The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

K.S. Dawson , David J. Schlegel , Christopher P. Ahn , Scott F. Anderson , E. Aubourg (1, 2) , Stephen Bailey , Robert H. Barkhouser , J.E. Bautista (1, 2) , Alessandra Beifiori , Andreas A. Berlind , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Arnaud Borde , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , Howard Brewington , Jon Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , N.G. Busca (2) , William Carithers , Aurelio R. Carnero , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Frances Cope , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Luiz N. da Costa , James R. A. Davenport , Timothee Delubac , Roland de Putter , Saurav Dhital , A. Ealet (3) , Garrett L. Ebelke , Daniel J. Eisenstein , S. Escoffier (3) , Xiaohui Fan , N. Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Andreu Font-Ribera , R. Genova-Santos , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Daryl Haggard , Patrick B. Hall , J.-C. Hamilton (2) , Ben Harris , David W. Harris , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Diana Holder , Klaus Honscheid , Joe Huehnerhoff , Beatrice Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Guinevere Kauffmann , Eyal A. Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Khee-Gan Lee , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Marcio A. G. Maia , Martin Makler , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Rachel Mandelbaum , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. Mcbride , Patrick Mcdonald , Ian D. Mcgreer , Olga Mena , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francesco Montesano , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Matthew D. Olmstead , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel J. Oravetz , Russell Owen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Paris , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Ignasi Perez-Rafols , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Rafael Rebolo , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , J. A. Rubino-Martin , Lado Samushia , Ariel G. Sanchez , Conor Sayres , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , C. G. Scoccola , Hee-Jong Seo , Alaina Shelden , Erin Sheldon , Yue Shen , Yiping Shu , Anze Slosar , Stephen A. Smee , Stephanie A. Snedden , Fritz Stauffer , Oliver Steele , Michael A. Strauss , Nao Suzuki , Molly E. C. Swanson , Tomer Tal , Masayuki Tanaka , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , M. Vargas Magana (2) , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Mike Watson , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Andrew A. West , Martin White , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yeche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng

1 APC - Cosmologie
2 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
3 CPPM - Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille

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 luminous galaxies to measure BAO to redshifts z<0.7 and observations of neutral hydrogen in the Lyman alpha forest in quasar spectra to constrain BAO over the redshift range 2.15

Mots clés: Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics; Astrophysics

Domaines: Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]; Cosmologie et astrophysique extra-galactique [astro-ph.CO]

K.S. Dawson, David J. Schlegel, Christopher P. Ahn, Scott F. Anderson, E. Aubourg, et al.. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III. The Astronomical Journal, 2013, 145, pp.10. ⟨10.1088/0004-6256/145/1/10⟩. ⟨in2p3-00731047⟩