Publications (55)
The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 LRG sample: structure growth rate measurement from the anisotropic LRG correlation function in the redshift range 0.6 < z < 1.0
M. Icaza-Lizaola, M. Vargas-Magaña, S. Fromenteau +14
We analyze the anisotropic clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Luminous Red Galaxy Data Release 14 (DR14) sample…
The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample
Julian E. Bautista, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Kyle S. Dawson +16
The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 Luminous Red Galaxies. By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail o…
The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra
Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida +310
This paper documents the sixteenth data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of…
The SDSS-IV MaNGA Sample: Design, Optimization, and Usage Considerations
David A. Wake, Kevin Bundy, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic +15
We describe the sample design for the SDSS-IV MaNGA survey and present the final properties of the main samples along with important considerations for using these samples for scie…
Assessing Colour-dependent Occupation Statistics Inferred from Galaxy Group Catalogues
Duncan Campbell, Frank C van den Bosch, Andrew Hearin +5
We investigate the ability of current implementations of galaxy group finders to recover colour-dependent halo occupation statistics. To test the fidelity of group catalogue inferr…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: tomographic BAO analysis of DR12 combined sample in configuration space
Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang +20
We perform a tomographic baryon acoustic oscillations analysis using the two-point galaxy correlation function measured from the combined sample of BOSS DR12, which covers the reds…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: combining correlated Gaussian posterior distributions
Ariel G. Sanchez, Jan Niklas Grieb, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz +17
The cosmological information contained in anisotropic galaxy clustering measurements can often be compressed into a small number of parameters whose posterior distribution is well…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in Fourier-space
Florian Beutler, Hee-Jong Seo, Ashley J. Ross +26
We analyse the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal of the final Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) data release (DR12). Our analysis is performed in Fourier-space,…
Collapse Barriers and Halo Abundance: Testing the Excursion Set Ansatz
Brant Robertson, Andrey Kravtsov, Jeremy Tinker +1
Our heuristic understanding of the abundance of dark matter halos centers around the concept of a density threshold, or "barrier", for gravitational collapse. If one adopts the ans…
Super-resolving Dark Matter Halos using Generative Deep Learning
David Schaurecker, Yin Li, Jeremy Tinker +2
Generative deep learning methods built upon Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) provide a great tool for predicting non-linear structure in cosmology. In this work we predict high…
The incidence of cool gas in ~ 1e13 Msun halos
Jean-Rene Gauthier, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Jeremy Tinker
We present the first results of an ongoing spectroscopic follow-up of close luminous red galaxy (LRGs) and MgII λλ 2796,2803 absorber pairs for an initial sample of 15 photometri…
The large-scale 3-point correlation function of the SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS galaxies
Zachary Slepian, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Florian Beutler +15
We report a measurement of the large-scale 3-point correlation function of galaxies using the largest dataset for this purpose to date, 777, 202 Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan…
The Morphological Evolution of Merger Remnants
Barbara Ryden, Jeremy Tinker
Elliptical galaxies formed in a major merger tend to become more nearly spherical with time, thanks to the gravitational effect of their central black hole (or black holes). Observ…
Exploring cosmic homogeneity with the BOSS DR12 galaxy sample
Pierros Ntelis, Jean-Christophe Hamilton, Jean-Marc Le Goff +16
In this study, we probe the transition to cosmic homogeneity in the Large Scale Structure (LSS) of the Universe using the CMASS galaxy sample of BOSS spectroscopic survey which cov…
The Stripe 82 Massive Galaxy Project II: Stellar Mass Completeness of Spectroscopic Galaxy Samples from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Alexie Leauthaud, Kevin Bundy, Shun Saito +7
The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) has collected spectra for over one million galaxies at over a volume of 15.3 Gpc (9,376 deg) -- providing us…
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: mock galaxy catalogues for the BOSS Final Data Release
Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Sergio Rodriguez-Torres, Chia-Hsun Chuang +20
We reproduce the galaxy clustering catalogue from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Final Data Release (BOSS DR11&DR12) with high fidelity on all relevant scales…
