Observational probes of cosmic acceleration

DH Weinberg, MJ Mortonson, DJ Eisenstein, C Hirata… - Physics reports, 2013 - Elsevier
The accelerating expansion of the universe is the most surprising cosmological discovery in
many decades, implying that the universe is dominated by some form of “dark energy” with …

The DESI experiment part I: science, targeting, and survey design

A Aghamousa, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy
experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure …

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: anisotropic galaxy clustering in Fourier space

F Beutler, HJ Seo, S Saito, CH Chuang… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
(BOSS) Data Release 12 sample, which consists of 1198 006 galaxies in the redshift range …

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples

L Anderson, E Aubourg, S Bailey… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of
the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon …

Five-year wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe* observations: cosmological interpretation

E Komatsu, J Dunkley, MR Nolta… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) 5-year data provide
stringent limits on deviations from the minimal, six-parameter Λ cold dark matter model. We …

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

S Alam, M Ata, S Bailey, F Beutler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon
Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined …

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the growth rate of cosmic structure since redshift z=0.9

C Blake, S Brough, M Colless… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
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 …

The Subaru FMOS galaxy redshift survey (FastSound). IV. New constraint on gravity theory from redshift space distortions at z ∼ 1.4

T Okumura, C Hikage, T Totani… - Publications of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We measure the redshift-space correlation function from a spectroscopic sample of 2783
emission line galaxies from the FastSound survey. The survey, which uses the Subaru …

Clustering of luminous red galaxies – IV. Baryon acoustic peak in the line-of-sight direction and a direct measurement of H(z)

E Gaztanaga, A Cabre, L Hui - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We study the clustering of luminous red galaxies in the latest spectroscopic Sloan Digital
Sky Survey data releases (DR), DR6 and DR7, which sample over 1 Gpc3 h− 3 to z= 0.47 …

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurements of the growth of structure and expansion rate at z = 0.57 from …

BA Reid, L Samushia, M White… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We analyse the anisotropic clustering of massive galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) sample, which …