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1. GTC Follow-up Observations of Very Metal-Poor Star Candidates from DESI

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Prieto, Carlos Allende, Aguado, David S., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Rebolo, Rafael, Najita, Joan, Manser, Christopher J., Rockosi, Constance, Slepian, Zachary, Mezcua, Mar, Valluri, Monica, Ezzeddine, Rana, Koposov, Sergey E., Cooper, Andrew P., Dey, Arjun, Gänsicke, Boris T., Li, Ting S., Cunha, Katia, Zou, Siwei, Aguilar, Jessica Nicole, Ahlen, Steven, Brooks, David, Claybaugh, Todd, Cole, Shaun, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Fanning, Kevin, Forero-Romero, Jaime, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Honscheid, Klaus, Jablonka, Pascale, Kehoe, Robert, Kisner, Theodore, Landriau, Martin, de la Macorra, Axel, Meisner, Aaron, Miquel, Ramón, Moustakas, John, Nie, Jundan, Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Rezaie, Mehdi, Rossi, Graziano, Sánchez, Eusebio, Schubnell, Michael, Sharples, Ray, Siudek, Malgorzata, Smith, Verne V., Tarlé, Gregory, Vincenzo, Fiorenzo, Weaver, Benjamin Alan, Zhou, Zhimin, and Zou, Hu

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Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
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The observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will significantly increase the numbers of known extremely metal-poor stars by a factor of ~ 10, improving the sample statistics to study the early chemical evolution of the Milky Way and the nature of the first stars. In this paper we report high signal-to-noise follow-up observations of 9 metal-poor stars identified during the DESI commissioning with the Optical System for Imaging and low-Intermediate-Resolution Integrated Spectroscopy (OSIRIS) instrument on the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). The analysis of the data using a well-vetted methodology confirms the quality of the DESI spectra and the performance of the pipelines developed for the data reduction and analysis of DESI data., 13 pages, 4 figures, to be submitted to ApJ, data available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8020841

Published
2023

2. Detecting and Characterizing Mg II absorption in DESI Survey Validation Quasar Spectra

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Napolitano, Lucas, Pandey, Agnesh, Myers, Adam D., Lan, Ting-Wen, Anand, Abhijeet, Aguilar, Jessica, Ahlen, Steven, Alexander, David M., Brooks, David, Canning, Rebecca, Circosta, Chiara, De La Macorra, Axel, Doel, Peter, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Fawcett, Victoria A., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A, Guillou, L. Le, Guy, Julien, Honscheid, Klaus, Juneau, Stephanie, Kisner, T., Landriau, Martin, Meisner, Aaron M., Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, J., Percival, Will J., Prochaska, J. Xavier, Schubnell, Michael, Tarle, Gregory, Weaver, B. A., Weiner, Benjamin, Zhou, Zhimin, Zou, Hu, and Zou, Siwei

Subjects
Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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In this paper we will present findings on the detection of Magnesium II (MgII, lambda = 2796 Å, 2803 Å) absorption systems observed in data from the Early Data Release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI is projected to obtain spectroscopy of approximately 3 million quasars (QSOs), of which over 99% are anticipated to be found at redshifts greater than z < 0.3, such that DESI would be able to observe an associated or intervening Mg II absorber illuminated by the background QSO. We have developed an autonomous supplementary spectral pipeline that detects such systems through an initial line-fitting process and then confirms line properties using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler. Based upon both a visual inspection and the reanalysis of coadded observations, we estimate this sample of absorption systems to have a completeness of 82.56% and purity of 99.08%. As the spectra in which Mg II systems are detected are the result of coadding multiple observations, we can determine the sensitivity, and therefore completeness, of the sample by searching for known Mg II systems in coadded data with fewer observations (and therefore lower signal-to-noise). From a parent catalog containing 83,207 quasars, we detect a total of 23,921 Mg II absorption systems following a series of quality cuts. Extrapolating from this occurrence rate of 28.75% implies a catalog at the completion of the five-year DESI survey that contains over eight hundred thousand Mg II absorbers. The cataloging of these systems will enable significant further research as they carry information regarding circumgalactic medium (CGM) environments, the distribution of intervening galaxies, and the growth of metallicity across the redshift range 0.3 < z < 2.5., 12 pages, 7 figures

Published
2023

3. Intercomparison of Landsat Operational Land Imager and Terra Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer Radiometric Calibrations Using Radiometric Calibration Network Data.

