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astro-ph.IM2016★ 236 cited

The DESI Experiment Part II: Instrument Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectropic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations and the growth of structure through redshift…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 1.3k cited

The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

DESI Collaboration, Amir Aghamousa, Jessica Aguilar +290

DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure through…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 112 cited

Reverberation Mapping of Optical Emission Lines in Five Active Galaxies

M. M. Fausnaugh, C. J. Grier, M. C. Bentz +68

We present the first results from an optical reverberation mapping campaign executed in 2014, targeting the active galactic nuclei (AGN) MCG+08-11-011, NGC 2617, NGC 4051, 3C 382,…

astro-ph.CO2016★ 71 cited

A 14 Gpc study of cosmic homogeneity using BOSS DR12 quasar sample

Pierre Laurent, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Etienne Burtin +16

The BOSS quasar sample is used to study cosmic homogeneity with a 3D survey in the redshift range . We measure the count-in-sphere, , i.e. the average number o…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 30 cited

A Constraint on Quasar Clustering at z=5 from a Binary Quasar

Ian McGreer, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Adam Myers +1

We report the discovery of a quasar pair at z=5 separated by 21 arcsec. Both objects were identified as quasar candidates using simple color selection techniques applied to photome…