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1. Velocity dispersion and dynamical masses for 388 Galaxy Clusters and groups. Calibrating the $M_{\rm SZ}$--$M_{\rm dyn}$ scaling relation for the PSZ2 sample

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A. Aguado-Barahona, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, A. Ferragamo, R. Barrena, A. Streblyanska, and D. Tramonte

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The second catalogue of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources, hereafter PSZ2, represents the largest galaxy cluster sample selected by means of their SZ signature in a full-sky survey. Using telescopes at the Canary Island observatories, we conducted the long-term observational program 128- MULTIPLE-16/15B (hereafter LP15), a large and complete optical follow-up campaign of all the unidentified PSZ2 sources in the northern sky, with declinations above $-15^\circ$ and no correspondence in the first Planck catalogue PSZ1. This paper is the third and last in the series of LP15 results, after Streblyanska et al. (2019) and Aguado-Barahona et al. (2019), and presents all the spectroscopic observations of the full program. We complement these LP15 spectroscopic results with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) archival data and other observations from a previous program (ITP13-08), and present a catalog of 388 clusters and groups of galaxies including estimates of their velocity dispersion. The majority of them (356) are the optical counterpart of a PSZ2 source. A subset of 297 of those clusters is used to construct the $M_{\rm SZ}-M_{\rm dyn}$ scaling relation, based on the estimated SZ mass from Planck measurements and our dynamical mass estimates. We discuss and correct for different statistical and physical biases in the estimation of the masses, such as the Eddington bias when estimating $M_{SZ}$ and the aperture and the number of galaxies used to calculate $M_{dyn}$. The SZ-to-dynamical mass ratio for those 297 PSZ2 clusters is $(1-B) = 0.80\pm0.04$ (stat) $\pm 0.05$ (sys), with only marginal evidence for a possible mass dependence of this factor. Our value is consistent with previous results in the literature, but presents a significantly smaller uncertainty due to the use of the largest sample size for this type of studies., 21 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication

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2021

2. The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys : First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

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Romina Ahumada, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andrés Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Borja Anguiano, Riccardo Arcodia, Eric Armengaud, Marie Aubert, Santiago Avila, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Christophe Balland, Kat Barger, Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Sarbani Basu, Julian Bautista, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, B. Izamar T. Benavides, Chad F. Bender, Mariangela Bernardi, Matthew Bershady, Florian Beutler, Christian Moni Bidin, Jonathan Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael R. Blanton, Médéric Boquien, Jura Borissova, Jo Bovy, W. N. Brandt, Jonathan Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, Martin Bureau, Adam Burgasser, Etienne Burtin, Mariana Cano-Díaz, Raffaella Capasso, Michele Cappellari, Ricardo Carrera, Solène Chabanier, William Chaplin, Michael Chapman, Brian Cherinka, Cristina Chiappini, Peter Doohyun Choi, S. Drew Chojnowski, Haeun Chung, Nicolas Clerc, Damien Coffey, Julia M. Comerford, Johan Comparat, Luiz da Costa, Marie-Claude Cousinou, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Katia Cunha, Gabriele da Silva Ilha, Yu Sophia Dai, Sanna B. Damsted, Jeremy Darling, James W. Davidson, Roger Davies, Kyle Dawson, Nikhil De, Axel de la Macorra, Nathan De Lee, Anna Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz, Alice Deconto Machado, Sylvain de la Torre, Flavia Dell’Agli, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Sean Dillon, John Donor, Niv Drory, Chris Duckworth, Tom Dwelly, Garrett Ebelke, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, Arthur Davis Eigenbrot, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Mike Eracleous, Ghazaleh Erfanianfar, Stephanie Escoffier, Xiaohui Fan, Emily Farr, José G. Fernández-Trincado, Diane Feuillet, Alexis Finoguenov, Patricia Fofie, Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Sebastien Fromenteau, Hai Fu, Lluís Galbany, Rafael A. Garcia, D. A. García-Hernández, Luis Alberto Garma Oehmichen, Junqiang Ge, Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia, Doug Geisler, Joseph Gelfand, Julian Goddy, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Kathleen Grabowski, Paul Green, Catherine J. Grier, Hong Guo, Julien Guy, Paul Harding, Sten Hasselquist, Adam James Hawken, Christian R. Hayes, Fred Hearty, S. Hekker, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Danny Horta, Jiamin Hou, Bau-Ching Hsieh, Daniel Huber, Jason A. S. Hunt, J. Ider Chitham, Julie Imig, Mariana Jaber, Camilo Eduardo Jimenez Angel, Jennifer A. Johnson, Amy M. Jones, Henrik Jönsson, Eric Jullo, Yerim Kim, Karen Kinemuchi, Charles C. Kirkpatrick IV, George W. Kite, Mark Klaene, Jean-Paul Kneib, Juna A. Kollmeier, Hui Kong, Marina Kounkel, Dhanesh Krishnarao, Ivan Lacerna, Ting-Wen Lan, Richard R. Lane, David R. Law, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Henry W. Leung, Hannah Lewis, Cheng Li, Jianhui Lian, Lihwai Lin, Dan Long, Penélope Longa-Peña, Britt Lundgren, Brad W. Lyke, J. Ted Mackereth, Chelsea L. MacLeod, Steven R. Majewski, Arturo Manchado, Claudia Maraston, Paul Martini, Thomas Masseron, Karen L. Masters, Savita Mathur, Richard M. McDermid, Andrea Merloni, Michael Merrifield, Szabolcs Mészáros, Andrea Miglio, Dante Minniti, Rebecca Minsley, Takamitsu Miyaji, Faizan Gohar Mohammad, Benoit Mosser, Eva-Maria Mueller, Demitri Muna, Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez, Adam D. Myers, Seshadri Nadathur, Preethi Nair, Kirpal Nandra, Janaina Correa do Nascimento, Rebecca Jean Nevin, Jeffrey A. Newman, David L. Nidever, Christian Nitschelm, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Julia E. O’Connell, Matthew D. Olmstead, Daniel Oravetz, Audrey Oravetz, Yeisson Osorio, Zachary J. Pace, Nelson Padilla, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Pedro A. Palicio, Hsi-An Pan, Kaike Pan, James Parker, Romain Paviot, Sebastien Peirani, Karla Peña Ramŕez, Samantha Penny, Will J. Percival, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew M. Pieri, Marc Pinsonneault, Vijith Jacob Poovelil, Joshua Tyler Povick, Abhishek Prakash, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, M. Jordan Raddick, Anand Raichoor, Amy Ray, Sandro Barboza Rembold, Mehdi Rezaie, Rogemar A. Riffel, Rogério Riffel, Hans-Walter Rix, Annie C. Robin, A. Roman-Lopes, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, Benjamin Rose, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, Kate Rowlands, Kate H. R. Rubin, Mara Salvato, Ariel G. Sánchez, Laura Sánchez-Menguiano, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, Conor Sayres, Adam Schaefer, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Jaderson S. Schimoia, Edward Schlafly, David Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Axel Schwope, Hee-Jong Seo, Aldo Serenelli, Arman Shafieloo, Shoaib Jamal Shamsi, Zhengyi Shao, Shiyin Shen, Matthew Shetrone, Raphael Shirley, Víctor Silva Aguirre, Joshua D. Simon, M. F. Skrutskie, Anže Slosar, Rebecca Smethurst, Jennifer Sobeck, Bernardo Cervantes Sodi, Diogo Souto, David V. Stark, Keivan G. 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Chaplin W., Chapman M., Cherinka B., Chiappini C., Doohyun Choi P., Chojnowski S.D., Chung H., Clerc N., Coffey D., Comerford J.M., Comparat J., Da Costa L., Cousinou M.-C., Covey K., Crane J.D., Cunha K., Ilha G.D.S., Dai Y.S., Damsted S.B., Darling J., Davidson J.W., Davies R., Dawson K., De N., De La Macorra A., De Lee N., Queiroz A.B.D.A., Deconto Machado A., De La Torre S., Dell'Agli F., Du Mas Des Bourboux H., Diamond-Stanic A.M., Dillon S., Donor J., Drory N., Duckworth C., Dwelly T., Ebelke G., Eftekharzadeh S., Davis Eigenbrot A., Elsworth Y.P., Eracleous M., Erfanianfar G., Escoffier S., Fan X., Farr E., Fernandez-Trincado J.G., Feuillet D., Finoguenov A., Fofie P., Fraser-Mckelvie A., Frinchaboy P.M., Fromenteau S., Fu H., Galbany L., Garcia R.A., Garcia-Hernandez D.A., Oehmichen L.A.G., Ge J., Maia M.A.G., Geisler D., Gelfand J., Goddy J., Gonzalez-Perez V., Grabowski K., Green P., Grier C.J., Guo H., Guy J., Harding P., Hasselquist S., Hawken A.J., Hayes C.R., Hearty F., Hekker S., Hogg D.W., Holtzman J.A., Horta D., Hou J., Hsieh B.-C., Huber D., Hunt J.A.S., Chitham J.I., Imig J., Jaber M., Angel C.E.J., Johnson J.A., Jones A.M., Jonsson H., Jullo E., Kim Y., Kinemuchi K., Kirkpatrick Iv C.C., Kite G.W., Klaene M., Kneib J.-P., Kollmeier J.A., Kong H., Kounkel M., Krishnarao D., Lacerna I., Lan T.-W., Lane R.R., Law D.R., Le Goff J.-M., Leung H.W., Lewis H., Li C., Lian J., Lin L., Long D., Longa-Peña P., Lundgren B., Lyke B.W., Ted Mackereth J., Macleod C.L., Majewski S.R., Manchado A., Maraston C., Martini P., Masseron T., Masters K.L., Mathur S., McDermid R.M., Merloni A., Merrifield M., Meszaros S., Miglio A., Minniti D., Minsley R., Miyaji T., Mohammad F.G., Mosser B., Mueller E.-M., Muna D., Muñoz-Gutierrez A., Myers A.D., Nadathur S., Nair P., Nandra K., Do Nascimento J.C., Nevin R.J., Newman J.A., Nidever D.L., Nitschelm C., Noterdaeme P., O'Connell J.E., Olmstead M.D., Oravetz D., Oravetz A., Osorio Y., Pace Z.J., Padilla N., Palanque-Delabrouille N., Palicio P.A., Pan H.-A., Pan K., Parker J., Paviot R., Peirani S., Ramrez K.P., Penny S., Percival W.J., Perez-Fournon I., Perez-Rafols I., Petitjean P., Pieri M.M., Pinsonneault M., Poovelil V.J., Povick J.T., Prakash A., Price-Whelan A.M., Raddick M.J., Raichoor A., Ray A., Rembold S.B., Rezaie M., Riffel R.A., Riffel R., Rix H.-W., Robin A.C., Roman-Lopes A., Roman-Zuñiga C., Rose B., Ross A.J., Rossi G., Rowlands K., Rubin K.H.R., Salvato M., Sanchez A.G., Sanchez-Menguiano L., Sanchez-Gallego J.R., Sayres C., Schaefer A., Schiavon R.P., Schimoia J.S., Schlafly E., Schlegel D., Schneider D.P., Schultheis M., Schwope A., Seo H.-J., Serenelli A., Shafieloo A., Shamsi S.J., Shao Z., Shen S., Shetrone M., Shirley R., Aguirre V.S., Simon J.D., Skrutskie M.F., Slosar A., Smethurst R., Sobeck J., Sodi B.C., Souto D., Stark D.V., Stassun K.G., Steinmetz M., Stello D., Stermer J., Storchi-Bergmann T., Streblyanska A., Stringfellow G.S., Stutz A., Suarez G., Sun J., Taghizadeh-Popp M., Talbot M.S., Tayar J., Thakar A.R., Theriault R., Thomas D., Thomas Z.C., Tinker J., Tojeiro R., Toledo H.H., Tremonti C.A., Troup N.W., Tuttle S., Unda-Sanzana E., Valentini M., Vargas-Gonzalez J., Vargas-Magaña M., Vazquez-Mata J.A., Vivek M., Wake D., Wang Y., Weaver B.A., Weijmans A.-M., Wild V., Wilson J.C., Wilson R.F., Wolthuis N., Wood-Vasey W.M., Yan R., Yang M., Yeche C., Zamora O., Zarrouk P., Zasowski G., Zhang K., Zhao C., Zhao G., Zheng Z., Zhu G., Zou H., Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Department of Energy (US)

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Optical telescopes, SAMPLE, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi, Infrared astronomy, Observatory, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, REDSHIFT 0.8, redshift surveys, stellar spectral lines, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Astronomy databases, Redshift surveys, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, stellar properties, CATALOG, astro-ph.CO, astronomy databases, Data release, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], infrared astonomy, TELESCOPE, astro-ph.GA, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, MASS, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Galactic abundances, Stellar properties, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, DISTANCES, Stellar spectral lines, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, optical telescopes, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Galaxy, GALAXY, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], STELLAR, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], galactic abundances, MILKY, astro-ph.IM, SDSS-IV MANGA
Abstract

This paper documents the 16th data release (DR16) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS), the fourth and penultimate from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). This is the first release of data from the Southern Hemisphere survey of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2); new data from APOGEE-2 North are also included. DR16 is also notable as the final data release for the main cosmological program of the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), and all raw and reduced spectra from that project are released here. DR16 also includes all the data from the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey and new data from the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Survey programs, both of which were co-observed on eBOSS plates. DR16 has no new data from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey (or the MaNGA Stellar Library "MaStar"). We also preview future SDSS-V operations (due to start in 2020), and summarize plans for the final SDSS-IV data release (DR17)., Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS website is www.sdss.org.

Published
2020

3. Velocity dispersion and dynamical mass for 270 galaxy clusters in the Planck PSZ1 catalogue

Author

Alina Streblyanska, A. Ferragamo, A. Aguado-Barahona, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, A. Hempel, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Heidi Lietzen, R. Barrena, and D. Tramonte

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Catalogs, Galaxies: clusters: general, Large-scale structure of Universe, media_common.quotation_subject, Cosmic microwave background, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Declination, symbols.namesake, Observatory, Planck, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, media_common, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Velocity dispersion, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Determining the number of clusters in a data set, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, symbols, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the velocity dispersion and dynamical mass estimates for 270 galaxy clusters included in the first Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) source catalogue, the PSZ1. Part of the results presented here were achieved during a two-year observational program, the ITP, developed at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (La Palma, Spain). In the ITP we carried out a systematic optical follow-up campaign of all the 212 unidentified PSZ1 sources in the northern sky that have a declination above $-15^\circ$ and are without known counterparts at the time of the publication of the catalogue. We present for the first time the velocity dispersion and dynamical mass of 58 of these ITP PSZ1 clusters, plus 35 newly discovered clusters that are not associated with the PSZ1 catalogue. Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) archival data, we extend this sample, including 212 already confirmed PSZ1 clusters in the northern sky. Using a subset of 207 of these galaxy clusters, we constrained the $M_{\rm SZ}$--$M_{\rm dyn}$ scaling relation, finding a mass bias of $(1-B) = 0.83\pm0.07$(stat)$\pm0.02$(sys). We show that this value is consistent with other results in the literature that were obtained with different methods (X-ray, dynamical masses, or weak-lensing mass proxies). This result cannot dissolve the tension between primordial cosmic microwave background anisotropies and cluster number counts in the $\Omega_{\rm M}$--$\sigma_8$ plane., Comment: 23 pages, 11 figures

Published
2021

4. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release

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Joel R. Brownstein, Scott F. Anderson, Nicolás G. Busca, Pauline Zarrouk, Will J. Percival, Johan Comparat, Brad W. Lyke, Patrick Petitjean, Julian E. Bautista, Mara Salvato, Benjamin A. Weaver, Jonathan Brinkmann, Jiamin Hou, Danielle P. Schurhammer, Kyle S. Dawson, Alexandra N. Higley, Alina Streblyanska, Ashley J. Ross, James Rich, Isabelle Pâris, Jeffrey A. Newman, Solène Chabanier, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, W. N. Brandt, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Graziano Rossi, Donald P. Schneider, Adam D. Myers, Andrea Muñoz Gutiérrez, Paul J. Green, Alex Smith, Etienne Burtin, J. N. McLane, M. Vivek, Dmitry Bizyaev, Axel de la Macorra, Paul Martini, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016)

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Observational cosmology, 0103 physical sciences, ROSAT, Emission spectrum, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog comprises the largest selection of spectroscopically confirmed quasars to date. The full catalog includes two sub-catalogs: a "superset" of all SDSS-IV/eBOSS objects targeted as quasars containing 1,440,615 observations and a quasar-only catalog containing 750,414 quasars, including 225,082 new quasars appearing in an SDSS data release for the first time, as well as known quasars from SDSS-I/II/III. We present automated identification and redshift information for these quasars alongside data from visual inspections for 320,161 spectra. The quasar-only catalog is estimated to be 99.8% complete with 0.3% to 1.3% contamination. Automated and visual inspection redshifts are supplemented by redshifts derived via principal component analysis and emission lines. We include emission line redshifts for H$\alpha$, H$\beta$, Mg II, C III], C IV, and Ly$\alpha$. Identification and key characteristics generated by automated algorithms are presented for 99,856 Broad Absorption Line quasars and 35,686 Damped Lyman Alpha quasars. In addition to SDSS photometric data, we also present multi-wavelength data for quasars from GALEX, UKIDSS, WISE, FIRST, ROSAT/2RXS, XMM-Newton, and Gaia. Calibrated digital optical spectra for these quasars can be obtained from the SDSS Science Archive Server., Comment: 32 pages, 13 figures, 6 tables. Accepted to ApJS. Catalog files are available at https://data.sdss.org/sas/dr16/eboss/qso/DR16Q/ . A summary of all SDSS BAO and RSD measurements with legacy figures can be found at https://www.sdss.org/science/final-bao-and-rsd-measurements/ while full cosmological interpretation of these can be found at https://www.sdss.org/science/cosmology-results-from-eboss/

Published
2020

5. Gravitational lensing detection of an extremely dense environment around a galaxy cluster

Author

Giovanni Covone, Carlo Giocoli, Stefano Ettori, Federico Marulli, Alina Streblyanska, Alfonso Veropalumbo, Lauro Moscardini, Luca Izzo, A. Ferragamo, R. Barrena, Mauro Sereno, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission, Sereno, Mauro, Giocoli, Carlo, Izzo, Luca, Marulli, Federico, Veropalumbo, Alfonso, Ettori, Stefano, Moscardini, Lauro, Covone, Giovanni, Ferragamo, Antonio, Barrena, Rafael, and Streblyanska, Alina

Subjects
Physics, Structure formation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Dark matter, Strong gravitational lensing, Galaxies and clusters, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, symbols.namesake, Gravitational lens, 0103 physical sciences, symbols, Halo, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Galaxy clusters form at the highest-density nodes of the cosmic web. The clustering of dark matter halos hosting these galaxy clusters is enhanced relative to the general mass distribution, with the matter density beyond the virial region being strongly correlated to the halo mass (halo bias). Halo properties other than mass can further enhance the halo clustering (secondary bias). Observational campaigns have ascertained the halo bias, but efforts to detect this secondary bias for massive halos have been inconclusive. Here, we report the analysis of the environment bias in a sample of massive clusters, selected through the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect by the Planck mission, focusing on the detection of the environment dark matter correlated to a single cluster, PSZ2 G099.86+58.45. The gravitational lensing signal of the outskirts is very large and can be traced up to 30 megaparsecs with a high signal-to-noise ratio (about 3.4), implying environment matter density in notable excess of the cosmological mean. Our finding reveals this system to be extremely rare in the current paradigm of structure formation and, implies that enhancing mechanisms around high-mass halos can be very effective. Future lensing surveys will probe the surroundings of single haloes, enabling the study of their formation and evolution of structure.© 2018, The Author(s)., We thank J.A.R. Martin for coordinating the spectroscopic campaign and L. D'Avino for suggestions on the rendering of Fig. 1. S.E. and M.S. acknowledge financial support from contracts ASI-INAF I/009/10/0, NARO15 ASI-INAF I/037/12/0, ASI 2015-046-R.0 and ASI-INAF n.2017-14-H.0. C.G. acknowledges support from the Italian Ministry for Education, University, and Research (MIUR) through the SIR individual grant SIMCODE, project number RBSI14P4IH, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate General for Country Promotion for Country Promotion. L.I. acknowledges support from the Spanish research project AYA 2014-58381-P. L.M. acknowledges support from the grants ASI n. I/023/12/0 and PRIN MIUR 2015. A.F., A.S. and R.B. acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under AYA 2014-60438-P, ESP2013-48362-C2-1-P and the 2011 Severo Ochoa Program MINECO SEV-2011-0187 projects. This article includes observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) operated by Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) with telescope time awarded by the CCI International Time Programme at the Canary Islands observatories (programme ITP13-8). The simulations were run on the Marconi supercomputer at Cineca thanks to the projects IsC10_MOKAlen3 and IsC49_ClBra01.

