The connection between galaxies and their dark matter halos

RH Wechsler, JL Tinker - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
In our modern understanding of galaxy formation, every galaxy forms within a dark matter
halo. The formation and growth of galaxies over time is connected to the growth of the halos …

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 …

The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: baryon acoustic oscillations in the Data Releases 10 and 11 Galaxy samples

L Anderson, E Aubourg, S Bailey… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a one per cent measurement of the cosmic distance scale from the detections of
the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon …

Sdss-iii: Massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the milky way, and extra-solar planetary systems

DJ Eisenstein, DH Weinberg, E Agol… - The Astronomical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program
of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological …

A 6% measurement of the Hubble parameter at z∼ 0.45: direct evidence of the epoch of cosmic re-acceleration

M Moresco, L Pozzetti, A Cimatti… - … of Cosmology and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Deriving the expansion history of the Universe is a major goal of modern cosmology. To
date, the most accurate measurements have been obtained with Type Ia Supernovae (SNe) …

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 …

The eighth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first data from SDSS-III

H Aihara, CA Prieto, D An, SF Anderson… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with
new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution …

The DESI experiment part I: science, targeting, and survey design

A Aghamousa, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam… - ar** the distance–redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations
C Blake, EA Kazin, F Beutler, TM Davis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We present measurements of the baryon acoustic peak at redshifts z= 0.44, 0.6 and 0.73 in
the galaxy correlation function of the final data set of the WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey. We …

SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12: galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues

B Reid, S Ho, N Padmanabhan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
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 …