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most citedThe Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

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46 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest Multipoles

N. G. Karaçaylı, A. Cuceu, J. Aguilar +55

We present an alternative measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) using the Legendre multipole representation of the Ly forest correlation functions from the second…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Validation of the DESI 2024 Ly forest BAO analysis using synthetic datasets

Andrei Cuceu, Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Calum Gordon +56

The first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) contains the largest set of Lyman- (Ly) forest spectra ever observed. This data, collected in the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 263 cited

DESI 2024 III: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Galaxies and Quasars

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +193

We present the DESI 2024 galaxy and quasar baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) measurements using over 5.7 million unique galaxy and quasar redshifts in the range 0.1<z<2.1. Divided…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1.1k cited

DESI 2024 VI: Cosmological Constraints from the Measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +200

We present cosmological results from the measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in galaxy, quasar and Lyman- forest tracers from the first year of observations from t…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 254 cited

DESI 2024 IV: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from the Lyman Alpha Forest

DESI Collaboration, A. G. Adame, J. Aguilar +196

We present the measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) from the Lyman- (Ly) forest of high-redshift quasars with the first-year dataset of the Dark Energy Spectrosc…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 16 cited

Synthetic spectra for Lyman- forest analysis in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Ting Tan +51

Synthetic data sets are used in cosmology to test analysis procedures, to verify that systematic errors are well understood and to demonstrate that measurements are unbiased. In th…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 1 cited

Mock data sets for the Eboss and DESI Lyman- forest surveys

Thomas Etourneau, Jean-Marc Le Goff, James Rich +32

We present a publicly-available code to generate sets of mock Lyman- (\lya) forest data that have realistic large-scale correlations including those due to the Baryonic Acoustic…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 1 cited

First measurement of the correlation between cosmic voids and the Lyman- forest

Corentin Ravoux, Eric Armengaud, Julian Bautista +5

We report the first detection at a median redshift of large-scale matter flows around cosmic voids. Voids are identified within a tomographic map of large-scale Lyman-$α…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 19 cited

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: The Damped Lyman- systems Catalog

Solène Chabanier, Thomas Etourneau, Jean-Marc Le Goff +12

We present the characteristics of the Damped Lyman- (DLA) systems found in the data release DR16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Dig…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 1.4k cited

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmological Implications from two Decades of Spectroscopic Surveys at the Apache Point observatory

eBOSS Collaboration, Shadab Alam, Marie Aubert +97

We present the cosmological implications from final measurements of clustering using galaxies, quasars, and Ly forests from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) lineage…

astro-ph.CO2018★ 21 cited

The scale of cosmic homogeneity as a standard ruler

Pierros Ntelis, Anne Ealet, Stephanie Escoffier +5

In this paper, we study the characteristic scale of transition to cosmic homogeneity of the universe, , as a standard ruler, to constrain cosmological parameters on…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 464 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Fourteenth Data Release

I. Pâris, P. Petitjean, E. Aubourg +38

We present the Data Release 14 Quasar catalog (DR14Q) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). This catalog i…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 34 cited

Mock Quasar-Lyman-α Forest Data-sets for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Julian E. Bautista, Stephen Bailey, Andreu Font-Ribera +15

We describe mock data-sets generated to simulate the high-redshift quasar sample in Data Release 11 (DR11) of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The mock…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 743 cited

Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements

Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Julian E. Bautista +90

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave backgr…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 890 cited

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyα forest of BOSS DR11 quasars

Timothée Delubac, Julian E. Bautista, Nicolás G. Busca +35

We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the flux-correlation function of the Lyα forest of high-redshift quasars with a statistical significance o…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 46 cited

Suite of Hydrodynamical Simulations for the Lyman-Alpha Forest with Massive Neutrinos

Graziano Rossi, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Arnaud Borde +5

The signature left in quasar spectra by the presence of neutral hydrogen in the Universe allows one to constrain the sum of the neutrino masses with improved sensitivity, with resp…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 17 cited

Detection of Lyβauto-correlations and Lyα-Lyβcross-correlations in BOSS Data Release 9

Vid Iršič, Anže Slosar, Stephen Bailey +13

The Lyman- forest refers to a region in the spectra of distant quasars that lies between the rest-frame Lyman- and Lyman- emissions. The forest in this region is dominated…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 224 cited

The one-dimensional Ly-alpha forest power spectrum from BOSS

Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Christophe Yèche, Arnaud Borde +33

We have developed two independent methods to measure the one-dimensional power spectrum of the transmitted flux in the Lyman- forest. The first method is based on a Fourier tran…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 269 cited

Measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Lyman-alpha Forest Fluctuations in BOSS Data Release 9

Anže Slosar, Vid Iršič, David Kirkby +41

We use the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 9 (DR9) to detect and measure the position of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-di…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 86 cited

The BOSS Lyman-alpha Forest Sample from SDSS Data Release 9

Khee-Gan Lee, Stephen Bailey, Leslie E. Bartsch +50

We present the BOSS Lyman-alpha (Lya) Forest Sample from SDSS Data Release 9, comprising 54,468 quasar spectra with zqso > 2.15 suitable for Lya forest analysis. This data set prob…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 37 cited

An optimized correlation function estimator for galaxy surveys

M. Vargas-Magaña, Julian. E. Bautista, J. -Ch. Hamilton +9

Measuring the two-point correlation function of the galaxies in the Universe gives access to the underlying dark matter distribution, which is related to cosmological parameters an…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 273 cited

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…

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.IM2012★ 1.5k cited

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…