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most citedThe clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

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26 papers

astro-ph.CO2025

The Manticore Project I: a digital twin of our cosmic neighbourhood from Bayesian field-level analysis

Stuart McAlpine, Jens Jasche, Metin Ata +4

We present the first results from the Manticore project, dubbed Manticore-Local, a suite of Bayesian constrained simulations of the nearby Universe, generated by fitting a physical…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 4 cited

Learning the Universe: Learning to Optimize Cosmic Initial Conditions with Non-Differentiable Structure Formation Models

Ludvig Doeser, Metin Ata, Jens Jasche

Making the most of next-generation galaxy clustering surveys requires overcoming challenges in complex, non-linear modelling to access the significant amount of information at smal…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 37 cited

FLIMFLAM DR1: The First Constraints on the Cosmic Baryon Distribution from 8 FRB sightlines

Ilya S. Khrykin, Metin Ata, Khee-Gan Lee +15

The dispersion measure of fast radio bursts (FRBs), arising from the interactions of the pulses with free electrons along the propagation path, constitutes a unique probe of the co…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 41 cited

The FRB20190520B Sightline Intersects Foreground Galaxy Clusters

Khee-Gan Lee, Ilya S. Khrykin, Sunil Simha +7

The repeating fast radio burst FRB20190520B is an anomaly of the FRB population thanks to its high dispersion measure (DMpc/cc) despite its low redshift of $z_\mathrm{frb}…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 18 cited

Observational Evidence for Large-Scale Gas Heating in a Galaxy Protocluster at z=2.30

Chenze Dong, Khee-Gan Lee, Metin Ata +2

We report a galaxy protocluster (COSTCO-I) in the COSMOS field, where the Lyman- forest as seen in the CLAMATO IGM tomography survey does not show significant absorptio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 4 cited

Searching for the sources of excess extragalactic dispersion of FRBs

Sunil Simha, Khee-Gan Lee, J. Xavier Prochaska +11

The FLIMFLAM survey is collecting spectroscopic data of field galaxies near fast radio burst (FRB) sightlines to constrain key parameters describing the distribution of matter in t…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 2 cited

The Dependence of Galaxy Properties on the Underlying 3D Matter Density Field at 2.0 < z < 2.5

Rieko Momose, Khee-Gan Lee, Benjamin Horowitz +2

We study the environmental effect of galaxy evolution as a function of the underlying 3D dark matter density for the first time at , in which the underlying matter density…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 16 cited

Revisiting Tests of Lorentz Invariance with Gamma-ray Bursts: Effects of Intrinsic Lags

Valeri Vardanyan, Volodymyr Takhistov, Metin Ata +1

Due to their cosmological distances high-energy astrophysical sources allow for unprecedented tests of fundamental physics. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) comprise among the most sensitiv…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 32 cited

Predicted future fate of COSMOS galaxy protoclusters over 11 Gyr with constrained simulations

Metin Ata, Khee-Gan Lee, Claudio Dalla Vecchia +5

Cosmological simulations are crucial tools in studying the Universe, but they typically do not directly match real observed structures. Constrained cosmological simulations, on the…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 5 cited

The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar and APOGEE-2 Data

Abdurro'uf, Katherine Accetta, Conny Aerts +337

This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 36 cited

Second Data Release of the COSMOS Lyman-alpha Mapping and Tomographic Observation: The First 3D Maps of the Detailed Cosmic Web at 2.05<z<2.55

Benjamin Horowitz, Khee-Gan Lee, Metin Ata +12

We present the second data release of the COSMOS Lyman-Alpha Mapping And Tomography Observations (CLAMATO) Survey conducted with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck-I telescope. This…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 50 cited

Constraining the Cosmic Baryon Distribution with Fast Radio Burst Foreground Mapping

Khee-Gan Lee, Metin Ata, Ilya S. Khrykin +5

The dispersion measures (DM) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) encode the integrated electron density along the line-of-sight, which is typically dominated by the intergalactic medium (I…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 16 cited

Mapping Lyman-alpha forest three-dimensional large scale structure in real and redshift space

Francesco Sinigaglia, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez +4

This work presents a new physically-motivated supervised machine learning method, Hydro-BAM, to reproduce the three-dimensional Lyman- forest field in real and in redshift space…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 4 cited

The bias from hydrodynamic simulations: mapping baryon physics onto dark matter fields

Francesco Sinigaglia, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Andrés Balaguera-Antolínez +4

This paper investigates the hierarchy of baryon physics assembly bias relations obtained from state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations with respect to the underlying cosmic web sp…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 31 cited

BIRTH of the COSMOS Field: Primordial and Evolved Density Reconstructions During Cosmic High Noon

Metin Ata, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Khee-Gan Lee +5

This work presents the first comprehensive study of structure formation at the peak epoch of cosmic star formation over in the COSMOS field, including the most…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 9 cited

Higher Order Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Sampling for Cosmological Large-Scale Structure Analysis

Mónica Hernández-Sánchez, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Metin Ata +1

We investigate higher order symplectic integration strategies within Bayesian cosmic density field reconstruction methods. In particular, we study the fourth-order discretisation o…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 48 cited

COSMIC BIRTH: Efficient Bayesian Inference of the Evolving Cosmic Web from Galaxy Surveys

Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Metin Ata, Sergio A. Rodriguez-Torres +3

We present COSMIC BIRTH: COSMological Initial Conditions from Bayesian Inference Reconstructions with THeoretical models: an algorithm to reconstruct the primordial and evolved cos…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 44 cited

TARDIS Paper I: A Constrained Reconstruction Approach to Modeling the z~2.5 Cosmic Web Probed by Lyman-alpha Forest Tomography

Benjamin Horowitz, Khee-Gan Lee, Martin White +2

Recent Lyman- forest tomography measurements of the intergalactic medium (IGM) have revealed a wealth of cosmic structures at high redshift (). In this work, we prese…

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.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.CO2016★ 3.1k cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological analysis of the DR12 galaxy sample

Shadab Alam, Metin Ata, Stephen Bailey +69

We present cosmological results from the final galaxy clustering data set of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. Our combined gal…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 23 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 15 cited

Bayesian redshift-space distortions correction from galaxy redshift surveys

Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Metin Ata, Raul E. Angulo +5

We present a Bayesian reconstruction method which maps a galaxy distribution from redshift-space to real-space inferring the distances of the individual galaxies. The method is bas…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 62 cited

Bayesian inference of cosmic density fields from non-linear, scale-dependent, and stochastic biased tracers

Metin Ata, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Volker Müller

We present a Bayesian reconstruction algorithm to generate unbiased samples of the underlying dark matter field from halo catalogues. Our new contribution consists of implementing…