Published
2018

6. Optical validation and characterization of \Planck\ PSZ2 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. I. First year of LP15 observations

Author

A. Streblyanska, A. Aguado-Barahona, A. Ferragamo, R. Barrena, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, D. Tramonte, R. T. Genova-Santos, and H. Lietzen

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Using telescopes at the Canary Island observatories, we conducted the long-term observational programme 128-MULTIPLE-16/15B (LP15), a large and complete optical follow-up campaign of all the unidentified PSZ2 sources in the northern sky (Dec>-15 deg) and no correspondence in the first Planck catalogue PSZ1. We perform this optical validation of SZ clusters in order to contribute to the characterization of the actual purity and completeness of full Our validation procedure combines this optical information with SZ emission as traced by the publicly available Planck Compton y-maps. The clusters counterparts are classified according to redshift, velocity dispersion and richness of the clusters. This paper presents the detailed study of 106 objects out of the LP15 sample, corresponding to all the observations carried out during the first year of the programme. We confirmed the optical counterpart for 41 new PSZ2 sources, being 31 of them validated using also velocity dispersion based on our spectroscopic information. This is the largest dataset of newly confirmed PSZ2 sources without any previous optical information. All the confirmed counterparts are rich structures (i.e. they show high velocity dispersion), and are well aligned with the nominal Planck coordinates (~70% of them are located at less than 3 arcmin distance). In total, 65 SZ sources are classified as unconfirmed, being 57 of them due to the absence of an optical over-density, and 8 of them due to a weak association with the observed SZ decrement. Most of the sources with no optical counterpart are located at low galactic latitudes and present strong galactic cirrus in the optical images, being the dust contamination the most probable explanation for their inclusion in the PSZ2 catalogue., 14 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables

Published
2019
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7. Mass functions, luminosity functions, and completeness measurementsfrom clustering redshifts

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Jeffrey A. Newman, Marcos Lima, Alina Streblyanska, Donald P. Schneider, Dominic Bates, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Johan Comparat, Rita Tojeiro, and University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy

Subjects
Stellar mass, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, Completeness (order theory), 0103 physical sciences, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], QB Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, data analysis [Methods], Cluster analysis, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3rd-DAS, luminosity function, mass function [galaxies], luminosity function [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Galaxy, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Mass function, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ESTRUTURA DO UNIVERSO
Abstract

This paper presents stellar mass functions and i-band luminosity functions for Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxies at $i < 21$ using clustering redshifts, from which we also compute targeting completeness measurements for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). Clustering redshifts is a method of obtaining the redshift distribution of a sample of galaxies with only photometric information by measuring the angular crosscorrelation with a spectroscopic sample in different redshift bins. We construct a spectroscopic sample containing data from the BOSS + eBOSS surveys, allowing us to recover redshift distributions from photometric data out to $z\simeq 2.5$. We produce k-corrected i-band luminosity functions and stellar mass functions by applying clustering redshifts to SDSS DR8 galaxies in small bins of colour and magnitude. There is little evolution in the mass function between $0.2 < z < 0.8$, implying the most massive galaxies form most of their mass before $z = 0.8$. These mass functions are used to produce stellar mass completeness estimates for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), giving a stellar mass completeness of $80\%$ above $M_{\star} > 10^{11.4}$ between $0.2 < z < 0.7$, with completeness falling significantly at redshifts higher than 0.7, and at lower masses. Large photometric datasets will be available in the near future (DECaLS, DES, Euclid), so this, and similar techniques will become increasingly useful in order to fully utilise this data., 19 pages, 15 figures

Published
2019

8. Planck 2015 results XXVII. The second Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich sources

Author

Ade, P.A.R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A.J., Barreiro, R.B., Barrena, R., Bartlett, J.G., Bartolo, N., Battaner, E., Battye, R., Benabed, K., Benoit, A., Benoit-Lévy, A., Bernard, J.-P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bikmaev, I., Böhringer, H., Bonaldi, A., Bonavera, L., Bond, J.R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F.R., Bucher, M., Burenin, R., Burigana, C., Butler, R.C., Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J.-F., Carvalho, P., Catalano, A., Challinor, A., Chamballu, A., Chary, R.-R., Chiang, H.C., Chon, G., Christensen, P.R., Clements, D.L., Colombi, S., Colombo, L.P.L., Combet, C., Comis, B., Couchot, F., Coulais, A., Crill, B.P., Curto, A., Cuttaia, F., Dahle, H., Danese, L., Davies, R.D., Davis, R.J., De Bernardis, P., de Rosa, A., de Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Desert, F.-X., Dickinson, C., Diego, J.M., Dolag, K., Dole, H., Donzelli, S., Dore, O., Douspis, M., Ducout, A., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Eisenhardt, P., Elsner, F., Enßlin, T.A., Eriksen, H.K., Falgarone, E., Fergusson, J., Feroz, F., Ferragamo, A., Finelli, F., Forni, O., Frailis, M., Fraisse, A.A., Franceschi, E., Frejsel, A., Galeotta, S., Galli, S., Ganga, K., Genova-Santos, R.T., Giard, M., Giraud-Héraud, Y., Gjerløw, E., Gonzalez-Nuevo, J., Gorski, K.M., Grainge, K.J.B., Gratton, S., Gregorio, A., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J.E., Hansen, F.K., Hanson, D., Harrison, D., Hempel, A., Henrot-Versille, S., Hernandez-Monteagudo, C., Herranz, D., Hildebrandt, S.R., Hivon, E., Hobson, M., Holmes, W.A., Hornstrup, A., Hovest, W., Huffenberger, K.M., Hurier, G., Jaffe, A.H., Jaffe, T.R., Jin, T., Jones, W.C., Juvela, M., Keihanen, E., Keskitalo, R., Khamitov, I., Kisner, T.S., Kneissl, R., Knoche, J., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lagache, G., Lamarre, J.-M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C.R., Leonardi, R., Lesgourgues, J., Levrier, F., Liguori, M., Lilje, P.B., Linden-Vornle, M., Lopez-Caniego, M., Lubin, P.M., Macias-Perez, J.F., Maggio, G., Maino, D., Mak, D.S.Y., Mandolesi, N., Mangilli, A., Martin, P.G., Martinez-Gonzalez, E., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Mazzotta, P., McGehee, P., Mei, S., Melchiorri, A., Melin, J.-B., Mendes, L., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Mitra, S., Miville-Deschenes, M.-A., Moneti, A., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mortlock, D., Moss, A., Munshi, D., Murphy, J.Anthony, Naselsky, P., Nastasi, A., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Netterfield, C.B., Norgaard-Nielsen, H.U., Noviello, F., Novikov, D., Novikov, I., Olamaie, M., Oxborrow, C.A., Paci, F., Pagano, L., Pajot, F., Paoletti, D., Pasian, F., Patanchon, G., Pearson, T.J., Perdereau, O., Perotto, L., Perrott, Y.C., Perrotta, F., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Pierpaoli, E., Pietrobon, D., Plaszczynski, S., Pointecouteau, E., Polenta, G., Pratt, G.W., Prezeau, G., Prunet, S., Puget, J.-L., Rachen, J.P., Reach, W.T., Rebolo, R., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Renault, C., Renzi, A., Ristorcelli, I., Rocha, G., Rosset, C., Rossetti, M., Roudier, G., Rozo, E., Rubino-Martin, J.A., Rumsey, C., Rusholme, B., Rykoff, E.S., Sandri, M., Santos, D., Saunders, R.D.E., Savelainen, M., Savini, G., Schammel, M.P., Scott, D., Seiffert, M.D., Shellard, E.P.S., Shimwell, T.W., Spencer, L., Stanford, S.A., Stern, A., Stolyarov, V., Stompor, R., Streblyanska, A., Sudiwala, R., Sunyaev, R., Sutton, D., Suur-Uski, A.-S., Sygnet, J.-F., Tauber, J.A., Terenzi, L., Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Tramonte, D., Tristram, M., Tucci, M., Tuovinen, J., Umana, G., Valenziano, L., Valiviita, J., Van Tent, B., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Wade, L.A., Wandelt, B.D., Wehus, I., White, S.D.M., Wright, E.L., Yvon, D., Zacchei, A., Zonca, A., Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Imperial College Trust, Ade, P. A. R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Barrena, R., Bartlett, J. G., Bartolo, N., Battaner, E., Battye, R., Benabed, K., Benoît, A., Benoit Lévy, A., Bernard, J. P., Bersanelli, M., Bielewicz, P., Bikmaev, I., Böhringer, H., Bonaldi, A., Bonavera, L., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Bucher, M., Burenin, R., Burigana, C., Butler, R. C., Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J. F., Carvalho, P., Catalano, A., Challinor, A., Chamballu, A., Chary, R. R., Chiang, H. C., Chon, G., Christensen, P. R., Clements, D. L., Colombi, S., Colombo, L. P. L., Combet, C., Comis, B., Couchot, F., Coulais, A., Crill, B. P., Curto, A., Cuttaia, F., Dahle, H., Danese, L., Davies, R. D., Davis, R. J., De Bernardis, P., De Rosa, A., De Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Désert, F. X., Dickinson, C., Diego, J. M., Dolag, K., Dole, H., Donzelli, Simona, Doré, O., Douspis, M., Ducout, A., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Eisenhardt, P. R. 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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astronomy, Library science, FOS: Physical sciences, observation [Cosmology], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, clusters: general [Galaxies], Cosmology: observation, 01 natural sciences, NO, Physics::Geophysics, Methods statistical, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Statistical analysis, observations [Cosmology], GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries), 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, cosmology: observations, galaxies: clusters: general, catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physics, Diffuse radiation, observations, galaxies: clusters: general, catalogs [cosmology], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, 4. Education, Cosmology: observations, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Catalogues, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, Space and Planetary Science, Energy density, astro-ph.CO, Catalog, Galaxies: clusters: general, Catalogs
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Acknowledgements. The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA, and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF, and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); ERC and PRACE (EU). A description of the Planck Collaboration and a list of its members, indicating which technical or scientific activities they have been involved in, can be found at http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/planck/planck-collaboration. We thank Ian McCarthy for providing images and profiles of simulated clusters from cosmo-OWLS. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France This research made use of data retrieved from SDSS-III. Funding for SDSSIII has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Office of Science; the SDSS-III web site is http://www.sdss3.org/. This research has made use of data processed by the Centre d’Analyse de Données Étendues (http://cade.irap.omp.eu/) and has made use of the HEALPix pixelization software (http://healpix.sourceforge.net; Górski et al. 2005). Some of this work was performed using the Darwin Supercomputer of the University of Cambridge High Performance Computing Service (http: //www.hpc.cam.ac.uk/), provided by Dell Inc. using Strategic Research Infrastructure Funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council., We present the all-sky Planck catalogue of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources detected from the 29 month full-mission data. The catalogue (PSZ2) is the largest SZ-selected sample of galaxy clusters yet produced and the deepest systematic all-sky surveyof galaxy clusters. It contains 1653 detections, of which 1203 are confirmed clusters with identified counterparts in external data sets, and is the first SZ-selected cluster survey containing >103 confirmed clusters. We present a detailed analysis of the survey selection function in terms of its completeness and statistical reliability, placing a lower limit of 83% on the purity. Using simulations, we find that the estimates of the SZ strength parameter Y5R500are robust to pressure-profile variation and beam systematics, but accurate conversion to Y500 requires the use of prior information on the cluster extent. We describe the multi-wavelength search for counterparts in ancillary data, which makes use of radio, microwave, infra-red, optical, and X-ray data sets, and which places emphasis on the robustness of the counterpart match. We discuss the physical properties of the new sample and identify a population of low-redshift X-ray under-luminous clusters revealed by SZ selection. These objects appear in optical and SZ surveys with consistent properties for their mass, but are almost absent from ROSAT X-ray selected samples., European Space Agency, Centre National D'etudes Spatiales, CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France), Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italian National Research Council, Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF), National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Max Planck Society, CSA (Canada), DTU Space (Denmark), SER/SSO (Switzerland), RCN (Norway), Science Foundation Ireland, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, ERC (EU), European Union (EU), Higher Education Funding Council for England, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Department of Energy (DOE), Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) ST/F01239X/1 ST/L000393/1 ST/K001051/1 ST/K004131/1 ST/L000768/1 ST/N001206/1 ST/M001172/1 ST/H001239/1

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2016

9. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: twelfth data release

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Tom Dwelly, Elena Malanushenko, Richard G. McMahon, W. Niel Brandt, David H. Weinberg, Jian Ge, Rupert A. C. Croft, Eric Armengaud, Viktor Malanushenko, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Kaike Pan, Antonis Georgakakis, Stephen Bailey, Andrea Merloni, Matthew M. Pieri, Audrey Simmons, Johannes Buchner, Andreu Font-Ribera, Alina Streblyanska, Patrick Petitjean, L. Zhu, Francisco Prada, Kirpal Nandra, Michael A. Strauss, Isabelle Pâris, David J. Schlegel, Matteo Viel, Patrick B. Hall, Mara Salvato, Donald P. Schneider, Johan Comparat, Jo Bovy, Karen Kinemuchi, Franco D. Albareti, Dmitry Bizyaev, Fred Hamann, Nicholas P. Ross, Éric Aubourg, Adam D. Myers, Marcella Brusa, Christophe Yèche, Daniel Oravetz, Xiaohui Fan, M. L. Menzel, Linhua Jian, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, 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), 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), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), 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, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), McMahon, Richard [0000-0001-8447-8869], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US), National Science Foundation (US), Department of Energy (US), Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pâris, Isabelle, Petitjean, Patrick, Ross, Nicholas P., Myers, Adam D., Aubourg, Éric, Streblyanska, Alina, Bailey, Stephen, Armengaud, Éric, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Yèche, Christophe, Hamann, Fred, Strauss, Michael A., Albareti, Franco D., Bovy, Jo, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Niel Brandt, W., Brusa, Marcella, Buchner, Johanne, Comparat, Johan, Croft, Rupert A.C., Dwelly, Tom, Fan, Xiaohui, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ge, Jian, Georgakakis, Antoni, Hall, Patrick B., Jiang, Linhua, Kinemuchi, Karen, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mcmahon, Richard G., Menzel, Marie-Luise, Merloni, Andrea, Nandra, Kirpal, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Oravetz, Daniel, Pan, Kaike, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Salvato, Mara, Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Donald P., Simmons, Audrey, Viel, Matteo, Weinberg, David H., Zhu, Liu, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille ( LAM ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), 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 Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) ( DPP ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), and 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

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], astro-ph.GA, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, Photometry (optics), Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, surveys, quasars: general, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Emission spectrum, Spectral resolution, Survey, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, general [Quasars], Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Catalogues, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, Catalogs, Quasars: general, Boss, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), astro-ph.CO, Catalog, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Full list of authors: Pâris, Isabelle; Petitjean, Patrick; Ross, Nicholas P.; Myers, Adam D.; Aubourg, Éric; Streblyanska, Alina; Bailey, Stephen; Armengaud, Éric; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Yèche, Christophe; Hamann, Fred; Strauss, Michael A.; Albareti, Franco D.; Bovy, Jo; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Niel Brandt, W.; Brusa, Marcella; Buchner, Johannes; Comparat, Johan; Croft, Rupert A. C. Dwelly, Tom; Fan, Xiaohui; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Ge, Jian; Georgakakis, Antonis; Hall, Patrick B.; Jiang, Linhua; Kinemuchi, Karen; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; McMahon, Richard G.; Menzel, Marie-Luise; Merloni, Andrea; Nandra, Kirpal; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Pieri, Matthew M.; Prada, Francisco; Salvato, Mara; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Simmons, Audrey; Viel, Matteo; Weinberg, David H.; Zhu, Liu., We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III/BOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates during the full survey and that are confirmed as quasars via visual inspection of the spectra, have luminosities M [z = 2] 2.15 (184 101, of which 167 742 are new discoveries) is about an order of magnitude greater than the number of z > 2.15 quasars known prior to BOSS. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (C iv, C iii], Mg ii). The catalog identifies 29 580 broad absorption line quasars and lists their characteristics. For each object, the catalog presents five-band (u, g, r, i, z) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03 mag together with some information on the optical morphology and the selection criteria. When available, the catalog also provides information on the optical variability of quasars using SDSS and Palomar Transient Factory multi-epoch photometry. The catalog also contains X-ray, ultraviolet, near-infrared, and radio emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys. The calibrated digital spectra, covering the wavelength region 3600-10 500 Å at a spectral resolution in the range 1300 < R < 2500, can be retrieved from the SDSS Catalog Archive Server. We also provide a supplemental list of an additional 4841 quasars that have been identified serendipitously outside of the superset defined to derive the main quasar catalog. © 2017 ESO., I.P. was supported by PRIN INAF 2012 "The X-Shooter sample of 100 quasar spectra at z-3.5:Digging into cosmology and galaxy evolution with quasar absorption lines". This work has been carried out thanks to the support of the A*MIDEX project (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02) funded by the "Investissements d'Avenir" French Government program, managed by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The French Participation Group to SDSS-III was supported by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under contracts ANR-08-BLAN-0222 and ANR-12-BS05-0015. A.D.M was partially supported by NASA ADAP award NNX12AE38G and by NSF awards 1211112 and 1515404. W.N.B. was supported by NSF grant AST-1516784. I.P. thanks S. Twain, D. Hoff, D. Dintei and Brian A. J. Richardson for their inspiring contribution to this work. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Energy Office of Science. The SDSS-III web site is http://www.sdss3.org/. SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University. AllWISE makes use of data from WISE, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and NEOWISE, which is a project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. WISE and NEOWISE are funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 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 US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

Published
2017

10. The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey:First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

