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We reconsider the Alcock-Paczynski effect on 21cm fluctuations from high redshift, focusing on the 21cm power spectrum. We show that at each accessible redshift both the angular diameter distance and the Hubble constant can be determined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rennan Barkana

In order to test the expansion of the universe and its geometry, we carry out an Alcock & Paczynski cosmological test, that is, an evaluation of the ratio of observed angular size to radial/redshift size. The main advantage of this test is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) method utilizes the redshift evolution of the AP distortion to place constraints on cosmological parameters. It has proved to be a robust method that can separate the AP signature from the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Xiaolin Luo , Ziyong Wu , Xiao-Dong Li , Miao Li , Zhigang Li , Cristiano G. Sabiu

We perform an anisotropic clustering analysis of 1,133,326 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release (DR) 12 covering the redshift range $0.15<z<0.69$. The geometrical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Xiao-Dong Li , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Changbom Park , Yuting Wang , Gong-bo Zhao , Hyunbae Park , Arman Shafieloo , Juhan Kim , Sungwook E. Hong

The apparent anisotropies of galaxy clustering and 21-cm mapping in redshift space offer a unique opportunity to simultaneously probe cosmic expansion and gravity on cosmological scales through the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Yong-Seon Song , Minji Oh , Kyungjin Ahn , Feng Shi

We propose a method based on the redshift dependence of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test to measure the expansion history of the Universe. It uses the isotropy of the galaxy density gradient field to constrain cosmological parameters. If the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-30 Xiao-Dong Li , Changbom Park , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Juhan Kim

Feasibility of the Alcock Paczynski (AP) test by stacking voids in the 21cm line intensity field is presented. We analyze the Illstris-TNG simulation to obtain the 21cm signal map. We then randomly distribute particles depending on the 21cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Takao Endo , Hiroyuki Tashiro , Atsushi J. Nishizawa

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) method can result in tight cosmological constraints by using small and intermediate clustering scales of the large scale structure (LSS) of the galaxy distribution. By focusing on the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zhenyu Zhang , Gan Gu , Xiaoma Wang , Yun-He Li , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Hyunbae Park , Haitao Miao , Xiaolin Luo , Feng Fang , Xiao-Dong Li

The peculiar velocity of the intergalactic gas responsible for the cosmic 21cm background from the epoch of reionization and beyond introduces an anisotropy in the three-dimensional power spectrum of brightness temperature fluctuations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi Mao , Paul R. Shapiro , Garrelt Mellema , Ilian T. Iliev , Jun Koda , Kyungjin Ahn

The expansion of the universe causes spacetime curvature, distinguishing between distances measured along and transverse to the line of sight. The ratio of these distances, e.g. the cosmic shear distortion of a sphere defined by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric V. Linder

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test is a robust large-scale structure (LSS) measurement that receives little contamination from the redshift space distortion (RSD). It has placed tight cosmological constraints by using small and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Xiao-Dong Li , Haitao Miao , Xin Wang , Xue Zhang , Feng Fang , Xiaolin Luo , Qing-Guo Huang , Miao Li

Cosmological tests based on the statistical analysis of galaxy distributions usually depend on source evolution. An exception is the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test, which is based on the changing ratio of angular to spatial/redshift size of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-25 Fulvio Melia , Martin Lopez-Corredoira

In this paper, we propose an Alcock-Paczy\'nski (AP) test to constrain cosmology using HII bubbles during the Epoch of Reionization. Similarly to cosmic voids, a stack of HII bubbles is spherically symmetric because ionizing fronts…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Emilie Thélie , Franco Del Balso , Julian B. Muñoz , Adrian Liu

We propose a method using the redshift dependence of the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) test and volume effect to measure the cosmic expansion history. The galaxy two-point correlation function as a function of angle, $\xi(\mu)$, is measured at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-07 Xiao-Dong Li , Changbom Park , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Juhan Kim

The tomographic Alcock-Paczynski(AP) method, developed over the past decade, exploits redshift evolution for cosmological determination, aiming to mitigate contamination from redshift distortions and capture nonlinear scale information.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Liang Xiao , Limin Lai , Zhujun Jiang , Xiao-Dong Li , Le Zhang

The geometry of the Universe may be probed using the Alcock-Paczynski (AP) effect, in which the observed redshift size of a spherical distribution of sources relative to its angular size varies according to the assumed cosmological model.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 Fulvio Melia , Jin Qin , Tong-Jie Zhang

The peculiar motion of galaxies can be a particularly sensitive probe of gravitational collapse. As such, it can be used to measure the dynamics of dark matter and dark energy as well the nature of the gravitational laws at play on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Alvise Raccanelli , Philip Bull , Stefano Camera , David Bacon , Chris Blake , Olivier Dore , Pedro Ferreira , Roy Maartens , Mario Santos , Matteo Viel , Gong-bo Zhao

In this Letter we explore a version of the test of cosmological geometry proposed by Alcock and Paczynski (1979), using observations of the Lyman-alpha forest in the spectra of close quasar pairs. By comparing the correlations in absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Lam Hui , Albert Stebbins , Scott Burles

The apparent shape of galaxy clustering depends on the adopted cosmology used to convert observed redshift to comoving distance, the $r(z)$ relation, as it changes the line elements along and across the line of sight differently. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Fuyu Dong , Changbom Park , Sungwook E. Hong , Juhan Kim , Ho Seong Hwang , Hyunbae Park , Stephen Appleby

We study the prospects for extracting cosmological and astrophysical parameters from the low radio frequency 21-cm background due to the spin-flip transition of neutral Hydrogen during and prior to the reionization of the Universe. We make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mario G. Santos , Asantha Cooray
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