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Yarahmadi, Mehran, Thome, Kurtis, Wenny, Brian N., Czapla-Myers, Jeff, Voskanian, Norvik, Tahersima, Mohammad, and Eftekharzadeh, Sarah

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ASTER (Advanced spaceborne thermal emission & reflection radiometer), LANDSAT satellites, REMOTE sensing
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This paper presents a comprehensive intercomparison study investigating the radiometric performance of and concurrence among the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER), Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (L8 OLI), and Landsat 9 OLI (L9 OLI) instruments. This study leverages data sourced from the Radiometric Calibration Network (RadCalNet) and focuses on spectral bands relevant for vegetation analysis and land cover classification, encompassing a thorough assessment of data quality, uncertainties, and underlying influencing factors. This study's outcomes underscore the efficacy of RadCalNet in evaluating the precision and reliability of remote sensing data, offering valuable insights into the strengths and limitations of ASTER, L8 OLI, and L9 OLI. These insights serve as a foundation for informed decision making in environmental monitoring and resource management, highlighting the pivotal role of RadCalNet in gauging the radiometric performance of remote sensing sensors. Results from RadCalNet sites, namely Railroad Valley Playa and Gobabeb, show their possible suitability for sensors with spatial resolutions down to 15 m. The results indicate that the measurements from both ASTER and OLI closely align with the data from RadCalNet, and the observed agreement falls comfortably within the total range of potential errors associated with the sensors and the test site information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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4. Extragalactic magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program) -- V: First results on the magnetic field orientation of galaxies

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Borlaff, Alejandro S., Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique, Beck, Rainer, Clark, Susan E., Ntormousi, Evangelia, Tassis, Konstantinos, Martin-Alvarez, Sergio, Tahani, Mehrnoosh, Dale, Daniel A., Castro, Ignacio del Moral, Roman-Duval, Julia, Marcum, Pamela M., Beckman, John E., Subramanian, Kandaswamy, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, and Proudfit, Leslie

Subjects
Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We present the analysis of the magnetic field ($B$-field) structure of galaxies measured with far-infrared (FIR) and radio (3 and 6 cm) polarimetric observations. We use the first data release of the Survey on extragALactic magnetiSm with SOFIA (SALSA) of 14 nearby ($, Comment: 28 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal

Published
2023

5. DESI Survey Validation Spectra Reveal an Increasing Fraction of Recently Quenched Galaxies at z ∼ 1.

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Setton, David J., Dey, Biprateep, Khullar, Gourav, Bezanson, Rachel, Newman, Jeffrey A., Aguilar, Jessica N., Ahlen, Steven, Andrews, Brett H., Brooks, David, de la Macorra, Axel, Dey, Arjun, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Font-Ribera, Andreu, A Gontcho, Satya Gontcho, Kremin, Anthony, Juneau, Stephanie, Landriau, Martin, Meisner, Aaron, Miquel, Ramon, and Moustakas, John

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2023
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6. Extragalactic Magnetism with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). III. First Data Release and On-the-fly Polarization Mapping Characterization.

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Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique, Clarke, Melanie, Shenoy, Sachin, Vacca, William, Coude, Simon, Arneson, Ryan, Ashton, Peter, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Beck, Rainer, Beckman, John E., Borlaff, Alejandro S., Clark, Susan E., Dale, Daniel A., Martin-Alvarez, Sergio, Ntormousi, Evangelia, Reach, William T., Roman-Duval, Julia, Tassis, Konstantinos, Harper, Doyal A., and Marcum, Pamela M.

Subjects
DATA release, MAGNETISM, SEYFERT galaxies, STARBURSTS, ELECTRONIC data processing
Abstract

We describe the data processing of the Survey on extragALactic magnetiSm with SOFIA (SALSA Legacy Program). This first data release presents 33% (51.34 hr out of 155.7 hr, including overheads) of the total awarded time from 2020 January to 2021 December. Our observations were performed using the newly implemented on-the-fly mapping (OTFMAP) technique in the polarimetric mode. We present the pipeline steps to obtain homogeneously reduced high-level data products of polarimetric maps of galaxies for use in scientific analysis. Our approach has a general design and can be applied to sources smaller than the field of view of the HAWC+ array in any given band. We estimate that the OTFMAP polarimetric mode offers a reduction of observing overheads by a factor 2.34 and an improvement in sensitivity by a factor 1.80 when compared to the same on-source time polarimetric observations using the chopping and nodding mode. The OTFMAP is a significant optimization of the polarimetric mode of HAWC+, as it ultimately reduces the cost of operations of HAWC+/SOFIA by increasing the science collected per hour of observation up to an overall factor of 2.49. The OTFMAP polarimetric mode is the standard observing strategy of SALSA. The results and quantitative analysis of this first data release are presented in Papers IV and V of the series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2022
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7. Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys

