TY - JOUR
T1 - SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 12
T2 - Galaxy target selection and large-scale structure catalogues
AU - Reid, Beth
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Padmanabhan, Nikhil
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Tinker, Jeremy
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - White, Martin
AU - Eisenstein, Daniel J.
AU - Maraston, Claudia
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Sánchez, Ariel G.
AU - Schlegel, David
AU - Sheldon, Erin
AU - Strauss, Michael A.
AU - Thomas, Daniel
AU - Wake, David
AU - Beutler, Florian
AU - Bizyaev, Dmitry
AU - Bolton, Adam S.
AU - Brownstein, Joel R.
AU - Chuang, Chia Hsun
AU - Dawson, Kyle
AU - Harding, Paul
AU - Kitaura, Francisco Shu
AU - Leauthaud, Alexie
AU - Masters, Karen
AU - McBride, Cameron K.
AU - More, Surhud
AU - Olmstead, Matthew D.
AU - Oravetz, Daniel
AU - Nuza, Sebastián E.
AU - Pan, Kaike
AU - Parejko, John
AU - Pforr, Janine
AU - Prada, Francisco
AU - Rodríguez-Torres, Sergio
AU - Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador
AU - Samushia, Lado
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Scóccola, Claudia G.
AU - Simmons, Audrey
AU - Vargas-Magana, Mariana
N1 - Funding Information:
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. We thank Eli Rykoff for providing the Bright Objects Mask described in Section 5.1.1. The author order reflects the following: BR led the development of the MKSAMPLE software package. She is followed in the author list by two alphabetical lists of scientists who provided major contributions to galaxy targeting and/or catalogue creation. Out of these, WJP is corresponding author as he took-over the creation of this paper when BR left the field of astronomy. This list is followed by an alphabetical list of scientists who provided moderate contributions to these topics, and who contributed to the BOSS project as a whole.
Funding Information:
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/.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2016/1/11
Y1 - 2016/1/11
N2 - The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy redshifts available to date, in terms of both the number of galaxy redshifts measured by a single survey, and the effective cosmological volume covered. Key to analysing the clustering of these data to provide cosmological measurements is understanding the detailed properties of this sample. Potential issues include variations in the target catalogue caused by changes either in the targeting algorithm or properties of the data used, the pattern of spectroscopic observations, the spatial distribution of targets for which redshifts were not obtained, and variations in the target sky density due to observational systematics. We document here the target selection algorithms used to create the galaxy samples that comprise BOSS. We also present the algorithms used to create large-scale structure catalogues for the final Data Release (DR12) samples and the associated random catalogues that quantify the survey mask. The algorithms are an evolution of those used by the BOSS team to construct catalogues from earlier data, and have been designed to accurately quantify the galaxy sample. The code used, designated MKSAMPLE, is released with this paper.
AB - The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) III project, has provided the largest survey of galaxy redshifts available to date, in terms of both the number of galaxy redshifts measured by a single survey, and the effective cosmological volume covered. Key to analysing the clustering of these data to provide cosmological measurements is understanding the detailed properties of this sample. Potential issues include variations in the target catalogue caused by changes either in the targeting algorithm or properties of the data used, the pattern of spectroscopic observations, the spatial distribution of targets for which redshifts were not obtained, and variations in the target sky density due to observational systematics. We document here the target selection algorithms used to create the galaxy samples that comprise BOSS. We also present the algorithms used to create large-scale structure catalogues for the final Data Release (DR12) samples and the associated random catalogues that quantify the survey mask. The algorithms are an evolution of those used by the BOSS team to construct catalogues from earlier data, and have been designed to accurately quantify the galaxy sample. The code used, designated MKSAMPLE, is released with this paper.
KW - Cosmology
KW - Observations - (cosmology:) large-scale structure of Universe
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stv2382
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stv2382
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981216597
SN - 0035-8711
VL - 455
SP - 1553
EP - 1573
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
IS - 2
ER -