The Morphology of Galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Karen L. Masters, Claudia Maraston, Robert C. Nichol +17
We study the morphology of luminous and massive galaxies at 0.3<z<0.7 targeted in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) using publicly available Hubble Space Telescope…
Clustering of quasars in SDSS-IV eBOSS : study of potential systematics and bias determination
Pierre Laurent, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Jean-Marc Le Goff +21
We study the first year of the eBOSS quasar sample in the redshift range which includes 68,772 homogeneously selected quasars. We show that the main source of systemati…
Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and the Mass-to-Number Ratio of Galaxy Clusters: Marginalizing over the Physics of Galaxy Formation
Rachel Reddick, Jeremy Tinker, Risa Wechsler +1
Many approaches to obtaining cosmological constraints rely on the connection between galaxies and dark matter. However, the distribution of galaxies is dependent on their formation…
Aemulus : Precision halo mass functions in wCDM cosmologies
Delon Shen, Nickolas Kokron, Joseph DeRose +4
Precise and accurate predictions of the halo mass function for cluster mass scales in cosmologies are crucial for extracting robust and unbiased cosmological informa…
The clustering of galaxies at z~0.5 in the SDSS-III Data Release 9 BOSS-CMASS sample: a test for the LCDM cosmology
Sebastian E. Nuza, Ariel G. Sanchez, Francisco Prada +28
We present results on the clustering of 282,068 galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) sample of massive galaxies with redshifts 0.4<z<0.7 which is part of…
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological constraints from the full shape of the clustering wedges
Ariel G. Sanchez, Eyal A. Kazin, Florian Beutler +19
We explore the cosmological implications of the clustering wedges, xi_perp(s) and xi_para(s), of the CMASS Data Release 9 (DR9) sample of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Surve…
The Time-Domain Spectroscopic Survey: Target Selection for Repeat Spectroscopy
Chelsea L. MacLeod, Paul J. Green, Scott F. Anderson +35
As astronomers increasingly exploit the information available in the time domain, spectroscopic variability in particular opens broad new channels of investigation. Here we describ…
The Aemulus Project VI: Emulation of beyond-standard galaxy clustering statistics to improve cosmological constraints
Kate Storey-Fisher, Jeremy Tinker, Zhongxu Zhai +3
There is untapped cosmological information in galaxy redshift surveys in the non-linear regime. In this work, we use the AEMULUS suite of cosmological -body simulations to const…
Stellar masses of SDSS-III BOSS galaxies at z~0.5 and constraints to galaxy formation models
Claudia Maraston, Janine Pforr, Bruno M. Henriques +27
We calculate stellar masses for massive luminous galaxies at redshift 0.2-0.7 using the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Stellar mas…
The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory
SDSS Collaboration, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +335
The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS cont…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Angular clustering tomography and its cosmological implications
Salvador Salazar-Albornoz, Ariel G. Sanchez, Jan Niklas Grieb +17
We investigate the cosmological implications of studying galaxy clustering using a tomographic approach applied to the final BOSS DR12 galaxy sample, including both auto- and cross…
Astro2020: Empirically Constraining Galaxy Evolution
Peter Behroozi, Matthew R. Becker, Frank C. van den Bosch +22
Over the past decade, empirical constraints on the galaxy-dark matter halo connection have significantly advanced our understanding of galaxy evolution. Past techniques have focuse…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release
Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Eric Aubourg +73
We present the Data Release 9 Quasar (DR9Q) catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. The catalog includes all BOSS objec…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the configuration-space clustering wedges
Ariel G. Sanchez, Roman Scoccimarro, Martin Crocce +21
We explore the cosmological implications of anisotropic clustering measurements in configuration space of the final galaxy samples from Data Release 12 of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscil…
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Modeling the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS-CMASS galaxies in the Final Data Release
Sergio A. RodrÃguez-Torres, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco Prada +21
We present a study of the clustering and halo occupation distribution of BOSS CMASS galaxies in the redshift range 0.43 < z < 0.7 drawn from the Final SDSS-III Data Release. We com…
Emulating galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing into the deeply nonlinear regime: methodology, information, and forecasts
Benjamin D. Wibking, Andrés N. Salcedo, David H. Weinberg +6
The combination of galaxy-galaxy lensing (GGL) with galaxy clustering is one of the most promising routes to determining the amplitude of matter clustering at low redshifts. We sho…
Are Halo and Galaxy Formation Histories Correlated?