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Dey, Arjun, Schlegel, David J., Lang, Dustin, Blum, Robert, Burleigh, Kaylan, Fan, Xiaohui, Findlay, Joseph R., Finkbeiner, Doug, Herrera, David, Juneau, Stephanie, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, McGreer, Ian, Meisner, Aaron, Myers, Adam D., Moustakas, John, Nugent, Peter, Patej, Anna, Schlafly, Edward F., Walker, Alistair R., Valdes, Francisco, Weaver, Benjamin A., Yèche, Christophe, Zou, Hu, Zhou, Xu, Abareshi, Behzad, Abbott, T. M. C., Abolfathi, Bela, Aguilera, C., Alam, Shadab, Allen, Lori, Alvarez, A., Annis, James, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Aubert, Marie, Beechert, Jacqueline, Bell, Eric F., BenZvi, Segev Y., Beutler, Florian, Bielby, Richard M., Bolton, Adam S., Briceño, César, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J., Butler, Karen, Calamida, Annalisa, Carlberg, Raymond G., Carter, Paul, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco J., Choi, Yumi, Comparat, Johan, Cukanovaite, Elena, Delubac, Timothee, DeVries, Kaitlin, Dey, Sharmila, Dhungana, Govinda, Dickinson, Mark, Ding, Zhejie, Donaldson, John B., Duan, Yutong, Duckworth, Christopher J., Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Etourneau, Thomas, Fagrelius, Parker A., Farihi, Jay, Fitzpatrick, Mike, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Fulmer, Leah, Gansicke, Boris T., Gaztanaga, Enrique, George, Koshy, Gerdes, David W., Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A., Gorgoni, Claudio, Green, Gregory, Guy, Julien, Harmer, Diane, Hernandez, M., Honscheid, Klaus, Lijuan, Huang, W., James, David, Jannuzi, Buell T., Jiang, Linhua, Joyce, Richard, Karcher, Armin, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kueter-Young, Andrea, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lauer, Tod, Guillou, Laurent Le, Suu, Auguste Le Van, Lee, Jae Hyeon, Lesser, Michael, Levasseur, Laurence Perreault, Li, Ting S., Mann, Justin L., Marshall, Bob, Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Martini, Paul, Bourboux, Helion du Mas des, McManus, Sean, Meier, Tobias Gabriel, Menard, Brice, Metcalfe, Nigel, Munoz-Gutierrez, Andrea, Najita, Joan, Napier, Kevin, Narayan, Gautham, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nie, Jundan, Nord, Brian, Norman, Dara J., Olsen, Knut A. G., Paat, Anthony, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Peng, Xiyan, Poppett, Claire L., Poremba, Megan R., Prakash, Abhishek, Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Rezaie, Mehdi, Robertson, A. N., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rudnick, Gregory, Safonova, Sasha, Saha, Abhijit, Sanchez, F. Javier, Savary, Elodie, Schweiker, Heidi, Scott, Adam, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shan, Huanyuan, Silva, David R., Slepian, Zachary, Soto, Christian, Sprayberry, David, Staten, Ryan, Stillman, Coley M., Stupak, Robert J., Summers, David L., Tie, Suk Sien, Tirado, H., Vargas-Magana, Mariana, Vivas, A. Katherina, Wechsler, Risa H., Williams, Doug, Yang, Jinyi, Yang, Qian, Yapici, Tolga, Zaritsky, Dennis, Zenteno, A., Zhang, Kai, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhou, Rongpu, Zhou, Zhimin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Universidad Antonio Nariño (UAN), Département d'Astrophysique (ex SAP) (DAP), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, National University of Defense Technology [China], Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Departamento de FisicaTeorica e IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), EPFL Laboratoire d’astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Columbia University [New York], Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona] (ICE-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Biologie des Interactions Neurones / Glie, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), University of Arizona, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes (LATT), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Protein Sciences, Center for Structural Biology, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS), École Centrale de Lyon (ECL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint Etienne (ENISE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Saint Etienne-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Natural Science Foundation of China, Department of Energy (US), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (US), National Science Foundation (US), National Optical Astronomy Observatory (US), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Harvard University, Dey, Arjun, Schlegel, David J., Lang, Dustin, Blum, Robert, Fan, Xiaohui, Finkbeiner, Douglas, Herrera, David, Juneau, Stephanie, Landriau, Martin, Levi, Michael, McGreer, Ian, Meisner, Aaron, Moustakas, John, Nugent, Peter, Schlafly, Edward F., Walker, Alistair, Valdés, Francisco, Zou, Hu, Abolfathi, Bela, Allen, Lori, Annis, James, Ansarinejad, Behzad, Bell, Eric F., BenZvi, Segev, Beutler, Florian, Calamida, Annalisa, Carlberg, Raymond G., Casas, Richard, Castander, Francisco J., Choi, Yumi, Dickinson, Mark, Duan, Yutong, Fagrelius, Parker, Farihi, Jay, Fulmer, Leah, Gaztañaga, Enrique, George, Koshy, Gerdes, David W., Green, Gregory, James, David J., Jannuz, Buell T., Jiang, Linhua, Joyce, Richard, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lauer, Tod R., Le Guillou, Laurent, Lesser, Michael, Marshall, Robert, Martini, Paul, Mas des Bourboux, Hélion du, Metcalfe, Nigel, Narayan, Gautham, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nord, Brian, Olsen, Knut, Prakash, Abhishek, Ross, Nicholas P., Rudnick, Gregory, Safonova, Sasha, Saha, Abhijit, Schweiker, Heidi, Silva, David R., Sien, Suk, Vivas, Kathy, Yang, Jinyi, Yang, Qian, Yapici, Tolga, Zaritsky, Dennis, Zhang, Kai, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhou, Rongpu, University of St Andrews. 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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], media_common.quotation_subject, halo, FOS: Physical sciences, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, milky-way tomography, Footprint, Software, surveys, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, redshift distributions, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, dark energy survey, STFC, QB, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Remote sensing, media_common, business.industry, RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, cosmos, 3rd-DAS, Probabilistic inference, Galactic plane, streams, Photometry (astronomy), Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Satellite, digital sky survey, galaxy, Catalogs, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, business, sdss, sextractor, catalogs, Geology, astro-ph.IM
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The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey.org/) are a combination of three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey, and the Mayall z-band Legacy Survey) that will jointly image ≈14,000 deg2 of the extragalactic sky visible from the northern hemisphere in three optical bands (g, r, and z) using telescopes at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The combined survey footprint is split into two contiguous areas by the Galactic plane. The optical imaging is conducted using a unique strategy of dynamically adjusting the exposure times and pointing selection during observing that results in a survey of nearly uniform depth. In addition to calibrated images, the project is delivering a catalog, constructed by using a probabilistic inference-based approach to estimate source shapes and brightnesses. The catalog includes photometry from the grz optical bands and from four mid-infrared bands (at 3.4, 4.6, 12, and 22 μm) observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite during its full operational lifetime. The project plans two public data releases each year. All the software used to generate the catalogs is also released with the data. This paper provides an overview of the Legacy Surveys project., The BASS is also supported by the External Cooperation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant # 114A11KYSB20160057), and Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (Grant # 11433005). The Legacy Surveys imaging of the DESI footprint is supported by the Director, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02- 05CH11231, by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility under the same contract; and by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Division of Astronomical Sciences under Contract No. AST-0950945 to NOAO. Travel and other support for the DECaLS and MzLS projects is provided by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the DESI Project. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n. 320964 (WDTracer). J. Moustakas gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation grant AST1616414. A. Dey thanks the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study for their generous support during the year these surveys were initiated. A. Dey, D. J. Schlegel, and D. Lang thank the Aspen Center for Physics, which is supported by National Science Foundation grant PHY-1066293, for their hospitality and support during summer 2015 during which part of this work was conducted.

