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20152017
most citedThe DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

1.3k citations · 3.8k across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.GA2017★ 225 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: H and H Reverberation Measurements From First-year Spectroscopy and Photometry

C. J. Grier, J. R. Trump, Yue Shen +39

We present reverberation mapping results from the first year of combined spectroscopic and photometric observations of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project. W…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 681 cited

The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi, D. S. Aguado, Gabriela Aguilar +344

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since July 2014. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the fourtee…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 53 cited

Broad absorption line disappearance and emergence using multiple-epoch spectroscopy from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

S. M. McGraw, W. N. Brandt, C. J. Grier +8

We investigate broad absorption line (BAL) disappearance and emergence using a 470 BAL-quasar sample over < 0.10-5.25 rest-frame years with at least three spectroscopic epochs for…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 413 cited

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: First measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Metin Ata, Falk Baumgarten, Julian Bautista +60

We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147,000 quasars from the extended…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 236 cited

The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1.3k cited

The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 46 cited

Redshift Measurement and Spectral Classification for eBOSS Galaxies with the Redmonster Software

Timothy A. Hutchinson, Adam S. Bolton, Kyle S. Dawson +13

We describe the redmonster automated redshift measurement and spectral classification software designed for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloa…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 849 cited

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Overview and Early Data

Kyle S. Dawson, Jean-Paul Kneib, Will J. Percival +143

The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. Observations will…