SDSS-Iii: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Weinberg, David H.; Agol, Eric; Aihara, H.; Prieto, C. Allende; Anderson, Scott F.; Arns, James A.; Aubourg, É.; Bailey, S.; Balbinot, E.; Barkhouser, Robert H.; Beers, Timothy C.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bickerton, Steven J.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanton, Michael R.; Bochanski, John J.; Bolton, A.; Bosman, Casey T.; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W. N.; Breslauer, B.; Brewington, H.; Brinkmann, J.; Brown, P. J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Bürger, Dan; Busca, N. G.; Campbell, H.; Cargile, Phillip A.; Carithers, W.; Carlberg, Joleen K.; Carr, Michael; Chang, Liang; Chen, Yanmei; Chiappini, Cristina; Comparat, Johan; Connolly, N.; Cortês, Marina; Croft, Rupert A. C.; Cunha, Kátia; Costa, L. N. da; Davenport, James R. A.; Dawson, Kyle; Lee, Nathan De; Mello, G. F. Porto de; Simoni, F. de; Dean, Janice; Dhital, Saurav; Ealet, A.; Ebelke, Garrett; Edmondson, Edward M.; Eiting, J.; Escoffier, S.; Esposito, M.; Evans, Michael L.; Fan, Xiaohui; Castellá, Bruno Femenía; Ferreira, Letícia D.; Fitzgerald, Greg; Fleming, Scott W.; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Ford, Eric B.; Frinchaboy, Peter M.; Pérez, Ana E. García; Gaudi, B. Scott; Ge, Jian; Ghezzi, Luan; Gillespie, Bruce; Gilmore, G.; Girardi, L.; Gott, J. Richard; Gould, Andrew; Grebel, Eva K.; Gunn, James E.; Hamilton, J. C.; Harding, Paul; Harris, David W.; Hawley, Suzanne L.; Hearty, Frederick R.; Hennawi, Joseph F.; Hernández, J. I. González; Ho, Shirley; Hogg, David W.; Holtzman, Jon A.; Honscheid, K.; Inada, Naohisa; Ivans, Inese I.; Jiang, Linhua; Jiang, Peng; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Jordan, C.; Jordan, Wendell P.; Kauffmann, Guinevere; Kazin, Eyal; Kirkby, D.; Klaene, Mark A.; Knapp, G. R.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Kochanek, C. S.; Koesterke, L.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Krön, Richard G.; Lampeitl, H.; Lang, Dustin; Lawler, J. E.; Goff, Jean-Marc Le; Lee, Brian L.; Lee, Young Sun; Leisenring, Jarron; Lin, Yen-Ting; Liu, Jian; Long, Daniel C.; Loomis, Craig; Lucatello, S.; Lundgren, Britt; Lupton, Robert H.; Ma, Bo; Ma, Zhibo; MacDonald, Nicholas; Mack, Claude E.; Mahadevan, Suvrath; Maia, M. A. G.; Majewski, Steven R.; Makler, M.; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Mandelbaum, Rachel; Maraston, Claudia; Margala, Daniel; Maseman, Paul; Masters, Karen L.; McBride, Cameron K.; McDonald, Patrick; McGreer, Ian D.; McMahon, R. G.; Requejo, Olga Mena; Ménard, Brice; Miralda-Escudé, Jordi; Morrison, Heather; Mullally, Fergal; Muna, Demitri; Murayama, Hitoshi; Myers, Adam D.; Naugle, Tracy; Neto, A. Fausti; Nguyen, Duy Cuong; Nichol, R. C.; Nidever, David L.; O’Connell, R. W.; Ogando, R. L. C.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Daniel; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Paegert, Martin; Palanque-Delabrouille, N.; Pan, Kaike; Pandey, Parul; Parejko, John K.; Pâris, Isabelle; Pellegrini, P. S.; Pepper, Joshua; Percival, Will J.; Petitjean, P.; Pfaffenberger, Robert; Pforr, Janine; Phleps, S.; Pichon, Christophe; Pieri, Matthew M.; Prada, Francisco; Price-Whelan, Adrian M.; Raddick, M. Jordan; Ramos, B.; Reid, I. Neill; Reylé, C.; Rich, J.; Richards, Gordon T.; Rieke, G. H.; Rieke, M. J.; Rix, Hans─Walter; Robin, A. C.; Rocha-Pinto, Helio J.; Rockosi, Constance M.; Roe, Natalie A.; Rollinde, Emmanuel; Ross, Ashley J.; Ross, Nicholas P.; Rossetto, Bruno M.; Sánchez, Ariel G.; Santiago, B.; Sayres, Conor; Schiavon, Ricardo P.; Schlegel, David J.; Schlesinger, Katharine J.; Schmidt, Sarah J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Sellgren, K.; Shelden, Alaina; Sheldon, E.; Shetrone, Matthew; Shu, Y.; Silverman, John D.; Simmerer, Jennifer; Simmons, Audrey; Sivarani, T.; Skrutskie, Michael F.; Slosar, Anže; Smee, Stephen A.; Smith, Verne V.; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Stassun, Keivan G.; Steele, Oliver; Steinmetz, Matthias; Stockett, Mark H.; Stollberg, Todd; Strauss, Michael A.; Szalay, Alexander S.; Tanaka, Masayuki; Thakar, Aniruddha R.; Thomas, Daniel; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Tofflemire, Benjamin M.; Tojeiro, Rita; Tremonti, Christy; Magaña, Mariana Vargas; Verde, Licia; Vogt, Nicole P.; Wake, David A.; Wan, Xiaoke; Wang, Ji; Weaver, B. A.; White, Martin; White, Simon D. M.; Wilson, John C.; Wisniewski, John P.; Wood‐Vasey, W. M.; Yanny, B.; Yasuda, Naoki; Yèche, Ch; York, Donald G.; Young, Erick T.; Zasowski, Gail; Zehavi, Idit; Zhao, Bo

