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The DESI Survey Validation: Results from Visual Inspection of Bright Galaxies, Luminous Red Galaxies, and Emission Line Galaxies

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey has obtained a set of spectroscopic measurements of galaxies to validate the final survey design and target selections. To assist in these tasks, we visually inspect (VI) DESI spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-10 Ting-Wen Lan , R. Tojeiro , E. Armengaud , J. Xavier Prochaska , T. M. Davis , David M. Alexander , A. Raichoor , Rongpu Zhou , Christophe Yeche , C. Balland , S. BenZvi , A. Berti , R. Canning , A. Carr , H. Chittenden , S. Cole , M. -C. Cousinou , K. Dawson , Biprateep Dey , K. Douglass , A. Edge , S. Escoffier , A. Glanville , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Guy , C. Hahn , C. Howlett , Ho Seong Hwang , L. Jiang , A. Kovacs , M. Mezcua , S. Moore , S. Nadathur , M. Oh , D. Parkinson , A. Rocher , A. J. Ross , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , K. Said , C. Saulder , D. Sierra-Porta , B. Weiner , J. Yu , P. Zarrouk , Y. Zhang , H. Zou , S. Ahlen , S. Bailey , D. Brooks , A. P. Cooper , A. de la Macorra , A. Dey , G. Dhungana , P. Doel , S. Eftekharzadeh , K. Fanning , A. Font-Ribera , L. Garrison , E. Gaztanaga , R. Kehoe , T. Kisner , A. Kremin , M. Landriau , L. Le Guillou , Michael E. Levi , C. Magneville , Aaron M. Meisner , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , Adam D. Myers , Jeffrey A. Newman , J. D. Nie , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , M. Schubnell , Gregory Tarle , B. A. Weaver , K. Zhang , Zhimin Zhou

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 (SDSS) luminous red galaxy (LRG) sample (0.16 < z < 0.47). By defining a narrow line-of-sight region, rp <…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Eyal A. Kazin , Michael R. Blanton , Roman Scoccimarro , Cameron K. McBride , Andreas A. Berlind

First Detection of the BAO Signal from Early DESI Data

We present the first detection of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) signal obtained using unblinded data collected during the initial two months of operations of the Stage-IV ground-based Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-11 Jeongin Moon , David Valcin , Michael Rashkovetskyi , Christoph Saulder , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Shadab Alam , Stephen Bailey , Charles Baltay , Robert Blum , David Brooks , Etienne Burtin , Edmond Chaussidon , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Arnaud de Mattia , Govinda Dhungana , Daniel Eisenstein , Brenna Flaugher , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Cristhian Garcia-Quintero , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Julien Guy , Malik Muhammad Sikandar Hanif , Klaus Honscheid , Mustapha Ishak , Robert Kehoe , Sumi Kim , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Martin Landriau , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Marc Manera , Paul Martini , Patrick McDonald , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Adam Myers , Seshadri Nadathur , Richard Neveux , Jeffrey A. Newman , Jundan Nie , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Will Percival , Alejandro Pérez Fernández , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Anand Raichoor , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Lado Samushia , David Schlegel , Hee-Jong Seo , Gregory Tarlé , Mariana Vargas Magana , Andrei Variu , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Martin J. White , Christophe Yèche , Sihan Yuan , Cheng Zhao , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou

Photo-z optimization for measurements of the BAO radial direction

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 when combined to the angular BAO signal. In addition to spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 Daniel Roig , Licia Verde , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Raul Jimenez , Carlos Pena-Garay

The Completed SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: N-body Mock Challenge for the Quasar Sample

The growth rate and expansion history of the Universe can be measured from large galaxy redshift surveys using the Alcock-Paczynski effect. We validate the Redshift Space Distortion models used in the final analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-07 Alex Smith , Etienne Burtin , Jiamin Hou , Richard Neveux , Ashley J. Ross , Shadab Alam , Jonathan Brinkmann , Kyle S. Dawson , Salman Habib , Katrin Heitmann , Jean-Paul Kneib , Brad W. Lyke , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Eva-Maria Mueller , Adam D. Myers , Will J. Percival , Graziano Rossi , Donald P. Schneider , Pauline Zarrouk , Gong-Bo Zhao

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will carry out a digital photometric and spectroscopic survey over pi steradians in the northern Galactic cap. An array of CCD detectors used in drift-scan mode will image the sky in five passbands to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jon Loveday , Jeff Pier

Detection significance of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations peaks in galaxy and quasar clustering

We compare our analysis of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) feature in the correlation functions of SDSS BOSS DR12 LOWZ and CMASS galaxy samples with the findings of arXiv:1509.06371v2. Using subsets of the data we obtain an empirical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Behzad Ansarinejad , Tom Shanks

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: A 2.7% measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillation distance scale at redshift 0.835

