H. P. Gush , M. Halpern , I. Shinkoda , W. Towlson

The baryon-acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest is one of the key probes of the cosmic expansion rate at redshifts z~2.5, well before dark energy is believed to have become dynamically significant. A key advantage…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Christopher M. Hirata

Understanding a behavior of galaxy biasing is crucial for future galaxy redshift surveys. One aim is to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) within the precision of a few percent level. Using 30 large cosmological N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-12 Masanori Sato , Takahiko Matsubara

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) underpin the key cosmological results from modern spectroscopic galaxy surveys, but nonlinear gravitational evolution limits the precision achievable with traditional analysis methods. To overcome this, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-18 Adrian E. Bayer , Liam Parker , David Valcin , Shi-Fan Chen , Chirag Modi , Uros Seljak

The reconstruction method has been widely employed to improve the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) measurement in spectroscopic survey data analysis. In this study, we explore the reconstruction of the BAO signals in the realm of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Kwan Chuen Chan , Guoyuan Lu , Xin Wang

In this study, we investigate a cosmological model involving a negative cosmological constant (AdS vacua in the dark energy sector). We consider a quintessence field on top of a negative cosmological constant and study its impact on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Chandrachud B. V. Dash , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Anjan A. Sen