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most citedThe Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

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astro-ph.CO2016★ 41 cited

Measuring the 2D Baryon Acoustic Oscillation signal of galaxies in WiggleZ: Cosmological constraints

Samuel R. Hinton, Eyal Kazin, Tamara M. Davis +12

We present results from the 2D anisotropic Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) signal present in the final dataset from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We analyse the WiggleZ data in…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 80 cited

Fast and accurate mock catalogue generation for low-mass galaxies

Jun Koda, Chris Blake, Florian Beutler +2

We present an accurate and fast framework for generating mock catalogues including low-mass halos, based on an implementation of the COmoving Lagrangian Acceleration (COLA) techniq…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 31 cited

The BOSS-WiggleZ overlap region II: dependence of cosmic growth on galaxy type

Felipe A. Marín, Florian Beutler, Chris Blake +3

The anisotropic galaxy 2-point correlation function (2PCF) allows measurement of the growth of large-scale structures from the effect of peculiar velocities on the clustering patte…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 355 cited

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: Improved Distance Measurements to z = 1 with Reconstruction of the Baryonic Acoustic Feature

Eyal A. Kazin, Jun Koda, Chris Blake +26

We present significant improvements in cosmic distance measurements from the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey, achieved by applying the reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature te…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 169 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the full shape of the clustering wedges in the data release 10 and 11 galaxy samples

Ariel G. Sanchez, Francesco Montesano, Eyal A. Kazin +25

We explore the cosmological implications of the angle-averaged correlation function, xi(s), and the clustering wedges, xi_perp(s) and xi_para(s), of the LOWZ and CMASS galaxy sampl…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 227 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring D_A and H at z=0.57 from the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample

Lauren Anderson, Eric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey +35

We present measurements of the angular diameter distance to and Hubble parameter at z=0.57 from the measurement of the baryon acoustic peak in the correlation of galaxies from the…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 108 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological constraints from the full shape of the clustering wedges

Ariel G. Sanchez, Eyal A. Kazin, Florian Beutler +19

We explore the cosmological implications of the clustering wedges, xi_perp(s) and xi_para(s), of the CMASS Data Release 9 (DR9) sample of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Surve…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 52 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Measuring H(z) and D_A(z) at z = 0.57 with Clustering Wedges

Eyal A. Kazin, Ariel G. Sanchez, Antonio J. Cuesta +18

We analyze the 2D correlation function of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) CMASS sample of massive galaxies of the ninth data release to measure cosmic e…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 186 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: single-probe measurements and the strong power of normalized growth rate on constraining dark energy

Chia-Hsun Chuang, Francisco Prada, Antonio J. Cuesta +13

We present measurements of the anisotropic galaxy clustering from the Data Release 9 (DR9) CMASS sample of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We analyze t…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 92 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminosity and Color Dependence and Redshift Evolution

Hong Guo, Idit Zehavi, Zheng Zheng +40

We measure the luminosity and color dependence and the redshift evolution of galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Ninth Dat…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 109 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low redshift sample

John K. Parejko, Tomomi Sunayama, Nikhil Padmanabhan +36

We report on the small scale (0.5<r<40h^-1 Mpc) clustering of 78895 massive (M*~10^11.3M_sun) galaxies at 0.2<z<0.4 from the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spe…

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.CO2012★ 279 cited

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Analysis of potential systematics

Ashley J. Ross, Will J. Percival, Ariel G. Sanchez +38

We analyze the density field of galaxies observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) included in the SDSS Data Release Nine (…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 695 cited

A 2% Distance to z=0.35 by Reconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations - I : Methods and Application to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Nikhil Padmanabhan, Xiaoying Xu, Daniel J. Eisenstein +4

We apply the reconstruction technique to the clustering of galaxies from the SDSS DR7 LRG sample, sharpening the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature and achieving a 1.9% meas…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 1k cited

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: mapping the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations

Chris Blake, Eyal Kazin, Florian Beutler +26

We present measurements of the baryon acoustic peak at redshifts z = 0.44, 0.6 and 0.73 in the galaxy correlation function of the final dataset of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. W…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 201 cited

Ameliorating Systematic Uncertainties in the Angular Clustering of Galaxies: A Study using SDSS-III

Ashley J Ross, Shirley Ho, Antonio J. Cuesta +29

We investigate the effects of potential sources of systematic error on the angular and photometric redshift, z_phot, distributions of a sample of redshift 0.4 < z < 0.7 massive gal…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 95 cited

Improving measurements of H(z) and Da(z) by analyzing clustering anisotropies

Eyal A. Kazin, Ariel G. Sanchez, Michael R. Blanton

The baryonic acoustic feature in galaxy clustering is a promising tool for constraining the nature of the cosmic acceleration, through measurements of expansion rates H and angular…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 281 cited

The clustering of massive galaxies at z~0.5 from the first semester of BOSS data

Martin White, M. Blanton, A. Bolton +25

We calculate the real- and redshift-space clustering of massive galaxies at z~0.5 using the first semester of data by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We study t…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 42 cited

Regarding the Line-of-Sight Baryonic Acoustic Feature in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Samples

Eyal A. Kazin, Michael R. Blanton, Roman Scoccimarro +2

We analyze the line-of-sight baryonic acoustic feature in the two-point correlation function ξ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample (0.16 < z < 0…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 228 cited

The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Large-Scale Clustering in the SDSS LRG Sample

Eyal A. Kazin, Michael R. Blanton, Roman Scoccimarro +9

We examine the correlation function ξof the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Luminous Red Galaxy sample (LRG) at large scales (60<s<400 Mpc/h) using the final data release (DR7; 105…