2011 | ApJS193(2011)29 | Aihara, H. and Allende Prieto, C. and An, D. and Anderson, S. F. and Aubourg, E. and Balbinot, E. and Beers, T. C. and Brownstein, J. R., et al. | Astrophys. J. S. | The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical... More... |
2011 | AstronJ142(2011)72 | Eisenstein, D. J. and Weinberg, D. H. and Agol, E. and Aihara, H. and Allende Prieto, C. and Anderson, S. F. and Arns, J. A. and Aubourg, E. and Bailey, S. and Balbinot, E. and Barkhouser, R. and Beers, T. C. and Brownstein, J. R., et al. | Astron. J. | SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems | Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes:... More... |
2010 | arXiv:0910.5224 | Bassett, B. and Hlozek, R. | ArXiV | Baryon acoustic oscillations | Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) are frozen relics left over from the pre-decoupling universe. They are the standard rulers of choice for 21st century cosmology, providing... More... |
2010 | PASP122(2010)248 | Bolton, A. S. and Schlegel, D. J. | Pub. Astrophys. Soc. Pacific | Spectro-Perfectionism: An Algorithmic Framework for Photon Noise-Limited Extraction of Optical Fiber Spectroscopy | We describe a new algorithm for the ``perfect'' extraction of one-dimensional (1D) spectra from two-dimensional (2D) digital images of optical fiber spectrographs, based on accurate... More... |
2010 | ApJ719(2010)1032 | Kazin, E. A. and Blanton, M. R. and Scoccimarro, R. and McBride, C. K. and Berlind, A. A. | Astrophys. J. | Regarding the Line-of-sight Baryonic Acoustic Feature in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Samples | We analyze the line-of-sight baryonic acoustic feature in the two-point correlation function {$\xi$} of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample (0.16... More... |
2010 | MNRAS401(2010)2169 | Parkinson, D. and Kunz, M. and Liddle, A. R. and Bassett, B. A. and Nichol, R. C. and Vardanyan, M. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys - II. Curvature, redshifts and external data sets | We extend our study of the optimization of large baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) surveys to return the best constraints on the dark energy, building on... More... |
2010 | MNRAS401(2010)2148 | Percival, W. J. and Reid, B. A. and Eisenstein, D. J. and Bahcall, N. A. and Budavari, T. and Frieman, J. A. and Fukugita, M. and Gunn, J. E., et al. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 galaxy sample | The spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) galaxy sample represents the final set of galaxies observed using the original SDSS target... More... |
2010 | MNRAS404(2010)60 | Reid, B. A. and Percival, W. J. and Eisenstein, D. J. and Verde, L. and Spergel, D. N. and Skibba, R. A. and Bahcall, N. A. and Budavari, T., et al. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | Cosmological constraints from the clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 luminous red galaxies | We present the power spectrum of the reconstructed halo density field derived from a sample of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky... More... |
2010 | AstronJ139(2010)2360 | Schneider, D. P. and Richards, G. T. and Hall, P. B. and Strauss, M. A. and Anderson, S. F. and Boroson, T. A. and Ross, N. P. and Shen, Y., et al. | Astron. J. | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. V. Seventh Data Release | We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog,... More... |
2010 | ApJ720(2010)1650 | Seo, H.-J. and Eckel, J. and Eisenstein, D. J. and Mehta, K. and Metchnik, M. and Padmanabhan, N. and Pinto, P. and Takahashi, R. and White, M. and Xu, X. | Astrophys. J. | High-precision Predictions for the Acoustic Scale in the Nonlinear Regime | We measure shifts of the acoustic scale due to nonlinear growth and redshift distortions to a high precision using a very large volume of high-force-resolution... More... |
2010 | ApJ718(2010)1224 | Xu, X. and White, M. and Padmanabhan, N. and Eisenstein, D. J. and Eckel, J. and Mehta, K. and Metchnik, M. and Pinto, P. and Seo, H.-J. | Astrophys. J. | A New Statistic for Analyzing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations | We introduce a new statistic {$\omega$}_{ell}(r_{s} ) for measuring and analyzing large-scale structure and particularly the baryon acoustic oscillations. {$\omega$}_{ell}(r_{s} ) is a band-filtered, configuration... More... |
2009 | arXiv:0903.3404 | Bell, E. and Davis, M. and Dey, A. and van Dokkum, P. and Ellis, R. and Eisenstein, D. and Elvis, M. and Faber, S. and Frenk, C. and Genzel, R. and Green, J. and Gunn, J. and Kaufmann, G. and Knapp, J. and Kriek, M. and Larkin, J. and Maraston, C. and Nandra, K. and Ostriker, J. and Prada, F. and Schlegel, D. and Strauss, M. and Szalay, A. and Tremonti, C. and White, M. and White, Wyse, Rosie, S. | ArXiV | Understanding the Astrophysics of Galaxy Evolution: the role of spectroscopic surveys in the next decade | Over the last decade optical spectroscopic surveys have characterized the low redshift galaxy population and uncovered populations of star-forming galaxies back to z ~ 7.... More... |
