Spectral classification and redshift measurement for the SDSS-III baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

AS Bolton, DJ Schlegel, É Aubourg… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
… We describe the automated spectral classification, redshift determination, … Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) as of the survey's

The baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey of SDSS-III

KS Dawson, DJ Schlegel, CP Ahn… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
… This paper describes the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest of
the four surveys that comprise SDSS-III (Eisenstein et al. 2011). Shorter summaries of BOSS …

SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues

B Reid, S Ho, N Padmanabhan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… The SDSS-III BOSS survey is composed of 38 chunks. … Finally, we use ‘fibre2’ (denoted by
subscript fib2) magnitudes to estimate the expected flux through the SDSS-III 2 arcsec fibres. …

… clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Observational systematics and baryon acoustic oscillations in the correlation …

AJ Ross, F Beutler, CH Chuang… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale measurements determined from the …
release (DR12) of the SDSS III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This includes …

The SDSS-III baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: quasar target selection for data release nine

NP Ross, AD Myers, ES Sheldon… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
surveys that will continue until the summer of 2014. One of those surveys, the Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (… essentially all the dark time for SDSS-III. The key goal of BOSS is …

The SDSS-III baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: the quasar luminosity function from data release nine

NP Ross, ID McGreer, M White… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
… For our study, we use data from the SDSS-III: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS;
Dawson et al. 2013) that is specifically designed to target faint, g ≲ 22, quasars in the …

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a large sample of mock galaxy catalogues

M Manera, R Scoccimarro, WJ Percival… - Monthly Notices of …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We present a fast method for producing mock galaxy catalogues that can be used to compute
the covariance of large-scale clustering measurements and test analysis techniques. Our …

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: analysis of potential systematics

AJ Ross, WJ Percival, AG Sánchez… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)
included in the SDSS Data Release Nine (DR9). DR9 includes spectroscopic redshifts for over …

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Fourier space

F Beutler, HJ Seo, AJ Ross, P McDonald… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… We analyse the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signal of the final Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data release (DR12). Our analysis is performed in the Fourier space…

The SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: overview and early data

KS Dawson, JP Kneib, WJ Percival… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
… Favorable weather during SDSS-III led to an early completion of the BOSS program. A
fraction of the remaining time was allocated to an eBOSS pilot program known as the Sloan …