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 …

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: A 2.7% measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

TMC Abbott, M Aguena, S Allam, A Amon… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present angular diameter measurements obtained by measuring the position of baryon
acoustic oscillations (BAO) in an optimized sample of galaxies from the first three years of …

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 …

Dark Energy Survey: A 2.1% measurement of the angular baryonic acoustic oscillation scale at redshift from the final dataset

TMC Abbott, M Adamow, M Aguena, S Allam, O Alves… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We present the angular diameter distance measurement obtained with the baryonic acoustic
oscillation (BAO) feature from galaxy clustering in the completed Dark Energy Survey …

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

TMC Abbott, FB Abdalla, A Alarcon… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present angular diameter distance measurements obtained by locating the baryon
acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale in the distribution of galaxies selected from the first year of …

Interpreting large-scale redshift-space distortion measurements

L Samushia, WJ Percival… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The simplest theory describing large-scale redshift-space distortions (RSD), based on linear
theory and distant galaxies, depends on the growth of cosmological structure, suggesting …

The MICE grand challenge lightcone simulation–I. Dark matter clustering

P Fosalba, M Crocce, E Gaztañaga… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present a new N-body simulation from the Marenostrum Institut de Ciències de l'Espai
(MICE) collaboration, the MICE Grand Challenge (MICE-GC), containing about 70 billion …

Cosmic voids and void lensing in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

C Sánchez, J Clampitt, A Kovacs, B Jain… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Cosmic voids are usually identified in spectroscopic galaxy surveys, where 3D information
about the large-scale structure of the Universe is available. Although an increasing amount …

No galaxy left behind: accurate measurements with the faintest objects in the Dark Energy Survey

E Suchyta, EM Huff, J Aleksić, P Melchior… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Accurate statistical measurement with large imaging surveys has traditionally required
throwing away a sizable fraction of the data. This is because most measurements have …

Galaxy clustering, photometric redshifts and diagnosis of systematics in the DES Science Verification data

M Crocce, J Carretero, AH Bauer… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We study the clustering of galaxies detected at i< 22.5 in the Science Verification
observations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Two-point correlation functions are …