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2019
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8. Cosmicflows-4: The Catalog of ∼10,000 Tully–Fisher Distances.

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Kourkchi, Ehsan, Tully, R. Brent, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Llop, Jordan, Courtois, Hélčne M., Guinet, Daniel, Dupuy, Alexandra, Neill, James D., Seibert, Mark, Andrews, Michael, Chuang, Juana, Danesh, Arash, Gonzalez, Randy, Holthaus, Alexandria, Mokelke, Amber, Schoen, Devin, and Urasaki, Chase

Subjects
HUBBLE constant, RANDOM forest algorithms, SPIRAL galaxies, DISTANCES, CATALOGS, ALGORITHMS
Abstract

We present the distances of 9792 spiral galaxies lying within 15,000 km s−1 using the relation between luminosity and rotation rate of spiral galaxies. The sample is dominantly, but not exclusively, drawn from galaxies detected in the course of the ALFALFA H i survey with the Arecibo Telescope. Relations between H i line widths and luminosity are calibrated at SDSS u, g, r, i, z bands and WISE W1 and W2 bands. By exploiting secondary parameters, particularly color indices, we address discrepancies between measured distances at different wave bands with unprecedented detail. We provide a catalog that includes reduced kinematic, photometric, and inclination parameters. We also describe a machine-learning algorithm, based on the random forest technique, that predicts the dust attenuation in spirals lacking infrared photometry. We determine a Hubble Constant value of H0 = 75.1 ± 0.2(stat.), with potential systematics up to ±3 km s−1 Mpc−1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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9. The completed SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: pairwise-inverse probability and angular correction for fibre collisions in clustering measurements.

