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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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30 papers

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.GA2019★ 10 cited

A semi-analytical perspective on massive galaxies at

D. Stoppacher, F. Prada, A. D. Montero-Dorta +7

The most massive and luminous galaxies in the Universe serve as powerful probes to study the formation of structure, the assembly of mass, and cosmology. However, their detailed fo…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 89 cited

UNIT project: Universe -body simulations for the Investigation of Theoretical models from galaxy surveys

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Gustavo Yepes, Francisco-Shu Kitaura +13

We present the UNIT -body cosmological simulations project, designed to provide precise predictions for nonlinear statistics of the galaxy distribution. We focus on characterizi…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 15 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a tomographic measurement of structure growth and expansion rate from anisotropic galaxy clustering in Fourier space

Jinglan Zheng, Gong-Bo Zhao, Jian Li +4

We perform a tomographic structure growth and expansion rate analysis using the monopole, quadrupole and hexadecapole of the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum derived from the S…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 49 cited

Probing gravity with a joint analysis of galaxy and CMB lensing and SDSS spectroscopy

Sukhdeep Singh, Shadab Alam, Rachel Mandelbaum +3

We present measurements of , a probe of gravity from large-scale structure, using BOSS LOWZ and CMASS spectroscopic samples, with lensing measurements from SDSS (galaxy lensin…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 160 cited

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measurement of the growth rate of structure from the anisotropic correlation function between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

Pauline Zarrouk, Etienne Burtin, Hector Gil-Marin +35

We present the clustering measurements of quasars in configuration space based on the Data Release 14 (DR14) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectros…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 27 cited

Probing galaxy assembly bias with LRG weak lensing observations

A. Niemiec, E. Jullo, A. D. Montero-Dorta +9

In Montero-Dorta et al. 2017, we show that luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) at can be divided into two grou…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 58 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a tomographic analysis of structure growth and expansion rate from anisotropic galaxy clustering

Yuting Wang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Chia-Hsun Chuang +4

We perform a tomographic analysis of structure growth and expansion rate from the anisotropic galaxy clustering of the combined sample of Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (B…

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.GA2017★ 49 cited

Observational evidence of galaxy assembly bias

Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Enrique Perez, Francisco Prada +10

We analyze the spectra of 300,000 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) with stellar masses from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS).…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 497 cited

Dynamical dark energy in light of the latest observations

Gong-Bo Zhao, Marco Raveri, Levon Pogosian +23

A flat Friedman-Roberson-Walker universe dominated by a cosmological constant () and cold dark matter (CDM) has been the working model preferred by cosmologists since the discov…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 213 cited

Lensing is Low: Cosmology, Galaxy Formation, or New Physics?

Alexie Leauthaud, Shun Saito, Stefan Hilbert +19

We present high signal-to-noise galaxy-galaxy lensing measurements of the BOSS CMASS sample using 250 square degrees of weak lensing data from CFHTLenS and CS82. We compare this si…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 85 cited

The Effect of Fiber Collisions on the Galaxy Power Spectrum Multipole

ChangHoon Hahn, Roman Scoccimarro, Michael R. Blanton +2

Fiber-fed multi-object spectroscopic surveys, with their ability to collect an unprecedented number of redshifts, currently dominate large-scale structure studies. However, physica…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 15 cited

Galaxy Three-Point Correlation Functions and Halo/Subhalo Models

Hong Guo, Zheng Zheng, Peter S. Behroozi +9

We present the measurements of the luminosity-dependent redshift-space three-point correlation functions (3PCFs) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR7 Main galaxy sample. We…

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★ 372 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 271 cited

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,…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 205 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 46 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 197 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 72 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: tomographic BAO analysis of DR12 combined sample in Fourier space

Gong-Bo Zhao, Yuting Wang, Shun Saito +25

We perform a tomographic baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) analysis using the monopole, quadrupole and hexadecapole of the redshift-space galaxy power spectrum measured from the p…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 276 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 69 cited

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…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 3 cited

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,…