Group Meeting Papers

References

• Eisenstein et al., 2011
  SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and extrasolar Planetary Systems
  http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2011AJ....142...72E
  Overview of SDSS-III: MARVELS, APOGEE, SEGUE-2, BOSS; technical details; target selection & definition of LOZ and CMASS sample cuts;


• Anderson et al., 2012
  The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Data Release 9 Spectroscopic Galaxy Sample
  http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2012arXiv1203.6594A
  LOZ and CMASS sample selection; CMASS catalog creation; BAO analysis; power spectrum; cosmological constraints;


• Ross et al., 2012
  The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: analysis of potential systematics
  http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2012MNRAS.424..564R
  companion paper to Anderson et al.; detailed analysis of sources of systematic uncertainties on clustering measurement; mocks;


• Tojeiro et al., 2012
  The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: measuring structure growth using passive galaxies
  http://esoads.eso.org/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21404.x
  merger rates, luminosity growth rates, evolution of clustering; effect of different stellar population models (Conroy+09, Maraston+11);


• Masters et al., 2012
  The morphology of galaxies in the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
  http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2011MNRAS.418.1055M
  morphology of BOSS galaxies;


• Shu et al., 2012
  Evolution of the Velocity-dispersion Function of Luminous Red Galaxies: A Hierarchical Bayesian Measurement
  http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2012AJ....143...90S
  LOZ and CMASS sample selection; velocity dispersions of LRGs;

• Sanchez et al., 2012
  The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: cosmological implications of the large-scale two-point correlation function
  http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2012arXiv1203.6616S
  Fits to the full shape of the correlation function


• Manera et al., 2012
  The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: a large sample of mock galaxy catalogues
  http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2012arXiv1203.6609M
  600 PTHalo mocks