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astro-ph.CO2012★ 226 cited

The z=5 Quasar Luminosity Function from SDSS Stripe 82

Ian D. McGreer, Linhua Jiang, Xiaohui Fan +12

We present a measurement of the Type I quasar luminosity function at z=5 using a large sample of spectroscopically confirmed quasars selected from optical imaging data. We measure…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 202 cited

The SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: The Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Nine

Nicholas P. Ross, Ian D. McGreer, Martin White +39

We present a new measurement of the optical Quasar Luminosity Function (QLF), using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-III: B…

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★ 42 cited

Finding Rare AGN: X-ray Number Counts of Chandra Sources in Stripe 82

Stephanie M. LaMassa, C. Megan Urry, Eilat Glikman +14

We present the first results of a wide area X-ray survey within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82, a 300 deg region of the sky with a substantial investment in mult…

astro-ph.CO2012★ 56 cited

The Hidden Fortress: Structure and substructure of the complex strong lensing cluster SDSS J1029+2623

Masamune Oguri, Tim Schrabback, Eric Jullo +8

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ACS and WFC3 observations of SDSS J1029+2623, a three-image quasar lens system produced by a foreground cluster at z=0.584. Our strong lensi…

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…