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Abolfathi , Bela, Aguado , D. S., Aguilar , Gabriela, Prieto , Carlos Allende, Almeida , Andres, Ananna , Tonima Tasnim, Anders , Friedrich, Anderson , Scott F., Andrews , Brett H., Anguiano , Borja, Aragon-Salamanca , Alfonso, Argudo-Fernandez , Maria, Armengaud , Eric, Ata , Metin, Aubourg , Eric, Avila-Reese , Vladimir, Badenes , Carles, Bailey , Stephen, Balland , Christophe, Barger , Kathleen A., Barrera-Ballesteros , Jorge, Bartosz , Curtis, Bastien , Fabienne, Bates , Dominic, Baumgarten , Falk, Bautista , Julian, Beaton , Rachael, Beers , Timothy C., Belfiore , Francesco, Bender , Chad F., Bernardi , Mariangela, Bershady , Matthew A., Beutler , Florian, Bird , Jonathan C., Bizyaev , Dmitry, Blanc , Guillermo A., Blanton , Michael R., Blomqvist , Michael, Bolton , Adam S., Boquien , Médéric, Borissova , Jura, Bovy , Jo, Diaz , Christian Andres Bradna, Brandt , William Nielsen, Brinkmann , Jonathan, Brownstein , Joel R., Bundy , Kevin, Burgasser , Adam J., Burtin , Etienne, Busca , Nicolás G., Canas , Caleb I., Cano-Diaz , Mariana, Cappellari , Michele, Carrera , Ricardo, Casey , Andrew R., Sodi , Bernardo Cervantes, Chen , Yanping, Cherinka , Brian, Chiappini , Cristina, Choi , Peter Doohyun, Chojnowski , Drew, Chuang , Chia-Hsun, Chung , Haeun, Clerc , Nicolas, Cohen , Roger E., Comerford , Julia M., Comparat , Johan, Nascimento , Janaina Correa do, da Costa , Luiz, Cousinou , Marie-Claude, Covey , Kevin, Crane , Jeffrey d., Cruz-Gonzalez , Irene, Cunha , Katia, Ilha , Gabriele da Silva, Damke , Guillermo J., Darling , Jeremy, Davidson Jr. , James W., Dawson , Kyle, Lizaola , Miguel Angel C. de Icaza, de la Macorra , Axel, De La Torre , Sylvain, De Lee , Nathan, Agathe , Victoria de Sainte, Machado , Alice Deconto, Dell'Agli , Flavia, Delubac , Timothée, Diamond-Stanic , Aleksandar M., Donor , John, Downes , Juan Jose, Drory , Niv, Bourboux , Hélion du Mas des, Duckworth , Christopher J., Dwelly , Tom, Dyer , Jamie, Ebelke , Garrett, Eigenbrot , Arthur Davis, Eisenstein , Daniel J., Elsworth , Yvonne P., Emsellem , Eric, Eracleous , Mike, Erfanianfar , Ghazaleh, Escoffier , Stéphanie, Fan , Xiaohui, Alvar , Emma Fernandez, Fernandez-Trincado , J. G., Cirolini , Rafael Fernando, Feuillet , Diane, Finoguenov , Alexis, Fleming , Scott W., Font-Ribera , Andreu, Freischlad , Gordon, Frinchaboy , Peter, Fu , Hai, Chew , Yilen Gomez Maqueo, Galbany , Lluis, Perez , Ana E. Garcia, Garcia-Dias , R., García-Hernández , D. A., Oehmichen , Luis Alberto Garma, Gaulme , Patrick, Gelfand , Joseph, Gil-Marin , Hector, Gillespie , Bruce A., Goddard , Daniel, Hernandez , Jonay I. Gonzalez, Gonzalez-Perez , Violeta, Grabowski , Kathleen, Green , Paul J., Grier , Catherine J., Gueguen , Alain, Guo , Hong, Guy , Julien, Hagen , Alex, Hall , Patrick, Harding , Paul, Hasselquist , Sten, Hawley , Suzanne, Hayes , Christian R., Hearty , Fred, Hekker , Saskia, Hernández , Jesús, Toledo , Hector Hernandez, Hogg , David W., Holley-Bockelmann , Kelly, Holtzman , Jon, Hou , Jiamin, Hsieh , Bau-Ching, Hunt , Jason A. S., Hutchinson , Timothy A., Hwang , Ho Seong, Angel , Camilo Eduardo Jimenez, Johnson , Jennifer A., Jones , Amy, Jönsson , Henrik, Jullo , Eric, Khan , Fahim Sakil, Kinemuchi , Karen, Kirkby , David, Kirkpatrick IV , Charles C., Kitaura , Francisco-Shu, Knapp , Gillian R., Kneib , Jean-Paul, Kollmeier , Juna A., Lacerna , Ivan, Lane , Richard R., Lang , Dustin, Law , David R., Goff , Jean-Marc Le, Lee , Young-Bae, Li , Hongyu, Li , Cheng, Lian , Jianhui, Liang , Yu, Lima , Marcos, Lin , Lihwai, Long , Dan, Lucatello , Sara, Lundgren , Britt, Mackereth , J. Ted, MacLeod , Chelsea L., Mahadevan , Suvrath, Maia , Marcio Antonio Geimba, Majewski , Steven, Manchado , Arturo, Maraston , Claudia, Mariappan , Vivek, Marques-Chaves , Rui, Masseron , Thomas, Masters , Karen L., Mcdermid , Richard M., McGreer , Ian D., Melendez , Matthew, Meneses-Goytia , Sofia, Merloni , Andrea, Merrifield , Michael R., Meszaros , Szabolcs, Meza , Andres, Minchev , Ivan, Minniti , Dante, Prieto , Carlos, Ananna , Tonima, Anderson , Scott, Andrews , Brett, Aragón-Salamanca , Alfonso, Argudo-Fernández , Maria, Barger , Kathleen, Beers , Timothy, Bender , Chad, Bershady , Matthew, Bird , Jonathan, Blanc , Guillermo, Blanton , Michael, Bolton , Adam, Andres , Christian, Diaz , Bradna, Brandt , William, Brownstein , Joel, Burgasser , Adam, Busca , Nicolás, Cañas , Caleb, Cano-Díaz , Mariana, Casey , Andrew, Sodi , Bernardo, Choi , Peter, 10 , Davidson, Angel , Miguel, De Icaza Lizaola , C, De Sainte , Victoria, 72 , Agathe, Machado , Alice, Dell 'agli , Flavia, Diamond-Stanic , Aleksandar, Downes , Juan, du Mas des Bourboux , Hélion, Duckworth , Christopher, Davis Eigenbrot , Arthur, Eisenstein , Daniel, Elsworth , Yvonne, Fernández Alvar , Emma, Fernández-Trincado , J., Cirolini , Rafael, Fleming , Scott, Gómez , Yilen, Chew , Maqueo, Galbany , Lluís, García Pérez , Ana, Alberto , Luis, Oehmichen , Garma, Gil-Marín , Héctor, Gillespie , Bruce, González Hernández , Jonay, Green , Paul, Grier , Catherine, Hayes , Christian, Toledo , Hector, Hogg , David, Hunt , Jason, Hutchinson , Timothy, Hwang , Ho, Jimenez Angel , Camilo, Johnson , Jennifer, Fahim , Sakil, Kirkpatrick , Charles, 94 , Iv, Knapp , Gillian, Kollmeier , Juna, Lane , Richard, Law , DAvid, Le Goff , Jean-Marc, Macleod , Chelsea, Antonio , Marcio, Maia , Geimba, Masters , Karen, Mueller , Eva-Maria, Muller-Sanchez , Francisco, Muna , Demitri, Muñoz , Ricardo, Myers , Adam, Nair , Preethi, Nandra , Kirpal, Ness , Melissa, Newman , Jeffrey, Nichol , Robert, Nidever , David, Nitschelm , Christian, Noterdaeme , Pasquier, O 'connell , Julia, Oelkers , Ryan, Oravetz , Audrey, Oravetz , Daniel, Aquino Ortíz , Erik, Osorio , Yeisson, Pace , Zach, Padilla , Nelson, Palanque-Delabrouille , Nathalie, Palicio , Pedro, Pan , Hsi-An, Pan , Kaike, Parikh , Taniya, Pâris , Isabelle, Park , Changbom, Peirani , Sebastien, Pellejero-Ibanez , Marcos, Penny , Samantha, Percival , Will, Perez-Fournon , Ismael, Petitjean , Patrick, Pieri , Matthew, Pinsonneault , Marc, Pisani , Alice, Prada , Francisco, Prakash , Abhishek, Bárbara De Andrade Queiroz , Anna, Raddick , M, Raichoor , Anand, Rembold , Sandro, Richstein , Hannah, Riffel , Rogemar, Riffel , Rogério, Rix , Hans-Walter, Robin , Annie, Torres , Sergio, Román-Zúñiga , Carlos, Ross , Ashley, Rossi , Graziano, Ruan , John, Ruggeri , Rossana, Ruiz , Jose, Salvato , Mara, Sánchez , Ariel, Sanchez , Sebastian, Sanchez Almeida , Jorge, Sánchez-Gallego , José, Antonio , Felipe, Rojas , Santana, Santiago , Basílio, Schiavon , Ricardo, Schimoia , Jaderson, Schlafly , Edward, Schlegel , David, Schneider , Donald, Schuster , William, Schwope , Axel, Seo , Hee-Jong, Serenelli , Aldo, Shen , Shiyin, Shen , Yue, Shetrone , Matthew, Shull , Michael, Aguirre , Silva, Simon , Joshua, Skrutskie , Mike, Slosar , Anže, Smethurst , Rebecca, Smith , Verne, Sobeck , Jennifer, Somers , Garrett, Souter , Barbara, Souto , Diogo, Spindler , Ashley, Stark , David, Stassun , Keivan, Steinmetz , Matthias, Stello , Dennis, Storchi-Bergmann , Thaisa, Streblyanska , Alina, Stringfellow , Guy, Suárez , Genaro, Sun , Jing, Szigeti , Laszlo, Taghizadeh-Popp , Manuchehr, talbot , michael, Tang , Baitian, Tao , Charling, Tayar , Jamie, Tembe , Mita, Teske , Johanna, Aniruddha R. , Thakar, Daniel , Thomas, Tissera , Patricia, Tojeiro , Rita, Tremonti , Christy, Troup , Nicholas W., Urry , Meg, Valenzuela , O., van den Bosch , Remco, Vargas-González , Jaime, Magaña , Mariana Vargas, Vazquez , Jose Alberto, Villanova , Sandro, Vogt , Nicole, Wake , David, Wang , Yuting, Weaver , Benjamin Alan, Weijmans , Anne-Marie, Weinberg , David H., Westfall , Kyle B., Whelan , David G., Wilcots , Eric, Wild , Vivienne, Williams , Rob A., Wilson , John, Wood-Vasey , W.M., Wylezalek , Dominika, Xiao , Ting, Yan , Renbin, Yang , Meng, Ybarra , Jason E., Yèche , Christophe, Zakamska , Nadia, Zamora , Olga, Zarrouk , Pauline, Zasowski , Gail, Zhang , Kai, Zhao , Chang, Zhao , Gong-Bo, Zheng , Zheng, Zhou , Zhi-Min, Zhu , Guangtun, Zinn , Joel C., Zou , Hu, 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 - 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Paris 12 (UPEC UP12), Institute of Astronomy [Cambridge], Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Rochester], University of Rochester [USA], Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Inflammation, Tissus épithéliaux et Cytokines (LITEC), Université de Poitiers, Recherches Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques (REHSEIS (UMR_7596)), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon (UMR 6091) (LAOB), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Universidad de Jaén (UJA), Institute of Space Sciences [Barcelona] (ICE-CSIC), Spanish National Research Council [Madrid] (CSIC), University of Edinburgh, Stellar Astrophysics Centre [Aarhus] (SAC), Aarhus University [Aarhus], Alfred P. 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A. Baker Institute, Cornell University, The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Economics, Bangor, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh] ( CMU ), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ( IAP ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire Inflammation, Tissus épithéliaux et Cytokines ( LITEC ), School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea Institute for Advanced Study-Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Recherches Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques ( REHSEIS ), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation ( GEPI ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon ( LAOB ), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid ( UPM ), Universidad de Jaén ( UJA ), Institute of Space Sciences [Barcelona] ( ICE-CSIC ), Spanish National Research Council [Madrid] ( CSIC ), Department of Physics and Astronomy - Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Department of Physics, The Leverhulme Trust, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. Centre for Contemporary Art, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Université de Franche-Comté (UFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California-University of California, ISO Data Centre (ESA - Espagne), European Space Agency (ESA), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (LPNHE), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Astronomy (Ohio State University), Ohio State University [Columbus] (OSU), Universidade de Brasilia [Brasília] (UnB), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Texas Tech University [Lubbock] (TTU), Institute for Astronomy [Honolulu] (IfA), University of Hawai'i [Honolulu] (UH), Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), University of Toronto, Bangor University, Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh] (CMU), Recherches Epistémologiques et Historiques sur les Sciences Exactes et les Institutions Scientifiques (REHSEIS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon (LAOB), 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 Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM), Research Institute of Organic Agriculture - Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (FiBL), Cornell University [New York], Carnegie Observatories, Carnegie Institution for Science [Washington], Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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, and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)

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Astrophysics, E-SCIENCE, 01 natural sciences, HISTORIES, TARGET SELECTION, Observatory, QB Astronomy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, R2C, QC, media_common, QB, Physics, CATALOGS, Point (typography), ~DC~, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften, atlases, GALAXIES, X-RAY SURVEYS, BDC, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, METALLICITY, [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], TELESCOPE, media_common.quotation_subject, astro-ph.GA, Phase (waves), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, MASS, [ PHYS.ASTR.CO ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Data-driven, Data cube, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], surveys, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:530, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, DAS, 115 Astronomy, Space science, Catalogues, 530 Physik, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Baryon, QC Physics, [PHYS.ASTR.GA]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), ddc:520, catalogs, astro-ph.IM, SDSS-IV MANGA
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Open Access. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI., The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since 2014 July. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the 14th from SDSS overall (making this Data Release Fourteen or DR14). This release makes the data taken by SDSS-IV in its first two years of operation (2014-2016 July) public. Like all previous SDSS releases, DR14 is cumulative, including the most recent reductions and calibrations of all data taken by SDSS since the first phase began operations in 2000. New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey; the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE-2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data-driven machine-learning algorithm known as ¿The Cannon¿ and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total). This paper describes the location and format of the publicly available data from the SDSS-IV surveys. We provide references to the important technical papers describing how these data have been taken (both targeting and observation details) and processed for scientific use. The SDSS web site (www.sdss.org) has been updated for this release and provides links to data downloads, as well as tutorials and examples of data use. SDSS-IV is planning to continue to collect astronomical data until 2020 and will be followed by SDSS-V. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society.., Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss.org.

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2018

11. Characterization of a subsample of the Planck SZ source cluster catalogues using optical SDSS DR12 data

Author

Nabila Aghanim, A. Aguado-Barahona, R. F. J. van der Burg, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Heidi Lietzen, R. Barrena, Alina Streblyanska, A. Ferragamo, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale ( IAS ), and Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, symbols.namesake, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), Planck, Brightest cluster galaxy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, galaxies: photometry, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, galaxies: clusters: general, Magnitude (astronomy), symbols, large-scale structure of Universe, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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The Planck catalogues of SZ sources, PSZ1 and PSZ2, are the largest catalogues of galaxy clusters selected through their SZ signature in the full sky. In 2013, we started a long-term observational program at Canary Island observatories with the aim of validating about 500 unconfirmed SZ sources. In this work we present results of the initial pre-screening of possible cluster counterparts using photometric and spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR12. Our main aim is to identify previously unconfirmed PSZ2 cluster candidates and to contribute in determination of the actual purity and completeness of Planck SZ source sample. Using the latest version of the PSZ2 catalogue, we select all sources overlapping with the SDSS DR12 footprint and without redshift information. We validate these cluster fields following optical criteria (mainly distance with respect to the Planck pointing, magnitude of the brightest cluster galaxy and cluster richness) and combining them with the profiles of the Planck Compton y-maps. Together, this procedure allows for a more robust identification of optical counterparts compared to simply cross-matching with existing SDSS cluster catalogues that have been constructed from earlier SDSS Data Releases. The sample contains new redshifts for 37 Planck galaxy clusters that were not included in the original release of PSZ2 Planck catalogue. We detect three cases as possible multiple counterparts. We show that a combination of all available information (optical images and profile of SZ signal) can provide correct associations between the observed Planck SZ source and the optically identified cluster. We also show that Planck SZ detection is very sensitive even to high-z (z>0.5) clusters. In addition, we also present updated spectroscopic information for 34 Planck PSZ1 sources (33 previously photometrically confirmed and 1 new identification)., To be published in A&A. Revised by the referee and accepted for publication after minor comments

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2018

12. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Fourteenth data release

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Anne-Marie Weijmans, Vivek Mariappan, Graziano Rossi, Jean-Paul Kneib, Kyle S. Dawson, Christophe Yèche, Julian E. Bautista, Eric Armengaud, Scott F. Anderson, Rita Tojeiro, Chelsea L. MacLeod, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Sylvain de la Torre, Michael R. Blanton, Etienne Burtin, Adam D. Myers, Hee-Jong Seo, Joel R. Brownstein, Benjamin A. Weaver, Héctor Gil-Marín, Stephanie M. LaMassa, Ian D. McGreer, W. N. Brandt, Patrick Petitjean, Ashley J. Ross, Jonathan Brinkmann, Will J. Percival, Paul J. Green, Andrea Merloni, Pauline Zarrouk, Patrick B. Hall, Éric Aubourg, Isabelle Pâris, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Jean Marc Le Goff, Brad W. Lyke, Michael Blomqvist, Donald P. Schneider, Antonis Georgakakis, Alina Streblyanska, Gong-Bo Zhao, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Lagrange de Paris, Sorbonne Universités, 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), SDSS, 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), ANR-16-CE31-0021,eBOSS,Sondes cosmologiques de la gravitation et de l'énergie noire(2016), The Leverhulme Trust, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Sorbonne Université (SU), 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), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Cosmology, Spectral line, Photometry (optics), surveys, quasars: general, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Emission spectrum, Spectral resolution, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, QB, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, general [Quasars], DAS, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Redshift, QC Physics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Catalogs, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the Data Release 14 Quasar catalog (DR14Q) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). This catalog includes all SDSS-IV/eBOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates and that are confirmed as quasars via a new automated procedure combined with a partial visual inspection of spectra, have luminosities $M_{\rm i} \left[ z=2 \right] < -20.5$ (in a $\Lambda$CDM cosmology with $H_0 = 70 \ {\rm km \ s^{-1} \ Mpc ^{-1}}$, $\Omega_{\rm M} = 0.3$, and $\Omega_{\rm \Lambda} = 0.7$), and either display at least one emission line with a full width at half maximum (FWHM) larger than $500 \ {\rm km \ s^{-1}}$ or, if not, have interesting/complex absorption features. The catalog also includes previously spectroscopically-confirmed quasars from SDSS-I, II and III. The catalog contains 526,356 quasars 144,046 are new discoveries since the beginning of SDSS-IV) detected over 9,376 deg$^2$ (2,044 deg$^2$ having new spectroscopic data available) with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra. The catalog is estimated to have about 0.5% contamination. The catalog identifies 21,877 broad absorption line quasars and lists their characteristics. For each object, the catalog presents SDSS five-band CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03 mag. The catalog also contains X-ray, ultraviolet, near-infrared, and radio emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys., Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A. The catalog is available at https://data.sdss.org/sas/dr14/eboss/qso/DR14Q/DR14Q_v4_4.fits

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2018

13. Optical validation and characterization of Planck PSZ1 sources at the Canary Islands observatories. I. First year of ITP13 observations

Author

R. Barrena, Anthony Lasenby, A. Ferragamo, Monique Arnaud, Alina Streblyanska, Håkon Dahle, D. Tramonte, Etienne Pointecouteau, Mariachiara Rossetti, G. Chon, Pasquale Mazzotta, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, G. W. Pratt, Marian Douspis, J. B. Melin, Nabila Aghanim, Hans Böhringer, J. Démoclès, A. Aguado-Barahona, R. F. J. van der Burg, A. Hempel, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Heidi Lietzen, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-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)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale ( IAS ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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 - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Gran Telescopio Canarias, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, clusters: general [Galaxies], 01 natural sciences, law.invention, symbols.namesake, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, William Herschel Telescope, Planck, Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Settore FIS/05, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Newtonian telescope, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 3. Good health, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: clusters: general, symbols, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, Catalogs, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Noise (radio), catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We identify new clusters and characterize previously unknown Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources from the first Planck catalogue of SZ sources (PSZ1). The results presented here correspond to an optical follow-up observational programme developed during approximately one year (2014) at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, using the 2.5m Isaac Newton telescope, the 3.5m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, the 4.2m William Herschel telescope and the 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias. We characterize 115 new PSZ1 sources using deep optical imaging and spectroscopy. We adopt robust criteria in order to consolidate the SZ counterparts by analysing the optical richness, the 2D galaxy distribution, and velocity dispersions of clusters. Confirmed counterparts are considered to be validated if they are rich structures, well aligned with the Planck PSZ1 coordinate and show relatively high velocity dispersion. Following this classification, we confirm 53 clusters, which means that 46% of this PSZ1 subsample has been validated and characterized with this technique. Sixty-two SZ sources (54% of this PSZ1 subset) remain unconfirmed. In addition, we find that the fraction of unconfirmed clusters close to the galactic plane (at |b|25deg), which indicates contamination produced by radio emission of galactic dust and gas clouds on these SZ detections. In fact, in the majority of the cases, we detect important galactic cirrus in the optical images, mainly in the SZ target located at low galactic latitudes, which supports this hypothesis., To be published in A&A (already revised by the referee). 17 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables

Published
2018

14. X-ray spectral properties of the AGN sample in the northern XMM-XXL field

Author

Alina Streblyanska, Antonis Georgakakis, Johannes Buchner, M. L. Menzel, Yue Shen, Mara Salvato, Andrea Merloni, Kirpal Nandra, Zhu Liu, Marcella Brusa, Liu, Zhu, Merloni, Andrea, Georgakakis, Antoni, Menze, Marie-Luise, Buchner, Johanne, Nandra, Kirpal, Salvato, Mara, Shen, Yue, Brusa, Marcella, and Streblyanska, Alina

Subjects
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Library science, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, German, Max planck institute, 0103 physical sciences, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE), Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Member states, Spectral properties, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Galaxies: active, Astronomy and Astrophysic, Chinese academy of sciences, language.human_language, Space and Planetary Science, language, National laboratory, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Data release, X-rays: galaxie
Abstract

In this paper we describe and publicly release a catalogue consisting of 8445 point-like X-ray sources detected in the XMM-XXL north survey. For the 2512 AGN which have reliable spectroscopy, we present the X-ray spectral fitting which has been computed with a Bayesian approach. We have also applied an X-ray spectral stacking method to different sub-samples. We confirm the well-known Iwasawa-Taniguchi effect in our luminosity-redshift sub-samples, and argue that such an effect is due to a decrease in the covering factor of a distant obscuring torus with increasing X-ray luminosity. By comparing the distribution of the reflection fraction, the ratio of the normalization of the reflected component to the direct radiation, we find that the low-luminosity, low-redshift sub-sample had systematically higher reflection fraction values than the high-redshift, high-luminosity one. On the other hand, no significant difference is found between samples having similar luminosity but different redshift, suggesting that the structure of the torus does not evolve strongly with redshift. Contrary to previous works, we do not find evidence for an increasing photon index at high Eddington ratio. This may be an indication that the structure of the accretion disc changes as the Eddington ratio approaches unity. Comparing our X-ray spectral analysis results with the optical spectral classification, we find that $\sim20$ per cent of optical type-1 AGN show an X-ray absorbing column density higher than $10^{21.5}\,\rm{cm^{-2}}$, and about 50 per cent of type-2 AGN have an X-ray absorbing column density less than $10^{21.5}\,\rm{cm^{-2}}$. We suggest that the excess X-ray absorption shown in the high-luminosity optical type-1 AGN can be due to small-scale dust-free gas within (or close to) the broad line region, while in the low-luminosity ones it can be due to a clumpy torus with a large covering factor., published in MNRAS. The full X-ray point-like source catalogue and Table 2,3 can be retrieved from http://www.mpe.mpg.de/XraySurveys/XMM-XXL/

Published
2016

15. Planck intermediate results: XXXVI. Optical identification and redshifts of Planck SZ sources with telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories

Author

Planck Collaboration, Ade, P. A. R., Aghanim, N., Arnaud, M., Ashdown, M., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Barreiro, R. B., Barrena, R., Bartolo, N., Kisner, T. S., Kneissl, R., Knoche, J., Kunz, M., Kurki-Suonio, H., Lamarre, J. -M., Lasenby, A., Lattanzi, M., Lawrence, C. R., Macías-Pérez, J. F., Valiviita, J., Leonardi, R., Maffei, B., Battaner, E., Maino, D., Mandolesi, N., MARIS, Michele, Martin, P. G., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Van Tent, B., McGehee, P., Melchiorri, A., Mennella, A., Benabed, K., Migliaccio, M., Miville-Deschênes, M. -A., Moneti, A., Montier, L., MORGANTE, GIANLUCA, Mortlock, D., Vielva, P., Munshi, D., Murphy, J. A., Naselsky, P., Nati, F., Benoit-Lévy, A., Natoli, P., Novikov, D., Novikov, I., Oxborrow, C. A., Pagano, L., VILLA, FABRIZIO, Pajot, F., PAOLETTI, DANIELA, Pasian, F., Perdereau, O., Pettorino, V., Bernard, J. -P., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Pierpaoli, E., Plaszczynski, S., Wade, L. A., Pointecouteau, E., Polenta, G., Pratt, G. W., Prunet, S., Puget, J. -L., Rachen, J. P., Bersanelli, M., Rebolo, R., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Wandelt, B. D., Renault, C., Renzi, A., Ristorcelli, I., Rocha, G., Rosset, C., ROSSETTI, MARIACHIARA, Roudier, G., Bielewicz, P., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Rusholme, B., Wehus, I. K., SANDRI, MAURA, Santos, D., Savelainen, M., Savini, G., Scott, D., Stolyarov, V., Streblyanska, A., Sudiwala, R., Bikmaev, I., Sunyaev, R., Yvon, D., Suur-Uski, A. -S., Sygnet, J. -F., Tauber, J. A., TERENZI, LUCA, Toffolatti, L., Tomasi, M., Tramonte, D., Tristram, M., Tucci, M., Böhringer, H., ZACCHEI, Andrea, VALENZIANO, LUCA, Bonaldi, A., León-Tavares, J., Zonca, A., Bonavera, L., Bond, J. R., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F. R., Burenin, R., BURIGANA, CARLO, Calabrese, E., Cardoso, J. -F., Catalano, A., Levrier, F., Chamballu, A., Chary, R. -R., Chiang, H. C., Chon, G., Christensen, P. R., Clements, D. L., Colombo, L. P. L., Combet, C., Comis, B., Crill, B. P., Lietzen, H., Curto, A., CUTTAIA, FRANCESCO, Dahle, H., Danese, L., Davies, R. D., Davis, R. J., de Bernardis, P., De Rosa, A., de Zotti, G., Delabrouille, J., Liguori, M., Diego, J. M., Dole, H., Donzelli, S., Doré, O., Douspis, M., Dupac, X., Efstathiou, G., Elsner, F., Enßlin, T. A., Eriksen, H. K., Lilje, P. B., Ferragamo, A., FINELLI, FABIO, Forni, O., FRAILIS, Marco, Fraisse, A. A., FRANCESCHI, ENRICO, Fromenteau, S., GALEOTTA, Samuele, Galli, S., Ganga, K., Linden-Vørnle, M., Génova-Santos, R. T., Giard, M., Gjerløw, E., González-Nuevo, J., Górski, K. M., GRUPPUSO, ALESSANDRO, Hansen, F. K., Harrison, D. L., Hempel, A., Hernández-Monteagudo, C., López-Caniego, M., Herranz, D., Hildebrandt, S. R., Hivon, E., Hornstrup, A., Hovest, W., Huffenberger, K. M., Hurier, G., Jaffe, T. R., Keihänen, E., Keskitalo, R., Lubin, P. 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Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-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)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - 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Paris 7 (UPD7), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP)

Subjects
catalog, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Astronomy, Large-scale structure of universe, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, clusters: general [Galaxies], Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Physics::Geophysics, NO, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], symbols.namesake, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, catalogs, galaxies: clusters: general, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, large-scale structure of Universe, Catalogues, Redshift, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, 13. Climate action, ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING, astro-ph.CO, symbols, Optical identification, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

Catalogs and data.-- et al., We present the results of approximately three years of observations of Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) sources with telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories as part of the general optical follow-up programme undertaken by the Planck Collaboration. In total, 78 SZ sources are discussed. Deep-imaging observations were obtained for most of these sources; spectroscopic observations in either in long-slit or multi-object modes were obtained for many. We effectively used 37.5 clear nights. We found optical counterparts for 73 of the 78 candidates. This sample includes 53 spectroscopic redshift determinations, 20 of them obtained with a multi-object spectroscopic mode. The sample contains new redshifts for 27 Planck clusters that were not included in the first Planck SZ source catalogue (PSZ1)., The Planck Collaboration acknowledges the support of: ESA; CNES, and CNRS/INSU-IN2P3-INP (France); ASI, CNR, and INAF (Italy); NASA and DoE (USA); STFC and UKSA (UK); CSIC, MINECO, JA and RES (Spain); Tekes, AoF, and CSC (Finland); DLR and MPG (Germany); CSA (Canada); DTU Space (Denmark); SER/SSO (Switzerland); RCN (Norway); SFI (Ireland); FCT/MCTES (Portugal); ERC and PRACE (EU). A.S., R.B., H.L., and J.A.R.M. acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under the 2011 Severo Ochoa Program MINECO SEV-2011-0187, and the Consolider-Ingenio project CSD2010-00064 (EPI: Exploring the Physics of Inflation).

