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most citedOverview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

What Does the Virial Coefficient of the \Hb Broad-Line Region Depend On?

Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu +37

We combine our dynamical modeling black hole mass measurements from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016 sample with measured cross-correlation time lags and line widths to recover…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 150 cited

The Target-selection Pipeline for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Adam D. Myers, John Moustakas, Stephen Bailey +51

In 2021 May, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) began a 5 yr survey of approximately 50 million total extragalactic and Galactic targets. The primary DESI dark-time ta…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 36 cited

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Dynamical Modeling of Velocity-Resolved H\b{eta} Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies

Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu +62

We have modeled the velocity-resolved reverberation response of the H\b{eta} broad emission line in nine Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Lick Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) Monitioring…

astro-ph.GA2021

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-Resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies

Vivian U, Aaron J. Barth, H. Alexander Vogler +61

We carried out spectroscopic monitoring of 21 low-redshift Seyfert 1 galaxies using the Kast double spectrograph on the 3-m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory from April 2016 to M…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 24 cited

The LSST-DESC 3x2pt Tomography Optimization Challenge

Joe Zuntz, François Lanusse, Alex I. Malz +25

This paper presents the results of the Rubin Observatory Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) 3x2pt tomography challenge, which served as a first step toward optimizing the tom…

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.CO2021★ 8 cited

DESC DC2 Data Release Note

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration, Bela Abolfathi, Robert Armstrong +54

In preparation for cosmological analyses of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (LSST DESC) has created…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 1.9k cited

Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

Arjun Dey, David J. Schlegel, Dustin Lang +157

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Surve…

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.SR2016★ 21 cited

Discovery and Follow-up Observations of the Young Type Ia Supernova 2016coj

WeiKang Zheng, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jon Mauerhan +39

The Type~Ia supernova (SN~Ia) 2016coj in NGC 4125 (redshift ) was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search 4.9 days after the fitted first-light time (FFLT;…