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Mohammad, Faizan G, Percival, Will J, Seo, Hee-Jong, Chapman, Michael J, Bianchi, D, Ross, Ashley J, Zhao, Cheng, Lang, Dustin, Bautista, Julian, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Brownstein, Joel R, Burtin, Etienne, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Dawson, Kyle S, de la Torre, Sylvain, de Mattia, Arnaud, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Fromenteau, Sebastien, Gil-Marín, Héctor, and Hou, Jiamin

Subjects
EMISSION-line galaxies, PHYSICAL cosmology, OSCILLATIONS, STATISTICAL errors, ASTRONOMICAL surveys, QUASARS, REDSHIFT
Abstract

The completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) catalogues contain redshifts of 344 080 quasars at 0.8 < z < 2.2, 174 816 luminous red galaxies between 0.6 < z < 1.0, and 173 736 emission-line galaxies over 0.6 < z < 1.1 in order to constrain the expansion history of the Universe and the growth rate of structure through clustering measurements. Mechanical limitations of the fibre-fed spectrograph on the Sloan telescope prevent two fibres being placed closer than 62 arcsec in a single pass of the instrument. These 'fibre collisions' strongly correlate with the intrinsic clustering of targets and can bias measurements of the two-point correlation function resulting in a systematic error on the inferred values of the cosmological parameters. We combine the new techniques of pairwise-inverse probability and the angular upweighting (PIP+ANG) to correct the clustering measurements for the effect of fibre collisions. Using mock catalogues, we show that our corrections provide unbiased measurements, within data precision, of both the projected |$\rm {\mathit{ w}_p}\left(\mathit{ r}_p\right)$| and the redshift-space multipole ξ(ℓ = 0, 2, 4)(s) correlation functions down to |$0.1\, h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$|⁠ , regardless of the tracer type. We apply the corrections to the eBOSS DR16 catalogues. We find that, on scales |$s\gtrsim 20\, h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$| for ξℓ, as used to make baryon acoustic oscillation and large-scale redshift-space distortion measurements, approximate methods such as nearest-neighbour upweighting are sufficiently accurate given the statistical errors of the data. Using the PIP method, for the first time for a spectroscopic program of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we are able to successfully access the one-halo term in the clustering measurements down to |$\sim 0.1\, h^{-1}{\rm Mpc}$| scales. Our results will therefore allow studies that use the small-scale clustering to strengthen the constraints on both cosmological parameters and the halo occupation distribution models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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11. The DESI Experiment Part I: Science,Targeting, and Survey Design

