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We compare our analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the correlation functions of SDSS BOSS DR12 LOWZ and CMASS galaxy samples with the findings of arXiv:1509.06371v2. Using subsets of the data we obtain an empirical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Behzad Ansarinejad , Tom Shanks

An acoustic oscillation of the primeval photon-baryon fluid around the decoupling time imprints a characteristic scale in the galaxy distribution today, known as the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale. Several on-going and/or future…

In this work, I investigate the impact of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data on cosmological parameters, focusing on the inflationary spectral index $n_s$, the amplitude of scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Simony Santos da Costa

We measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) observables $\hat{d}_\alpha(z, z_c)$, $\hat{d}_z(z, z_c)$, and $\hat{d}_/(z, z_c)$ as a function of redshift $z$ in the range 0.1 to 0.7 with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data release…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 B. Hoeneisen

We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the \Lya forest of high-redshift quasars. The study uses 48,640 quasars in the redshift…

We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from more than 14 million galaxies and quasars drawn from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Data Release 2 (DR2), based on three years of operation. For cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul-Karim , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , L. Allen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , P. Bansal , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , S. Brieden , 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 , X. Chen , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , R. Demina , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , E. Fernández-García , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , D. Gonzalez , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , C. Gordon , D. Green , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , S. He , M. Herbold , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , M. Ho , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. V. Kamble , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. G. Kim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , 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 , F. Lozano-Rodríguez , C. Magneville , M. Manera , P. Martini , W. L. Matthewson , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , A. Menegas , T. Mergulhão , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , D. Muñoz-Santos , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , K. Naidoo , L. Napolitano , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , J. Peacock , Marcos Pellejero Ibanez , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. M. Pieri , C. Poppett , F. Prada , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , J. Rich , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , J. Rohlf , J. O. Román-Herrera , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , W. Turner , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , F. Valdes , G. Valogiannis , M. Vargas-Magaña , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. A. Weaver , D. H. Weinberg , M. White , M. Wolfson , C. Yèche , J. Yu , E. A. Zaborowski , P. Zarrouk , Z. Zhai , H. Zhang , C. Zhao , G. B. Zhao , R. Zhou , H. Zou

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), known as one of the largest cosmological objects, is now recognized as standard cosmological tool to measure geometric distances via the Alcock-Paczynski effect, by which the observed BAO exhibits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-03 Yong-Seon Song , Teppei Okumura , Atsushi Taruya

Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) surveys will be a leading method for addressing the dark energy challenge in the next decade. We explore in detail the effect of allowing for small amplitude admixtures of general isocurvature perturbations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Muya Kasanda , C. Zunckel , K. Moodley , B. A. Bassett , P. Okouma

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

Sound waves from the primordial fluctuations of the Universe imprinted in the large-scale structure, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), can be used as standard rulers to measure the scale of the Universe. These oscillations have…

We detect the peak of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the two-point correlation function of a spectroscopic sample of $25226$ clusters selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Galaxy clusters, as tracers of massive dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Veropalumbo , F. Marulli , L. Moscardini , M. Moresco , A. Cimatti

Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) is one of the important standard rulers in cosmology. The results of the latest BAO measurements by Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey have been reported. Cosmology with the varying electron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-23 Osamu Seto , Yo Toda

Following a quasi model-independent approach we measure the transversal BAO mode at high redshift using the two-point angular correlation function (2PACF). The analyses done here are only possible now with the quasar catalogue from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 E. de Carvalho , A. Bernui , G. C. Carvalho , C. P. Novaes , H. S. Xavier

In this paper, we conduct a statistical analysis of various cosmological models within the framework of f (R) gravity theories, motivated by persistent challenges in modern cosmology, such as the unknown mechanisms driving the late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Francisco Plaza , Lucila Kraiselburd

The value of the Hubble constant determined from CMB and BAO measurements is directly dependent on the sound horizon at the photon-baryon decoupling. There has been significant interest in the possibility of new physics at the epoch around…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-05 Levon Pogosian , Gong-Bo Zhao , Karsten Jedamzik

We use higher-redshift gamma-ray burst (GRB), HII starburst galaxy (HIIG), and quasar angular size (QSO-AS) measurements to constrain six spatially flat and non-flat cosmological models. These three sets of cosmological constraints are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Shulei Cao , Joseph Ryan , Narayan Khadka , Bharat Ratra

Cosmic distances can be measured using two complementary probes: Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia), serving as standard candles, and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), serving as standard rulers. The luminosity distance derived from supernovae…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hyeok Woo , William Luke Matthewson , Arman Shafieloo

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale acts as a standard ruler for measuring cosmological distances and has therefore emerged as a leading probe of cosmic expansion history. However, any physical effect that alters the length of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Jahmour J. Givans , Christopher M. Hirata

Current measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey (DESI DR2), when combined with data from Type Ia supernovae (SNe), challenge the observational viability of the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-24 Thais Lemos