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SDSS-IV eBOSS emission-line galaxy pilot survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-IV/eBOSS) will observe 195,000 emission-line galaxies (ELGs) to measure the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation standard ruler (BAO) at redshift 0.9. To test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 J. Comparat , T. Delubac , S. Jouvel , A. Raichoor , J-P. Kneib , C. Yeche , F. B. Abdalla , C. Le Cras , C. Maraston , D. M. Wilkinson , G. Zhu , E. Jullo , F. Prada , D. Schlegel , Z. Xu , H. Zou , J. Bautista , D. Bizyaev , A. Bolton , J. R. Brownstein , K. S. Dawson , S. Escoffier P. Gaulme , K. Kinemuchi , E. Malanushenko , V. Malanushenko , V. Mariappan , J. A. Newman , D. Oravetz , K. Pan , W. J. Percival , A. Prakash , D. P. Schneider , A. Simmons , T. M. C. Abbott S. Allam , M. Banerji , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , S. Desai , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , R. Miquel , A. A. Plazas , K. Reil , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

The SDSS-IV extended Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Luminous Red Galaxy Target Selection

We describe the algorithm used to select the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) sample for the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) using photometric data from both the SDSS and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Abhishek Prakash , Timothy C. Licquia , Jeffrey A. Newman , Ashley J. Ross , Adam D. Myers , Kyle S. Dawson , Jean-Paul Kneib , Will J. Percival , Julian E. Bautista , Johan Comparat , Jeremy L. Tinker , David J. Schlegel , Rita Tojeiro , Shirley Ho , Dustin Lang , Sandhya M. Rao , Cameron K. McBride , Guangtun Ben Zhu , Joel R. Brownstein , Stephen Bailey , Adam S. Bolton , Timothee Delubac , Vivek Mariappan , Michael R. Blanton , Beth Reid , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Francisco Prada

Investigating Emission Line Galaxy Surveys with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies provides a standard ruler to probe the accelerated expansion of the Universe. The current surveys covering a comoving volume sufficient to unveil the BAO scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 Johan Comparat , Jean-Paul Kneib , Stephanie Escoffier , Julien Zoubian , Anne Ealet , Fabrice Lamareille , N. Mostek , Oliver Steele , Eric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Adam S. Bolton , Joel Brownstein , Kyle Dawson , Jian Ge , Olivier Ilbert , Alexie Leauthaud , Claudia Maraston , Will Percival , Nicholas P. Ross , Carlo Schimd , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Benjamin A. Weaver

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: selecting emission line galaxies using the Fisher discriminant

We present a new selection technique of producing spectroscopic target catalogues for massive spectroscopic surveys for cosmology. This work was conducted in the context of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-08 A. Raichoor J. Comparat , T. Delubac , J. -P. Kneib , C. Yèche , H. Zou , F. B. Abdalla , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , X. Fan , Z. Fan , Z. Jiang , Y. Jing , S. Jouvel , D. Lang , M. Lesser , C. Li , J. Ma , J. A. Newman , J. Nie , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , F. Prada , S. Shen , J. Wang , Z. Wu , T. Zhang , X. Zhou , Z. Zhou

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale Structure Catalogues and Measurement of the isotropic BAO between redshift 0.6 and 1.1 for the Emission Line Galaxy Sample

We present the Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) sample of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV Data Release 16 (DR16). After describing the observations and redshift measurement for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Anand Raichoor , Arnaud de Mattia , Ashley J. Ross , Cheng Zhao , Shadab Alam , Santiago Avila , Julian Bautista , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Etienne Burtin , Michael J. Chapman , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Kyle S. Dawson , Arjun Dey , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Jack Elvin-Poole , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Claudio Gorgoni , Jean-Paul Kneib , Hui Kong , Dustin Lang , John Moustakas , Adam D. Myers , Eva-Maria Müller , Seshadri Nadathur , Jeffrey A. Newman , Will J. Percival , Mehdi Rezaie , Graziano Rossi , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Amélie Tamone , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , M. Vivek , Christophe Yèche , Gong-Bo Zhao

