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Weak lensing surveys that can potentially place strong constraints on dark energy parameters can only do so if the source redshift means and error distributions are very well known. We investigate prospects for controlling errors in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hu Zhan , Lloyd Knox

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) of emission from star-forming galaxies can be used to measure the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale as far back as the epoch of reionization. This provides a standard cosmic ruler to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 José Luis Bernal , Patrick C. Breysse , Ely D. Kovetz

The baryon acoustic oscillations are a promising route to the precision measure of the cosmological distance scale and hence the measurement of the time evolution of dark energy. We show that the non-linear degradation of the acoustic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel J. Eisenstein , Hee-jong Seo , Edwin Sirko , David Spergel

The fluctuations in the dark matter-baryon relative velocity field are imprinted as acoustic oscillations in the 21-cm power spectrum during cosmic dawn (CD). These velocity acoustic oscillations (VAOs) keep the imprints of the comoving…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Debanjan Sarkar , Ely D. Kovetz

Any theory invoked to explain cosmic acceleration predicts consistency relations between the expansion history, structure growth, and all related observables. Currently there exist high-quality measurements of the expansion history from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 R. Ali Vanderveld , Michael J. Mortonson , Wayne Hu , Tim Eifler

Deriving the expansion history of the Universe is a major goal of modern cosmology. To date, the most accurate measurements have been obtained with Type Ia Supernovae and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, providing evidence for the existence of…

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

A huge amount of good quality data converges towards the picture of a spatially flat universe undergoing the today observed phase of accelerated expansion. This new observational trend is commonly addressed as Precision Cosmology. Despite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-02 S. Capozziello

In this paper we present a new method to extract cosmological parameters using the radial scale of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations as a standard ruler in deep galaxy surveys. The method consists in an empirical parametrization of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-30 E. Sanchez , D. Alonso , F. J. Sanchez , J. Garcia-Bellido , I. Sevilla

The cosmic acceleration observed in the expansion of the Universe has sparked extensive research into the nature of dark energy, which is known to constitute approximately 70\% of the Universe's energy content. In this study, we explore two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-26 M. Koussour , N. S. Kavya , V. Venkatesha , N. Myrzakulov

We examine the cosmological implications of measurements of the void-galaxy cross-correlation at redshift $z=0.57$ combined with baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) data at $0.1<z<2.4$. We find direct evidence of the late-time acceleration…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 Seshadri Nadathur , Will J. Percival , Florian Beutler , Hans Winther

The baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the distribution of galaxies has been widely studied as an excellent standard ruler for probing cosmic distances and expansion history, and hence dark energy. In contrast, the amplitude of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-20 Will Sutherland , Lukasz Mularczyk

The growth factor of linear fluctuations is probably one of the least known quantity in observational cosmology. Here we discuss the constraints that baryon oscillations in galaxy power spectra from future surveys can put on a conveniently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-19 Domenico Sapone , Luca Amendola

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to measure the accelerated expansion of the Universe. To extract all available information about dark energy, it is necessary to…

The baryonic acoustic oscillations are features in the spatial distribution of the galaxies which, if observed at different epochs, probe the nature of the dark energy. In order to be able to measure the parameters of the dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-29 A. Gorecki , A. Abate , R. Ansari , A. Barrau , S. Baumont , M. Moniez

The signature of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation in the clustering of dark-matter tracers allows us to measure $(D_A(z), H(z))$ independently. Treating these as conjugate variables, we are motivated to study cosmological evolution in the phase…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-17 Pankaj Chavan , Tapomoy Guha Sarkar , Chandrachud B. V. Dash , Anjan A Sen

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) provide a standard ruler for studying cosmic expansion. The recent observations of BAO in SDSS DR9 and DR11 take measurements of $H(z)$ at several different redshifts. It is argued that the behavior of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-05 Yazhou Hu , Miao Li , Zhenhui Zhang

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are features in the matter power spectrum on scales of order 100-150 h^{-1} Mpc that promise to be a powerful tool to constrain and test cosmological models. The BAO have attracted such attention that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-14 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi

Baryonic acoustic oscillations imprinted in the galaxy power spectrum provide a promising tool for probing the cosmological distance scale and dark energy. We present results from a suite of cosmological N-body simulations aimed at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hee-Jong Seo , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) are oscillatory features in the galaxy power spectrum and are a standard rod to measure the cosmological expansion. These have been studied in Cartesian space (Fourier or real space) or in Spherical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Rassat , A. Refregier