Published
2016

16. Dust in the reionization era: ALMA observations of a $z$=8.38 Galaxy

Author

Laporte, Nicolas, Ellis, Richard S., Boone, Frederic, Bauer, Franz E., Qu��nard, David, Roberts-Borsani, Guido W., Pell��, Roser, P��rez-Fournon, Ismael, and Streblyanska, Alina

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report on the detailed analysis of a gravitationally-lensed Y-band dropout, A2744_YD4, selected from deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging in the Frontier Field cluster Abell 2744. Band 7 observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) indicate the proximate detection of a significant 1mm continuum flux suggesting the presence of dust for a star-forming galaxy with a photometric redshift of $z\simeq8$. Deep X-SHOOTER spectra confirms the high redshift identity of A2744_YD4 via the detection of Lyman $\alpha$ emission at a redshift $z$=8.38. The association with the ALMA detection is confirmed by the presence of [OIII] 88$\mu$m emission at the same redshift. Although both emission features are only significant at the 4 $\sigma$ level, we argue their joint detection and the positional coincidence with a high redshift dropout in the HST images confirms the physical association. Analysis of the available photometric data and the modest gravitational magnification ($\mu\simeq2$) indicates A2744_YD4 has a stellar mass of $\sim$ 2$\times$10$^9$ M$_{\odot}$, a star formation rate of $\sim20$ M$_{\odot}$/yr and a dust mass of $\sim$6$\times$10$^{6}$ M$_{\odot}$. We discuss the implications of the formation of such a dust mass only $\simeq$200 Myr after the onset of cosmic reionisation., Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL

Published
2017

17. Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

Author

Michael R. Blanton, Matthew A. Bershady, Bela Abolfathi, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida, Javier Alonso-García, Friedrich Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Brett Andrews, Erik Aquino-Ortíz, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Maria Argudo-Fernández, Eric Armengaud, Eric Aubourg, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Stephen Bailey, Kathleen A. Barger, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Curtis Bartosz, Dominic Bates, Falk Baumgarten, Julian Bautista, Rachael Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, Francesco Belfiore, Chad F. Bender, Andreas A. Berlind, Mariangela Bernardi, Florian Beutler, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael Blomqvist, Adam S. Bolton, Médéric Boquien, Jura Borissova, Remco van den Bosch, Jo Bovy, William N. Brandt, Jonathan Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, Adam J. Burgasser, Etienne Burtin, Nicolás G. Busca, Michele Cappellari, Maria Leticia Delgado Carigi, Joleen K. Carlberg, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Ricardo Carrera, Nancy J. Chanover, Brian Cherinka, Edmond Cheung, Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew, Cristina Chiappini, Peter Doohyun Choi, Drew Chojnowski, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Haeun Chung, Rafael Fernando Cirolini, Nicolas Clerc, Roger E. Cohen, Johan Comparat, Luiz da Costa, Marie-Claude Cousinou, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Rupert A. C. Croft, Irene Cruz-Gonzalez, Daniel Garrido Cuadra, Katia Cunha, Guillermo J. Damke, Jeremy Darling, Roger Davies, Kyle Dawson, Axel de la Macorra, Flavia Dell’Agli, Nathan De Lee, Timothée Delubac, Francesco Di Mille, Aleks Diamond-Stanic, Mariana Cano-Díaz, John Donor, Juan José Downes, Niv Drory, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Christopher J. Duckworth, Tom Dwelly, Jamie Dyer, Garrett Ebelke, Arthur D. Eigenbrot, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Eric Emsellem, Mike Eracleous, Stephanie Escoffier, Michael L. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Emma Fernández-Alvar, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado, Diane K. Feuillet, Alexis Finoguenov, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Alexander Fredrickson, Gordon Freischlad, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Carla E. Fuentes, Lluís Galbany, R. Garcia-Dias, D. A. García-Hernández, Patrick Gaulme, Doug Geisler, Joseph D. Gelfand, Héctor Gil-Marín, Bruce A. Gillespie, Daniel Goddard, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Kathleen Grabowski, Paul J. Green, Catherine J. Grier, James E. Gunn, Hong Guo, Julien Guy, Alex Hagen, ChangHoon Hahn, Matthew Hall, Paul Harding, Sten Hasselquist, Suzanne L. Hawley, Fred Hearty, Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernández, Shirley Ho, David W. Hogg, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Jon A. Holtzman, Parker H. Holzer, Joseph Huehnerhoff, Timothy A. Hutchinson, Ho Seong Hwang, Héctor J. Ibarra-Medel, Gabriele da Silva Ilha, Inese I. Ivans, KeShawn Ivory, Kelly Jackson, Trey W. Jensen, Jennifer A. Johnson, Amy Jones, Henrik Jönsson, Eric Jullo, Vikrant Kamble, Karen Kinemuchi, David Kirkby, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Mark Klaene, Gillian R. Knapp, Jean-Paul Kneib, Juna A. Kollmeier, Ivan Lacerna, Richard R. Lane, Dustin Lang, David R. Law, Daniel Lazarz, Youngbae Lee, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Fu-Heng Liang, Cheng Li, Hongyu Li, Jianhui Lian, Marcos Lima, Lihwai Lin, Yen-Ting Lin, Sara Bertran de Lis, Chao Liu, Miguel Angel C. de Icaza Lizaola, Dan Long, Sara Lucatello, Britt Lundgren, Nicholas K. MacDonald, Alice Deconto Machado, Chelsea L. MacLeod, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia, Roberto Maiolino, Steven R. Majewski, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Arturo Manchado, Shude Mao, Claudia Maraston, Rui Marques-Chaves, Thomas Masseron, Karen L. Masters, Cameron K. McBride, Richard M. McDermid, Brianne McGrath, Ian D. McGreer, Nicolás Medina Peña, Matthew Melendez, Andrea Merloni, Michael R. Merrifield, Szabolcs Meszaros, Andres Meza, Ivan Minchev, Dante Minniti, Takamitsu Miyaji, Surhud More, John Mulchaey, Francisco Müller-Sánchez, Demitri Muna, Ricardo R. Munoz, Adam D. Myers, Preethi Nair, Kirpal Nandra, Janaina Correa do Nascimento, Alenka Negrete, Melissa Ness, Jeffrey A. Newman, Robert C. Nichol, David L. Nidever, Christian Nitschelm, Pierros Ntelis, Julia E. O’Connell, Ryan J. Oelkers, Audrey Oravetz, Daniel Oravetz, Zach Pace, Nelson Padilla, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Pedro Alonso Palicio, Kaike Pan, John K. Parejko, Taniya Parikh, Isabelle Pâris, Changbom Park, Alim Y. Patten, Sebastien Peirani, Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez, Samantha Penny, Will J. Percival, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew M. Pieri, Marc Pinsonneault, Alice Pisani, Radosław Poleski, Francisco Prada, Abhishek Prakash, Anna Bárbara de Andrade Queiroz, M. Jordan Raddick, Anand Raichoor, Sandro Barboza Rembold, Hannah Richstein, Rogemar A. Riffel, Rogério Riffel, Hans-Walter Rix, Annie C. Robin, Constance M. Rockosi, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres, A. Roman-Lopes, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, Margarita Rosado, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, John Ruan, Rossana Ruggeri, Eli S. Rykoff, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz, Mara Salvato, Ariel G. Sánchez, D. S. Aguado, José R. Sánchez-Gallego, Felipe A. Santana, Basílio Xavier Santiago, Conor Sayres, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Jaderson da Silva Schimoia, Edward F. Schlafly, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, William J. Schuster, Axel Schwope, Hee-Jong Seo, Zhengyi Shao, Shiyin Shen, Matthew Shetrone, Michael Shull, Joshua D. Simon, Danielle Skinner, M. F. Skrutskie, Anže Slosar, Verne V. Smith, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Flavia Sobreira, Garrett Somers, Diogo Souto, David V. Stark, Keivan Stassun, Fritz Stauffer, Matthias Steinmetz, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Alina Streblyanska, Guy S. Stringfellow, Genaro Suárez, Jing Sun, Nao Suzuki, Laszlo Szigeti, Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp, Baitian Tang, Charling Tao, Jamie Tayar, Mita Tembe, Johanna Teske, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Daniel Thomas, Benjamin A. Thompson, Jeremy L. Tinker, Patricia Tissera, Rita Tojeiro, Hector Hernandez Toledo, Sylvain de la Torre, Christy Tremonti, Nicholas W. Troup, Octavio Valenzuela, Inma Martinez Valpuesta, Jaime Vargas-González, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Jose Alberto Vazquez, Sandro Villanova, M. Vivek, Nicole Vogt, David Wake, Rene Walterbos, Yuting Wang, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Anne-Marie Weijmans, David H. Weinberg, Kyle B. Westfall, David G. Whelan, Vivienne Wild, John Wilson, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Dominika Wylezalek, Ting Xiao, Renbin Yan, Meng Yang, Jason E. Ybarra, Christophe Yèche, Nadia Zakamska, Olga Zamora, Pauline Zarrouk, Gail Zasowski, Kai Zhang, Gong-Bo Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Xu Zhou, Zhi-Min Zhou, Guangtun B. Zhu, Manuela Zoccali, Hu Zou, The Leverhulme Trust, University of St Andrews. 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CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 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Astrophysics and Astronomy, Milky Way, astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Espectros astronômicos, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, law.invention, Telescope, Redshift-space distortions, surveys, Observatory, law, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, spectrographs [Instrumentation], observations [Cosmology], Galaxy: general, stars: general, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, general [Galaxy], QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, instrumentation: spectrographs, QB, Mapeamentos astronômicos, Physics, general [Stars], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, general [Galaxies], DAS, galaxies: general, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Catalogos astronomicos, Baryon acoustic oscillations, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

We describe the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV), a project encompassing three major spectroscopic programs. The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment 2 (APOGEE-2) is observing hundreds of thousands of Milky Way stars at high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio in the near-infrared. The Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA) survey is obtaining spatially-resolved spectroscopy for thousands of nearby galaxies (median redshift of z = 0.03). The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) is mapping the galaxy, quasar, and neutral gas distributions between redshifts z = 0.6 and 3.5 to constrain cosmology using baryon acoustic oscillations, redshift space distortions, and the shape of the power spectrum. Within eBOSS, we are conducting two major subprograms: the SPectroscopic IDentification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS), investigating X-ray AGN and galaxies in X-ray clusters, and the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS), obtaining spectra of variable sources. All programs use the 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope at Apache Point Observatory; observations there began in Summer 2014. APOGEE-2 also operates a second near-infrared spectrograph at the 2.5-meter du Pont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory, with observations beginning in early 2017. Observations at both facilities are scheduled to continue through 2020. In keeping with previous SDSS policy, SDSS-IV provides regularly scheduled public data releases; the first one, Data Release 13, was made available in July 2016., Published in Astronomical Journal

Published
2017

18. Quasars with PV broad absorption in BOSS data release 9

Author

Donald G. York, Fred Hamann, Isabelle Pâris, Alina Streblyanska, H. Herbst, Donald P. Schneider, Daniel M. Capellupo, Jian Ge, W. N. Brandt, Patrick Petitjean, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)

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Absorption spectroscopy, media_common.quotation_subject, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Lambda, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, education.field_of_study, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
Abstract

Broad absorption lines (BALs) found in a significant fraction of quasar spectra identify high-velocity outflows that might be present in all quasars and could be a major factor in feedback to galaxy evolution. Understanding the nature of these flows requires further constraints on their physical properties, including their column densities, for which well-studied BALs, such as CIV 1548,1551, typically provide only a lower limit because of saturation effects. Low-abundance lines, such as PV 1118,1128, indicate large column densities, implying outflows more powerful than measurements of CIV alone would indicate. We search through a sample of 2694 BAL quasars from the SDSS-III/BOSS DR9 quasar catalog for such absorption, and we identify 81 `definite' and 86 `probable' detections of PV broad absorption, yielding a firm lower limit of 3.0-6.2% for the incidence of such absorption among BAL quasars. The PV-detected quasars tend to have stronger CIV and SiIV absorption, as well as a higher incidence of LoBAL absorption, than the overall BAL quasar population. Many of the PV-detected quasars have CIV troughs that do not reach zero intensity (at velocities where PV is detected), confirming that the outflow gas only partially covers the UV continuum source. PV appears significantly in a composite spectrum of non-PV-detected BAL quasars, indicating that PV absorption (and large column densities) are much more common than indicated by our search results. Our sample of PV detections significantly increases the number of known PV detections, providing opportunities for follow-up studies to better understand BAL outflow energetics., Comment: 18 pages, 12 figures. All spectral plots available at http://www.dancapellupo.com/boss-pv-bal-spectral-plots.html

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2017
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19. The Clustering of Galaxies in the Completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Cosmic Flows and Cosmic Web from Luminous Red Galaxies

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Daniel J. Eisenstein, Matthew D. Olmstead, Falk Baumgarten, Volker Müller, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres, Alina Streblyanska, Graziano Rossi, Metin Ata, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Gustavo Yepes, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Héctor Gil-Marín, Carlos Hernández Monteagudo, Hee-Jong Seo, Mathieu Autefage, Francisco Prada, Shirley Ho, Jeremy L. Tinker, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Cameron K. McBride, Angela Burden, Will J. Percival, Joel R. Brownstein, Simone Ferraro, Donald P. Schneider, Rita Tojeiro, Ariel G. Sánchez, Mark C. Neyrinck, Patrick McDonald, Raul E. Angulo, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Hong Guo, Florian Beutler, David J. Schlegel, Institut Lagrange de Paris, Sorbonne Université (SU), 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), BOSS, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Sorbonne Universités, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies ( LPNHE ), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )

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Cosmology and Gravitation, statistics [galaxies], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Cold dark matter, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Virial theorem, Cosmology, methods: numerical, Redshift-space distortions, cosmology: theory, 0103 physical sciences, Satellite galaxy, QB Astronomy, Large-scale structure of the Universe, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, catalogues, galaxies: statistics, QB, Physics, COSMIC cancer database, theory [cosmology], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy, DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, numerical [methods], Galaxy, Baryon, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, large-scale structure of Universe, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a Bayesian phase-space reconstruction of the cosmic large-scale matter density and velocity fields from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillations Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12 (BOSS DR12) CMASS galaxy clustering catalogue. We rely on a given $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, a mesh resolution in the range of 6-10 $h^{-1}$ Mpc, and a lognormal-Poisson model with a redshift dependent nonlinear bias. The bias parameters are derived from the data and a general renormalised perturbation theory approach. We use combined Gibbs and Hamiltonian sampling, implemented in the \textsc{argo} code, to iteratively reconstruct the dark matter density field and the coherent peculiar velocities of individual galaxies, correcting hereby for coherent redshift space distortions (RSD). Our tests relying on accurate $N$-body based mock galaxy catalogues, show unbiased real space power spectra of the nonlinear density field up to $k\sim0.2\, h$ Mpc$^{-1}$, and vanishing quadrupoles down to $r\sim20\,h^{-1}$ Mpc. We also demonstrate that the nonlinear cosmic web can be obtained from the tidal field tensor based on the Gaussian component of the reconstructed density field. We find that the reconstructed velocities have a statistical correlation coefficient compared to the true velocities of each individual lightcone mock galaxy of $r\sim0.68$ including about 10% of satellite galaxies with virial motions (about $r=0.75$ without satellites). The power spectra of the velocity divergence agree well with theoretical predictions up to $k\sim0.2\,h\,{\rm Mpc}^{-1}$. This work will be especially useful to improve, e.g. BAO reconstructions, kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (kSZ), integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) measurements, or environmental studies., Comment: 21 pages, 17 figures submitted to MNRAS

