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 …

Data mining and machine learning in astronomy

NM Ball, RJ Brunner - International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2010 - World Scientific
We review the current state of data mining and machine learning in astronomy. Data Mining
can have a somewhat mixed connotation from the point of view of a researcher in this field. If …

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

A Aghamousa, J Aguilar, S Ahlen, S Alam… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy
experiment that will study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Alert classification for the ALeRCE broker system: The light curve classifier

P Sánchez-Sáez, I Reyes, C Valenzuela… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first version of the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events
(ALeRCE) broker light curve classifier. ALeRCE is currently processing the Zwicky Transient …

The sloan digital sky survey quasar catalog. V. Seventh data release

DP Schneider, GT Richards, PB Hall… - The Astronomical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is
based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog, which contains 105,783 …

Mojave. XIII. Parsec-Scale Agn Jet Kinematics Analysis Based on 19 Years of Vlba Observations at 15 GHz

ML Lister, MF Aller, HD Aller, DC Homan… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We present 1625 new 15 GHz (2 cm) VLBA images of 295 jets associated with
active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the MOJAVE and 2 cm VLBA surveys, spanning …