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Funding for BOSS, as one of the four primary surveys of the SDSS-III, has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The SDSS-III Collaboration includes 49 institutions from around the globe, including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, University of Cambridge, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, New Mexico State University, New York University, the Ohio State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, University of Tokyo, the University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University.
SDSS3 Collaboration(Login Here) University of UtahRyan Arneson(Login Here)Adam Bolton(Login Here)Peter Johnson Brown(Login Here)Joel Brownstein(Login Here)Kyle Dawson(Login Here)David Harris(Login Here)Stephan Lebohec(Login Here)Matthew Dwaune Olmstead(Login Here)Jonathan Clark Richards(Login Here)Yiping Shu(Login Here) Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryStephen Bailey(Login Here)Matt George(Login Here)Gary Kushner(Login Here)Alexie Leauthaud(Login Here)Victoria Martin(Login Here)Nic Ross(Login Here)David Schlegel(Login Here) New York UniveristyMichael Blanton(Login Here)Benjamin Weaver(Login Here) Yale UniversityBritt Lundgren(Login Here)David Wake(Login Here) Princeton UniversityK.G. Lee(Login Here)Michael Strauss(Login Here) University of PortsmouthDaniel Thomas(Login Here) French Participation Group (APC, CEA, IAP, LAM, Besancon)Johan Comparat(Login Here)French Participation Group(Login Here)Jean-Paul Kneib(Login Here)Patrick Petitjean(Login Here) University of Tokyo / IPMUYen-Ting Lin(Login Here)John Silverman(Login Here)Masayuki Tanaka(Login Here) Brookhaven National LaboratoryAnže Slosar(Login Here) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, GranadaFrancisco Prada Martínez(Login Here) University of PittsburghAnja Weyant(Login Here)Michael Wood-Vasey(Login Here) University of WisconsinChristy Tremonti(Login Here)
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SDSS at Apache Point Observatory
Exploiting the unique wide-field spectroscopic capability of the Apache Point Observatory's 2.5-meter telescope, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is one of the primary missions of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS3) which will gather spectra of 150 million luminous red galaxies out to a redshift of z=0.7 across 10,000 square degrees of the sky, and 160,000 quasars at redshifts 2.2 < z < 3, across 8,000 square degrees of the sky. These maps are needed to make improved measurements of the expanding Universe and Dark Energy content.
The BOSS spectra will be used by researchers at the University of Utah to discover Galaxy-Galaxy Lenses to add to the Sloan Lens ACS (SLACS) survey, to search for Supernovae, to characterize the population of galaxies in groups and clusters, and to constrain modified gravity theories.