Published
2017

20. The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Author

Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto, Andres Almeida, Friedrich Anders, Scott Anderson, Brett H. Andrews, Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca, Maria Argudo-Fernández, Eric Armengaud, Eric Aubourg, Vladimir Avila-Reese, Carles Badenes, Stephen Bailey, Beatriz Barbuy, Kat Barger, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Curtis Bartosz, Sarbani Basu, Dominic Bates, Giuseppina Battaglia, Falk Baumgarten, Julien Baur, Julian Bautista, Timothy C. Beers, Francesco Belfiore, Matthew Bershady, Sara Bertran de Lis, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Guillermo A. Blanc, Michael Blanton, Michael Blomqvist, Adam S. Bolton, J. Borissova, Jo Bovy, William Nielsen Brandt, Jonathan Brinkmann, Joel R. Brownstein, Kevin Bundy, Etienne Burtin, Nicolás G. Busca, Hugo Orlando Camacho Chavez, M. Cano Díaz, Michele Cappellari, Ricardo Carrera, Yanping Chen, Brian Cherinka, Edmond Cheung, Cristina Chiappini, Drew Chojnowski, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Haeun Chung, Rafael Fernando Cirolini, Nicolas Clerc, Roger E. Cohen, Julia M. Comerford, Johan Comparat, Janaina Correa do Nascimento, Marie-Claude Cousinou, Kevin Covey, Jeffrey D. Crane, Rupert Croft, Katia Cunha, Jeremy Darling, James W. Davidson, Kyle Dawson, Luiz Da Costa, Gabriele Da Silva Ilha, Alice Deconto Machado, Timothée Delubac, Nathan De Lee, Axel De la Macorra, Sylvain De la Torre, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, John Donor, Juan Jose Downes, Niv Drory, Cheng Du, Hélion Du Mas des Bourboux, Tom Dwelly, Garrett Ebelke, Arthur Eigenbrot, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Yvonne P. Elsworth, Eric Emsellem, Michael Eracleous, Stephanie Escoffier, Michael L. Evans, Jesús Falcón-Barroso, Xiaohui Fan, Ginevra Favole, Emma Fernandez-Alvar, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado, Diane Feuillet, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Gordon Freischlad, Peter Frinchaboy, Hai Fu, Yang Gao, Rafael A. Garcia, R. Garcia-Dias, D. A. Garcia-Hernández, Ana E. Garcia Pérez, Patrick Gaulme, Junqiang Ge, Douglas Geisler, Bruce Gillespie, Hector Gil Marin, Léo Girardi, Daniel Goddard, Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew, Violeta Gonzalez-Perez, Kathleen Grabowski, Paul Green, Catherine J. Grier, Thomas Grier, Hong Guo, Julien Guy, Alex Hagen, Matt Hall, Paul Harding, R. E. Harley, Sten Hasselquist, Suzanne Hawley, Christian R. Hayes, Fred Hearty, Saskia Hekker, Hector Hernandez Toledo, Shirley Ho, David W. Hogg, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Jon A. Holtzman, Parker H. Holzer, Jian Hu, Daniel Huber, Timothy Alan Hutchinson, Ho Seong Hwang, Héctor J. Ibarra-Medel, Inese I. Ivans, KeShawn Ivory, Kurt Jaehnig, Trey W. Jensen, Jennifer A. Johnson, Amy Jones, Eric Jullo, T. Kallinger, Karen Kinemuchi, David Kirkby, Mark Klaene, Jean-Paul Kneib, Juna A. Kollmeier, Ivan Lacerna, Richard R. Lane, Dustin Lang, Pierre Laurent, David R. Law, Alexie Leauthaud, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Chen Li, Cheng Li, Niu Li, Ran Li, Fu-Heng Liang, Yu Liang, Marcos Lima, Lihwai Lin, Lin Lin, Yen-Ting Lin, Chao Liu, Dan Long, Sara Lucatello, Nicholas MacDonald, Chelsea L. MacLeod, J. Ted Mackereth, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia, Roberto Maiolino, Steven R. Majewski, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Nícolas Dullius Mallmann, Arturo Manchado, Claudia Maraston, Rui Marques-Chaves, Inma Martinez Valpuesta, Karen L. Masters, Savita Mathur, Ian D. McGreer, Andrea Merloni, Michael R. Merrifield, Szabolcs Meszáros, Andres Meza, Andrea Miglio, Ivan Minchev, Karan Molaverdikhani, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Benoit Mosser, Demitri Muna, Adam Myers, Preethi Nair, Kirpal Nandra, Melissa Ness, Jeffrey A. Newman, Robert C. Nichol, David L. Nidever, Christian Nitschelm, Julia O’Connell, Audrey Oravetz, Daniel J. Oravetz, Zachary Pace, Nelson Padilla, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Kaike Pan, John Parejko, Isabelle Paris, Changbom Park, John A. Peacock, Sebastien Peirani, Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez, Samantha Penny, Will J. Percival, Jeffrey W. Percival, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew Pieri, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Alice Pisani, Francisco Prada, Abhishek Prakash, Natalie Price-Jones, M. Jordan Raddick, Mubdi Rahman, Anand Raichoor, Sandro Barboza Rembold, A. M. Reyna, James Rich, Hannah Richstein, Jethro Ridl, Rogemar A. Riffel, Rogério Riffel, Hans-Walter Rix, Annie C. Robin, Constance M. Rockosi, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres, Thaíse S. Rodrigues, Natalie Roe, A. Roman Lopes, Carlos Román-Zúñiga, Ashley J. Ross, Graziano Rossi, John Ruan, Rossana Ruggeri, Jessie C. Runnoe, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz, Mara Salvato, Sebastian F. Sanchez, Ariel G. Sanchez, José R. Sanchez-Gallego, Basílio Xavier Santiago, Ricardo Schiavon, Jaderson S. Schimoia, Eddie Schlafly, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Ralph Schönrich, Mathias Schultheis, Axel Schwope, Hee-Jong Seo, Aldo Serenelli, Branimir Sesar, Zhengyi Shao, Matthew Shetrone, Michael Shull, Victor Silva Aguirre, M. F. Skrutskie, Anže Slosar, Michael Smith, Verne V. Smith, Jennifer Sobeck, Garrett Somers, Diogo Souto, David V. Stark, Keivan G. Stassun, Matthias Steinmetz, Dennis Stello, Thaisa Storchi Bergmann, Michael A. Strauss, Alina Streblyanska, Guy S. Stringfellow, Genaro Suarez, Jing Sun, Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp, Baitian Tang, Charling Tao, Jamie Tayar, Mita Tembe, Daniel Thomas, Jeremy Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Christy Tremonti, Nicholas Troup, Jonathan R. Trump, Eduardo Unda-Sanzana, O. Valenzuela, Remco Van den Bosch, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Jose Alberto Vazquez, Sandro Villanova, M. Vivek, Nicole Vogt, David Wake, Rene Walterbos, Yuting Wang, Enci Wang, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Anne-Marie Weijmans, David H. Weinberg, Kyle B. Westfall, David G. Whelan, Eric Wilcots, Vivienne Wild, Rob A. Williams, John Wilson, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Dominika Wylezalek, Ting Xiao, Renbin Yan, Meng Yang, Jason E. Ybarra, Christophe Yeche, Fang-Ting Yuan, Nadia Zakamska, Olga Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Kai Zhang, Cheng Zhao, Gong-Bo Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Zhi-Min Zhou, Guangtun Zhu, Joel C. Zinn, Hu Zou, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), 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), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon (CRAL), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon (LAOB), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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 d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), SDSS, Maiolino, Roberto [0000-0002-4985-3819], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 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), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon (UMR 6091) (LAOB), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), 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), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-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)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers ( IRFU ), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ) -Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie ( APC - UMR 7164 ), 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 Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives ( CEA ), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille ( LAM ), Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales ( CNES ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille ( CPPM ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Aix Marseille Université ( AMU ), Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon ( CRAL ), École normale supérieure - Lyon ( ENS Lyon ) -Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ( UCBL ), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire d'astrophysique de l'observatoire de Besançon ( LAOB ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Laboratoire AIM, Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris ( IAP ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies ( LPNHE ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS ( IN2P3 ) -Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique ( LESIA ), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 ( UPMC ) -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers ( INSU - CNRS ) -Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 ( UPD7 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Joseph Louis LAGRANGE ( LAGRANGE ), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis ( UNS ), Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, and Université Côte d'Azur ( UCA ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )

Subjects
[ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Set (abstract data type), surveys, Observatory, 0103 physical sciences, QB Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, QC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QB, media_common, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Atlases, DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, GALÁXIAS, Galaxy, Redshift, atlases, QC Physics, Data access, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Catalogs, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], catalogs, Data reduction
Abstract

The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2,MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: TDSS and SPIDERS. This paper describes the first data release from SDSS-IV, Data Release 13 (DR13), which contains new data, reanalysis of existing data sets and, like all SDSS data releases, is inclusive of previously released data. DR13 makes publicly available 1390 spatially resolved integral field unit observations of nearby galaxies from MaNGA,the first data released from this survey. It includes new observations from eBOSS, completing SEQUELS. In addition to targeting galaxies and quasars, SEQUELS also targeted variability-selected objects from TDSS and X-ray selected objects from SPIDERS. DR13 includes new reductions ofthe SDSS-III BOSS data, improving the spectrophotometric calibration and redshift classification. DR13 releases new reductions of the APOGEE-1data from SDSS-III, with abundances of elements not previously included and improved stellar parameters for dwarf stars and cooler stars. For the SDSS imaging data, DR13 provides new, more robust and precise photometric calibrations. Several value-added catalogs are being released in tandem with DR13, in particular target catalogs relevant for eBOSS, TDSS, and SPIDERS, and an updated red-clump catalog for APOGEE.This paper describes the location and format of the data now publicly available, as well as providing references to the important technical papers that describe the targeting, observing, and data reduction. The SDSS website, http://www.sdss.org, provides links to the data, tutorials and examples of data access, and extensive documentation of the reduction and analysis procedures. DR13 is the first of a scheduled set that will contain new data and analyses from the planned ~6-year operations of SDSS-IV. Postprint

Published
2017

21. The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Variability selection and quasar luminosity function

Author

Graziano Rossi, C. Magneville, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Jeremy L. Tinker, Alina Streblyanska, Ian D. McGreer, Isabelle Pâris, Etienne Burtin, David J. Schlegel, Kyle S. Dawson, Patrick Petitjean, Adam D. Myers, Ch. Yèche, D. P. Schneider, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), 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, INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste (OAT), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), University of Utah, University of Arizona, University of Wyoming (UW), Sejong University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos [PennState], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), and Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Flattening, surveys, quasars: general, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, general [quasars], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Redshift, Galaxy, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Selection method, large-scale structure of Universe, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The SDSS-IV/eBOSS has an extensive quasar program that combines several selection methods. Among these, the photometric variability technique provides highly uniform samples, unaffected by the redshift bias of traditional optical-color selections, when $z= 2.7 - 3.5$ quasars cross the stellar locus or when host galaxy light affects quasar colors at $z < 0.9$. Here, we present the variability selection of quasars in eBOSS, focusing on a specific program that led to a sample of 13,876 quasars to $g_{\rm dered}=22.5$ over a 94.5 deg$^2$ region in Stripe 82, an areal density 1.5 times higher than over the rest of the eBOSS footprint. We use these variability-selected data to provide a new measurement of the quasar luminosity function (QLF) in the redshift range $0.682.2$. Both models are constrained to be continuous at $z=2.2$. They present a flattening of the bright-end slope at large redshift. The LEDE model indicates a reduction of the break density with increasing redshift, but the evolution of the break magnitude depends on the parameterization. The models are in excellent accord, predicting quasar counts that agree within 0.3\% (resp., 1.1\%) to $g, Comment: 15 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Published
2016

22. The SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey : overview and early data

Author

Joe Huehnerhoff, Jo Bovy, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Nicolás G. Busca, Matthew A. Bershady, Will J. Percival, Yipeng Jing, Marcio A. G. Maia, Conor Sayres, Diana Holder, Xiaohui Fan, Eric Jullo, Flavia Sobreira, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres, Vikrant Kamble, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Yu Liang, Andreas A. Berlind, Patrick Gaulme, Beth Reid, Stephen Bailey, Peter Nugent, Andrea Merloni, Peter M. Frinchaboy, Dmitry Bizyaev, A. C. Rosell, Gong-Bo Zhao, Tracy Naugle, Yen-Ting Lin, Vivek Mariappan, Zhongxu Zhai, Julien Guy, Hélion du Mas des Bourboux, Shirley Ho, Martin White, Éric Aubourg, Abhishek Prakash, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Yuting Wang, Audrey Oravetz, Dustin Lang, Uroš Seljak, W. N. Brandt, Demitri Muna, Patrick Petitjean, Sylvain de la Torre, M. C. Cousinou, Ian D. McGreer, Pierre Laurent, Adam D. Myers, Isabelle Paris, Andres Meza, John J. Ruan, Franco D. Albareti, Etienne Burtin, Kyle S. Dawson, Adam S. Bolton, Alina Streblyanska, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Marcos Lima, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Kaike Pan, Benjamin A. Weaver, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Branimir Sesar, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Ashley J. Ross, Alice Pisani, Axel de la Macorra, Mark A. Klaene, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Karen Kinemuchi, Nicholas R. MacDonald, Rita Tojeiro, Nicolas Clerc, Nao Suzuki, Scott F. Anderson, Dan Long, John A. Peacock, Kirpal Nandra, Johan Comparat, D. Kirkby, Anze Slosar, Timothy A. Hutchinson, Michael Blomqvist, Donald P. Schneider, Stephanie Escoffier, Jeremy L. Tinker, Charling Tao, Irene Cruz-González, Jon Brinkmann, Michael Eracleous, Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Hu Zou, Elena Malanushenko, Yiping Shu, Anand Raichoor, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Andreu Font-Ribera, Tom Dwelly, J. Ridl, Graziano Rossi, Hee-Jong Seo, Britt Lundgren, Sarah Shandera, Brice Ménard, Luiz N. da Costa, Shadab Alam, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Christophe Yèche, Daniel Oravetz, Matthew M. Pieri, Jean-Paul Kneib, Julian E. Bautista, Weipeng Lin, Mara Salvato, Antonis Georgakakis, Alexis Finoguenov, Hong Guo, Florian Beutler, Guangtun Zhu, Jeremy Darling, Zheng Zheng, Frances Cope, Donna Taylor, Francisco Prada, David H. Weinberg, Cheng Li, Rupert A. C. Croft, Joel R. Brownstein, Viktor Malanushenko, Paul J. Green, Jeffrey A. Newman, John K. Parejko, David J. Schlegel, Matthew D. Olmstead, Russ R. Laher, Cameron K. McBride, Cheng Zhao, Timothée Delubac, James Rich, Michael R. Blanton, Eric Armengaud, Anne Ealet, Zheng Cai, Qiufan Lin, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, AVL, 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), Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics [PennState], Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System-Penn State System, Departamento de FisicaTeorica e IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), 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), EPFL Laboratoire d’astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Research Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), McMaster University [Hamilton, Ontario], Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Irvine], University of California [Irvine] (UC Irvine), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), 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, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory [Shanghai] (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing] (CAS), Departamento de Fisica Matematica, Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Pittsburgh], University of Pittsburgh (PITT), Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] (UCHILE), Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), APC - Cosmologie, 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, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Minneapolis] (ECE), University of Minnesota [Twin Cities] (UMN), University of Minnesota System-University of Minnesota System, China National Research Center of Intelligent Equipment for Agriculture [Beijing] (NRCIEA), Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials, Shandong University, Laboratoire de Chimie - UMR5182 (LC), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), 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), University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California-University of California, Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidad Santiago de Chile, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, University of Minnesota [Twin Cities], École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, 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), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), 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, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, and PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, surveys, Tests of general relativity, 0103 physical sciences, ST/K0090X/1, QB Astronomy, Emission spectrum, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, STFC, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, QC, QB, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Física, RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, 3rd-DAS, Redshift, Galaxy, Baryon, QC Physics, Space and Planetary Science, cosmology: observations, astro-ph.CO, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Neutrino, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Astrophysical Journal 151.2 (2016): 44 reproduced by permission of the AAS, In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. These observations will be conducted simultaneously with the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) designed for variability studies and the Spectroscopic Identification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS) program designed for studies of X-ray sources. In particular, eBOSS will measure with percent-level precision the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter. eBOSS will use four different tracers of the underlying matter density field to vastly expand the volume covered by BOSS and map the large-scale-structures over the relatively unconstrained redshift range 0.6 < z < 2.2. Using more than 250,000 new, spectroscopically confirmed luminous red galaxies at a median redshift z = 0.72, we project that eBOSS will yield measurements of the angular diameter distance dA(z) to an accuracy of 1.2% and measurements of H(z) to 2.1% when combined with the z > 0.6 sample of BOSS galaxies. With ∼195,000 new emission line galaxy redshifts, we expect BAO measurements of dA(z) to an accuracy of 3.1% and H(z) to 4.7% at an effective redshift of z = 0.87. A sample of more than 500,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars will provide the first BAO distance measurements over the redshift range 0.9 < z < 2.2, with expected precision of 2.8% and 4.2% on dA(z) and H(z), respectively. Finally, with 60,000 new quasars and re-observation of 60,000 BOSS quasars, we will obtain new Lyα forest measurements at redshifts z > 2.1; these new data will enhance the precision of dA(z) and H(z) at z > 2.1 by a factor of 1.44 relative to BOSS. Furthermore, eBOSS will provide improved tests of General Relativity on cosmological scales through redshift-space distortion measurements, improved tests for non-Gaussianity in the primordial density field, and new constraints on the summed mass of all neutrino species. Here, we provide an overview of the cosmological goals, spectroscopic target sample, demonstration of spectral quality from early data, and projected cosmological constraints from eBOSS, K.D. acknowledges support from the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant DE-SC000995. J.P.K. and T.D. acknowledge support from the ERC advanced grant LIDA. W.J.P. acknowledges support from the UK STFC through the consolidated grant ST/K0090X/1, and from the European Research Council through grant Darksurvey

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2016

23. Prospects for high-z cluster detections with Planck, based on a follow-up of 28 candidates using MegaCam at CFHT

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G. W. Pratt, Håkon Dahle, Etienne Pointecouteau, R. F. J. van der Burg, Marian Douspis, G. Hurier, S. Fromenteau, R. Barrena, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, A. Ferragamo, Jean-Baptiste Melin, Ricardo Herbonnet, Monique Arnaud, Alina Streblyanska, Herve Aussel, Nabila Aghanim, Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), and Planck

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Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Redshift, Galaxy, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], symbols.namesake, Contamination rate, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Cluster (physics), symbols, Halo, Planck, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Planck catalogue of SZ sources limits itself to a significance threshold of 4.5 to ensure a low contamination rate by false cluster candidates. This means that only the most massive clusters at redshift z>0.5, and in particular z>0.7, are expected to enter into the catalogue, with a large number of systems in that redshift regime being expected around and just below that threshold. In this paper, we follow-up a sample of SZ sources from the Planck SZ catalogues from 2013 and 2015. In the latter maps, we consider detections around and at lower significance than the threshold adopted by the Planck Collaboration. To keep the contamination rate low, our 28 candidates are chosen to have significant WISE detections, in combination with non-detections in SDSS/DSS, which effectively selects galaxy cluster candidates at redshifts $z\gtrsim0.5$. By taking r- and z-band imaging with MegaCam@CFHT, we bridge the 4000A rest-frame break over a significant redshift range, thus allowing accurate redshift estimates of red-sequence cluster galaxies up to z~0.8. After discussing the possibility that an overdensity of galaxies coincides -by chance- with a Planck SZ detection, we confirm that 16 of the candidates have likely optical counterparts to their SZ signals, 13 (6) of which have an estimated redshift z>0.5 (z>0.7). The richnesses of these systems are generally lower than expected given the halo masses estimated from the Planck maps. However, when we follow a simplistic model to correct for Eddington bias in the SZ halo mass proxy, the richnesses are consistent with a reference mass-richness relation established for clusters detected at higher significance. This illustrates the benefit of an optical follow-up, not only to obtain redshift estimates, but also to provide an independent mass proxy that is not based on the same data the clusters are detected with, and thus not subject to Eddington bias., 13 pages, 7 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A

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2016

24. Young Galaxy Candidates in the Hubble Frontier Fields - III. MACSJ0717.5+3745

Author

Franz E. Bauer, John Moustakas, Leopoldo Infante, P. Troncoso Iribarren, S. Garcia, Nicolas Laporte, W. Zheng, Ismael Perez-Fournon, D. Bina, Seock-Sam Kim, Adi Zitrin, Rui Marques-Chaves, Igor Chilingarian, Tom Broadhurst, Alberto Molino, Xinwen Shu, Alina Streblyanska, and Roser Pello

Subjects
Physics, Stellar mass, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, 01 natural sciences, Galaxy, Redshift, Luminosity, Abell 2744, Space and Planetary Science, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, Spectral energy distribution, 10. No inequality, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Luminosity function (astronomy)
Abstract

In this paper we present the results of our search for and study of $z \gtrsim 6$ galaxy candidates behind the third Frontier Fields (FF) cluster, MACSJ0717.5+3745, and its parallel field, combining data from Hubble and Spitzer. We select 39 candidates using the Lyman Break technique, for which the clear non-detection in optical make the extreme mid-$z$ interlopers hypothesis unlikely. We also take benefit from $z \gtrsim 6$ samples selected using previous Frontier Fields datasets of Abell 2744 and MACS0416 to improve the constraints on the properties of very high-redshift objects. We compute the redshift and the physical properties, such emission lines properties, star formation rate, reddening, and stellar mass for all Frontier Fields objects from their spectral energy distribution using templates including nebular emission lines. We study the relationship between several physical properties and confirm the trend already observed in previous surveys for evolution of star formation rate with galaxy mass, and between the size and the UV luminosity of our candidates. The analysis of the evolution of the UV Luminosity Function with redshift seems more compatible with an evolution of density. Moreover, no robust $z\ge$8.5 object is selected behind the cluster field, and few $z$$\sim$9 candidates have been selected in the two previous datasets from this legacy survey, suggesting a strong evolution in the number density of galaxies between $z$$\sim$8 and 9. Thanks to the use of the lensing cluster, we study the evolution of the star formation rate density produced by galaxies with L$>$0.03L$^{\star}$, and confirm the strong decrease observed between $z$$\sim$8 and 9., 21 pages - Accepted for publication in ApJ - v2: small corrections

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2016
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25. The SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey:quasar target selection

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Jeffrey A. Newman, Eran O. Ofek, Jeremy L. Tinker, Jo Bovy, Ian D. McGreer, Cameron K. McBride, Peter Nugent, Abhishek Prakash, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Donald P. Schneider, Alina Streblyanska, Dustin Lang, Adam A. Miller, Russ R. Laher, Jean-Paul Kneib, David Levitan, Zheng Cai, Pierre Laurent, Will J. Percival, Kyle S. Dawson, Branimir Sesar, Jason Surace, Graziano Rossi, Hee-Jong Seo, Joel R. Brownstein, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Isabelle Pâris, eBOSS, Johan Comparat, David J. Schlegel, Ashley J. Ross, Etienne Burtin, Patrick Petitjean, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Eric Armengaud, John J. Ruan, Adam D. Myers, Christophe Yèche, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] (UCHILE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Pittsburgh], University of Pittsburgh (PITT), Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE)-Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), 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, AVL List GmbH, Departamento de FisicaTeorica e IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)

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Astrophysics, Physical Chemistry, 01 natural sciences, Atomic, Spectral line, Particle and Plasma Physics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, media_common, Physics, Oscillation, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, observations [cosmology], astro-ph.CO, photometry [galaxies], galaxies: distances and redshifts, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.GA, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, quasars: general, 0103 physical sciences, data analysis [methods], Nuclear, Selection (genetic algorithm), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, STFC, general [quasars], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Física, Molecular, RCUK, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, methods: data analysis, Baryon, galaxies: photometry, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), cosmology: observations, distances and redshifts [galaxies], [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], catalogs
Abstract

The Astrophysical Journal 221.2 (2015): 27 reproduced by permission of the AAS, As part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) IV the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will improve measurements of the cosmological distance scale by applying the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) method to quasar samples. eBOSS will adopt two approaches to target quasars over 7500 deg2. First, a "CORE" quasar sample will combine the optical selection in ugriz using a likelihood-based routine called XDQSOz, with a mid-IR-optical color cut. eBOSS CORE selection (to g < 22 or r < 22) should return ∼70 deg-2 quasars at redshifts 0.9 < z < 2.2 and ∼7 deg-2z > 2.1 quasars. Second, a selection based on variability in multi-epoch imaging from the Palomar Transient Factory should recover an additional ∼3-4 deg-2z > 2.1 quasars to g < 22.5. A linear model of how imaging systematics affect target density recovers the angular distribution of eBOSS CORE quasars over 96.7% (76.7%) of the SDSS north (south) Galactic Cap area. The eBOSS CORE quasar sample should thus be sufficiently dense and homogeneous over 0.9 < z < 2.2 to yield the first few-percent-level BAO constraint near eBOSS quasars at z > 2.1 will be used to improve BAO measurements in the Lyα Forest. Beyond its key cosmological goals, eBOSS should be the next-generation quasar survey, comprising >500,000 new quasars and >500,000 uniformly selected spectroscopically confirmed 0.9 < z < 2.2 quasars. At the conclusion of eBOSS, the SDSS will have provided unique spectra for more than 800,000 quasars, We are grateful for insightful discussions about quasar selection statistics with Joe Hennawi, David Hogg, and Gordon Richards. A.D.M. acknowledges a generous research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the MaxPlanck-Institut für Astronomie and was supported in part by NASA-ADAP awards NNX12AI49G and NNX12AE38G and by NSF awards 1211112 and 1515404. J.P.K. acknowledges support from the ERC advanced grant LIDA. This paper includes targets derived from the images of the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the JetPropulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This paper represents an effort by both the SDSS-III and SDSS-IV collaborations. Funding for SDSS-III was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Funding for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Participating Institutions. SDSS-IV acknowledges support and resources from the Center for HighPerformance Computing at the University of Utah. The SDSS web site is www.sdss.org.

