Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from a Different Angle

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• George Efstathiou (IoA/KICC)
• Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:30-12:00
• Ryle Meeting Room, KICC.

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KICC Special Seminar

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has published BAO measurements from one year of data (DR1) in 2024 and 3 years of data (DR2) in 2025. The DESI collaboration argue that their measurements suggest that dark energy is evolving and that this evidence is stronger using the DR2 data. This result would have major implications for fundamental physics if true. I will present a new way of looking at BAO data which shows that the DR2 data are more consistent with the Planck LCDM cosmology than the DR1 data. The evidence for evolving dark energy from DESI BAO has therefore weakened as the data have improved. I will also discuss the impact of systematic errors if DESI BAO data are combined with Type Ia supernovae. In summary, I find very little evidence to suggest that dark energy is evolving.

This talk is part of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology Seminars series.

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