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Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys II: curvature, redshifts, and external datasets

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

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: A 2.7% measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

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

Forecasting the Dark Energy Measurement with Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: Prospects for the LAMOST surveys

The Large Area Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) is a dedicated spectroscopic survey telescope being built in China, with an effective aperture of 4 meters and equiped with 4000 fibers. Using the LAMOST telescope, one could make…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-09 Xin Wang , Xuelei Chen , Zheng Zheng , Fengquan Wu , Pengjie Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

Dark Energy Survey: Galaxy Sample for the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation Measurement from the Final Dataset

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y6 data. The definition is based on a color and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 J. Mena-Fernández , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , S. Avila , A. Porredon , K. C. Chan , H. Camacho , N. Weaverdyck , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sanchez , L. Toribio San Cipriano , J. De Vicente , I. Ferrero , R. Cawthon , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Elvin-Poole , G. Giannini , M. Adamow , K. Bechtol , A. Drlica-Wagner , R. A. Gruendl , W. G. Hartley , A. Pieres , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sheldon , B. Yanny , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , N. Deiosso , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , C. Doux , S. Everett , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , S. Samuroff , D. Sanchez Cid , B. Santiago , M. Schubnell , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto

Measuring Baryon Acoustic Oscillations along the line of sight with photometric redshifs: the PAU survey

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 N. Benitez , E. Gaztanaga , R. Miquel , F. Castander , M. Moles , M. Crocce , A. Fernandez-Soto , P. Fosalba , F. Ballesteros , J. Campa , L. Cardiel-Sas , J. Castilla , D. Cristobal-Hornillos , M. Delfino , E. Fernandez , C. Fernandez-Sopuerta , J. Garcia-Bellido , J. A. Lobo , V. J. Martinez , A. Ortiz , A. Pacheco , S. Paredes , M. J. Pons-Borderia , E. Sanchez , S. F. Sanchez , J. Varela , J. F. de Vicente

Low Redshift Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurement from the Reconstructed 6-degree Field Galaxy Survey

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

Clarifying Forecasts of Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

The measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from a galaxy redshift survey provides one of the most promising methods for probing dark energy. In this paper, we clarify the assumptions that go into the forecasts of dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Yun Wang

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) distributed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Metin Ata , Falk Baumgarten , Julian Bautista , Florian Beutler , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael R. Blanton , Jonathan A. Blazek , Adam S. Bolton , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Etienne Burtin , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Kyle S. Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Wei Du , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Hector Gil-Marin , Katie Grabowski , Julien Guy , Nick Hand , Shirley Ho , Timothy A. Hutchinson , Mikhail M. Ivanov , Francisco-Shu Kitaura , Jean-Paul Kneib , Pierre Laurent , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Joseph E. McEwen , Eva-Maria Mueller , Adam D. Myers , Jeffrey A. Newman , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Isabelle Paris , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Sergio A. Rodriguez-Torres , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Rossana Ruggeri , Ariel G. Sanchez , Siddharth Satpathy , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Anze Slosar , Alina Streblyanska , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Mariana Vargas Magana , M. Vivek , Yuting Wang , Christophe Yeche , Liang Yu , Pauline Zarrouk , Cheng Zhao , Gong-Bo Zhao , Fangzhou Zhu

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement

We define and characterise a sample of 1.3 million galaxies extracted from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data, optimised to measure Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the presence of significant redshift uncertainties. The sample is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-17 M. Crocce , A. J. Ross , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Gaztanaga , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Avila , A. Alarcon , K. C. Chan , N. Banik , J. Carretero , E. Sanchez , W. G. Hartley , C. Sanchez , T. Giannantonio , R. Rosenfeld , A. I. Salvador , M. Garcia-Fernandez , J. Garcia-Bellido , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , S. Allam , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. C. Nichol , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , M. Sako , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , D. Scolnic , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Perspectives for studying the dark energy at z>2 with galaxy surveys

Now creation of big catalogs of galaxies for measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) is actively conducted. Existing and planned in the near future surveys are directed on the range of red shifts of z.2. However, some popular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-16 Natalia A. Arkhipova , Sergey V. Pilipenko

Dark Energy Survey: 2.1% measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale from the final dataset