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2015

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

Author

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

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Dark matter, structure of Universe, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Power law, dark matter, Luminosity, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, quasars: general [galaxies], Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Redshift, observations [cosmology], Baryon, Correlation function (statistical mechanics), Space and Planetary Science, large-scale, astro-ph.CO, Halo, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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 < 22 Mpc/h. The sample covers 6950 deg^2 (~ 19 (Gpc/h)^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 b_Q = 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 x 10^12 ~ M_sun/h with an implied quasar duty cycle of ~1 percent. The real-space projected correlation function is well-fit by a power law of index -2 and correlation length r0 = (8.12 +/- 0.22), Mpc/h over scales of 4 < rp < 25 ~ Mpc/h. 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., 21 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Published
2015

27. ENVIRONMENT OF THE SUBMILLIMETER-BRIGHT MASSIVE STARBURST HFLS3 AT z similar to 6.34

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W. A. Osage, Alex Conley, Asantha Cooray, S. J. Oliver, D. L. Clements, Duncan Farrah, R. Gavazzi, Dominik Riechers, Denis Burgarella, J. J. Bock, J. A. Calanog, Brian Ma, C. Bridge, Hai Fu, C. M. Casey, Georgios E. Magdis, Rob Ivison, R. Marques-Chaves, B. Lo Faro, P. Martínez-Navajas, D. Rigopoulou, Douglas Scott, I. Perez-Fournon, Helmut Dannerbauer, A. Cabrera-Lavers, E. A. Gonzalez-Solares, Julie Wardlow, R. S. Bussmann, Nicolas Laporte, J. D. Vieira, Alina Streblyanska, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), 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 - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), AUTRES, California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Office national des forêts (ONF), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), IOA, University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), University of Colorado [Boulder], Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Department of Physics [Blacksburg], Virginia Tech [Blacksburg], Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Royal Observatory Edinburgh (ROE), University of Edinburgh, Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), 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), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Sussex, Department of Astronomy [Ithaca], Cornell University [New York], Department of Astronomy [Pasadena], Department of Physics [Oxford], University of Oxford, Space Science and Technology Department [Didcot] (RAL Space), STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)-Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-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)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Office National des Forêts (ONF), 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), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), 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), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), University of Oxford [Oxford], Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cornell University, Department of Physics, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and Science and Technology Facilities Council [2006-2012]

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Gran Telescopio Canarias, 0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural), FOS: Physical sciences, galaxies: starburst, Astrophysics, SPECTRAL ENERGY-DISTRIBUTIONS, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0305 Organic Chemistry, HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES, Luminosity, HFLS3, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, STAR-FORMING GALAXIES, galaxies: formation, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Photometric redshift, Luminosity function (astronomy), Physics, Science & Technology, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, UV LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS, DARK-MATTER MODEL, HUBBLE DEEP FIELD, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences, LYMAN-BREAK GALAXIES, Space and Planetary Science, ALL-SKY SURVEY, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Physical Sciences, galaxies: luminosity function, mass function, Spectral energy distribution, DWARF/L-DWARF BINARIES, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

We describe the search for Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) near the sub-millimeter bright starburst galaxy HFLS3 at $z$$=$6.34 and a study on the environment of this massive galaxy during the end of reionization.We performed two independent selections of LBGs on images obtained with the \textit{Gran Telescopio Canarias} (GTC) and the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) by combining non-detections in bands blueward of the Lyman-break and color selection. A total of 10 objects fulfilling the LBG selection criteria at $z$$>$5.5 were selected over the 4.54 and 55.5 arcmin$^2$ covered by our HST and GTC images, respectively. The photometric redshift, UV luminosity, and the star-formation rate of these sources were estimated with models of their spectral energy distribution. These $z$$\sim$6 candidates have physical properties and number densities in agreement with previous results. The UV luminosity function at $z$$\sim$6 and a Voronoi tessellation analysis of this field shows no strong evidence for an overdensity of relatively bright objects (m$_{F105W}$$, Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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2015

28. The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Author

Shadab Alam, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto, F. Anders, Scott F. Anderson, Timothy Anderton, Brett H. Andrews, Eric Armengaud, Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Sarbani Basu, Julian E. Bautista, Rachael L. Beaton, Timothy C. Beers, Chad F. Bender, Andreas A. Berlind, Florian Beutler, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Jonathan C. Bird, Dmitry Bizyaev, Cullen H. Blake, Michael R. Blanton, Michael Blomqvist, John J. Bochanski, Adam S. Bolton, Jo Bovy, A. Shelden Bradley, W. N. Brandt, D. E. Brauer, J. Brinkmann, Peter J. Brown, Joel R. Brownstein, Angela Burden, Etienne Burtin, Nicolás G. Busca, Zheng Cai, Diego Capozzi, Aurelio Carnero Rosell, Michael A. Carr, Ricardo Carrera, K. C. Chambers, William James Chaplin, Yen-Chi Chen, Cristina Chiappini, S. Drew Chojnowski, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Nicolas Clerc, Johan Comparat, Kevin Covey, Rupert A. C. Croft, Antonio J. Cuesta, Katia Cunha, Luiz N. da Costa, Nicola Da Rio, James R. A. Davenport, Kyle S. Dawson, Nathan De Lee, Timothée Delubac, Rohit Deshpande, Saurav Dhital, Letícia Dutra-Ferreira, Tom Dwelly, Anne Ealet, Garrett L. Ebelke, Edward M. Edmondson, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Tristan Ellsworth, Yvonne Elsworth, Courtney R. Epstein, Michael Eracleous, Stephanie Escoffier, Massimiliano Esposito, Michael L. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Emma Fernández-Alvar, Diane Feuillet, Nurten Filiz Ak, Hayley Finley, Alexis Finoguenov, Kevin Flaherty, Scott W. Fleming, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jonathan Foster, Peter M. Frinchaboy, J. G. Galbraith-Frew, Rafael A. García, D. A. García-Hernández, Ana E. García Pérez, Patrick Gaulme, Jian Ge, R. Génova-Santos, A. Georgakakis, Luan Ghezzi, Bruce A. Gillespie, Léo Girardi, Daniel Goddard, Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, Jonay I. González Hernández, Eva K. Grebel, Paul J. Green, Jan Niklas Grieb, Nolan Grieves, James E. Gunn, Hong Guo, Paul Harding, Sten Hasselquist, Suzanne L. Hawley, Michael Hayden, Fred R. Hearty, Saskia Hekker, Shirley Ho, David W. Hogg, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Jon A. Holtzman, Klaus Honscheid, Daniel Huber, Joseph Huehnerhoff, Inese I. Ivans, Linhua Jiang, Jennifer A. Johnson, Karen Kinemuchi, David Kirkby, Francisco Kitaura, Mark A. Klaene, Gillian R. Knapp, Jean-Paul Kneib, Xavier P. Koenig, Charles R. Lam, Ting-Wen Lan, Dustin Lang, Pierre Laurent, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Alexie Leauthaud, Khee-Gan Lee, Young Sun Lee, Timothy C. Licquia, Jian Liu, Daniel C. Long, Martín López-Corredoira, Diego Lorenzo-Oliveira, Sara Lucatello, Britt Lundgren, Robert H. Lupton, Claude E. Mack III, Suvrath Mahadevan, Marcio A. G. Maia, Steven R. Majewski, Elena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, A. Manchado, Marc Manera, Qingqing Mao, Claudia Maraston, Robert C. Marchwinski, Daniel Margala, Sarah L. Martell, Marie Martig, Karen L. Masters, Savita Mathur, Cameron K. McBride, Peregrine M. McGehee, Ian D. McGreer, Richard G. McMahon, Brice Ménard, Marie-Luise Menzel, Andrea Merloni, Szabolcs Mészáros, Adam A. Miller, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Hironao Miyatake, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Surhud More, Eric Morganson, Xan Morice-Atkinson, Heather L. Morrison, Benôit Mosser, Demitri Muna, Adam D. Myers, Kirpal Nandra, Jeffrey A. Newman, Mark Neyrinck, Duy Cuong Nguyen, Robert C. Nichol, David L. Nidever, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Sebastián E. Nuza, Julia E. O’Connell, Robert W. O’Connell, Ross O’Connell, Ricardo L. C. Ogando, Matthew D. Olmstead, Audrey E. Oravetz, Daniel J. Oravetz, Keisuke Osumi, Russell Owen, Deborah L. Padgett, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Martin Paegert, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Kaike Pan, John K. Parejko, Isabelle Pâris, Changbom Park, Petchara Pattarakijwanich, M. Pellejero-Ibanez, Joshua Pepper, Will J. Percival, Ismael Pérez-Fournon, Ignasi Pe´rez-Ra`fols, Patrick Petitjean, Matthew M. Pieri, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Gustavo F. Porto de Mello, Francisco Prada, Abhishek Prakash, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pavlos Protopapas, M. Jordan Raddick, Mubdi Rahman, Beth A. Reid, James Rich, Hans-Walter Rix, Annie C. Robin, Constance M. Rockosi, Thaíse S. Rodrigues, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres, Natalie A. Roe, Ashley J. Ross, Nicholas P. Ross, Graziano Rossi, John J. Ruan, J. A. Rubiño-Martín, Eli S. Rykoff, Salvador Salazar-Albornoz, Mara Salvato, Lado Samushia, Ariel G. Sánchez, Basílio Santiago, Conor Sayres, Ricardo P. Schiavon, David J. Schlegel, Sarah J. Schmidt, Donald P. Schneider, Mathias Schultheis, Axel D. Schwope, C. G. Scóccola, Caroline Scott, Kris Sellgren, Hee-Jong Seo, Aldo Serenelli, Neville Shane, Yue Shen, Matthew Shetrone, Yiping Shu, V. Silva Aguirre, Thirupathi Sivarani, M. F. Skrutskie, Anže Slosar, Verne V. Smith, Flávia Sobreira, Diogo Souto, Keivan G. Stassun, Matthias Steinmetz, Dennis Stello, Michael A. Strauss, Alina Streblyanska, Nao Suzuki, Molly E. C. Swanson, Jonathan C. Tan, Jamie Tayar, Ryan C. Terrien, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Daniel Thomas, Neil Thomas, Benjamin A. Thompson, Jeremy L. Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Nicholas W. Troup, Mariana Vargas-Magaña, Jose A. Vazquez, Licia Verde, Matteo Viel, Nicole P. Vogt, David A. Wake, Ji Wang, Benjamin A. Weaver, David H. Weinberg, Benjamin J. Weiner, Martin White, John C. Wilson, John P. Wisniewski, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Christophe Ye`che, Donald G. York, Nadia L. Zakamska, O. Zamora, Gail Zasowski, Idit Zehavi, Gong-Bo Zhao, Zheng Zheng, Xu Zhou (周旭), Zhimin Zhou (周志民), Hu Zou (邹虎), Guangtun Zhu, UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, 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), SDSS Collaboration, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, CHN, and Department of Physics

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10TH DATA RELEASE, OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY, purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https], SOLAR-LIKE STARS, QB Astronomy, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, QC, QB, media_common, Physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Celestial sphere, Composicao estelar, Exoplanet, Radial velocity, atlases, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR.GA]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.GA], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, MAIN-SEQUENCE STARS, FIXED-DELAY INTERFEROMETRY, Cosmology and Gravitation, astro-ph.SR, GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT, astro-ph.GA, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, catalogs, surveys, Movimento estelar, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, BROWN DWARF CANDIDATE, LOW-MASS STELLAR, ST/J500665/1, Galáxias, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Quasars, Spectrograph, STFC, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], RCUK, Astronomy, Física, DAS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, purl.org/becyt/ford/1.3 [https], 115 Astronomy, Space science, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Espectros estelares, Galaxy, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], 1ST DATA RELEASE, Stars, QC Physics, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Catalogos astronomicos, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], BARYON ACOUSTIC-OSCILLATIONS, astro-ph.IM
Abstract

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograph, and a novel optical interferometer. All the data from SDSS-III are now made public. In particular, this paper describes Data Release 11 (DR11) including all data acquired through 2013 July, and Data Release 12 (DR12) adding data acquired through 2014 July (including all data included in previous data releases), marking the end of SDSS-III observing. Relative to our previous public release (DR10), DR12 adds one million new spectra of galaxies and quasars from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) over an additional 3000 sq. deg of sky, more than triples the number of H-band spectra of stars as part of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), and includes repeated accurate radial velocity measurements of 5500 stars from the Multi-Object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS). The APOGEE outputs now include measured abundances of 15 different elements for each star. In total, SDSS-III added 2350 sq. deg of ugriz imaging; 155,520 spectra of 138,099 stars as part of the Sloan Exploration of Galactic Understanding and Evolution 2 (SEGUE-2) survey; 2,497,484 BOSS spectra of 1,372,737 galaxies, 294,512 quasars, and 247,216 stars over 9376 sq. deg; 618,080 APOGEE spectra of 156,593 stars; and 197,040 MARVELS spectra of 5,513 stars. Since its first light in 1998, SDSS has imaged over 1/3 of the Celestial sphere in five bands and obtained over five million astronomical spectra., Comment: DR12 data are available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr12. 30 pages. 11 figures. Accepted to ApJS

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2015

29. The SDSS-III BOSS quasar lens survey: discovery of thirteen gravitationally lensed quasars

Author

More, Anupreeta, Oguri, Masamune, Kayo, Issha, Zinn, Joel, Strauss, Michael A., Santiago, Basilio X., Mosquera, Ana M., Inada, Naohisa, Kochanek, Christopher S., Rusu, Cristian E., Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz N., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Maia, Marcio A. G., Quimby, Robert M., Schneider, Donald P., Streblyanska, Alina, and York, Donald G.

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report the discovery of 13 confirmed two-image quasar lenses from a systematic search for gravitationally lensed quasars in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We adopted a methodology similar to that used in the SDSS Quasar Lens Search (SQLS). In addition to the confirmed lenses, we report 11 quasar pairs with small angular separations ($\lesssim$2") confirmed from our spectroscopy, which are either projected pairs, physical binaries, or possibly quasar lens systems whose lens galaxies have not yet been detected. The newly discovered quasar lens system, SDSS J1452+4224 at zs$\approx$4.8 is one of the highest redshift multiply imaged quasars found to date. Furthermore, we have over 50 good lens candidates yet to be followed up. Owing to the heterogeneous selection of BOSS quasars, the lens sample presented here does not have a well-defined selection function., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 7 tables, MNRAS accepted

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2015
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30. Dust in the Reionization Era: ALMA Observations of a z = 8.38 Gravitationally Lensed Galaxy

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Nicolas Laporte, Richard S. Ellis, Ismael Perez-Fournon, D. Quénard, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Roser Pello, Frédéric Boone, Alina Streblyanska, Franz E. Bauer, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie ( IRAP ), Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ) -Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées ( OMP ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), and 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)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
submillimeter: galaxies, Stellar mass, [ PHYS.ASTR ] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, galaxies: high-redshift, 0103 physical sciences, galaxies: formation, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Reionization, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Photometric redshift, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atacama Large Millimeter Array, early universe, Galaxy, Redshift, Abell 2744, Space and Planetary Science, galaxies: star formation, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], galaxies: evolution
Abstract

International audience; We report on the detailed analysis of a gravitationally lensed Y-band dropout, A2744_YD4, selected from deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging in the Frontier Field cluster Abell 2744. Band 7 observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) indicate the proximate detection of a significant 1 mm continuum flux suggesting the presence of dust for a star-forming galaxy with a photometric redshift of $z\simeq 8$. Deep X-SHOOTER spectra confirms the high-redshift identity of A2744_YD4 via the detection of Lyα emission at a redshift z = 8.38. The association with the ALMA detection is confirmed by the presence of [O iii] 88 μm emission at the same redshift. Although both emission features are only significant at the 4σ level, we argue their joint detection and the positional coincidence with a high-redshift dropout in the Hubble Space Telescope images confirms the physical association. Analysis of the available photometric data and the modest gravitational magnification ($\mu \simeq 2$) indicates A2744_YD4 has a stellar mass of ∼2 × 10(9) ${M}_{\odot }$, a star formation rate of ∼20 ${M}_{\odot }$ yr(−)(1) and a dust mass of ∼6 × 10(6) ${M}_{\odot }$. We discuss the implications of the formation of such a dust mass only $\simeq 200\,\mathrm{Myr}$ after the onset of cosmic reionization.

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2017

31. Characterizing unknown systematics in large scale structure surveys

Author

Donald P. Schneider, Demitri Muna, Patrick Petitjean, Shirley Ho, Ashley J. Ross, Benjamin A. Weaver, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Christophe Yèche, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Nishant Agarwal, Adam D. Myers, Neta A. Bahcall, Alina Streblyanska, Hee-Jong Seo, Jonathan Brinkmann, and Isabelle Pâris

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Calibration (statistics), Estimation theory, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Spectral density, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, cosmological parameters from LSS, power spectrum, Galaxy, Redshift, Universe, Sky, galaxy surveys, redshift surveys, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, media_common
Abstract

Photometric large scale structure (LSS) surveys probe the largest volumes in the Universe, but are inevitably limited by systematic uncertainties. Imperfect photometric calibration leads to biases in our measurements of the density fields of LSS tracers such as galaxies and quasars, and as a result in cosmological parameter estimation. Earlier studies have proposed using cross-correlations between different redshift slices or cross-correlations between different surveys to reduce the effects of such systematics. In this paper we develop a method to characterize unknown systematics. We demonstrate that while we do not have sufficient information to correct for unknown systematics in the data, we can obtain an estimate of their magnitude. We define a parameter to estimate contamination from unknown systematics using cross-correlations between different redshift slices and propose discarding bins in the angular power spectrum that lie outside a certain contamination tolerance level. We show that this method improves estimates of the bias using simulated data and further apply it to photometric luminous red galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a case study., Comment: 24 pages, 6 figures; Expanded discussion of results, added figure 2; Version to be published in JCAP

Published
2014

32. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: tenth data release

Author

Jiang, Linhua, Yèche, Christophe, Finley, Hayley, York, Donald, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel, Ge, Jian, Simmons, Audrey, Viel, Matteo, Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Pieri, Matthew, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Malanushenko, Viktor, Bovy, Jo, Kinemuchi, Karen, Hamann, Fred, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Malanushenko, Elena, Cook, Benjamin, Schlegel, David, Pan, Kaike, Marchante, Moses, Riffel, Rogério, Schneider, Donald, Mcmahon, Richard, Oravetz, Daniel, Muna, Demitri, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Bailey, Stephen, Streblyanska, Alina, Borde, Arnaud, Weaver, Benjamin, Aubourg, Éric, Brandt, William, Petitjean, Patrick, Strauss, Michael, Hall, Patrick, Myers, Adam, Fan, Xiaohui, Perez-Fournon, Ismaël, Ak, Nurten, Pâris, Isabelle, Brinkmann, Jon, Ho, Shirley, Ross, Nicholas, Mcgreer, Ian, Brewington, Howard, Wood-Vasey, W., Ebelke, Garrett, Anderson, Scott, Filiz Ak, Nurten, Universidad de Chile = University of Chile [Santiago] (UCHILE), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), 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, ANR-08-BLAN-0222,BOSS,Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey(2008), ANR-12-BS05-0015,SDSS-III,Sloan Digital Sky Survey III(2012), Universidad Santiago de Chile, 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Observatoire de Paris, and 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)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, surveys, quasars: general, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomical And Space Sciences, Emission spectrum, Spectral resolution, Quasars, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Physics, general [quasars], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Quasar, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Photometry (astronomy), Fotometria astronômica, Catalogs, Quasars: general, Surveys, Boss, Sky, Space and Planetary Science, astro-ph.CO, Catalogos astronomicos, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], catalogs, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the Data Release 10 Quasar (DR10Q) catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. The catalog includes all BOSS objects that were targeted as quasar candidates during the first 2.5 years of the survey and that are confirmed as quasars via visual inspection of the spectra. The catalog also includes known quasars (mostly from SDSS-I and II) that were reobserved by BOSS. The catalog contains 166,583 quasars (74,454 are new discoveries since SDSS-DR9) detected over 6,373 deg$^{2}$ with robust identification and redshift measured by a combination of principal component eigenspectra. The number of quasars with $z>2.15$ (117,668) is $\sim$5 times greater than the number of $z>2.15$ quasars known prior to BOSS. Redshifts and FWHMs are provided for the strongest emission lines (CIV, CIII, MgII). The catalog identifies 16,461 broad absorption line quasars and gives their characteristics. For each object, the catalog presents five-band (u, g, r, i, z) CCD-based photometry with typical accuracy of 0.03 mag and information on the optical morphology and selection method. The catalog also contains X-ray, ultraviolet, near-infrared, and radio emission properties of the quasars, when available, from other large-area surveys. The calibrated digital spectra cover the wavelength region 3,600-10,500\AA\ at a spectral resolution in the range 1,300$, Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A. The catalog is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr10/algorithms/qso_catalog.php (Note that there is a slight delay for the website to appear online)

Published
2014

33. Frontier Fields : Combining HST, VLT and Spitzer data to explore the $z$$\sim$8 Universe behind the lensing cluster MACS0416$-$2403

Author

Laporte, N., Streblyanska, A., Kim, S., Pelló, R., Bauer, F. E., Bina, D., Brammer, G., De Leo, M. A., Infante, L., and Pérez-Fournon, I.