The ELG target selection with the BOSS survey

The Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the power spectrum of galaxies can be used as a standard ruler to probe the accelerated expansion of the Universe. In this paper, we study several galaxy selection schemes aiming at building…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-22 S. Escoffier , J. Comparat , A. Ealet , J. -P. Kneib , J. Zoubian , F. Lamareille

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measurement of the BAO and growth rate of structure of the emission line galaxy sample from the anisotropic power spectrum between redshift 0.6 and 1.1

We analyse the large-scale clustering in Fourier space of emission line galaxies (ELG) from the Data Release 16 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. The ELG sample contains 173,736 galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-12 Arnaud de Mattia , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Anand Raichoor , Ashley J. Ross , Amélie Tamone , Cheng Zhao , Shadab Alam , Santiago Avila , Etienne Burtin , Julian Bautista , Florian Beutler , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Michael J. Chapman , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Kyle S. Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Héctor Gil-Marín , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Claudio Gorgoni , Jiamin Hou , Hui Kong , Sicheng Lin , Seshadri Nadathur , Jeffrey A. Newman , Eva-Maria Mueller , Will J. Percival , Mehdi Rezaie , Graziano Rossi , Donald P. Schneider , Prabhakar Tiwari , M. Vivek , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

Target Selection and Validation of DESI Emission Line Galaxies

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting $\sim$40 million extra-galactic redshifts across $\sim$80\% of cosmic history and one third of the sky. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 A. Raichoor , J. Moustakas , Jeffrey A. Newman , T. Karim , S. Ahlen , Shadab Alam , S. Bailey , D. Brooks , K. Dawson , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , A. Dey , Biprateep Dey , G. Dhungana , S. Eftekharzadeh , D. J. Eisenstein , K. Fanning , A. Font-Ribera , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Guy , K. Honscheid , M. Ishak , R. Kehoe , T. Kisner , A. Kremin , Ting-Wen Lan , M. Landriau , L. Le Guillou , Michael E. Levi , C. Magneville , P. Martini , Aaron M. Meisner , Adam D. Myers , Jundan Nie , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , C. Poppett , F. Prada , A. J. Ross , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. G. Sabiu , E. F. Schlafly , D. Schlegel , Gregory Tarle , B. A. Weaver , Christophe Yeche , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , H. Zou

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Growth rate of structure measurement from anisotropic clustering analysis in configuration space between redshift 0.6 and 1.1 for the Emission Line Galaxy sample

We present the anisotropic clustering of emission line galaxies (ELGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 16 (DR16). Our sample is composed of 173,736 ELGs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Amélie Tamone , Anand Raichoor , Cheng Zhao , Arnaud de Mattia , Claudio Gorgoni , Etienne Burtin , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Ashley J. Ross , Shadab Alam , Will J. Percival , Santiago Avila , Michael J. Chapman , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Kyle S. Dawson , Sylvain de la Torre , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Stephanie Escoffier , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Jiamin Hou , Jean-Paul Kneib , Faizan G. Mohammad , Eva-Maria Mueller , Romain Paviot , Graziano Rossi , Donald P. Schneider , Yuting Wang , Gong-Bo Zhao

Preliminary Target Selection for the DESI Emission Line Galaxy (ELG) Sample

DESI will precisely constrain cosmic expansion and the growth of structure by collecting $\sim$35 million redshifts across $\sim$80% of cosmic history and one third of the sky to study Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) and Redshift Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-23 Anand Raichoor , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Tanveer Karim , Jeffrey A. Newman , John Moustakas , David D. Brooks , Kyle S. Dawson , Arjun Dey , Yutong Duan , Sarah Eftekharzadeh , Enrique Gaztañaga , Robert Kehoe , Martin Landriau , Dustin Lang , Jae H. Lee , Michael E. Levi , Aaron M. Meisner , Adam D. Myers , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Ashley J. Ross , David J. Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Ryan Staten , Gregory Tarlé , Rita Tojeiro , Christophe Yèche , Rongpu Zhou

