The SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: overview and early data

KS Dawson, JP Kneib, WJ Percival… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic
Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS …

[HTML][HTML] The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey-I. Survey description and preliminary data release

TW Shimwell, HJA Röttgering, PN Best… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) is a deep 120–168 MHz imaging survey that will
eventually cover the entire northern sky. Each of the 3170 pointings will be observed for 8 h …

The multi-object, fiber-fed spectrographs for the sloan digital sky survey and the baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

SA Smee, JE Gunn, A Uomoto, N Roe… - The Astronomical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic …

Sloan digital sky survey IV: Map** the Milky Way, nearby galaxies, and the distant universe

MR Blanton, MA Bershady, B Abolfathi… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York et al. 2000) started observations in 1998 and has
completed three different phases. The data collected includes optical imaging of most of the …

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release

BW Lyke, AN Higley, JN McLane… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data
Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog …

Baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyα forest of BOSS quasars

T Delubac, J Rich, S Bailey, A Font-Ribera… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-
dimensional correlation function of the transmitted flux fraction in the Lyα forest of high …

Cosmological implications of baryon acoustic oscillation measurements

É Aubourg, S Bailey, JE Bautista, F Beutler, V Bhardwaj… - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the
combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave …

Quasar-Lyman α forest cross-correlation from BOSS DR11: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

A Font-Ribera, D Kirkby… - … of Cosmology and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We measure the large-scale cross-correlation of quasars with the Lyα forest absorption,
using over 164,000 quasars from Data Release 11 of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of baryon acoustic oscillation correlations at z= 2.3 with SDSS DR12 Lyα-Forests

JE Bautista, J Guy, J Rich, M Blomqvist… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
We have used flux-transmission correlations in Lyα forests to measure the imprint of baryon
acoustic oscillations (BAO). The study uses spectra of 157 783 quasars in the redshift range …

The Pan-STARRS1 distant z> 5.6 quasar survey: more than 100 quasars within the first Gyr of the Universe

E Bañados, BP Venemans, R Decarli… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Luminous quasars at $ z\gt 5.6$ can be studied in detail with the current generation of
telescopes and provide us with unique information on the first gigayear of the universe. Thus …