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THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III

Authors
Kyle S. Dawson,David J. Schlegel
Christopher P. Ahn,Scott F. Anderson,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Robert H. Barkhouser,Julian E. Bautista,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,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,Timothée Delubac,Roland de Putter,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett L. Ebelke,Daniel J. Eisenstein,S. Escoffier,Xiaohui Fan,N. Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Andreu Font-Ribera,R. Génova-Santos,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Daryl Haggard,Patrick B. Hall,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,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,Richard McMahon,Olga Mena,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Robert C. Nichol,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Sebastián E. Nuza,Matthew D. Olmstead,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel J. Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Will J. Percival,Ismael Pérez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,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. Rubiño-Martin,Lado Samushia,Ariel G. Sánchez,Conor Sayres,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,C. G. Scóccola,Hee-Jong Seo,Alaina Shelden,Erin Sheldon,Yue Shen,Yiping Shu,Anže Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Stephanie A. Snedden,Fritz Stauffer,Oliver Steele,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Tomer Tal,Masayuki Tanaka,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy A. Tremonti,M. Vargas Magana,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,Kyle Dawson,David Schlegel,Christopher Ahn,Scott Anderson,É. Aubourg,S. Bailey,Robert Barkhouser,Julian Bautista,A. Beifiori,Andreas Berlind,Cullen Blake,Michael Blanton,A. Bolton,W. Brandt,H. Brewington,J. Brinkmann,P. Brown,Joel Brownstein,N. Busca,W. Carithers,M. Kind,Michael Carr,N. Connolly,Rupert Croft,Antonio Cuesta,L. Costa,James Davenport,Roland Putter,Andrew Cooper,Garrett Ebelke,Daniel Eisenstein,N. Ak,Jian Ge,James Gunn,Patrick Hall,J.–Ch. Hamilton,D. Harris,David Hogg,Paul Green,Wendell Jordan,Eyal Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark Klaene,Jean‐Paul Kneib,Jean-Marc Goff,Khee‐Gan Lee,Daniel Long,Craig Loomis,Robert Lupton,M. Maia,R. Carrera,Richard Lane,Karen Masters,Cameron McBride,Ian McGreer,R. McMahon,Jordi Miralda‐Escudé,Daniel Oravetz,Adam Myers,Robert Nichol,P. Noterdaeme
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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 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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