Abundance matching analysis of the emission line galaxy sample in the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

We present the measurements of the small-scale clustering for the emission line galaxy (ELG) sample from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). We use conditional abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-21 Sicheng Lin , Jeremy L. Tinker , Michael R. Blanton , Hong Guo , Anand Raichoor , Johan Comparat , Joel R. Brownstein

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS): a cosmological forecast

We present a science forecast for the eBOSS survey, part of the SDSS-IV project, which is a spectroscopic survey using multiple tracers of large-scale structure, including luminous red galaxies (LRGs), emission line galaxies (ELGs) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Gong-Bo Zhao , Yuting Wang , Ashley J. Ross , Sarah Shandera , Will J. Percival , Kyle S. Dawson , Jean-Paul Kneib , Adam D. Myers , Joel R. Brownstein , Johan Comparat , Timothée Delubac , Pengyuan Gao , Alireza Hojjati , Kazuya Koyama , Cameron K. McBride , Andrés Meza , Jeffrey A. Newman , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Levon Pogosian , Francisco Prada , Graziano Rossi , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Charling Tao , Dandan Wang , Christophe Yèche , Hanyu Zhang , Yuecheng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Fangzhou Zhu , Hu Zou

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Quasar Target Selection

As part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will improve measurements of the cosmological distance scale by applying the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) method to quasar samples.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Adam D. Myers , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Abhishek Prakash , Isabelle Pâris , Christophe Yeche , Kyle S. Dawson , Jo Bovy , Dustin Lang , David J. Schlegel , Jeffrey A. Newman , Patrick Petitjean , Jean Paul Kneib , Pierre Laurent , Will J. Percival , Ashley J. Ross , Hee-Jong Seo , Jeremy L. Tinker , Eric Armengaud , Joel Brownstein , Etienne Burtin , Zheng Cai , Johan Comparat , Mansi Kasliwal , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Russ Laher , David Levitan , Cameron K. McBride , Ian D. McGreer , Adam A. Miller , Peter Nugent , Eran Ofek , Graziano Rossi , John Ruan , Donald P. Schneider , Branimir Sesar , Alina Streblyanska , Jason Surace

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: A Catalogue of Strong Galaxy-Galaxy Lens Candidates

We spectroscopically detected 838 likely, 448 probable, and 265 possible strong lens candidates within $\approx2$ million galaxy spectra contained within the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) from the sixteenth data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Michael S. Talbot , Joel R. Brownstein , Kyle S. Dawson , Jean-Paul Kneib , Julian Bautista

The Completed SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Growth rate of structure measurement from cosmic voids

We present a void clustering analysis in configuration-space using the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) DR16 samples. These samples consist of Luminous Red Galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-30 Marie Aubert , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Stéphanie Escoffier , Adam J. Hawken , Seshadri Nadathur , Shadab Alam , Julian Bautista , Etienne Burtin , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Axel de la Macorra , Arnaud de Mattia , Héctor Gil-Marín , Jiamin Hou , Eric Jullo , Jean-Paul Kneib , Richard Neveux , Graziano Rossi , Donald Schneider , Alex Smith , Amélie Tamone , Mariana Vargas Magaña , Cheng Zhao

The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample

The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 Luminous Red Galaxies. By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail of the BOSS galaxy sample, we form a sample of LRGs at an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Julian E. Bautista , Mariana Vargas-Magaña , Kyle S. Dawson , Will J. Percival , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel Brownstein , Benjamin Camacho , Johan Comparat , Hector Gil-Marín , Eva-Maria Mueller , Jeffrey A. Newman , Abhishek Prakash , Ashley J. Ross , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Jeremy Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Zhongzu Zhai , Gong-Bo Zhao

