Active galactic nuclei: what's in a name?

P Padovani, DM Alexander, RJ Assef… - The Astronomy and …, 2017 - Springer
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto
supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that …

The seventeenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 data

N Abdurro'uf, K Accetta, C Aerts, V Silva Aguirre… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - osti.gov
This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky
Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the …

The seventeenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 data

K Accetta, C Aerts, VS Aguirre… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) have been almost continuously observing the skies
for over 20 yr, since the project began with a first phase in 1998 (SDSS-I; York et al. 2000) …

The completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from anisotropic clustering analysis of the quasar sample …

J Hou, AG Sánchez, AJ Ross, A Smith… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We measure the anisotropic clustering of the quasar sample from Data Release 16 (DR16)
of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey …

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 …

KiDS+ VIKING-450: Cosmic shear tomography with optical and infrared data

H Hildebrandt, F Köhlinger, JL Van den Busch… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
We present a tomographic cosmic shear analysis of the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS)
combined with the VISTA Kilo-Degree Infrared Galaxy Survey. This is the first time that a full …

Massive black hole binaries: dynamical evolution and observational signatures

M Dotti, A Sesana, R Decarli - Advances in Astronomy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The study of the dynamical evolution of massive black hole pairs in mergers is crucial in the
context of a hierarchical galaxy formation scenario. The timescales for the formation and the …

The clustering of the SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey DR14 quasar sample: first measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations between …

M Ata, F Baumgarten, J Bautista… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present measurements of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) scale in redshift-space
using the clustering of quasars. We consider a sample of 147 000 quasars from the …

The baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey of SDSS-III

KS Dawson, DJ Schlegel, CP Ahn… - The Astronomical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure
the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger …

KiDS-1000 catalogue: Redshift distributions and their calibration

H Hildebrandt, JL Van Den Busch, AH Wright… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We present redshift distribution estimates of galaxies selected from the fourth data release of
the Kilo-Degree Survey over an area of∼ 1000 deg 2 (KiDS-1000). These redshift …