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Kauffmann, Guinevere; Jordan, Wendell P.; Jordan, Beatrice; Huehnerhoff, Joe; Honscheid, Klaus; Holder, Diana; Hogg, David W.; Ho, Shirley; Harris, David W.; Harris, Ben; Hall, Patrick B.; Hamilton, Jean-Christophe; Haggard, Daryl; Guo, Hong; Gunn, James E.; Génova-Santos, R.; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Finley, Hayley; Filiz Ak, N.; Fan, Xiaohui; Escoffier, S.; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Ebelke, Garrett L.; Ealet, Anne; Dhital, Saurav; de Putter, Roland; Delubac, Timothée; Davenport, James R. A.; da Costa, Luiz N.; Cuesta, Antonio J.; Croft, Rupert A. C.; Cope, Frances; Connolly, Natalia; Comparat, Johan; Chen, Yanmei; Carr, Michael A.; Carnero, Aurelio R.; Carithers, William; Busca, N. G.; Bundy, Kevin; Brownstein, Joel R.; Brown, Peter J.; Brinkmann, Jon; Brewington, Howard; Brandt, W. N.; Bovy, Jo; Borde, Arnaud; Bolton, Adam S.; Blomqvist, Michael; Blanton, Michael R.; Blake, Cullen H.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Bhardwaj, Vaishali; Berlind, Andreas A.; Beifiori, Alessandra; Bautista, Julian E.; Barkhouser, Robert H.; Bailey, Stephen; Aubourg, Éric; Anderson, Scott F.; Ahn, Christopher P.; Schlegel, David J.; Dawson, Kyle S.; Zheng, Zheng; Zhao, Gong-Bo; Zehavi, Idit; Yeche, Christophe; Wood-Vasey, W. M.; White, Martin; West, Andrew A.; Weiner, Benjamin J.; Weinberg, David H.; Tojeiro, Rita; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Thomas, Daniel; Tanaka, Masayuki; Tal, Tomer; Swanson, Molly E. C.; Suzuki, Nao; Steele, Oliver; Strauss, Michael A.; Streblyanska, A.; Weaver, Benjamin A.; Watson, Mike; Wake, David A.; Viel, Matteo; Verde, Licia; Vargas Magaña, M.; Tremonti, Christy A.; Stauffer, Fritz; Snedden, Stephanie A.; Ross, Nicholas P.; Ross, Ashley J.; Roe, Natalie A.; Sheldon, Erin; Smee, Stephen A.; Slosar, Anže; Shu, Yiping; Shen, Yue; Shelden, Alaina et al.
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The Astronomical Journal, Volume 145, Issue 1, article id. 10, 41 pp. (2013).
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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 volume than the combined efforts of
all previous spectroscopic surveys of large-scale structure. BOSS uses
1.5 million luminous galaxies as faint as i = 19.9 over 10,000
deg2 to measure BAO to redshifts z < 0.7. Observations of
neutral hydrogen in the Lyα forest in more than 150,000 quasar
spectra (g < 22) will constrain BAO over the redshift range 2.15 <
z < 3.5. Early results from BOSS include the first detection of the
large-scale three-dimensional clustering of the Lyα forest and a
strong detection from the Data Release 9 data set of the BAO in the
clustering of massive galaxies at an effective redshift z = 0.57. We
project that BOSS will yield measurements of the angular diameter
distance dA to an accuracy of 1.0% at redshifts z = 0.3 and z
= 0.57 and measurements of H(z) to 1.8% and 1.7% at the same redshifts.
Forecasts for Lyα forest constraints predict a measurement of an
overall dilation factor that scales the highly degenerate DA
(z) and H -1(z) parameters to an accuracy of 1.9% at z
~ 2.5 when the survey is complete. Here, we provide an overview of the
selection of spectroscopic targets, planning of observations, and
analysis of data and data quality of BOSS.
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