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most citedThe Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

2.1k citations · 5.4k across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.IM2022

Exploring the Universe via the Wide, Deep Near-infrared Imaging ESO Public Survey SHARKS

Helmut Dannerbauer, Aurelio Carnero, Nicholas Cross +1

The ESO Public Survey Southern H-ATLAS Regions Ks-band Survey (SHARKS) comprises 300 square degrees of deep imaging at 2.2 microns (the Ks band) with the VISTA InfraRed CAMera (VIR…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 9 cited

Elemental gas-phase abundances of intermediate redshift type Ia supernova star-forming host galaxies

M. E. Moreno-Raya, L. Galbany, A. R. López-Sánchez +4

The maximum luminosity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) depends on the oxygen abundance of the regions of the host galaxies where they explode. This metallicity dependence reduces th…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 35 cited

Using the local gas-phase oxygen abundances to explore a metallicity-dependence in SNe Ia luminosities

M. E. Moreno-Raya, A. R. Lopez-Sanchez, M. Molla +3

We present an analysis of the gas-phase oxygen abundances of a sample of 28 galaxies in the local Universe (z < 0.02) hosting Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). The data were obtained wi…

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★ 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.HE2015★ 64 cited

DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

A. Papadopoulos, C. B. D'Andrea, M. Sullivan +66

We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 47 cited

Modelling the Transfer Function for the Dark Energy Survey

C. Chang, M. T. Busha, R. H. Wechsler +40

We present a forward-modelling simulation framework designed to model the data products from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). This forward-model process can be thought of as a transfe…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 40 cited

Combining Dark Energy Survey Science Verification Data with Near Infrared Data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey

Manda Banerji, S. Jouvel, H. Lin +74

We present the combination of optical data from the Science Verification phase of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) with near infrared data from the ESO VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS). T…

astro-ph.IM2014★ 180 cited

Photometric redshift analysis in the Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

C. Sánchez, M. Carrasco Kind, H. Lin +74

We present results from a study of the photometric redshift performance of the Dark Energy Survey (DES), using the early data from a Science Verification (SV) period of observation…

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.IM2013★ 1k cited

The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto +232

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This da…

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.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…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 56 cited

Clustering of Photometric Luminous Red Galaxies II: Cosmological Implications from the Baryon Acoustic Scale

A. Carnero, E. Sanchez, M. Crocce +2

A new determination of the sound horizon scale in angular coordinates is presented. It makes use of ~ 0.6 x 10^6 Luminous Red Galaxies, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey i…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 43 cited

Clustering of photometric luminous red galaxies I : Growth of Structure and Baryon Acoustic Feature

Martin Crocce, Enrique Gaztanaga, Anna Cabre +2

The possibility of measuring redshift space (RSD) distortions using photometric data have been recently highlighted. This effect complements and significantly alters the detectabil…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 89 cited

Tracing The Sound Horizon Scale With Photometric Redshift Surveys

E. Sanchez, A. Carnero, J. Garcia-Bellido +6

We propose a new method for cosmological parameters extraction using the baryon acoustic oscillation scale as a standard ruler in deep galaxy surveys with photometric determination…

astro-ph2005★ 39 cited

On the nitrogen abundance of FLIERs: the outer knots of the planetary nebula NGC 7009

Denise R. Goncalves, ; Barbara Ercolano, ; A. Carnero +2

We have constructed a 3D photoionisation model of a planetary nebula (PN) similar in structure to NGC 7009 with its outer pair of knots (also known as FLIERs --fast, low-ionization…