Here, we present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained from the measurement of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature using the completed Dark Energy Survey (DES) data, summarizing the main results of [Phys. Rev. D…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-16 Juan Mena-Fernández , Dark Energy Survey Collaboration

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations with Three-dimensional Clustering

The three-dimensional correlation function offers an effective way to summarize the correlation of the large-scale structure even for imaging galaxy surveys. We have applied the projected three-dimensional correlation function, $\xi_{\rm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 K. C. Chan , S. Avila , A. Carnero Rosell , I. Ferrero , J. Elvin-Poole , E. Sanchez , H. Camacho , A. Porredon , M. Crocce , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , C. Lidman , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , M. Raveri , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , A. J. Ross , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , M. Vincenzi , N. Weaverdyck

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Galaxy Sample for BAO Measurement

In this paper we present and validate the galaxy sample used for the analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation signal (BAO) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data. The definition is based on a colour and redshift-dependent magnitude cut…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Carnero Rosell , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , M. Crocce , J. Elvin-Poole , A. Porredon , I. Ferrero , J. Mena-Fernandez , R. Cawthon , J. De Vicente , E. Gaztanaga , A. J. Ross , E. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , A. Brandao-Souza , H. Camacho , K. C. Chan , A. Ferte , J. Muir , W. Riquelme , R. Rosenfeld , D. Sanchez Cid , W. G. Hartley , N. Weaverdyck , T. Abbott , M. Aguena , A. Sahar , J. Annis , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. Burke , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. Castander , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , T. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , S. Everett , A. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , D. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. Gruen , R. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. Hinton , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. Huterer , D. James , A. Kim , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , G. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Lima , M. Maia , U. Malik , J. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , A. Moller , R. Morgan , R. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchon , W. Percival , A. Pieres , A. Plazas Malagon , A. Roodman , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , R. Sharp , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , B. Tucker , D. Tucker , S. Uddin , T. N. Varga , DES Collaboration

Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale in the distribution of galaxies to redshift 1

We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the BAO scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of Dark Energy Survey data. We consider a sample of over 1.3 million galaxies distributed over…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-11 The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , S. Avila , M. Banerji , N. Banik , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , N. Kokron , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , F. Lacasa , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. Manera , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , A. Porredon , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , R. C. Smith , M. Smith , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Coherent Combination of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Statistics and Peculiar Velocity Measurements from Redshift Survey

New statistical method is proposed to coherently combine Baryon Acoustic Oscillation statistics (BAO) and peculiar velocity measurements exploiting decomposed density-density and velocity-velocity spectra in real space from the observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-07 Yong-Seon Song

The Low Redshift survey at Calar Alto (LoRCA)

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 J. Comparat , C. -H. Chuang , S. Rodriguez-Torres , M. Pellejero-Ibanez , F. Prada , G. Yepes , H. M. Courtois , G. -B. Zhao , Y. Wang , J. Sanchez , C. Maraston , R. Benton Metcalf , J. Peiro-Perez , F. S. Kitaura , E. Perez , R. M. Gonzalez Delgado

Self calibration of galaxy bias in spectroscopic redshift surveys of baryon acoustic oscillations

Baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) is a powerful probe on the expansion of the universe, shedding light on elusive dark energy and gravity at cosmological scales. BAO measurements through biased tracers of the underlying matter density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-19 Pengjie Zhang

Photo-z optimization for measurements of the BAO radial direction

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the radial direction offer a method to directly measure the Universe expansion history, and to set limits to space curvature when combined to the angular BAO signal. In addition to spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 Daniel Roig , Licia Verde , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Raul Jimenez , Carlos Pena-Garay

Constraining dark energy via baryon acoustic oscillations in the (an)isotropic light-cone power spectrum

The measurement of the scale of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum as a function of redshift is a promising method to constrain the equation-of-state parameter of the dark energy w. To measure the scale of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Christian Wagner , Volker Müller , Matthias Steinmetz

QSO Selection and Photometric Redshifts with Neural Networks

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and their effects on the matter power spectrum can be studied by using the Lyman-alpha absorption signature of the matter density field along quasar (QSO) lines of sight. A measurement sufficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-21 Ch. Yeche , P. Petitjean , J. Rich , E. Aubourg , N. Busca , J. -Ch. Hamilton , J. -M. Le Goff , I. Paris , S. Peirani , Ch. Pichon , E. Rollinde , M. Vargas-Magana