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

(Abridged) The HST Frontier Fields project started at the end of 2013 with the aim of providing extremely deep images of 6 massive galaxy clusters. One of the main goals of this program is to push several telescopes to their limits in order to provide the best current view of the earliest stages of the Universe. We present a detailed analysis of $z$$\sim$8 objects behind the HFFs lensing cluster, MACS0416-2403, combining 0.3-1.6 $\mu$m imaging from HST, ground-based $K_s$ imaging from VLT HAWK-I, and 3.6 $\mu$m and 4.5 $\mu$m Spitzer Space Telescope. We apply the classical Lyman Break technique, combining non-detection criteria and color-selection. In order to avoid contamination by mid-$z$ interlopers, we require a strong break between optical and near infrared data. The luminosity function at $z$$\sim$8 is computed using a MC method taking advantage of the SED-fitting results. A piece of cautionary information is gleaned from new deep optical photometry of a previously identified $z$$\sim$8 galaxy in this cluster, which is now firmly detected as a mid-$z$ interloper with a strong $\approx1.5$ mag Balmer break (between F606W and F125W). Using the SED of this interloper, we estimate the contamination rate of our MACS0416$-$2403 sample, as well as for previous samples in Abell 2744 based on HFF data. Our selection recovers 4 robust objects with m$_{F160W}$ ranging from 26.0 to 27.9 AB and located in modest amplification regions ($\mu, Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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2014
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34. Gravitational lens models based on Submillimeter Array Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.-selected strongly lensed sub-millimeter galaxies at z > 1.5

Author

Bussmann, R. S., Pérez fournon, I., Amber, S., Calanog, J., Gurwell, M. A., Dannerbauer, H., De Bernardis, F., Fu, H., Harris, A. I., Krips, M., Lapi, Andrea, Maiolino, R., Omont, A., Riechers, D., Wardlow, J., Baker, A. J., Birkinshaw, M., Bock, J., Bourne, N., Clements, D. L., Cooray, A., De Zotti, Gianfranco, Dunne, L., Dye, S., Eales, S., Farrah, D., Gavazzi, R., González Nuevo, J., Hopwood, R., Ibar, E., Ivison, R. J., Laporte, N., Maddox, S., Martínez navajas, P., Michalowski, M., Negrello, Mattia, Oliver, S. J., Roseboom, I. G., Scott, D., Serjeant, S., Smith, A. J., Smith, M., Streblyanska, A., Valiante, E., Van Der Werf, P., Verma, A., Vieira, J. D., Wang, L., and Wilner, D.

Subjects
astro-ph.GA, Molecular, galaxies: fundamental parameters, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, Physical Chemistry, halos [galaxies], galaxies: evolution, galaxies: high-redshift, Particle and Plasma Physics, Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, strong [gravitational lensing], astro-ph.CO, fundamental parameters [galaxies], Nuclear, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, evolution [galaxies], high-redshift [galaxies], Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract

Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in wide-field surveys at (sub-)millimeter wavelengths. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) high-spatial resolution imaging and Gemini-South and Multiple Mirror Telescope optical spectroscopy of strong lens candidates discovered in the two widest extragalactic surveys conducted by the Herschel Space Observatory: the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). From a sample of 30 Herschel sources with S 500 > 100 mJy, 21 are strongly lensed (i.e., multiply imaged), 4 are moderately lensed (i.e., singly imaged), and the remainder require additional data to determine their lensing status. We apply a visibility-plane lens modeling technique to the SMA data to recover information about the masses of the lenses as well as the intrinsic (i.e., unlensed) sizes (r half) and far-infrared luminosities (L FIR) of the lensed submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). The sample of lenses comprises primarily isolated massive galaxies, but includes some groups and clusters as well. Several of the lenses are located at z lens > 0.7, a redshift regime that is inaccessible to lens searches based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy. The lensed SMGs are amplified by factors that are significantly below statistical model predictions given the 500 μm flux densities of our sample. We speculate that this may reflect a deficiency in our understanding of the intrinsic sizes and luminosities of the brightest SMGs. The lensed SMGs span nearly one decade in L FIR (median L FIR = 7.9 × 10 12 L ) and two decades in FIR luminosity surface density (median ΣFIR = 6.0 × 1011 L kpc-2). The strong lenses in this sample and others identified via (sub-)mm surveys will provide a wealth of information regarding the astrophysics of galaxy formation and evolution over a wide range in redshift. © 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..

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2013

35. CROSS-CORRELATION OF SDSS DR7 QUASARS AND DR10 BOSS GALAXIES: THE WEAK LUMINOSITY DEPENDENCE OF QUASAR CLUSTERING AT z ∼ 0.5

Author

Shen, Y, McBride, CK, White, M, Zheng, Z, Myers, AD, Guo, H, Kirkpatrick, JA, Padmanabhan, N, Parejko, JK, Ross, NP, Schlegel, DJ, Schneider, DP, Streblyanska, A, Swanson, MEC, Zehavi, I, Pan, K, Bizyaev, D, Brewington, H, Ebelke, G, Malanushenko, V, Malanushenko, E, Oravetz, D, Simmons, A, and Snedden, S

Subjects
large-scale structure of universe, general [quasars], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, black hole physics, Molecular, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Physical Chemistry, Atomic, observations [cosmology], Particle and Plasma Physics, surveys, active [galaxies], astro-ph.CO, Nuclear, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract

We present the measurement of the two-point cross-correlation function (CCF) of 8198 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 quasars and 349,608 Data Release 10 CMASS galaxies from the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey at 0.3 < z < 0.9. The CCF can be reasonably well fit by a power-law model ξQG(r) = (r/r 0)-γ on projected scales of rp = 2-25 h -1 Mpc with r 0 = 6.61 ± 0.25 h -1 Mpc and γ = 1.69 ± 0.07. We estimate a quasar linear bias of bQ = 1.38 ± 0.10 at 〈z〉 = 0.53 from the CCF measurements, which corresponds to a characteristic host halo mass of ∼4 × 1012 h -1 M , compared with a ∼1013 h -1 M characteristic host halo mass for CMASS galaxies. Based on the clustering measurements, most quasars at are not the descendants of their higher luminosity counterparts at higher redshift, which would have evolved into more massive and more biased systems at low redshift. We divide the quasar sample in luminosity and constrain the luminosity dependence of quasar bias to be dbQ /dlog L = 0.20 ± 0.34 or 0.11 ± 0.32 (depending on different luminosity divisions) for quasar luminosities -23.5 > Mi (z = 2) > -25.5, implying a weak luminosity dependence of clustering for luminous quasars at . We compare our measurements with theoretical predictions, halo occupation distribution (HOD) models, and mock catalogs. These comparisons suggest that quasars reside in a broad range of host halos. The host halo mass distributions significantly overlap with each other for quasars at different luminosities, implying a poor correlation between halo mass and instantaneous quasar luminosity. We also find that the quasar HOD parameterization is largely degenerate such that different HODs can reproduce the CCF equally well, but with different satellite fractions and host halo mass distributions. These results highlight the limitations and ambiguities in modeling the distribution of quasars with the standard HOD approach. © 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..

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2013

36. X-ray spectral properties of active galactic nuclei in the Chandra Deep Field South

Author

G. Hasinger, WeiKang Zheng, Guido Risaliti, C. Norman, Jun Xian Wang, Jacqueline Bergeron, Paolo Tozzi, Alina Streblyanska, Mario Nonino, Piero Rosati, Stefano Borgani, G. P. Szokoly, Riccardo Giacconi, Vincenzo Mainieri, Roberto Gilli, Tozzi, P., Gilli, R., Mainieri, V., Norman, C., Risaliti, G., Rosati, P., Bergeron, J., Borgani, Stefano, Giacconi, R., Hasinger, G., Nonino, M., Streblyanska, A., Szokoly, G., Wang, J. X., and Zheng, W.

Subjects
galaxie [X-rays], Physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, diffuse background [X-rays], Power law, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, active [galaxies], Dispersion (optics), Log-normal distribution, Chandra Deep Field South, survey, Emission spectrum, Spectroscopy, Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, observation [cosmology]
Abstract

We present a detailed X-ray spectral analysis of the sources in the 1Ms catalog of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) taking advantage of optical spectroscopy and photometric redshifts for 321 sources. As a default spectral model, we adopt a power law with slope Gamma with an intrinsic redshifted absorption N_H, a fixed Galactic absorption and an unresolved Fe emission line. For 82 X-ray bright sources, we perform the X-ray spectral analysis leaving both Gamma and N_H free. The weighted mean value is ~ 1.75+-0.02, with an intrinsic dispersion of sigma~0.30. We do not find hints of a correlation between Gamma and the N_H. We detect the presence of a scattered component at soft energies in 8 sources, and a pure reflection spectrum, typical of Compton-thick AGN, in 14 sources (Compton-thick AGN candidates). The intrinsic N_H distribution shows a lognormal shape, peaking around log(N_H)~23.1 and with sigma~1.1. We find that the fraction of absorbed sources (with N_H>10^{22} cm^{-2}) in the sample is constant (at the level of about 75%) or moderately increasing with redshift. Finally, we compare the optical classification to the X-ray spectral properties, confirming that the correspondence of unabsorbed (absorbed) X-ray sources to optical Type I (Type II) AGN is accurate for at least 80% of the sources with spectral identification (1/3 of the total X-ray sample).

Published
2006

37. Broad absorption line quasars with redshifted troughs: high-velocity infall or rotationally dominated outflows?

Author

N. Filiz Ak, Isabelle Pâris, Elena Malanushenko, Alina Streblyanska, Donald P. Schneider, Benjamin A. Weaver, Nicholas P. Ross, Viktor Malanushenko, Daniel Oravetz, Patrick B. Hall, A. Simmons, Adam D. Myers, Alaina Shelden, D. V. Bizyaev, Éric Aubourg, R. R. Gibson, W. N. Brandt, Patrick Petitjean, J. Brinkmann, Scott F. Anderson, Yue Shen, Donald G. York, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Edinburgh, 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), Department of Geography, Department of geography, School of Biological Sciences, Institute of Environmental Sustainability-Swansea University, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Observatoire de Paris, and 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)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), High velocity, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Spectral line, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Rest frame, Redshift, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Schwarzschild radius, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We report the discovery in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of seventeen broad absorption line (BAL) quasars with high-ionization troughs that include absorption redshifted relative to the quasar rest frame. The redshifted troughs extend to velocities up to v=12,000 km/s and the trough widths exceed 3000 km/s in all but one case. Approximately 1 in 1000 BAL quasars with blueshifted C IV absorption also has redshifted C IV absorption; objects with C IV absorption present only at redshifted velocities are roughly four times rarer. In more than half of our objects, redshifted absorption is seen in C II or Al III as well as C IV, making low-ionization absorption at least ten times more common among BAL quasars with redshifted troughs than among standard BAL quasars. However, the C IV absorption equivalent widths in our objects are on average smaller than those of standard BAL quasars with low-ionization absorption. We consider several possible ways of generating redshifted absorption. The two most likely possibilities may be at work simultaneously, in the same objects or in different ones. Rotationally dominated outflows seen against a quasar's extended continuum source can produce redshifted and blueshifted absorption, but variability consistent with this scenario is seen in only one of the four objects with multiple spectra. The infall of relatively dense and low-ionization gas to radii as small as 400 Schwarzschild radii can in principle explain the observed range of trough profiles, but current models do not easily explain the origin and survival of such gas. Whatever the origin(s) of the absorbing gas in these objects, it must be located at small radii to explain its large redshifted velocities, and thus offers a novel probe of the inner regions of quasars., Comment: MNRAS in press. 40 pages, 17 figures (a few of reduced quality); for full-resolution figures see http://www.yorku.ca/phall/RESEARCH/rsub3-aas.pdf

Published
2013

38. THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY: THE QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION FROM DATA RELEASE NINE

Author

Xiaohui Fan, Scott F. Anderson, J. Brinkmann, Demitri Muna, Nicholas P. Ross, John D. Silverman, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Isabelle Paris, Ian D. McGreer, Audrey Simmons, Kevin Schawinski, Jo Bovy, Yue Shen, Tiziana Di Matteo, Donald G. York, Stephen Bailey, Dmitry Bizyaev, Nao Suzuki, Rachel Mandelbaum, Viktor Malanushenko, Gordon T. Richards, David H. Weinberg, Elena Malanushenko, Colin DeGraf, Howard Brewington, Molly E. C. Swanson, Éric Aubourg, Garrett Ebelke, Donald P. Schneider, Martin White, W. N. Brandt, Alina Streblyanska, Stephanie A. Snedden, Christophe Yèche, Daniel Oravetz, Patrick Petitjean, Adam D. Myers, Michael A. Strauss, David J. Schlegel, Kaike Pan, Claudia Maraston, Jian Ge, Institute for Astronomy [Edinburgh] (IfA), University of Edinburgh, Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, 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), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Centre de génétique et de physiologie moléculaire et cellulaire (CGPhiMC), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of cosmology and gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe [Tokyo] (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo Institutes for Advanced Study (UTIAS), The University of Tokyo (UTokyo)-The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), The University of Tokyo (UTokyo), 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), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)

Subjects
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, 01 natural sciences, Photometry (optics), Particle and Plasma Physics, surveys, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Density evolution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, luminosity function [galaxies], media_common, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], general [quasars], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, observations [cosmology], Redshift, Baryon, mass function, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, active [galaxies], astro-ph.CO, Halo, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Data release, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a new measurement of the optical Quasar Luminosity Function (QLF), using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III: Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (SDSS-III: BOSS). From the SDSS-III Data Release Nine (DR9), we select a uniform sample of 22,301 i, Comment: 28 pages, 19 figures, 9 tables. Submitted to The ApJ. All the necessary data and code used herein will be made publicly available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9/qlf

Published
2013

39. THE z = 5 QUASAR LUMINOSITY FUNCTION FROM SDSS STRIPE 82**Observations reported here were obtained at the MMT Observatory, a joint facility of the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Arizona. This paper also includes data gathered with the 6.5 m Magellan telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile

Author

McGreer, Ian D, Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T, Strauss, Michael A, Ross, Nicholas P, White, Martin, Shen, Yue, Schneider, Donald P, Myers, Adam D, Brandt, W Niel, DeGraf, Colin, Glikman, Eilat, Ge, Jian, and Streblyanska, Alina

Subjects
general [quasars], Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Molecular, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Atomic, Particle and Plasma Physics, astro-ph.CO, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Nuclear, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astronomical and Space Sciences, Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
Abstract

We present a measurement of the Type I quasar luminosity function at z = 5 using a large sample of spectroscopically confirmed quasars selected from optical imaging data. We measure the bright end (M 1450 < -26) with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data covering ∼6000 deg2, then extend to lower luminosities (M 1450 < -24) with newly discovered, faint z ∼ 5 quasars selected from 235 deg2 of deep, coadded imaging in the SDSS Stripe 82 region (the celestial equator in the Southern Galactic Cap). The faint sample includes 14 quasars with spectra obtained as ancillary science targets in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, and 59 quasars observed at the MMT and Magellan telescopes. We construct a well-defined sample of 4.7 < z < 5.1 quasars that is highly complete, with 73 spectroscopic identifications out of 92 candidates. Our color selection method is also highly efficient: of the 73 spectra obtained, 71 are high-redshift quasars. These observations reach below the break in the luminosity function (). The bright-end slope is steep (β ≲ -4), with a constraint of β < -3.1 at 95% confidence. The break luminosity appears to evolve strongly at high redshift, providing an explanation for the flattening of the bright-end slope reported previously. We find a factor of ∼2 greater decrease in the number density of luminous quasars (M 1450 < -26) from z = 5 to z = 6 than from z = 4 to z = 5, suggesting a more rapid decline in quasar activity at high redshift than found in previous surveys. Our model for the quasar luminosity function predicts that quasars generate ∼30% of the ionizing photons required to keep hydrogen in the universe ionized at z = 5. © 2013. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..

Published
2013

40. THE CLUSTERING OF GALAXIES IN THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY: LUMINOSITY AND COLOR DEPENDENCE AND REDSHIFT EVOLUTION

Author

Luiz N. da Costa, Lado Samushia, Dmitry Bizyaev, Elena Malanushenko, Ariel G. Sánchez, Graziano Rossi, Audrey Simmons, John K. Parejko, Kevin Bundy, David J. Schlegel, Idit Zehavi, Andreas A. Berlind, Neta A. Bahcall, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Jeremy L. Tinker, Martin White, Eyal A. Kazin, Ashley J. Ross, Yanmei Chen, Daniel Thomas, Michael R. Blanton, Nicholas P. Ross, Viktor Malanushenko, Alina Streblyanska, Sebastián E. Nuza, Shirley Ho, Will J. Percival, Garrett Ebelke, Zheng Zheng, Howard Brewington, David A. Wake, Molly E. C. Swanson, Cameron K. McBride, Hong Guo, Donald P. Schneider, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Ramin A. Skibba, Daniel Oravetz, Stephanie A. Snedden, David H. Weinberg, Rita Tojeiro, Claudia Maraston, Marc Manera, University of Utah, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech University [Lubbock] (TTU), McMaster University [Hamilton, Ontario], Institute of cosmology and gravitation, University of Portsmouth, Institut Lagrange de Paris, Sorbonne Université (SU), Institute for Astronomy [Edinburgh] (IfA), University of Edinburgh, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Berkeley] (LBNL), Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), Penn State System, New York University [New York] (NYU), NYU System (NYU), University of St Andrews [Scotland], College of William and Mary [Williamsburg] (WM), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers (IRFU), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), 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), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), 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), and University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Large-scale structure of Universe, media_common.quotation_subject, Dark matter, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Luminosity, statistics [Galaxies], theory [Cosmology], 0103 physical sciences, Galaxy formation and evolution, distances and redshifts [Galaxies], QB Astronomy, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, QB, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Redshift, Galaxy, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Halo, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], halos [Galaxies], Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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We measure the luminosity and color dependence and the redshift evolution of galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Ninth Data Release. We focus on the projected two-point correlation function (2PCF) of subsets of its CMASS sample, which includes about 260,000 galaxies over ~3,300 sq. deg in the redshift range 0.43, Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ. Matched to the accepted version

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2013

41. A dust-obscured massive maximum-starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34

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Riechers, Dominik A., Bradford, C. M., Clements, D. L., Dowell, C. D., Perez-Fournon, I., Ivison, R. J., Bridge, C., Conley, A., Fu, Hai, Vieira, J. D., Wardlow, J., Calanog, J., Cooray, A., Hurley, P., Neri, R., Kamenetzky, J., Aguirre, J. E., Altieri, B., Arumugam, V., Benford, D. J., Bethermin, M., Bock, J., Burgarella, D., Cabrera-Lavers, A., Chapman, S. C., Cox, P., Dunlop, J. S., Earle, L., Farrah, D., Ferrero, P., Franceschini, A., Gavazzi, R., Glenn, J., Solares, E. A. Gonzalez, Gurwell, M. A., Halpern, M., Hatziminaoglou, E., Hyde, A., Ibar, E., Kovacs, A., Krips, M., Lupu, R. E., Maloney, P. R., Martinez-Navajas, P., Murphy, E. J., Naylor, B. J., Nguyen, H. T., Oliver, S. J., Omont, A., Page, M. J., Petitpas, G., Rangwala, N., Roseboom, I. G., Scott, D., Smith, A. J., Staguhn, J. G., Streblyanska, A., Thomson, A. P., Valtchanov, I., Viero, M., Wang, L., Zemcov, M., Zmuidzinas, J., Matsuhara, Hideo, Computing and Mathematical Sciences [Pasadena]], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy [Boulder] (CASA), University of Colorado [Boulder], Department of Physics and Astronomy [Irvine], University of California [Irvine] (UC Irvine), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Department of Astronomy, Institut de RadioAstronomie Millimétrique (IRAM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Herschel Science Centre, Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Vancouver], University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Pathology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital [Gothenburg], University of California [Irvine] (UCI), University of California-University of California, European Space Agency (ESA), Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-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 des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), and Sahlgrenska University Hospital

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[PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Stellar mass, Milky Way, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0103 physical sciences, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Solar mass, Multidisciplinary, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Star formation, [SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Astronomy, Quasar, [PHYS.ASTR.SR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], Galaxy, Redshift, Interstellar medium, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

著者人数: 64名, Accepted: 2013-02-27, 資料番号: SA1004892000

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2013

42. Gravitational Lens Models Based on Submillimeter Array Imaging of Herschel-selected Strongly Lensed Sub-millimeter Galaxies at z>1.5

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Bussmann, R. S., Perez-Fournon, I., Amber, S., Calanog, J., Gurwell, M. A., Dannerbauer, H., De Bernardis, F., Fu, Hai, Harris, A. I., Krips, M., Lapi, A., Maiolino, R., Omont, A., Riechers, D., Wardlow, J., Baker, A. J., Birkinshaw, M., Bock, J., Bourne, N., Clements, D. L., Cooray, A., De Zotti, G., Dunne, L., Dye, S., Eales, S., Farrah, D., Gavazzi, R., Nuevo, J. Gonzalez, Hopwood, R., Ibar, E., Ivison, R. J., Laporte, N., Maddox, S., Martinez-Navajas, P., Michalowski, M., Negrello, M., Oliver, S. J., Roseboom, I. G., Scott, Douglas, Serjeant, S., Smith, A. J., Smith, Matthew, Streblyanska, A., Valiante, E., van der Werf, P., Verma, A., Vieira, J. D., Wang, L., and Wilner, D.