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“…BOSS, as part of SDSS-III (Eisenstein et al 2011;Dawson et al 2012) measured spectroscopic redshifts of 1 198 006 galaxies making use of the SDSS multi-fibre spectrographs (Bolton et al 2012;Smee et al 2013). The galaxies are selected from multi-colour SDSS imaging (Fukugita et al 1996;Gunn et al 1998;Smith et al 2002;Gunn, Siegmund & et al 2006;Doi et al 2010) over 10 252 deg 2 divided in two patches on the sky and cover a redshift range of z = 0.2 − 0.75.…”

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Constraining the relative velocity effect using the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Beutler

Seljak

Vlah

2017

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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We analyse the power spectrum of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), Data Release 12 (DR12) to constrain the relative velocity effect, which represents a potential systematic for measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale. The relative velocity effect is sourced by the different evolution of baryon and cold dark matter perturbations before decoupling. Our power spectrum model includes all 1-loop redshift-space terms corresponding to v bc parameterised by the bias parameter b v 2 . We also include the linear terms proportional to the relative density, δ bc , and relative velocity dispersion, θ bc , which we parameterise with the bias parameters b bc δ and b bc θ . Our data does not support a detection of the relative velocity effect in any of these parameters. Combining the low and high redshift bins of BOSS, we find limits of b v 2 = 0.012 ± 0.015 (±0.031), b bc δ = −1.0 ± 2.5 (±6.2) and b bc θ = −114 ± 55 (±175) with 68% (95%) confidence levels. These constraints restrict the potential systematic shift in D A (z), H(z) and f σ 8 , due to the relative velocity, to 1%, 0.8% and 2%, respectively. Given the current uncertainties on the BAO measurements of BOSS these shifts correspond to 0.53σ, 0.5σ and 0.22σ for D A (z), H(z) and f σ 8 , respectively.

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Constraining the relative velocity effect using the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Beutler

Seljak

Vlah

2017

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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“…This detection is made by stacking ACTPol reconstructed convergence maps at the positions of CMASS galaxies that have been optically selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Tenth Data Release (SDSS-III/BOSS DR10) ( [36][37][38]). This signal is detected at a significance of 3.2σ when we combine the nighttime data from three ACTPol first-season survey regions.…”

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Evidence of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos

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We present evidence of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background by 10 13 solar mass dark matter halos. Lensing convergence maps from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Polarimeter (ACTPol) are stacked at the positions of around 12,000 optically-selected CMASS galaxies from the SDSS-III/BOSS survey. The mean lensing signal is consistent with simulated dark matter halo profiles, and is favored over a null signal at 3.2σ significance. This result demonstrates the potential of microwave background lensing to probe the dark matter distribution in galaxy group and galaxy cluster halos.

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“…The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) [1], as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [2], has obtained accurate redshifts of over 1.5 million massive galaxies and spectra of more than 150,000 quasars with Lyα forest coverage in order to study Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). Measuring large-scale structure with these tracers provides percent-level accuracy in the position of the BAO peak [3], which translates into measurements of the redshift dependent angular diameter distance, D A (z), and Hubble expansion rate, H(z).…”

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Mock Quasar-Lyman-α forest data-sets for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Bautista

Bailey

Font-Ribera

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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys.

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Abstract. We describe mock data-sets generated to simulate the high-redshift quasar sample in Data Release 11 (DR11) of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The mock spectra contain Lyα forest correlations useful for studying the 3D correlation function including Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). They also include astrophysical effects such as quasar continuum diversity and high-density absorbers, instrumental effects such as noise and spectral resolution, as well as imperfections introduced by the SDSS pipeline treatment of the raw data. The Lyα forest BAO analysis of the BOSS collaboration, described in Delubac et al. 2014, has used these mock data-sets to develop and cross-check analysis procedures prior to performing the BAO analysis on real data, and for continued systematic cross checks. Tests presented here show that the simulations reproduce sufficiently well important characteristics of real spectra. These mock data-sets will be made available together with the data at the time of the Data Release 11.

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SDSS-Iii: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Cited by 1,995 publications

References 146 publications

Constraining the relative velocity effect using the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Constraining the relative velocity effect using the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Evidence of Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Dark Matter Halos

Mock Quasar-Lyman-α forest data-sets for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

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