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Aghamousa, Amir, Aguilar, Jessica, Ahlen, Steve, Alam, Shadab, Allen, Lori E., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Annis, James, Bailey, Stephen, Balland, Christophe, Ballester, Otger, Baltay, Charles, Beaufore, Lucas, Bebek, Chris, Beers, Timothy C., Bell, Eric F., Bernal, José Luis, Besuner, Robert, Beutler, Florian, Blake, Chris, Bleuler, Hannes, Blomqvist, Michael, Blum, Robert, Bolton, Adam S., Briceno, Cesar, Brooks, David, Brownstein, Joel R., Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Burden, Angela, Burtin, Etienne, Busca, Nicolás G., Cahn, Robert N., Cai, Yan-Chuan, Cardiel-Sas, Laia, Carlberg, Raymond G., Carton, Pierre-Henri, Casas, Ricard, Castander, Francisco J., Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L., Claybaugh, Todd M., Close, Madeline, Coker, Carl T., Cole, Shaun, Comparat, Johan, Cooper, Andrew P., Cousinou, M. -C., Crocce, Martin, Cuby, Jean-Gabriel, Cunningham, Daniel P., Davis, Tamara M., Dawson, Kyle S., de La Macorra, Axel, de Vicente, Juan, Delubac, Timothée, Derwent, Mark, Dey, Arjun, Dhungana, Govinda, Ding, Zhejie, Doel, Peter, Duan, Yutong T., Ealet, Anne, Edelstein, Jerry, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Elliott, Ann, Escoffier, Stephanie, Evatt, Matthew, Fagrelius, Parker, Fan, Xiaohui, Fanning, Kevin, Farahi, Arya, Farihi, Jay, Favole, Ginevra, Feng, Yu, Fernandez, Enrique, Findlay, Joseph R., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Fitzpatrick, Michael J., Flaugher, Brenna, Flender, Samuel, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Forero-Romero, Jaime E., Fosalba, Pablo, Frenk, Carlos S., Fumagalli, Michele, Gaensicke, Boris T., Gallo, Giuseppe, Garcia-Bellido, Juan, Gaztanaga, Enrique, Fusillo, Nicola Pietro Gentile, Gerard, Terry, Gershkovich, Irena, Giannantonio, Tommaso, Gillet, Denis, Gonzalez-De-Rivera, Guillermo, Gonzalez-Perez, Violeta, Gott, Shelby, Graur, Or, Gutierrez, Gaston, Guy, Julien, Habib, Salman, Heetderks, Henry, Heetderks, Ian, Heitmann, Katrin, Hellwing, Wojciech A., Herrera, David A., Ho, Shirley, Holland, Stephen, Honscheid, Klaus, Huff, Eric, Hutchinson, Timothy A., Huterer, Dragan, Hwang, Ho Seong, Laguna, Joseph Maria Illa, Ishikawa, Yuzo, Jacobs, Dianna, Jeffrey, Niall, Jelinsky, Patrick, Jennings, Elise, Jiang, Linhua, Jimenez, Jorge, Johnson, Jennifer, Joyce, Richard, Jullo, Eric, Juneau, Stéphanie, Kama, Sami, Karcher, Armin, Karkar, Sonia, Kehoe, Robert, Kennamer, Noble, Kent, Stephen, Kilbinger, Martin, Kim, Alex G., Kirkby, David, Kisner, Theodore, Kitanidis, Ellie, Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koposov, Sergey, Kovacs, Eve, Koyama, Kazuya, Kremin, Anthony, Kron, Richard, Kronig, Luzius, Kueter-Young, Andrea, Lacey, Cedric G., Lafever, Robin, Lahav, Ofer, Lambert, Andrew, Lampton, Michael, Landriau, Martin, Lang, Dustin, Lauer, Tod R., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Guillou, Laurent Le, van Suu, Auguste Le, Lee, Jae Hyeon, Lee, Su-Jeong, Leitner, Daniela, Lesser, Michael, Levi, Michael E., L'Huillier, Benjamin, Li, Baojiu, Liang, Ming, Lin, Huan, Linder, Eric, Loebman, Sarah R., Lukić, Zarija, Ma, Jun, Maccrann, Niall, Magneville, Christophe, Makarem, Laleh, Manera, Marc, Manser, Christopher J., Marshall, Robert, Martini, Paul, Massey, Richard, Matheson, Thomas, Mccauley, Jeremy, Mcdonald, Patrick, Mcgreer, Ian D., Meisner, Aaron, Metcalfe, Nigel, Miller, Timothy N., Miquel, Ramon, Moustakas, John, Myers, Adam, Naik, Milind, Newman, Jeffrey A., Nichol, Robert C., Nicola, Andrina, da Costa, Luiz Nicolati, Nie, Jundan, Niz, Gustavo, Norberg, Peder, Nord, Brian, Norman, Dara, Nugent, Peter, O'Brien, Thomas, Oh, Minji, Olsen, Knut A. G., Padilla, Cristobal, Padmanabhan, Hamsa, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Palmese, Antonella, Pappalardo, Daniel, Paris, Isabelle, Park, Changbom, Patej, Anna, Peacock, John A., Peiris, Hiranya V., Peng, Xiyan, Percival, Will J., Perruchot, Sandrine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pogge, Richard, Pollack, Jennifer