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most citedThe Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

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46 papers

astro-ph.CO2024★ 3 cited

The Gravitational Lensing Imprints of DES Y3 Superstructures on the CMB: A Matched Filtering Approach

Umut Demirbozan, Seshadri Nadathur, Ismael Ferrero +63

Low density cosmic voids gravitationally lens the cosmic microwave background (CMB), leaving a negative imprint on the CMB convergence . This effect provides insight into the…

astro-ph.CO2024

Copacabana: A Probabilistic Membership Assignment Method for Galaxy Clusters

J. H. Esteves, M. E. S. Pereira, M. Soares-Santos +52

Cosmological analyses using galaxy clusters in optical/NIR photometric surveys require robust characterization of their galaxy content. Precisely determining which galaxies belong…

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★ 2 cited

Probing gravity with the DES-CMASS sample and BOSS spectroscopy

S. Lee, E. M. Huff, A. Choi +102

The DES-CMASS sample (DMASS) is designed to optimally combine the weak lensing measurements from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and redshift-space distortions (RSD) probed by the CMA…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 42 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Modelling selection efficiency and observed core collapse supernova contamination

M. Vincenzi, M. Sullivan, O. Graur +79

The analysis of current and future cosmological surveys of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high-redshift depends on the accurate photometric classification of the SN events detected…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 106 cited

Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey

DES Collaboration, T. M. C. Abbott, A. Alarcon +166

The combination of multiple observational probes has long been advocated as a powerful technique to constrain cosmological parameters, in particular dark energy. The Dark Energy Su…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 235 cited

StarHorse: A Bayesian tool for determining stellar masses, ages, distances, and extinctions for field stars

Anna B. A. Queiroz, Friedrich Anders, Basílio X. Santiago +12

Understanding the formation and evolution of our Galaxy requires accurate distances, ages and chemistry for large populations of field stars. Here we present several updates to our…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 5 cited

DES Science Portal: Creating Science-Ready Catalogs

Angelo Fausti Neto, Luiz da Costa, Aurelio Carnero Rosell +55

We present a novel approach for creating science-ready catalogs through a software infrastructure developed for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We integrate the data products release…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

A Study of Quasar Selection in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova fields

S. S. Tie, P. Martini, D. Mudd +75

We present a study of quasar selection using the DES supernova fields. We used a quasar catalog from an overlapping portion of the SDSS Stripe 82 region to quantify the completenes…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 4 cited

Discovery of a z=0.65 Post-Starburst BAL Quasar in the DES Supernova Fields

Dale Mudd, Paul Martini, Suk Sien Tie +55

We present the discovery of a z=0.65 low-ionization broad absorption line (LoBAL) quasar in a post-starburst galaxy in data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and spectroscopy from…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 56 cited

Galaxy Populations in Massive Galaxy Clusters to z=1.1: Color Distribution, Concentration, Halo Occupation Number and Red Sequence Fraction

C. Hennig, J. J. Mohr, A. Zenteno +70

We study the galaxy populations in 74 Sunyaev Zeldovich Effect (SZE) selected clusters from the South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey that have been imaged in the science verification…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 12 cited

The XMM Cluster Survey: evolution of the velocity dispersion -- temperature relation over half a Hubble time

Susan Wilson, Matt Hilton, Philip J. Rooney +26

We measure the evolution of the velocity dispersion--temperature (--) relation up to using a sample of 38 galaxy clusters drawn from the \textit{XMM}…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 1 cited

The SDSS-III BOSS quasar lens survey: discovery of thirteen gravitationally lensed quasars

Anupreeta More, Masamune Oguri, Issha Kayo +15

We report the discovery of 13 confirmed two-image quasar lenses from a systematic search for gravitationally lensed quasars in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 4 cited

Photometric redshifts and clustering of emission line galaxies selected jointly by DES and eBOSS

S. Jouvel, T. Delubac, J. Comparat +65

We present the results of the first test plates of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. This paper focuses on the emission line galaxies (ELG) population targetted…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 51 cited

SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey

J. Comparat, T. Delubac, S. Jouvel +83

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) will observe 195,000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to measure the Baryonic Acoust…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 108 cited

Spectro-photometric distances to stars: a general-purpose Bayesian approach

Basílio X. Santiago, Dorothée E. Brauer, Friedrich Anders +16

We developed a code that estimates distances to stars using measured spectroscopic and photometric quantities. We employ a Bayesian approach to build the probability distribution f…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 190 cited

Bayesian distances and extinctions for giants observed by Kepler and APOGEE

Thaíse S. Rodrigues, Léo Girardi, Andrea Miglio +30

We present a first determination of distances and extinctions for individual stars in the first release of the APOKASC catalogue, built from the joint efforts of the Apache Point O…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 62 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III DR10 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: No Detectable Colour Dependence of Distance Scale or Growth Rate Measurements

Ashley J. Ross, Lado Samushia, Angela Burden +27

We study the clustering of galaxies, as a function of their colour, from Data Release Ten (DR10) of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. We select 122,967 galaxies…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 24 cited

Large-scale analysis of the SDSS-III DR8 photometric luminous galaxies angular correlation function

Fernando de Simoni, Flavia Sobreira, Aurelio Carnero +6

We analyse the large-scale angular correlation function (ACF) of the CMASS luminous galaxies (LGs), a photometric-redshift catalogue based on the Data Release 8 (DR8) of the Sloan…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 70 cited

Star/galaxy separation at faint magnitudes: Application to a simulated Dark Energy Survey

M. T. Soumagnac, F. B. Abdalla, O. Lahav +17

We address the problem of separating stars from galaxies in future large photometric surveys. We focus our analysis on simulations of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). In the first par…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 151 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in SDSS-III DR9 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Constraints on Primordial Non-Gaussianity

Ashley J. Ross, Will J. Percival, Aurelio Carnero +36

We analyze the density field of 264,283 galaxies observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) and included in the SDSS data re…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 2.1k cited

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

Kyle S. Dawson, David J. Schlegel, Christopher P. Ahn +162

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 898 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample

Lauren Anderson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey +73

We present measurements of galaxy clustering from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III). These use the Da…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 10 cited

Cosmological forecasts from photometric measurements of the angular correlation function

F. Sobreira, F. de Simoni, R. Rosenfeld +3

We study forecasts for the accuracy of the determination of cosmological parameters from future large scale photometric surveys obtained using the full shape of the 2-point galaxy…