baryon acoustic oscillation
English
Noun
baryon acoustic oscillation (plural baryon acoustic oscillations)
- one of the regular periodic fluctuations in the density of the visible baryonic matter of the universe
Synonyms
- BAO (abbreviation)
Coordinate terms
- pressure wave
- sound wave
- visible matter
- baryonic matter
Derived terms
- BAO (abbreviation)
Related terms
- baryonic matter
See also
- large-scale structure
- cosmic web
- filament of galaxies / galaxy filament / FoG
- sheet of galaxies / galaxy sheet / SoG
- wall of galaxies / galaxy wall / WoG
- hypercluster / galaxy hypercluster / hypercluster of galaxies / HCl / HClG / HC / HCG
- supercluster complex / galaxy supercluster complex / complex of superclusters / complex of galaxy superclusters / complex of superclusters of galaxies
- cluster of superclusters / cluster of galaxy superclusters / cluster of superclusters of galaxies
- void / cosmic void
- supervoid / cosmic supervoid
- inflation / cosmic inflation / inflation theory / inflationary theory / inflationary period