THE NINTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY

Christopher P. Ahn,Rachael Alexandroff,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,Timothy Anderton,Brett H. Andrews,Éric Aubourg Stephen Bailey,Rory Barnes,Julian Bautista,Timothy C. Beers,Alessandra Beifiori,Andreas A. Berlind,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,N. G. Busca,William Carithers,Aurelio R. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Justin R. Crepp,Stefano Cristiani,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Roland de Putter,Nathan De Lee,Timothée Delubac,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett L. Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,S. Escoffier,Massimiliano Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femení a Castellá,Emma Fernández Alvar,Leticia D. Ferreira,N. Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,D. A. García-Hernández,A. E. García Pérez,Jian Ge,R. Génova-Santos,Bruce A. Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Daryl Haggard,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,Klaus Honscheid,J. Huehnerhoff,Inese I. Ivans,Zeljko Ivezić,Heather R. Jacobson,Linhua Jiang,Jonas Johansson,Jennifer A. Johnson,Guinevere Kauffmann,David Kirkby,Jessica A. Kirkpatrick,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Alexie Leauthaud,Khee-Gan Lee,Young Sun Lee,Daniel C. Long,Craig P. Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas MacDonald,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,A. Manchado,Rachel Mandelbaum,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Sarah L. Martell,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,Sz. Meszaros,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Heather L. Morrison,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,A. F. Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel J. Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Prachi Parihar,Isabelle Pâris,Petchara Pattarakijwanich,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ismael Pérez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ráfols,Patrick Petitjean,Janine Pforr,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,G. F. Porto de Mello,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Rafael Rebolo,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Annie C. Robin,Helio J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,J. A. Rubiño-Martin,Lado Samushia,J. Sanchez Almeida,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basílio Santiago,Conor Sayres,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Axel D. Schwope,C. G. Scóccola,Uros Seljak,Erin Sheldon,Yue Shen,Yiping Shu,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey E. Simmons,Ramin A. Skibba,A. Slosar,Flavia Sobreira,Jennifer S. Sobeck,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Molly E. C. Swanson,Tomer Tal,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy A. Tremonti,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,Shailendra K. Vikas,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Andrew A. West,Martin White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,O. Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu,Joel C. Zinn,Christopher Ahn,John Bochanski,A. Bolton,Andrew Cooper,Garrett Ebelke,Edward Edmondson,N. Ak,D. Harris,Suzanne Hawley,Carlos Prieto,Scott Anderson,Brett Andrews,É. Aubourg,S. Bailey,E. Balbinot,Timothy Beers,A. Beifiori,Andreas Berlind,Cullen Blake,Michael Blanton,W. Brandt,P. Brown,Joel Brownstein,N. Busca,W. Carithers,M. Kind,Michael Carr,Dana Casetti-Dinescu,C. Chiappini,N. Connolly,Justin Crepp,S. Cristiani,Rupert Croft,Antonio Cuesta,L. Costa,James Davenport,Kyle Dawson,Roland Putter,Nathan Lee,Daniel Eisenstein,M. Esposito,Michael Evans,Bruno Castellá,Emma Fernández-Alvar,Letícia Ferreira,Scott Fleming,Peter Frinchaboy,D. García–Hernández,A. Pérez,L. Girardi,J. Hernández,Eva Grebel,James Gunn,Hong Guo,J.–Ch. Hamilton,Frederick Hearty,David Hogg,Jon Holtzman,Paul Green,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Inese Ivans,Željko Ivezić,Heather Jacobson,Jennifer Johnson,D. Kirkby,Jessica Kirkpatrick,Mark Klaene,G. Knapp,Jean‐Paul Kneib,Jean-Marc Goff,Khee‐Gan Lee