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SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data release 12 : galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues

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Date
11/01/2016
Author
Reid, Beth
Ho, Shirley
Padmanabhan, Nikhil
Percival, Will J.
Tinker, Jeremy
Tojeiro, Rita
White, Martin
Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Maraston, Claudia
Ross, Ashley J.
Sánchez, Ariel G.
Schlegel, David
Sheldon, Erin
Strauss, Michael A.
Thomas, Daniel
Wake, David
Beutler, Florian
Bizyaev, Dmitry
Bolton, Adam S.
Brownstein, Joel R.
Chuang, Chia-Hsun
Dawson, Kyle
Harding, Paul
Kitaura, Francisco-Shu
Leauthaud, Alexie
Masters, Karen
McBride, Cameron K.
More, Surhud
Olmstead, Matthew D.
Oravetz, Daniel
Nuza, Sebastián E.
Pan, Kaike
Parejko, John
Pforr, Janine
Prada, Francisco
Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio
Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador
Samushia, Lado
Schneider, Donald P.
Scóccola, Claudia G.
Simmons, Audrey
Vargas-Magana, Mariana
Keywords
Cosmology: observations
(Cosmology:) large-scale structure of Universe
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
DAS
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Abstract
The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy redshifts available to date, in terms of both the number of galaxy redshifts measured by a single survey, and the effective cosmological volume covered. Key to analysing the clustering of these data to provide cosmological measurements is understanding the detailed properties of this sample. Potential issues include variations in the target catalogue caused by changes either in the targeting algorithm or properties of the data used, the pattern of spectroscopic observations, the spatial distribution of targets for which redshifts were not obtained, and variations in the target sky density due to observational systematics. We document here the target selection algorithms used to create the galaxy samples that comprise BOSS. We also present the algorithms used to create large-scale structure catalogues for the final Data Release (DR12) samples and the associated random catalogues that quantify the survey mask. The algorithms are an evolution of those used by the BOSS team to construct catalogues from earlier data, and have been designed to accurately quantify the galaxy sample. The code used, designated mksample, is released with this paper.
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Reid , B , Ho , S , Padmanabhan , N , Percival , W J , Tinker , J , Tojeiro , R , White , M , Eisenstein , D J , Maraston , C , Ross , A J , Sánchez , A G , Schlegel , D , Sheldon , E , Strauss , M A , Thomas , D , Wake , D , Beutler , F , Bizyaev , D , Bolton , A S , Brownstein , J R , Chuang , C-H , Dawson , K , Harding , P , Kitaura , F-S , Leauthaud , A , Masters , K , McBride , C K , More , S , Olmstead , M D , Oravetz , D , Nuza , S E , Pan , K , Parejko , J , Pforr , J , Prada , F , Rodríguez-Torres , S , Salazar-Albornoz , S , Samushia , L , Schneider , D P , Scóccola , C G , Simmons , A & Vargas-Magana , M 2016 , ' SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey data release 12 : galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 455 , no. 2 , pp. 1553-1573 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2382
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2382
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2015 The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv2382
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URL
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.455.1553R
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/8018

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