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Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a standard ruler of known physical length, making it a promising probe of the nature of dark energy. The detection of BAO requires measuring galaxy positions and redshifts. "Transversal" (angular…

We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), with particular emphasis on the design of the Wide-Field Multi-Object…

We investigate the necessary methodology to optimally measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal, from voids based on galaxy redshift catalogues. To this end, we study the dependency of the BAO signal on the population of voids…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Yu Liang , Cheng Zhao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Charling Tao

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are one of the most used probes to understand the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Traditional methods rely on fiducial model information within their statistical analysis, which may be a problem…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Paula S. Ferreira , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We extend our study of the optimization of large baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) surveys to return the best constraints on the dark energy, building on Paper I of this series (Parkinson et al. 2007). The survey galaxies are assumed to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-18 David Parkinson , Martin Kunz , Andrew R. Liddle , Bruce A. Bassett , Robert C. Nichol , Mihran Vardanyan

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

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is one of the first of a new generation of galaxy redshift surveys that will cover a large range in redshift with sufficient resolution to measure the baryon acoustic oscillations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Rossana Ruggeri , Will J. Percival , Eva-Maria Mueller , Hector Gil-Marin , Fangzhou Zhu , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Gong-Bo Zhao

We present angular diameter measurements obtained by measuring the position of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in an optimised sample of galaxies from the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data (DES Y3). The sample consists of 7…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , A. Brandao-Souza , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , X. Fang , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. Gomes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , N. Kokron , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , U. Malik , P. Martini , P. Melchior , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Möller , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , I. Tutusaus , S. A. Uddin , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson

The imprint of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in large-scale structure can be used as a standard ruler for mapping out the cosmic expansion history, and hence for testing cosmological models. In this article we briefly describe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Philip Bull , Stefano Camera , Alvise Raccanelli , Chris Blake , Pedro G. Ferreira , Mario G. Santos , Dominik J. Schwarz

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations are considered to be a very robust standard ruler against various systematics. This premise has been tested against observational systematics, but not to the level required for the next generation of galaxy…

The Euclid space mission, designed to probe evolution of the Dark Energy, will map a large area of the sky at three adjacent near-IR filters, Y, J and H. This coverage will also enable mapping source-subtracted cosmic infrared background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 A. Kashlinsky , R. G. Arendt , F. Atrio-Barandela , K. Helgason

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

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

The large-scale clustering of galaxies encodes both geometric and dynamical information about the Universe. The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) phenomenon provides a standard ruler that constrains the cosmic expansion history, while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 C. Franco , H. M. Courtois , A. Bernui

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

Studying the SDSS-DR16 quasar catalog, we detect a baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the two-point angular correlation function with a statistical significance of $3\sigma$, at an effective redshift of $z_{\rm eff}=1.725$. Using a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-20 Felipe Avila , Armando Bernui , Miguel A. Sabogal , Rafael C. Nunes

Future dark energy experiments will require better and more accurate theoretical predictions for the baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) signature in the spectrum of cosmological perturbations. Here, we use large N-body simulations of the…