2009 | arXiv:0903.3404 | Bell, E. and Davis, M. and Dey, A. and van Dokkum, P. and Ellis, R. and Eisenstein, D. and Elvis, M. and Faber, S. and Frenk, C. et al. | ArXiV | Understanding the Astrophysics of Galaxy Evolution: the role of spectroscopic surveys in the next decade | Over the last decade optical spectroscopic surveys have characterized the low redshift galaxy population and uncovered populations of star-forming galaxies back to z \~{} 7.... More... |
2009 | arXiv:0903.3404 | Bell, E. and Davis, M. and Dey, A. and van Dokkum, P. and Ellis, R. and Eisenstein, D. and Elvis, M. and Faber, S. and Frenk, C., et al. | ArXiV | Understanding the Astrophysics of Galaxy Evolution: the role of spectroscopic surveys in the next decade | Over the last decade optical spectroscopic surveys have characterized the low redshift galaxy population and uncovered populations of star-forming galaxies back to z ~ 7.... More... |
2009 | PhRvD79(2009)043503 | de Bernardis, F. and Bean, R. and Galli, S. and Melchiorri, A. and Silk, J. I. and Verde, L. | Phys. Rev. D | Delayed recombination and standard rulers | Measurements of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAOs) in galaxy surveys have been recognized as a powerful tool for constraining dark energy. However, this method relies on... More... |
2009 | MNRAS399(2009)2279 | Myers, A. D. and White, M. and Ball, N. M. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | Incorporating photometric redshift probability density information into real-space clustering measurements | The use of photometric redshifts in cosmology is increasing. Often, however these photo-z are treated like spectroscopic observations, in that the peak of the photometric... More... |
2009 | JCAP4(2009)8 | Roig, D. and Verde, L. and Miralda-Escude, J. and Jimenez, R. and Pena-Garay, C. | J. Cosmo. Astro. Phys. | Photo-z optimization for measurements of the BAO radial scale | Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in the radial direction offer a method to directly measure the Universe expansion history, and to set limits to space curvature... More... |
2009 | arXiv:0902.4680 | Schlegel, D. and White, M. and Eisenstein, D. | ArXiV | The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Precision measurement of the absolute cosmic distance scale | BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is a 5-year program to measure the absolute cosmic distance scale and expansion rate with percent-level precision at redshifts... More... |
2009 | arXiv:0904.0468 | Schlegel, D. J. and Bebek, C. and Heetderks, H. and Ho, S. and Lampton, M. and Levi, M. and Mostek, N. and Padmanabhan, N., et al. | ArXiV | BigBOSS: The Ground-Based Stage IV Dark Energy Experiment | The BigBOSS experiment is a proposed DOE-NSF Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment to study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure with... More... |
2008 | PhRvD78(2008)043514 | Acquaviva, V. and Hajian, A. and Spergel, D. N. and Das, S. | Phys. Rev. D | Next generation redshift surveys and the origin of cosmic acceleration | Cosmologists are exploring two possible sets of explanations for the remarkable observation of cosmic acceleration: dark energy fills space or general relativity fails on cosmological... More... |
2008 | MNRAS383(2008)755 | Angulo, R. E. and Baugh, C. M. and Frenk, C. S. and Lacey, C. G. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | The detectability of baryonic acoustic oscillations in future galaxy surveys | We assess the detectability of baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) in the power spectrum of galaxies using ultralarge volume N-body simulations of the hierarchical clustering of... More... |
2008 | ApJ682(2008)964 | Bolton, A. S. and Burles, S. and Koopmans, L. V. E. and Treu, T. and Gavazzi, R. and Moustakas, L. A. and Wayth, R. and Schlegel, D. J. | Astrophys. J. | The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. V. The Full ACS Strong-Lens Sample | We present the definitive data for the full sample of 131 strong gravitational lens candidates observed with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the... More... |
2008 | ApJ684(2008)248 | Bolton, A. S. and Treu, T. and Koopmans, L. V. E. and Gavazzi, R. and Moustakas, L. A. and Burles, S. and Schlegel, D. J. and Wayth, R. | Astrophys. J. | The Sloan Lens ACS Survey. VII. Elliptical Galaxy Scaling Laws from Direct Observational Mass Measurements | We use a sample of 53 massive early-type strong gravitational lens galaxies with well-measured redshifts (ranging from z=0.06 to 0.36) and stellar velocity dispersions (between... More... |
2008 | arXiv:0810.0003 | Rassat, A. and Amara, A. and Amendola, L. and Castander, F. J. and Kitching, T. and Kunz, M. and Refregier, A. and Wang, Y. and Weller, J. | ArXiV | Deconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Comparison of Methods | The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) or baryon wiggles which are present in the galaxy power spectrum at scales 100-150Mpc/h are powerful features with which to... More... |
