ERRATUM: “THE EIGHTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST DATA FROM SDSS-III” (2011, ApJS, 193, 29)
- SDSS-III collaboration Hiroaki Aihara, C. Prieto, I. Zehavi
- Geology
- 8 January 2011
Section 3.5 of Aihara et al. (2011) described various sources of systematic error in the astrometry of the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In addition to these sources of error,…
SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS
- D. Eisenstein, D. Weinberg, Bo Zhao
- Physics
- 1 December 2007
Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the…
NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR-TO-DARK MATTER CONNECTION: A COMBINED ANALYSIS OF GALAXY–GALAXY LENSING, CLUSTERING, AND STELLAR MASS FUNCTIONS FROM z = 0.2 to z = 1
- A. Leauthaud, J. Tinker, James E. Taylor
- Physics
- 5 April 2011
Using data from the COSMOS survey, we perform the first joint analysis of galaxy–galaxy weak lensing, galaxy spatial clustering, and galaxy number densities. Carefully accounting for sample variance…
Dynamical dark energy or simply cosmic curvature?
- C. Clarkson, M. Cortês, B. Bassett
- Physics
- 26 February 2007
We show that the assumption of a flat universe induces critically large errors in reconstructing the dark energy equation of state at even if the true cosmic curvature is very small, or less. The…
THE EIGHTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST DATA FROM SDSS-III
- Hiroaki Aihara, C. Allende Prieto, I. Zehavi
- Physics
- 2011
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon…
The Lyman-α forest in three dimensions: measurements of large scale flux correlations from BOSS 1st-year data
- A. Slosar, A. Font-Ribera, D. York
- Physics
- 27 April 2011
Using a sample of approximately 14,000 z > 2.1 quasars observed in the first year of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), we measure the three-dimensional correlation function of…
The BigBoss Experiment
- D. Schlegel, F. Abdalla, P. Zhang
- Physics
- 9 June 2011
BigBOSS is a Stage IV ground-based dark energy experiment to study baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the growth of structure with a wide-area galaxy and quasar redshift survey over 14,000 square…
Quantum energetic causal sets
We propose an approach to quantum theory based on the energetic causal sets, introduced in [1]. Fundamental processes are causal sets whose events carry momentum and energy, which are transmitted…
On what scale should inflationary observables be constrained
- M. Cortês, A. Liddle, P. Mukherjee
- Mathematics
- 6 February 2007
We examine the choice of scale at which constraints on inflationary observables are presented. We describe an implementation of the hierarchy of inflationary consistency equations which ensures that…
Cosmic microwave background anomalies in an open universe.
It is argued that the observed large-scale cosmic microwave anomalies, discovered by WMAP and confirmed by the Planck satellite, are most naturally explained in the context of a marginally open universe, and a specific implementation of the scenario which appears compatible with all existing constraints is provided.
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