We present angular diameter measurements obtained by measuring the position of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) in an optimised sample of galaxies from the first three years of Dark Energy Survey data (DES Y3). The sample consists of 7…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-21 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Asorey , S. Avila , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , A. Brandao-Souza , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , H. Camacho , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , K. C. Chan , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , K. Eckert , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. E. Evrard , X. Fang , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. Gomes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , N. Kokron , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , U. Malik , P. Martini , P. Melchior , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Möller , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , W. J. Percival , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , R. Rosenfeld , A. J. Ross , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , I. Tutusaus , S. A. Uddin , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson

A Simple Likelihood Method for Quasar Target Selection

We present a new method for quasar target selection using photometric fluxes and a Bayesian probabilistic approach. For our purposes we target quasars using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry to a magnitude limit of g=22. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jessica A. Kirkpatrick , David J. Schlegel , Nicholas P. Ross , Adam D. Myers , Joseph F. Hennawi , Erin S. Sheldon , Donald P. Schneider , Benjamin A. Weaver

The Clustering of the SDSS DR7 Main Galaxy Sample I: A 4 per cent Distance Measure at z=0.15

We create a sample of spectroscopically identified galaxies with $z < 0.2$ from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7, covering 6813 deg$^2$. Galaxies are chosen to sample the highest mass haloes, with an effective bias of 1.5,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ashley J. Ross , Lado Samushia , Cullan Howlett , Will J. Percival , Angela Burden , Marc Manera

Consistency tests between SDSS and DESI BAO measurements

In this work, we investigate whether the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from redshift surveys, like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), are consistent with each other. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Basundhara Ghosh , Carlos Bengaly

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: twelfth data release

We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the SDSS-III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III/BOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Isabelle Pâris , Patrick Petitjean , Nicholas P. Ross , Adam D. Myers , Éric Aubourg , Alina Streblyanska , Stephen Bailey , Éric Armengaud , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Christophe Yèche , Fred Hamann , Michael A. Strauss , Franco D. Albareti , Jo Bovy , Dmitry Bizyaev , W. Niel Brandt , Marcella Brusa , Johannes Buchner , Johan Comparat , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tom Dwelly , Xiaohui Fan , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , Antonis Georgakakis , Patrick B. Hall , Linhua Jian , Karen Kinemuchi , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Richard G. McMahon , Marie-Luise Menzel , Andrea Merloni , Kirpal Nandra , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Daniel Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Mara Salvato , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Audrey Simmons , Matteo Viel , David H. Weinberg , Liu Zhu

QSO Selection and Photometric Redshifts with Neural Networks

Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and their effects on the matter power spectrum can be studied by using the Lyman-alpha absorption signature of the matter density field along quasar (QSO) lines of sight. A measurement sufficiently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-21 Ch. Yeche , P. Petitjean , J. Rich , E. Aubourg , N. Busca , J. -Ch. Hamilton , J. -M. Le Goff , I. Paris , S. Peirani , Ch. Pichon , E. Rollinde , M. Vargas-Magana

First Ly$\alpha$ 1D Bispectrum Measurement in eBOSS

We present the first robust measurement of the one-dimensional Lyman alpha (Ly$\alpha$) forest bispectrum using the complete extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) quasar sample, corresponding to the sixteenth data release…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Rodrigo de la Cruz , Gustavo Niz , Vid Iršič , Corentin Ravoux , César Ramírez-Pérez , Hiram K. Herrera-Alcantar

Bayesian Redshift Classification of Emission-line Galaxies with Photometric Equivalent Widths

We present a Bayesian approach to the redshift classification of emission-line galaxies when only a single emission line is detected spectroscopically. We consider the case of surveys for high-redshift Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies (LAEs),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Andrew S. Leung , Viviana Acquaviva , Eric Gawiser , Robin Ciardullo , Eiichiro Komatsu , A. I. Malz , Gregory R. Zeimann , Joanna S. Bridge , Niv Drory , John J. Feldmeier , Steven L. Finkelstein , Karl Gebhardt , Caryl Gronwall , Alex Hagen , Gary J. Hill , Donald P. Schneider