E., Poppett, Claire, Prada, Francisco, Prakash, Abhishek, Probst, Ronald G., Rabinowitz, David, Raichoor, Anand, Ree, Chang Hee, Refregier, Alexandre, Régal, Xavier, Reid, Beth, Reil, Kevin, Rezaie, Mehdi, Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie, Ronayette, Samuel, Roodman, Aaron, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Rozo, Eduardo, Ruhlmann-Kleider, Vanina, Rykoff, Eli S., Sabiu, Cristiano, Samushia, Lado, Sanchez, Eusebio, Sanchez, Javier, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Michael, Schubnell, Michael, Secroun, Aurélia, Seljak, Uros, Seo, Hee-Jong, Serrano, Santiago, Shafieloo, Arman, Shan, Huanyuan, Sharples, Ray, Sholl, Michael J., Shourt, William V., Silber, Joseph H., Silva, David R., Sirk, Martin M., Slosar, Anze, Smith, Alex, Smoot, George F., Som, Debopam, Song, Yong-Seon, Sprayberry, David, Staten, Ryan, Stefanik, Andy, Tarlè, Gregory, Tie, Suk Sien, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Valdes, Francisco, Valenzuela, Octavio, Valluri, Monica, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Walker, Alistair R., Wang, Jiali, Wang, Yuting, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weaverdyck, Curtis, Wechsler, Risa H., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, Yang, Qian, Yeche, Christophe, Zhang, Tianmeng, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Yi, Zhou, Xu, Zhou, Zhimin, Zhu, Yaling, Zou, Hu, Zu, Ying, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Okayama University, University of California [Berkeley], University of California, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE (UMR_7585)), Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut de Física d’Altes Energies [Barcelone] (IFAE), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Yale University [New Haven], Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), The University of Notre Dame [Sydney], Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System-University of Michigan System, Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley] (SSL), University of California-University of California, University of Portsmouth, University of British Columbia (UBC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institute for Astronomy [Edinburgh] (IfA), University of Edinburgh, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics [University of Toronto], University of Toronto, Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai [Barcelona] (ICE-CSIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Carreterra Mexico-Toluca, Department of Physics [Durham University], Durham University, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Departamento de FisicaTeorica e IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Department of Applied Physics, Departamento de Fisica Aplicada [Granada], Universidad de Granada (UGR)-Universidad de Granada (UGR), University College of London [London] (UCL), University of Wyoming (UW), Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), Harvard University [Cambridge]-Smithsonian Institution, Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Department of Information Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Institute for Astronomy [Honolulu], University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca [Milano] (UNIMIB), Departamento de Fisica Teorica, Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation [Portsmouth], Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh] (CMU), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Irvine], University of California [Irvine] (UCI), Department of Physics, University of California, University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, Dennis Sciama Building, University of Portsmouth, Observatoire de Haute-Provence (OHP), Institut Pythéas (OSU PYTHEAS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR)-Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR), Harvard University-Smithsonian Institution, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), University of California [Irvine] (UC Irvine), University of Oxford, and Escoffier, Stephanie

