The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Hee-Jong Seo of Ohio University, discussing "Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument 2024 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Results and the Cosmological Implications" on September 27.

Abstract: The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration is conducting a five-year redshift survey of 40 million extra-galactic sources over 14,000 square degrees of the northern sky up to the redshift of 4 with the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Laboratory. One of its primary goals is to measure the cosmic expansion history precisely and accurately through the measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO).

In this talk, I will present the analysis of the DESI First Year Baryon Acoustic Oscillations using the distributions of galaxies and quasars over the redshift range of 0.1-2, the estimates of the relevant systematics, and their intriguing cosmological implications, including the time-evolving dark energy and the role of the Ohio University in this groundbreaking analysis.