Validation of the Scientific Program for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) was designed to conduct a survey covering 14,000 deg$^2$ over five years to constrain the cosmic expansion history through precise measurements of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 DESI Collaboration , A. G. Adame , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , S. Alam , G. Aldering , D. M. Alexander , R. Alfarsy , C. Allende Prieto , M. Alvarez , O. Alves , A. Anand , F. Andrade-Oliveira , E. Armengaud , J. Asorey , S. Avila , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , A. Balaguera-Antolínez , O. Ballester , C. Baltay , A. Bault , J. Bautista , J. Behera , S. F. Beltran , S. BenZvi , L. Beraldo e Silva , J. R. Bermejo-Climent , A. Berti , R. Besuner , F. Beutler , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , R. Blum , A. S. Bolton , S. Brieden , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , Z. Brown , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , L. Cabayol-Garcia , Z. Cai , R. Canning , L. Cardiel-Sas , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , J. L. Cervantes-Cota , S. Chabanier , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , S. Chen , C. Chuang , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , T. M. Davis , K. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , R. de la Cruz , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , R. Demina , U. Demirbozan , J. DeRose , A. Dey , B. Dey , G. Dhungana , J. Ding , Z. Ding , P. Doel , R. Doshi , K. Douglass , A. Edge , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , A. Elliott , S. Escoffier , P. Fagrelius , X. Fan , K. Fanning , V. A. Fawcett , S. Ferraro , J. Ereza , B. Flaugher , A. Font-Ribera , D. Forero-Sánchez , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. S. Frenk , B. T. Gänsicke , L. Á. García , J. García-Bellido , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , H. Gil-Marín , J. Golden-Marx , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , V. Gonzalez-Perez , C. Gordon , O. Graur , D. Green , D. Gruen , J. Guy , B. Hadzhiyska , C. Hahn , J. J. Han , M. M. S Hanif , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , K. Honscheid , J. Hou , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , V. Iršič , M. Ishak , A. Jana , L. Jiang , J. Jimenez , Y. P. Jing , S. Joudaki , R. Joyce , E. Jullo , S. Juneau , N. Kizhuprakkat , N. G. Karaçaylı , T. Karim , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , A. Khederlarian , S. Kim , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. Kitaura , J. Kneib , S. E. Koposov , A. Kovács , A. Kremin , A. Krolewski , B. L'Huillier , O. Lahav , A. Lambert , C. Lamman , T. -W. Lan , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. U. Lange , J. Lasker , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , T. S. Li , E. Linder , A. Lyons , C. Magneville , M. Manera , C. J. Manser , D. Margala , P. Martini , P. McDonald , G. E. Medina , L. Medina-Varela , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , J. Meneses-Rizo , M. Mezcua , R. Miquel , P. Montero-Camacho , J. Moon , S. Moore , J. Moustakas , E. Mueller , J. Mundet , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , S. Nadathur , L. Napolitano , R. Neveux , J. A. Newman , J. Nie , G. Niz , P. Norberg , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , A. Palmese , P. Zhiwei , D. Parkinson , S. Penmetsa , W. J. Percival , A. Pérez-Fernández , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. Pieri , C. Poppett , A. Porredon , F. Prada , R. Pucha , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , S. Ramirez-Solano , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , A. Rocher , C. Rockosi , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , R. Ruggeri , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , K. Said , A. Saintonge , L. Samushia , E. Sanchez , C. Saulder , E. Schaan , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , D. Scholte , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , W. Sheu , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , M. Siudek , Z. Slepian , A. Smith , D. Sprayberry , L. Stephey , J. Suárez-Pérez , Z. Sun , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , R. Tojeiro , L. A. Ureña-López , R. Vaisakh , D. Valcin , F. Valdes , M. Valluri , M. Vargas-Magaña , A. Variu , L. Verde , M. Walther , B. Wang , M. S. Wang , B. A. Weaver , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , M. White , Y. Xie , J. Yang , C. Yèche , J. Yu , S. Yuan , H. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , Z. Zheng , R. Zhou , Z. Zhou , H. Zou , S. Zou , Y. Zu

A Catalog of Detailed Visual Morphological Classifications for 14034 Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

We present a catalog of detailed visual classifications for 14034 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 4 (DR4). Our sample includes nearly all spectroscopically-targeted galaxies in the redshift range 0.01<z<0.1 down…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Preethi B. Nair , Roberto G. Abraham

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is making a multi-colour, three dimensional map of the nearby Universe. The survey is in two parts. The first part is imaging one quarter of the sky in five colours from the near ultraviolet to the near…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jon Loveday

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: measuring the evolution of the growth rate using redshift space distortions between redshift 0.8 and 2.2

We measure the growth rate and its evolution using the anisotropic clustering of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 (DR14) quasar sample, which includes $148\,659$ quasars covering the wide redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Rossana Ruggeri , Will J. Percival , Hector Gil Marin , Florian Beutler , Eva Maria Mueller , Fangzhou Zhu , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Gong-Bo Zhao , Pauline Zarrouk , Ariel G. Sanchez , Julian Bautista , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Falk Baumgarten , Chia Hsun Chuang , Kyle Dawson , Hee Jong Seo , Rita Tojeiro , Cheng Zhao

Model BOSS & eBOSS Luminous Red Galaxies at 0.2 < z < 1.0 using SubHalo Abundance Matching with 3 parameters

SubHalo Abundance Matching (SHAM) is an empirical method for constructing galaxy catalogues based on high-resolution $N$-body simulations. We apply SHAM on the UNIT simulation to simulate SDSS BOSS/eBOSS Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Jiaxi Yu , Cheng Zhao , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Julian Bautista , Ginevra Favole , Jean-Paul Kneib , Faizan Mohammad , Ashley Ross , Anand Raichoor , Charling Tao , Kyle Dawson , Graziano Rossi