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[PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR.IM] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

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 through redshift-space distortions with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey. To trace the underlying dark matter distribution, spectroscopic targets will be selected in four classes from imaging data. We will measure luminous red galaxies up to $z=1.0$. To probe the Universe out to even higher redshift, DESI will target bright [O II] emission line galaxies up to $z=1.7$. Quasars will be targeted both as direct tracers of the underlying dark matter distribution and, at higher redshifts ($ 2.1 < z < 3.5$), for the Ly-$\alpha$ forest absorption features in their spectra, which will be used to trace the distribution of neutral hydrogen. When moonlight prevents efficient observations of the faint targets of the baseline survey, DESI will conduct a magnitude-limited Bright Galaxy Survey comprising approximately 10 million galaxies with a median $z\approx 0.2$. In total, more than 30 million galaxy and quasar redshifts will be obtained to measure the BAO feature and determine the matter power spectrum, including redshift space distortions.

Published
2016

12. On the small-scale clustering of quasars: constraints from the MassiveBlack II simulation.

Author

Bhowmick, Aklant K, DiMatteo, Tiziana, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, and Myers, Adam D

Subjects
QUASARS, LOGNORMAL distribution, DARK matter, BLACK holes, LUMINOSITY, REDSHIFT
Abstract

We examine recent high-precision measurements of small-scale quasar clustering (at z ∼ 0.5–2 on scales of |${\sim }25~\mathrm{kpc}\, h^{-1}$|⁠) from the SDSS in the context of the MassiveBlack II (MBII) cosmological hydrodynamic simulation and conditional luminosity function (CLF) modelling. At these high luminosities (g < 20.85 quasars), the MBII simulation volume (⁠|$100~\mathrm{cMpc}\, h^{-1}$| comoving boxsize) has only three quasar pairs at distances of 1–4 Mpc. The black hole masses for the pairs range between |$M_{\rm bh}\sim 1{\, \rm and\, }3\times 10^{9}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }\, h^{-1}$| and the quasar hosts are haloes of |$M_{\rm h}\sim 1\hbox{--}3\times 10^{14}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }\, h^{-1}$|⁠. Such pairs show signs of recent major mergers in the MBII simulation. By modelling the central and satellite AGN CLFs as lognormal and Schechter distributions, respectively (as seen in MBII AGNs), we arrive at CLF models which fit the simulation predictions and observed luminosity function and the small-scale clustering measured for the SDSS sample. The small-scale clustering of our mock quasars is well-explained by central--satellite quasar pairs that reside in |$M_{\rm h}\gt 10^{14}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }\, h^{-1}$| dark matter haloes. For these pairs, satellite quasar luminosity is similar to that of central quasars. Our CLF models imply a relatively steep increase in the maximum satellite luminosity, |$L^*_{\mathrm{sat}}$|⁠, in haloes of |$M_{\rm h}\gt 10^{14}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }\, h^{-1}$| with associated larger values of |$L^*_{\mathrm{sat}}$| at higher redshift. This leads to increase in the satellite fraction that manifests itself in an enhanced clustering signal at ≲1 Mpc  h −1. For the ongoing eBOSS-CORE sample, we predict ∼200–500 quasar pairs at z ∼ 1.5 (with |$M_{\rm h} \gtrsim 10^{13}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }\, h^{-1}$| and |$M_{\rm bh} \gtrsim 10^{8}~\mathrm{M}_{\odot }\, h^{-1}$|⁠) at ∼25 kpc scales. Such a sample would be ≳ 10 times larger than current pair samples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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14. Clustering of intermediate redshift quasars using the final SDSS III-BOSS sample.

Author

Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Myers, Adam D., White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Schneider, Donald P., Yue Shen, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ross, Nicholas P., Paris, Isabelle, and Streblyanska, Alina

Subjects
*QUASARS, *REDSHIFT, *STAR clusters, *SPECTROMETRY, *STELLAR mass, *STELLAR luminosity function
Abstract

We measure the two-point clustering of spectroscopically confirmed quasars from the final sample of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) on comoving scales of 4 ≤ s ≤ 22h-1Mpc. The sample covers 6950deg² [ ~ 19(h-1Gpc)³] and, over the redshift range 2.2 ≤ z ≤ 2.8, contains 55 826 homogeneously selected quasars, which is twice as many as in any similar work. We deduce bQ = 3.54 ± 0.10; the most precise measurement of quasar bias to date at these redshifts. This corresponds to a host halo mass of ~2 × 1012h-1M⊙ with an implied quasar duty cycle of ~1 per cent. The real-space projected correlation function is well fitted by a power law of index 2 and correlation length r0 = (8.12 ± 0.22)h-1 Mpc over scales of 4 ≲ rp ≲ 25h-1 Mpc. To better study the evolution of quasar clustering at moderate redshift, we extend the redshift range of our study to z ~ 3.4 and measure the bias and correlation length of three subsamples over 2.2 ≤ z ≤ 3.4. We find no significant evolution of r0 or bias over this range, implying that the host halo mass of quasars decreases somewhat with increasing redshift. We find quasar clustering remains similar over a decade in luminosity, contradicting a scenario in which quasar luminosity is monotonically related to halo mass at z ≈ 2.5. Our results are broadly consistent with previous BOSS measurements, but they yield more precise constraints based upon a larger and more uniform data set. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2015
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15. Clustering of quasars in SDSS-IV eBOSS: study of potential systematics and bias determination.

Author

Laurent, Pierre, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Myers, Adam, Burtin, Etienne, White, Martin, Ross, Ashley J., Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Bautista, Julian, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Comparat, Johan, Dawson, Kyle, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Kneib, Jean-Paul, McGreer, Ian D., Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, and Rossi, Graziano

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2017
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16. Exploring cosmic homogeneity with the BOSS DR12 galaxy sample.

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Ntelis, Pierros, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Burtin, Etienne, Laurent, Pierre, Rich, James, Busca, Nicolas Guillermo, Tinker, Jeremy, Aubourg, Eric, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Bautista, Julian, Delabrouille, Nathalie Palanque, Delubac, Timothée, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Hogg, David W., Myers, Adam, Vargas-Magaña, Mariana, Pâris, Isabelle, Petitjean, Partick, and Rossi, Graziano

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2017
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17. A 14h−3 Gpc3 study of cosmic homogeneity using BOSS DR12 quasar sample.

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Laurent, Pierre, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Burtin, Etienne, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Hogg, David W., Myers, Adam, Ntelis, Pierros, Pâris, Isabelle, Rich, James, Aubourg, Eric, Bautista, Julian, Delubac, Timothée, Bourboux, Hélion du Mas des, Eftekharzadeh, Sarah, Delabrouille, Nathalie Palanque, Petitjean, Patrick, Rossi, Graziano, Schneider, Donald P., and Yeche, Christophe

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2016
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