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

Strong gravitational lenses are now being routinely discovered in wide-field surveys at (sub)millimeter wavelengths. We present Submillimeter Array (SMA) high-spatial resolution imaging and Gemini-South and Multiple Mirror Telescope optical spectroscopy of strong lens candidates discovered in the two widest extragalactic surveys conducted by the Herschel Space Observatory: the Herschel-Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) and the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES). From a sample of 30 Herschel sources with S_500>100 mJy, 21 are strongly lensed (multiply imaged), 4 are moderately lensed (singly imaged), and the remainder require additional data to determine their lensing status. We apply a visibility-plane lens modeling technique to the SMA data to recover information about the masses of the lenses as well as the intrinsic (i.e., unlensed) sizes (r_half) and far-infrared luminosities (L_FIR) of the lensed submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). The sample of lenses comprises primarily isolated massive galaxies, but includes some groups and clusters as well. Several of the lenses are located at z_lens>0.7, a redshift regime that is inaccessible to lens searches based on Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopy. The lensed SMGs are amplified by factors that are significantly below statistical model predictions given the 500um flux densities of our sample. We speculate that this may reflect a deficiency in our understanding of the intrinsic sizes and luminosities of the brightest SMGs. The lensed SMGs span nearly one decade in L_FIR (median L_FIR=7.9x10^12 L_sun) and two decades in FIR luminosity surface density (median Sigma_FIR=6.0x10^11 L_sun kpc^-2). The strong lenses in this sample and others identified via (sub-)mm surveys will provide a wealth of information regarding the astrophysics of galaxy formation and evolution over a wide range in redshift., 28 pages, 7 tables, 9 figures. Accepted to ApJ; revised following minor comments from the referee and the community at large

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2013
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43. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey of SDSS-III

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Dan Long, Jean-Paul Kneib, Timothée Delubac, Ricardo Genova-Santos, Oliver Steele, Guinevere Kauffmann, Rupert A. C. Croft, Nicolás G. Busca, Will J. Percival, Marcio A. G. Maia, Tomer Tal, James Rich, Cullen H. Blake, Stephen A. Smee, Adam S. Bolton, Ashley J. Ross, Yiping Shu, Beatrice Jordan, Janine Pforr, Andreas A. Berlind, John K. Parejko, Kevin Bundy, Hayley Finley, Joel R. Brownstein, Johan Comparat, David J. Schlegel, Stephanie A. Snedden, Ian D. McGreer, Shirley Ho, D. Kirkby, Howard Brewington, Anže Slosar, James E. Gunn, Michael R. Blanton, Nao Suzuki, Christopher P. Ahn, Karen L. Masters, Fritz Stauffer, Licia Verde, Russell Owen, Jeremy L. Tinker, Jordi Miralda-Escudé, Anne Ealet, Éric Aubourg, M. Jordan Raddick, Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille, Benjamin A. Weaver, Francisco Prada, Mark A. Klaene, Claudia G. Scóccola, Michael A. Strauss, Alina Streblyanska, Kaike Pan, Arnaud Borde, Craig Loomis, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Natalia Connolly, Joe Huehnerhoff, Martin Makler, Daryl Haggard, Benjamin J. Weiner, Gong-Bo Zhao, Robert Pfaffenberger, A. Carnero, Martin White, Pasquier Noterdaeme, Antonio J. Cuesta, Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin, Stephen Bailey, Alessandra Beifiori, Patrick McDonald, Khee-Gan Lee, Jo Bovy, Nicholas P. Ross, Jean-Marc Le Goff, Francesco Montesano, Jon Brinkmann, Stephanie Escoffier, Matthew D. Olmstead, M. G. Watson, Natalie A. Roe, Michael A. Carr, Isabelle Pâris, Zheng Zheng, Rafael Rebolo, Gordon T. Richards, Hee-Jong Seo, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Britt Lundgren, Olga Mena, Yue Shen, Audrey Oravetz, Cameron K. McBride, Xiaohui Fan, Molly E. C. Swanson, Frances Cope, K. Honscheid, Graziano Rossi, Tracy Naugle, Matthew M. Pieri, David H. Weinberg, Robert H. Lupton, Viktor Malanushenko, Erin S. Sheldon, Michael Blomqvist, Donald P. Schneider, Luiz N. da Costa, Ben Harris, David W. Harris, Robert C. Nichol, Julian E. Bautista, James R. A. Davenport, Peter J. Brown, Saurav Dhital, Garrett Ebelke, Daniel Margala, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Hong Guo, Robert H. Barkhouser, N. Filiz Ak, Demitri Muna, Scott F. Anderson, Andrew A. West, Elena Malanushenko, Patrick B. Hall, Alaina Shelden, Yanmei Chen, M. Vargas Magaña, Ariel G. Sánchez, William Carithers, Lado Samushia, Dmitry Bizyaev, Kyle S. Dawson, Christy Tremonti, Conor Sayres, Sebastián E. Nuza, Roland de Putter, Diana Holder, Sarah J. Schmidt, Eyal A. Kazin, Richard G. McMahon, Wendell P. Jordan, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Idit Zehavi, Andreu Font-Ribera, W. N. Brandt, Jean-Christophe Hamilton, Christophe Yèche, Patrick Petitjean, Daniel Oravetz, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Antonio D. Montero-Dorta, Rita Tojeiro, David W. Hogg, Adam D. Myers, Daniel Thomas, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Matteo Viel, David A. Wake, Rachel Mandelbaum, Claudia Maraston, Constance M. Rockosi, Masayuki Tanaka, Marc Manera, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, APC - Cosmologie, AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), BOSS, 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), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-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)-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, and 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)

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Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, Observacions astronòmiques, 0103 physical sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, observations [Cosmology], 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Observations, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Physics, Cosmologia, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Angular diameter distance, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Lyman-alpha forest, Redshift, Galaxy, Cosmology, Baryon, Boss, Space and Planetary Science, Astronomia, Baryon acoustic oscillations, Astronomical observations, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
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 deg(2) to measure BAO to redshifts z < 0.7. Observations of neutral hydrogen in the Ly alpha 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 Ly alpha 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 d(A) 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 Ly alpha forest constraints predict a measurement of an overall dilation factor that scales the highly degenerate D-A(z) and H-1(z) parameters to an accuracy of 1.9% at z similar to 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, The successful installation, commissioning, and operation of the Pierre Auger Observatory would not have been possible without the strong commitment and effort fromthe technical and administrative staff in Malarg¨ue. The authors are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Comisi´on Nacional de Energ´ıa At´omica, Fundaci ´on Antorchas, Gobierno De La Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malarg¨ue, NDM Holdings and Valle Las Le˜nas, in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access,Argentina; theAustralian ResearchCouncil;Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient´ıfico e Tecnol´ogico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP), Minist´erio de Ciˆencia e Tecnologia (MCT), Brazil; AVCR AV0Z10100502 and AV0Z10100522, GAAV KJB100100904, MSMT-CR LA08016, LG11044, MEB111003, MSM0021620859, LA08015, and TACR TA01010517, Czech Republic; Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, CentreNational de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Conseil R´egional Ile-de- France, D´epartement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), D´epartement Sciences de l’Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-W¨urttemberg, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ministerium f¨ur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-W¨urttemberg, Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog´ıa (CONACYT), Mexico; Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), The Netherlands; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Grants no. N N202 200239 and N N202 2038, Poland; Fundacao para a Ciˆencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; Ministry for Higher Education, Science, and Technology, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia; Comunidad de Madrid, Consejer´ıa de Educaci´on de la Comunidad de Castilla La Mancha, FEDER funds, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovaci´on and Consolider- Ingenio 2010 (CPAN), Xunta de Galicia, Spain; Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; Department of Energy, Contract nos. DE-AC02-07CH11359 and DEFR02- 04ER41300, National Science Foundation, Grant no. 0450696, The Grainger Foundation, USA; NAFOSTED, Vietnam; ALFA-EC/HELEN and UNESCO.

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2013

44. HerMES: Candidate Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies and Lensing Statistics at Submillimeter Wavelengths

Author

E. Chapin, Antonio Cava, A. Strom, P. Martinez-Navajas, Andrew J. Baker, Asantha Cooray, G. Marsden, John M. Carpenter, B. O'Halloran, A. Conley, Bernhard Schulz, Simon Dye, V. Arumugam, M. J. Page, N. Z. Scoville, Matthew Joseph Griffin, David T. Frayer, Rob Ivison, R. Hopwood, Patrizia Ferrero, Alain Omont, Seb Oliver, Guilaine Lagache, Carrie Bridge, C. K. Xu, Alexandre Amblard, Herve Aussel, Andreas Papageorgiou, Christopher C. Frazer, C. D. Dowell, Douglas Scott, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Ismael Perez-Fournon, V. Buat, Anthony J. Smith, Alberto Franceschini, Pierre Cox, Scott Chapman, Mattia Vaccari, Lucia Marchetti, Lian-Tao Wang, Julie Wardlow, M. Negrello, Caitlin M. Casey, Markos Trichas, Pasquale Panuzzo, R. S. Bussmann, Joaquin Vieira, Dimitra Rigopoulou, Michael Rowan-Robinson, M. Symeonidis, Mark Gurwell, Alessandro Boselli, Andrew I. Harris, Jae Calanog, Matthieu Béthermin, Raphael Gavazzi, Ray Blundell, Nick Seymour, Jason Glenn, D. L. Shupe, A. Hyde, Dominik A. Riechers, Isaac Roseboom, C. P. Pearson, Lin Yan, Michael Pohlen, Pierre Chanial, N. Castro-Rodríguez, James J. Bock, Francesco De Bernardis, Denis Burgarella, Hai Fu, Edo Ibar, L. R. Levenson, Antonio Cabrera-Lavers, Michael Zemcov, Duncan Farrah, Hien Nguyen, David L. Clements, Stephen Anthony Eales, Roberto Neri, E. A. González Solares, Marco P. Viero, S. Kim, Alina Streblyanska, 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), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], 010308 nuclear & particles physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Magnification, Flux, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Statistical model, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Galaxy, Redshift, Wavelength, Gravitational lens, Space and Planetary Science, Primary (astronomy), Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA), 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a list of 13 candidate gravitationally lensed submillimeter galaxies (SMGs) from 95 square degrees of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, a surface density of 0.14\pm0.04deg^{-2}. The selected sources have 500um flux densities (S_500) greater than 100mJy. Gravitational lensing is confirmed by follow-up observations in 9 of the 13 systems (70%), and the lensing status of the four remaining sources is undetermined. We also present a supplementary sample of 29 (0.31\pm0.06deg^{-2}) gravitationally lensed SMG candidates with S_500=80--100mJy, which are expected to contain a higher fraction of interlopers than the primary candidates. The number counts of the candidate lensed galaxies are consistent with a simple statistical model of the lensing rate, which uses a foreground matter distribution, the intrinsic SMG number counts, and an assumed SMG redshift distribution. The model predicts that 32--74% of our S_500>100mJy candidates are strongly gravitationally lensed (mu>2), with the brightest sources being the most robust; this is consistent with the observational data. Our statistical model also predicts that, on average, lensed galaxies with S_500=100mJy are magnified by factors of ~9, with apparently brighter galaxies having progressively higher average magnification, due to the shape of the intrinsic number counts. 65% of the sources are expected to have intrinsic 500micron flux densities less than 30mJy. Thus, samples of strongly gravitationally lensed SMGs, such as those presented here, probe below the nominal Herschel detection limit at 500 micron. They are good targets for the detailed study of the physical conditions in distant dusty, star-forming galaxies, due to the lensing magnification, which can lead to spatial resolutions of ~0.01" in the source plane., ApJ in press. 31 pages, 16 figures, 5 tables. This version updated to match accepted version

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2013

45. The z=5 Quasar Luminosity Function from SDSS Stripe 82

Author

Xiaohui Fan, Linhua Jiang, Michael A. Strauss, Gordon T. Richards, W. Niel Brandt, Nicholas P. Ross, Yue Shen, Adam D. Myers, Colin DeGraf, Jian Ge, Donald P. Schneider, Eilat Glikman, Martin White, Alina Streblyanska, and Ian D. McGreer

Subjects
Physics, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), media_common.quotation_subject, Celestial equator, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Spectral line, Redshift, Luminosity, Baryon, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, Luminosity function (astronomy), Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present a measurement of the Type I quasar luminosity function at z=5 using a large sample of spectroscopically confirmed quasars selected from optical imaging data. We measure the bright end (M_1450, Comment: 29 pages, 22 figures, ApJ accepted (updated to published version)

Published
2012

46. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Author

Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto, Scott F. Anderson, Timothy Anderton, Brett H. Andrews, Éric Aubourg, Stephen Bailey, Eduardo Balbinot, 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 Femenía 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, Hong Guo, 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, Željko 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, Claude E. Mack, 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, Sebastián E. Nuza, 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-Ràfols, 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, Graziano Rossi, 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, Mathias Schultheis, Axel D. Schwope, C. G. Scóccola, Uros Seljak, Erin Sheldon, Yue Shen, Yiping Shu, Jennifer Simmerer, Audrey E. Simmons, Ramin A. Skibba, M. F. Skrutskie, A. Slosar, Flavia Sobreira, Jennifer S. Sobeck, Keivan G. Stassun, Oliver Steele, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A. Strauss, Alina Streblyanska, Nao Suzuki, 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, APC - Cosmologie, Physique Corpusculaire et Cosmologie - Collège de France (PCC), Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), 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)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU), BOSS, Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), 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), Elon University [NC, USA], Department of Astronomy [Seattle], University of Washington [Seattle], The University of Notre Dame [Sydney], Apache point observatory, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP) (DPhP), 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, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Univers, Transport, Interfaces, Nanostructures, Atmosphère et environnement, Molécules (UMR 6213) (UTINAM), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Unité Scientifique de la Station de Nançay (USN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Orléans (UO), Universitat de Barcelona, Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers en région Centre (OSUC), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université d'Orléans (UO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
[SDU.ASTR.CO]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Atles, Astrophysics, Surveys, 01 natural sciences, Astronomical spectroscopy, Via láctea, Observatory, Observacions astronòmiques, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, media_common, Mapeamentos astronômicos, Physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Atlases, Astrometry, Cosmology, atlases, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astronomical observations, Cosmology and Gravitation, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], media_common.quotation_subject, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, catalogs, surveys, Formacao de galaxias, [PHYS.ASTR.CO]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Cosmology and Extra-Galactic Astrophysics [astro-ph.CO], Settore FIS/05 - Astronomia e Astrofisica, 0103 physical sciences, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Spectrograph, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Cosmologia, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Espectroscòpia, Galaxy, Spectrum analysis, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Stars, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Catalogs, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z=0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z=2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T_eff-0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SDSS-III Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration-2 (SEGUE-2). The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in December 2014., 9 figures; 2 tables. Submitted to ApJS. DR9 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9

Published
2012

47. Cross-Correlation of SDSS DR7 Quasars and DR10 BOSS Galaxies: The Weak Luminosity Dependence of Quasar Clustering at z~0.5

Author

Molly E. C. Swanson, Howard Brewington, John K. Parejko, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Alina Streblyanska, Martin White, Kaike Pan, Stephanie A. Snedden, Zheng Zheng, Viktor Malanushenko, Garrett Ebelke, Idit Zehavi, Cameron K. McBride, Nicholas P. Ross, Hong Guo, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Daniel Oravetz, Adam D. Myers, Yue Shen, Elena Malanushenko, Jessica A. Kirkpatrick, Dmitry Bizyaev, and Audrey Simmons

Subjects
Physics, education.field_of_study, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Dark matter, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, Halo occupation distribution, Redshift, Galaxy, Luminosity, Space and Planetary Science, 0103 physical sciences, Halo, education, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We present the measurement of the two-point cross-correlation function (CCF) of 8,198 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) quasars and 349,608 DR10 CMASS galaxies from the Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) at redshift ~0.5 (0.3=0.53 from the CCF measurements. This linear bias corresponds to a characteristic host halo mass of ~4x10^12 M_sun/h, compared to ~10^13 M_sun/h characteristic host halo mass for CMASS galaxies. We divide the quasar sample in luminosity and constrain the luminosity dependence of quasar bias to be db_Q/dlogL=0.20+-0.34 or 0.11+-0.32 (depending on different luminosity divisions) for quasar luminosities -23.5>M_i(z=2)>-25.5, implying a weak luminosity dependence of quasar clustering for the bright end of the quasar population at ~0.5. We compare our measurements with theoretical predictions, Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) models and mock catalogs. These comparisons suggest quasars reside in a broad range of host halos, and the host halo mass distributions significantly overlap with each other for quasars at different luminosities, implying a poor correlation between halo mass and instantaneous quasar luminosity. We also find that the quasar HOD parameterization is largely degenerate such that different HODs can reproduce the CCF equally well, but with different outcomes such as the satellite fraction and host halo mass distribution. These results highlight the limitations and ambiguities in modeling the distribution of quasars with the standard HOD approach and the need for additional information in populating quasars in dark matter halos with HOD. [Abridged], Comment: 20 emulateapj pages; submitted to ApJ

Published
2012
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48. Most hard-X-ray-selected quasars in the Chandra Deep Fields are obscured

Author

Riccardo Giacconi, Roberto Gilli, L. J. Kewley, Jun Xian Wang, Peng Jiang, Piero Rosati, G. P. Szokoly, Paolo Tozzi, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Mario Nonino, Vincenzo Mainieri, WeiKang Zheng, C. Norman, Andrew Zirm, G. Hasinger, and Alina Streblyanska

Subjects
Physics, education.field_of_study, Active galactic nucleus, Hubble Deep Field, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Population, Large population, X-ray, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Quasar, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Redshift, Space and Planetary Science, Chandra Deep Field South, education, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

Measuring the population of obscured quasars is one of the key issues to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). With a redshift completeness of 99%, the X-ray sources detected in Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) provide the best sample for this issue. In this letter we study the population of obscured quasars in CDF-S by choosing the 4 -- 7 keV selected sample, which is less biased by the intrinsic X-ray absorption. The 4 -- 7 keV band selected samples also filter out most of the X-ray faint sources with too few counts, for which the measurements of N_H and L_X have very large uncertainties. Simply adopting the best-fit L_2-10keV and N_H, we find 71% (20 out of 28) of the quasars (with intrinsic L_2-10keV > 10^44 erg/s) are obscured with N_H > 10^22 cm^-2. Taking account of the uncertainties in the measurements of both N_H and L_X, conservative lower and upper limits of the fraction are 54% (13 out 24) and 84% (31 out 37). In Chandra Deep Field North, the number is 29%, however, this is mainly due to the redshift incompleteness. We estimate a fraction of ~ 50% - 63% after correcting the redshift incompleteness with a straightforward approach. Our results robustly confirm the existence of a large population of obscured quasars.

Published
2007

49. Frontier Fields: Combining HST, VLT, andSpitzerdata to explore thez~ 8 Universe behind the lensing cluster MACSJ0416.1−2403

Author

D. Bina, Franz E. Bauer, M. A. De Leo, Roser Pello, Gabriel B. Brammer, Leopoldo Infante, Nicolas Laporte, Ismael Perez-Fournon, Alina Streblyanska, and Seock-Sam Kim

Subjects
Physics, Balmer series, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Galaxy, Luminosity, symbols.namesake, Spitzer Space Telescope, Abell 2744, Space and Planetary Science, symbols, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Spectral energy distribution, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, Galaxy cluster, Luminosity function (astronomy)
Abstract

Context. The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Frontier Fields (HFFs) project started at the end of 2013 with the aim of providing extremely deep images of six massive galaxy clusters. One of the main goals of this program is to push several telescopes to their limits to provide the best current view of the earliest stages of the Universe. The analysis of the initial data has already demonstrated the huge capabilities of the program.Aims. We present a detailed analysis of z ~ 8 objects behind the HFFs lensing cluster, MACSJ0416.1-2403, combining 0.3−1.6 μ m imaging from HST, ground-based K s imaging from VLT HAWK-I, and 3.6 μ m and 4.5 μ m Spitzer Space Telescope. The images probe to 5σ depths of ≈29 AB for HST, 25.6 AB for HAWK-I, and ≈0.310 and 0.391 μ Jy at 3.6 and 4.5 μ m, respectively. With these datasets, we assess the photometric properties of z ~ 8 galaxies in this field, as well as their distribution in luminosity, to unprecedented sensitivity.Methods. We applied the classical Lyman break (LB) technique, which combines non detection criteria in bands blueward of the Lyman break at z ~ 8 and color-selection in bands redward of the break. To avoid contamination by mid-z interlopers, we required a strong break between optical and near-infrared data. We determined the photometric properties of z ~ 8 selected candidates using spectral energy distribution (SED)-fitting with standard library templates. The luminosity function at z ~ 8 is computed using a Monte-Carlo method taking advantage of the SED-fitting results. A piece of cautionary information is gleaned from new deep optical photometry of a previously identified z ~ 8 galaxy in this cluster, which is now firmly detected as a mid-z interloper with a strong ≈1.5 mag Balmer break (between F606W and F125W ). Using the SED of this interloper, we estimated the contamination rate of our MACSJ0416.1−2403 sample, and that of previous samples in Abell 2744 that were based on HFF data, we highlight the dangers of pushing the LB technique too close to the photometry limits.Results. Our selection reliably recovers four objects with m F 160 W ranging from 26.0 to 27.9 AB that are located in modest-amplification regions (μ m and 4.5 μ m bands, which could be associated to the Balmer break or emission lines at z ~ 8. The SED-fitting analysis suggests that all of these objects favor high-z solutions with no reliable secondary solutions. The candidates generally have star formation rates around ~10 M ⊙ /yr and sizes ranging from 0.2 to 0.5 kpc, which agrees well with previous observations and expectations for objects in the early Universe. The sample size and luminosity distribution are consistent with previous findings.

Published
2015

50. Most hard X-ray selected quasars in Chandra Deep Fields are obscured

Author

Wang, J. X., Jiang, P., Zheng, Z. Y., Tozzi, P., Norman, C., Giacconi, R., Gilli, R., Hasinger, G., Kewley, L., Mainieri, V., Nonino, M., Rosati, P., Streblyanska, A., Szokoly, G., Zirm, A., and Zheng, W.

Subjects
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

Measuring the population of obscured quasars is one of the key issues to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). With a redshift completeness of 99%, the X-ray sources detected in Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S) provide the best sample for this issue. In this letter we study the population of obscured quasars in CDF-S by choosing the 4 -- 7 keV selected sample, which is less biased by the intrinsic X-ray absorption. The 4 -- 7 keV band selected samples also filter out most of the X-ray faint sources with too few counts, for which the measurements of N_H and L_X have very large uncertainties. Simply adopting the best-fit L_2-10keV and N_H, we find 71% (20 out of 28) of the quasars (with intrinsic L_2-10keV > 10^44 erg/s) are obscured with N_H > 10^22 cm^-2. Taking account of the uncertainties in the measurements of both N_H and L_X, conservative lower and upper limits of the fraction are 54% (13 out 24) and 84% (31 out 37). In Chandra Deep Field North, the number is 29%, however, this is mainly due to the redshift incompleteness. We estimate a fraction of ~ 50% - 63% after correcting the redshift incompleteness with a straightforward approach. Our results robustly confirm the existence of a large population of obscured quasars., 18 pages, including 6 figures and 1 table, ApJ accepted (submitted on Apr. 10)

Published
2006

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