Jeremy Tinker, Andrew Wetzel, Charlie Conroy
The properties of dark matter halos, including mass growth, correlate with larger scale environment at fixed mass, an effect known as assembly bias. However, whether this environme…
The Clustering of Galaxies in the Completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmic Flows and Cosmic Web from Luminous Red Galaxies
Metin Ata, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Chia-Hsun Chuang +31
We present a Bayesian phase-space reconstruction of the cosmic large-scale matter density and velocity fields from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillations Spectroscopic Survey Data Releas…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Anisotropic galaxy clustering in Fourier-space
Florian Beutler, Hee-Jong Seo, Shun Saito +20
We investigate the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 12 (DR12) sample, which consists of galaxies in the redsh…
The integrated stellar content of dark matter halos
Alexie Leauthaud, Matthew R. George, Peter S. Behroozi +6
Measurements of the total amount of stars locked up in galaxies as a function of host halo mass contain key clues about the efficiency of processes that regulate star formation. We…
SPIDERS: the spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray selected clusters of galaxies in SDSS-IV
Nicolas Clerc, Andrea Merloni, Yu-Ying Zhang +17
SPIDERS (The SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources) is a program dedicated to the homogeneous and complete spectroscopic follow-up of X-ray AGN and galaxy clusters over a…
Aemulus : Precise Predictions for Matter and Biased Tracer Power Spectra in the Presence of Neutrinos
Joseph DeRose, Nickolas Kokron, Arka Banerjee +6
We present the Aemulus simulations: a suite of 150 -body simulations with a mass resolution of $3.51\times 10^{10} \frac{Ω_{cb}}{0.3} ~ h^{-1} M_{…
SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey --- Survey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality
Renbin Yan, Kevin Bundy, David R. Law +47
The MaNGA Survey (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory) is one of three core programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV. It is obtaining integral field spectroscopy…
An evaluation of cosmological models from expansion and growth of structure measurements
Zhongxu Zhai, Michael Blanton, Anže Slosar +1
We compare a large suite of theoretical cosmological models to observational data from the cosmic microwave background, baryon acoustic oscillation measurements of expansion, Type…
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the correlation function of LOWZ and CMASS galaxies in Data Release 12
Antonio J. Cuesta, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Florian Beutler +20
We present distance scale measurements from the baryon acoustic oscillation signal in the CMASS and LOWZ samples from the Data Release 12 of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Su…
Angular Momentum Evolution of Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster
Jeremy Tinker, Marc Pinsonneault, Donald Terndrup
(Abridged) We present theoretical models of stellar angular momentum evolution from the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) to the Pleiades and the Hyades. We demonstrate that observations…
Galaxies in X-ray Groups. III. Satellite Color and Morphology Transformations
Matthew R. George, Chung-Pei Ma, Kevin Bundy +5
While the star formation rates and morphologies of galaxies have long been known to correlate with their local environment, the process by which these correlations are generated is…
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low redshift sample
John K. Parejko, Tomomi Sunayama, Nikhil Padmanabhan +36
We report on the small scale (0.5<r<40h^-1 Mpc) clustering of 78895 massive (M*~10^11.3M_sun) galaxies at 0.2<z<0.4 from the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spe…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Observational systematics and baryon acoustic oscillations in the correlation function
Ashley J. Ross, Florian Beutler, Chia-Hsun Chuang +27
We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale measurements determined from the clustering of 1.2 million massive galaxies with redshifts 0.2 < z < 0.75 distributed over 9300 s…
Signatures of the Primordial Universe from Its Emptiness: Measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Minima of the Density Field
Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Liang +14
Sound waves from the primordial fluctuations of the Universe imprinted in the large-scale structure, called baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), can be used as standard rulers to m…
The Ellipticity and Orientation of Clusters of Galaxies from N-Body Experiments
Randall J. Splinter, Adrian L. Melott, Angela Linn +2
In this study we use simulations of 128 particles to study the ellipticity and orientation of clusters of galaxies in N-body simulations of differing power-law initial spectra…
SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large scale structure catalogues
Beth Reid, Shirley Ho, Nikhil Padmanabhan +39
The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy redshifts available to date,…
The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurements of the growth of structure and expansion rate at z=0.57 from anisotropic clustering
Beth A. Reid, Lado Samushia, Martin White +44
We analyze the anisotropic clustering of massive galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) sample, which co…
dm2gal: Mapping Dark Matter to Galaxies with Neural Networks
Noah Kasmanoff, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Jeremy Tinker +1
Maps of cosmic structure produced by galaxy surveys are one of the key tools for answering fundamental questions about the Universe. Accurate theoretical predictions for these quan…
Probing Galaxy Assembly Bias in BOSS Galaxies Using Void Probabilities
Kilian Walsh, Jeremy Tinker
We measure the void probability function (VPF) of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The VPF provides complementary information to standard two-point s…
The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring H(z) and D_A(z) at z = 0.57 with Clustering Wedges
Eyal A. Kazin, Ariel G. Sanchez, Antonio J. Cuesta +18
We analyze the 2D correlation function of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample of massive galaxies of the ninth data release to measure cosmic e…
Halo Histories vs. Galaxy Properties at z=0, I: The Quenching of Star Formation
Jeremy Tinker, Andrew Wetzel, Charlie Conroy +1
We test whether halo age and galaxy age are correlated at fixed halo and galaxy mass. The formation histories, and thus ages, of dark matter halos correlate with their large-scale…
Galaxies in X-ray Groups I: Robust Membership Assignment and the Impact of Group Environments on Quenching
Matthew R. George, Alexie Leauthaud, Kevin Bundy +19
Understanding the mechanisms that lead dense environments to host galaxies with redder colors, more spheroidal morphologies, and lower star formation rates than field populations r…
New constraints on the evolution of the stellar-to-dark matter connection: a combined analysis of galaxy-galaxy lensing, clustering, and stellar mass functions from z=0.2 to z=1
Alexie Leauthaud, Jeremy Tinker, Kevin Bundy +20
Using data from the COSMOS survey, we perform the first joint analysis of galaxy-galaxy weak lensing, galaxy spatial clustering, and galaxy number densities. Carefully accounting f…