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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 z<0.7 and z~2.5. BOSS uses the "standard ruler" provided by…

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Statistical properties of gas absorption in high redshift quasars such as power spectrum and bispectrum allow one to determine the evolution of structure over the redshift range 2<z<4. Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will measure around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uros Seljak , Rachel Mandelbaum , Patrick McDonald

We present the Data Release 14 Quasar catalog (DR14Q) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). This catalog includes all SDSS-IV/eBOSS objects that were…

In recent years, the Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption observed in the spectra of high-redshift quasars has been used as a tracer of large-scale structure by means of the three-dimensional Lyman-$\alpha$ forest auto-correlation function at redshift…

We present the characteristics of the Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ (DLA) systems found in the data release DR16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DLAs were identified using the…

We present a measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the cross-correlation of quasars with the Ly$\alpha$-forest flux-transmission at a mean redshift $z=2.40$. The measurement uses the complete SDSS-III data sample: 168,889…

We present the Lyssa suite of high-resolution cosmological simulations of the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest designed for cosmological analyses. These 18 simulations have been run using the Nyx code with $4096^3$ hydrodynamical cells in a 120 Mpc…

The 1D Ly-$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum $P_{\mathrm{1D}}$ is sensitive to scales smaller than a typical galaxy survey, and hence ties to the intergalactic medium's thermal state, suppression from neutrino masses and new dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Naim Göksel Karaçaylı , Andreu Font-Ribera , Nikhil Padmanabhan

We make use of recent developments in the analysis of galaxy redshift surveys to present an easy to use matrix-based analysis framework for the galaxy power spectrum multipoles, including wide-angle effects and the survey window function.…

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We present measurements of the cross-correlation of the triply-ionized carbon (CIV) forest with quasars using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 14. The study exploits a large sample of new quasars from the first two years of…

Modifications were made to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Baryonic Oscillations Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS/BOSS) optical fibres assigned to quasar targets in order to improve the signal-to-noise ratio in the Lyman-alpha forest. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Dinko Milaković , John K. Webb , Chung-Chi Lee , Evgeny O. Zavarygin

We present the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements with the Lyman-alpha (LyA) forest from the second data release (DR2) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey. Our BAO measurements include both the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 DESI Collaboration , M. Abdul-Karim , J. Aguilar , S. Ahlen , C. Allende Prieto , O. Alves , A. Anand , U. Andrade , E. Armengaud , A. Aviles , S. Bailey , A. Bault , J. Behera , S. BenZvi , D. Bianchi , C. Blake , A. Brodzeller , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , E. Burtin , R. Calderon , R. Canning , A. Carnero Rosell , P. Carrilho , L. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cereskaite , M. Charles , E. Chaussidon , J. Chaves-Montero , D. Chebat , T. Claybaugh , S. Cole , A. P. Cooper , A. Cuceu , K. S. Dawson , R. de Belsunce , A. de la Macorra , A. de Mattia , N. Deiosso , J. Della Costa , A. Dey , B. Dey , Z. Ding , P. Doel , J. Edelstein , D. J. Eisenstein , W. Elbers , P. Fagrelius , K. Fanning , S. Ferraro , A. Font-Ribera , J. E. Forero-Romero , C. Garcia-Quintero , L. H. Garrison , E. Gaztañaga , H. Gil-Marín , S. Gontcho A Gontcho , A. X. Gonzalez-Morales , C. Gordon , D. Green , G. Gutierrez , J. Guy , C. Hahn , M. Herbold , H. K. Herrera-Alcantar , M. -F. Ho , K. Honscheid , C. Howlett , D. Huterer , M. Ishak , S. Juneau , N. G. Karaçaylı , R. Kehoe , S. Kent , D. Kirkby , T. Kisner , F. -S. Kitaura , S. E. Koposov , A. Kremin , O. Lahav , C. Lamman , M. Landriau , D. Lang , J. Lasker , J. M. Le Goff , L. Le Guillou , A. Leauthaud , M. E. Levi , Q. Li , T. S. Li , K. Lodha , M. Lokken , C. Magneville , M. Manera , P. Martini , W. L. Matthewson , P. McDonald , A. Meisner , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Moustakas , D. Muñoz Santos , A. Muñoz-Gutiérrez , A. D. Myers , J. A. Newman , G. Niz , H. E. Noriega , E. Paillas , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Pan , W. J. Percival , I. Pérez-Ràfols , M. M. Pieri , C. Poppett , F. Prada , D. Rabinowitz , A. Raichoor , C. Ramírez-Pérez , M. Rashkovetskyi , C. Ravoux , J. Rich , C. Rockosi , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , E. Sanchez , N. Sanders , S. Satyavolu , D. Schlegel , M. Schubnell , H. Seo , A. Shafieloo , R. Sharples , J. Silber , F. Sinigaglia , D. Sprayberry , T. Tan , G. Tarlé , P. Taylor , W. Turner , F. Valdes , M. Vargas-Magaña , M. Walther , B. A. Weaver , M. Wolfson , C. Yèche , P. Zarrouk , R. Zhou , H. Zou

Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16, we have detected the large-scale structure of Ly$\alpha$ emission in the Universe at redshifts $z = 2$--3.5 by cross-correlating quasar positions and Ly$\alpha$ emission imprinted in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-28 Xiaojing Lin , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Cai

The three-dimensional distribution of the Ly$\alpha$ forest has been extensively used to constrain cosmology through measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) scale. However, more cosmological information could be extracted…

We produce 1000 realizations of synthetic clustering catalogues for each type of the tracers used for the baryon acoustic oscillation and redshift space distortion analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys-IV extended Baryon Oscillation…

We present a measurement of two-dimensional (2D) redshift-space power spectrum for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 11 CMASS galaxies in the North Galactic Cap (NGC) based on the method developed by Jing &…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Zhigang Li , Y. P. Jing , Pengjie Zhang , Dalong Cheng

High redshift measurements of the baryonic acoustic oscillation scale (BAO) from large Ly-alpha forest surveys represent the next frontier of dark energy studies. As part of this effort, efficient simulations of the BAO signature from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Bradley Greig , James S. Bolton , J. Stuart B. Wyithe

We investigate the anisotropic clustering of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Data Release 12 (DR12) sample, which consists of $1\,198\,006$ galaxies in the redshift range $0.2 < z < 0.75$ and a sky coverage of…

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…