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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 measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyse the main galaxies and LRGs in the SDSS DR5…

We present precise measurements of the growth rate of cosmic structure for the redshift range 0.1 < z < 0.9, using redshift-space distortions in the galaxy power spectrum of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. Our results, which have a…

Discoveries in the last few years have revolutionized our knowledge of the universe and our ideas of its ultimate fate. Measurements of the expansion of the universe show that it is not slowing down under normal gravity but accelerating due…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric V. Linder

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 use of standard rulers, such as the scale of the Baryonic Acoustic oscillations (BAO), has become one of the more powerful techniques employed in cosmology to probe the entity driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Caroline Zunckel , J. Richard Gott , Ragnhild Lunnan

Originally proposed as a cosmological probe of the large-scale structure, line intensity mapping (LIM) also offers a unique window into the astrophysics of galaxy evolution. Adding to the astrophysical explorations of LIM technique that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Guochao Sun

It has been claimed that the standard model of cosmology (LCDM) cannot easily account for a number of observations on relatively small scales, motivating extensions to the standard model. Here we introduce a new suite of cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 Sam G. Stafford , Shaun T. Brown , Ian G. McCarthy , Andreea S. Font , Andrew Robertson , Robert Poole-Mckenzie

A cosmological observable measured in a range of redshifts can be used as a probe of a set of cosmological parameters. Given the cosmological observable and the cosmological parameter, there is an optimum range of redshifts where the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-07 L. Kazantzidis , L. Perivolaropoulos , F. Skara

Over the last decade, cosmological observations have attained a level of precision which allows for detailed comparison with theoretical predictions. In this paper, we briefly review some studies of the current and prospected constraints…

Popular Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Monique Signore , Denis Puy

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) involve measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies to determine the growth rate of cosmic structure. We derive constraints on cosmological parameters from $17$ uncorrelated BAO measurements that were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 David Benisty , Denitsa Staicova

Acoustic oscillations in the baryon-photon fluid leave a signature in the matter power spectrum. The overall shape of the spectrum and the wavelength of the oscillations depend upon the sound horizon scale at recombination. Using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 R. Angulo , C. M. Baugh , C. S. Frenk , R. G. Bower , A. Jenkins , S. L. Morris

We use a series of cosmological N-body simulations and various analytic models to study the evolution of the matter power spectrum in real space in a \Lambda Cold Dark Matter universe. We compare the results of N-body simulations against…

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters allow us to estimate the gas fraction, and thus the baryon fraction, and its evolution over time. This offers an additional cosmological probe as well as a probe of the gas behaviour in massive halos at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Hyeon Kim , Raphaël Wicker , Benjamin L'Huillier , Marian Douspis , Laura Salvati , Arman Shafieloo

Accurate modeling for the evolution of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) is essential for using it as a standard ruler to probe cosmology. We explore the non-linearity of the BAO in different environments using the density-split…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-13 Tengpeng Xu , Yan-Chuan Cai , Yun Chen , Mark Neyrinck , Liang Gao , Qiao Wang

Determining the mechanism behind the current cosmic acceleration constitutes a major question nowadays in theoretical physics. If the dark energy route is taken, this problem may potentially bring to light new insights not only in Cosmology…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 E. M. Barboza , J. S. Alcaniz

Galaxy redshift surveys have achieved significant progress over the last couple of decades. Those surveys tell us in the most straightforward way what our local universe looks like. While the galaxy distribution traces the bright side of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ofer Lahav , Yasushi Suto

The present spatial distribution of galaxies in the Universe is non-Gaussian, with 40% skewness in 50 Mpc/h spheres, and remarkably little is known about the information encoded in it about cosmological parameters beyond the power spectrum.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Emiliano Sefusatti , Martin Crocce , Sebastian Pueblas , Roman Scoccimarro

Radio galaxies provide a means to determine the coordinate distance,the luminosity distance, the dimensionless luminosity distance, or the angular size distance to sources with redshifts as large as two. Dimensionless coodinate distances…

Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Ruth A. Daly

Low redshift measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) test the late time evolution of the Universe and are a vital probe of Dark Energy. Over the past decade both the 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey (6dFGS) and Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Paul Carter , Florian Beutler , Will J. Percival , Chris Blake , Jun Koda , Ashley J. Ross