|
| | | | |
| | | |
| Stat |
Members: 3645
Articles: 2'501'711
Articles rated: 2609
20 April 2024 |
|
| | | | |
|
Article overview
| |
|
|
SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large scale structure catalogues | | Beth Reid
; Shirley Ho
; Nikhil Padmanabhan
; Will J. Percival
; Jeremy Tinker
; Rita Tojeiro
; Martin White
; Daniel J. Eisenstein
; Claudia Maraston
; Ashley J. Ross
; Ariel G. Sanchez
; David Schlegel
; Erin Sheldon
; Michael A. Strauss
; Daniel Thomas
; David Wake
; Florian Beutler
; Dmitry Bizyaev
; Adam S. Bolton
; Joel R. Brownstein
; Chia-Hsun Chuang
; Kyle Dawson
; Paul Harding
; Francisco-Shu Kitaura
; Alexie Leauthaud
; Karen Masters
; Cameron K. McBride
; Surhud More
; Matthew D. Olmstead
; Daniel Oravetz
; Sebastian E. Nuza
; Kaike Pan
; John Parejko
; Janine Pforr
; Francisco Prada
; Sergio Rodriguez-Torres
; Salvador Salazar-Albornoz
; Lado Samushia
; Donald P. Schneider
; Claudia G. Scoccola
; Audrey Simmons
; Mariana Vargas-Magana
; | | Date: |
22 Sep 2015 | | Abstract: | The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy
redshifts available to date, in terms of both the number of galaxy redshifts
measured by a single survey, and the effective cosmological volume covered. Key
to analysing the clustering of these data to provide cosmological measurements
is understanding the detailed properties of this sample. Potential issues
include variations in the target catalogue caused by changes either in the
targeting algorithm or properties of the data used, the pattern of
spectroscopic observations, the spatial distribution of targets for which
redshifts were not obtained, and variations in the target sky density due to
observational systematics. We document here the target selection algorithms
used to create the galaxy samples that comprise BOSS. We also present the
algorithms used to create large scale structure catalogues for the final Data
Release (DR12) samples and the associated random catalogues that quantify the
survey mask. The algorithms are an evolution of those used by the BOSS team to
construct catalogues from earlier data, and have been designed to accurately
quantify the galaxy sample. The code used, designated MKSAMPLE, is released
with this paper. | | Source: | arXiv, 1509.6529 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
|
|
No review found.
Did you like this article?
Note: answers to reviews or questions about the article must be posted in the forum section.
Authors are not allowed to review their own article. They can use the forum section.
browser Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
News, job offers and information for researchers and scientists:
| |
REGISTER