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| Author | Dawson, K.S. et al; de Putter, R.; Mena, O. | ||||
| Title | The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III | Type | Journal Article | ||
| Year | 2013 | Publication | Astronomical Journal | Abbreviated Journal | Astron. J. |
| Volume | 145 | Issue | 1 | Pages | 10 - 41pp |
| Keywords | cosmology: observations; surveys | ||||
| Abstract | The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of all previous spectroscopic surveys of large-scale structure. BOSS uses 1.5 million luminous galaxies as faint as i = 19.9 over 10,000 deg(2) to measure BAO to redshifts z < 0.7. Observations of neutral hydrogen in the Ly alpha forest in more than 150,000 quasar spectra (g < 22) will constrain BAO over the redshift range 2.15 < z < 3.5. Early results from BOSS include the first detection of the large-scale three-dimensional clustering of the Ly alpha forest and a strong detection from the Data Release 9 data set of the BAO in the clustering of massive galaxies at an effective redshift z = 0.57. We project that BOSS will yield measurements of the angular diameter distance d(A) to an accuracy of 1.0% at redshifts z = 0.3 and z = 0.57 and measurements of H(z) to 1.8% and 1.7% at the same redshifts. Forecasts for Ly alpha forest constraints predict a measurement of an overall dilation factor that scales the highly degenerate D-A(z) and H-1(z) parameters to an accuracy of 1.9% at z similar to 2.5 when the survey is complete. Here, we provide an overview of the selection of spectroscopic targets, planning of observations, and analysis of data and data quality of BOSS. | ||||
| Address | [Dawson, Kyle S.; Ahn, Christopher P.; Bolton, Adam S.; Brown, Peter J.; Brownstein, Joel R.; Harris, David W.; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Shu, Yiping; Zheng, Zheng] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA, Email: kdawson@astro.utah.edu | ||||
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| Publisher | Iop Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication | Editor | ||
| Language | English | Summary Language | Original Title | ||
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| ISSN | 0004-6256 | ISBN | Medium | ||
| Area | Expedition | Conference | |||
| Notes | WOS:000312251100010 | Approved | no | ||
| Is ISI | yes | International Collaboration | yes | ||
| Call Number | IFIC @ pastor @ | Serial | 1266 | ||
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