Highly Efficient Selection of High-Redshift Emission-Line Galaxies for future DESI-like surveys with Deep Multi-band Imaging

Emission-line galaxies (ELGs) are an important tracer of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and large-scale structure (LSS) at $z > 1$. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of using deep wide-area multi-band imaging (e.g., from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Yoquelbin Salcedo Hernandez , Jeffrey A. Newman , Brett. H. Andrews , Biprateep Dey , Rongpu. Zhou , Noah Sailer , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , D. Bianchi , D. Brooks , R. Canning , F. J. Castander , E. Chaussidon , T. Claybaugh , A. Cuceu , A. de la Macorra , Arjun Dey , P. Doel , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , E. Gaztañaga , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , G. Gutierrez , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , R. Joyce , S. Juneau , R. Kehoe , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , A. Kremin , O. Lahav , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , M. E. Levi , M. Manera , A. Meisner , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , S. Nadathur , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , F. Prada , I. Pérez-Ràfols , A. Raichoor , G. Rossi , E. Sanchez , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , J. Silber , D. Sprayberry , G. Tarlé , B. A. Weaver , C. Yèche , H. Zou

The SDSS-IV eBOSS: emission line galaxy catalogues at z=0.8 and study of systematic errors in the angular clustering

We present two wide-field catalogs of photometrically-selected emission line galaxies (ELGs) at z=0.8 covering about 2800 deg^2 over the south galactic cap. The catalogs were obtained using a Fisher discriminant technique described in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 T. Delubac , A. Raichoor , J. Comparat , S. Jouvel , J. -P. Kneib , C. Yèche , H. Zou , J. R. Brownstein , F. B. Abdalla , K. Dawson , E. Jullo , A. D. Myers , J. A. Newman , W. J. Percival , F. Prada , A. J. Ross , D. P. Schneider , X. Zhou , Z. Zhou , G. Zhu

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale Structure Catalogs for Cosmological Analysis

We present large-scale structure catalogs from the completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). Derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) -IV Data Release 16 (DR16), these catalogs provide the data samples,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-01 Ashley J. Ross , Julian Bautista , Rita Tojeiro , Shadab Alam , Stephen Bailey , Etienne Burtin , Johan Comparat , Kyle S. Dawson , Arnaud de Mattia , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Héctor Gil-Marín , Jiamin Hou , Hui Kong , Brad W. Lyke , Faizan G. Mohammad , John Moustakas , Eva-Maria Mueller , Adam D. Myers , Will J. Percival , Anand Raichoor , Mehdi Rezaie , Hee-Jong Seo , Alex Smith , Jeremy L. Tinker , Pauline Zarrouk , Cheng Zhao , Gong-Bo Zhao , Dmitry Bizyaev , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Solène Chabanier , Peter D. Choi , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Irene Cruz-Gonzalez , Axel de la Macorra , Sylvain de la Torre , Stephanie Escoffier , Sebastien Fromenteau , Alexandra Higley , Eric Jullo , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jacob N. McLane , Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez , Richard Neveux , Jeffrey A. Newman , Christian Nitschelm , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Romain Paviot , Anthony R. Pullen , Graziano Rossi , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Donald P. Schneider , Mariana Vargas Magaña , M. Vivek , Yucheng Zhang

Precision Spectroscopy for 1.9 Million Galaxies from SDSS-IV: Improved Spectral Measurements and Catalogs for eBOSS

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV DR17 Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) consists of 2,233,939 high-quality optical galaxy spectra obtained through 2" fibers, providing a rich spectroscopic resource for studying galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-23 Owen S. Matthews Acuña , Christy A. Tremonti , Kyle B. Westfall , Shea DeFour-Remy , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Zach J. Lewis , Britt Lundgren , Drake Miller , Lizhou Sha