2008 | MNRAS387(2008)1323 | Ross, N. P. and Shanks, T. and Cannon, R. D. and Wake, D. A. and Sharp, R. G. and Croom, S. M. and Peacock, J. A. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | Luminous red galaxy clustering at z ~ 0.7 - first results using AAOmega | We report on the AAT-AAOmega LRG Pilot observing run to establish the feasibility of a large spectroscopic survey using the new AAOmega instrument. We have... More... |
2007 | MNRAS378(2007)852 | Padmanabhan, N. and Schlegel, D. J. and Seljak, U. and Makarov, A. and Bahcall, N. A. and Blanton, M. R. and Brinkmann, J. and Eisenstein, D. J., et al. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | The clustering of luminous red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data | We present the 3D real-space clustering power spectrum of a sample of ~600000 luminous red galaxies measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, using photometric... More... |
2007 | MNRAS377(2007)185 | Parkinson, D. and Blake, C. and Kunz, M. and Bassett, B. A. and Nichol, R. C. and Glazebrook, K. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys - I. Testing the concordance {$\\Lambda$}CDM cosmology | We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), with particular... More... |
2007 | arXiv:0709.2792 | Sapone, D. and Amendola, L. | ArXiV | Constraining the growth factor with baryon oscillations | The growth factor of linear fluctuations is probably one of the least known quantity in observational cosmology. Here we discuss the constraints that baryon oscillations... More... |
2007 | arXiv:0709.2955 | Wyithe, S. and Loeb, A. and Geil, P. | ArXiV | Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations in 21cm Emission: A Probe of Dark Energy out to High Redshifts | Low-frequency observatories are currently being constructed with the goal of detecting redshifted 21cm emission from the epoch of reionization. These observatories will also be able... More... |
2006 | MNRAS365(2006)255 | Blake, C. and Parkinson, D. and Bassett, B. and Glazebrook, K. and Kunz, M. and Nichol, R. C. | Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc. | Universal fitting formulae for baryon oscillation surveys | The next generation of galaxy surveys will attempt to measure the baryon oscillations in the clustering power spectrum with high accuracy. These oscillations encode a... More... |
2006 | PhRvD74(2006)123507 | Tegmark, M. and Eisenstein, D. J. and Strauss, M. A. and Weinberg, D. H. and Blanton, M. R. and Frieman, J. A. and Fukugita, M. and Gunn, J. E., et al. | Phys. Rev. D | Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies | We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to... More... |
2006 | PhRvD74(2006)063525 | Yamamoto, K. and Bassett, B. A. and Nichol, R. C. and Suto, Y. and Yahata, K. | Phys. Rev. D | Searching for modified gravity with baryon oscillations: From SDSS to wide field multiobject spectroscopy (WFMOS) | We discuss how the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signatures in the galaxy power spectrum can distinguish between modified gravity and the cosmological constant as the... More... |
2005 | ApJ633(2005)560 | Eisenstein, D. J. and Zehavi, I. and Hogg, D. W. and Scoccimarro, R. and Blanton, M. R. and Nichol, R. C. and Scranton, R. and Seo, H.-J., et al. | Astrophys. J. | Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies | We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region... More... |
2005 | ApJ631(2005)1 | Glazebrook, K. and Blake, C. | Astrophys. J. | Measuring the Cosmic Evolution of Dark Energy with Baryonic Oscillations in the Galaxy Power Spectrum | We use Monte Carlo techniques to simulate the ability of future large high-redshift galaxy surveys to measure the temporal evolution of the dark energy equation... More... |
2005 | astro-ph/0507308 | Linder, E. V. | ArXiV | The Ups and Downs of Baryon Oscillations | Baryon acoustic oscillations, measured through the patterned distribution of galaxies or other baryon tracing objects on very large (100 Mpc) scales, offer a possible geometric... More... |
2004 | AstronJ127(2004)1860 | Bolton, A. S. and Burles, S. and Schlegel, D. J. and Eisenstein, D. J. and Brinkmann, J. | Astron. J. | Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectroscopic Lens Search. I. Discovery of Intermediate-Redshift Star-forming Galaxies behind Foreground Luminous Red Galaxies | We present a catalog of 49 spectroscopic strong gravitational lens candidates selected from a Sloan Digital Sky Survey sample of 50,996 luminous red galaxies. Potentially... More... |
2004 | NewA9(2004)329 | Padmanabhan, N. and Seljak, U. and Strauss, M. A. and Blanton, M. R. and Kauffmann, G. and Schlegel, D. J. and Tremonti, C. and Bahcall, N. A., et al. | New Astron. | Stellar and dynamical masses of ellipticals in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | We study the variation of the dark matter mass fraction of elliptical galaxies as a function of their luminosity, stellar mass, and size using a... More... |