SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS
Harvard College Observatory · The Ohio State University · +82 more institutions
Abstract
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 history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS DR8 (which occurred in Jan 2011). This paper presents an overview of the four SDSS-III surveys. BOSS will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lya forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the BAO feature of large scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and…
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Authors
244- DJDaniel J. EisensteinCorresponding
Harvard College Observatory
- DHDavid H. Weinberg
The Ohio State University
- EAEric Agol
University of Washington
- HAH. Aihara
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo
- CACarlos Allende Prieto
Universidad de La Laguna, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Topics & keywords
- Physics
- Astrophysics
- Astronomy
- Milky Way
- Galaxy
- LAMOST
- Dark energy
- Exoplanet
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