TY - JOUR
T1 - The SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
T2 - Baryon Acoustic Oscillations at Redshift of 0.72 with the DR14 Luminous Red Galaxy Sample
AU - Bautista, Julian E.
AU - Vargas-Magaña, Mariana
AU - Dawson, Kyle S.
AU - Percival, Will J.
AU - Brinkmann, Jonathan
AU - Brownstein, Joel
AU - Camacho, Benjamin
AU - Comparat, Johan
AU - Gil-Marín, Hector
AU - Mueller, Eva Maria
AU - Newman, Jeffrey A.
AU - Prakash, Abhishek
AU - Ross, Ashley J.
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Seo, Hee Jong
AU - Tinker, Jeremy
AU - Tojeiro, Rita
AU - Zhai, Zhongxu
AU - Zhao, Gong Bo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/8/10
Y1 - 2018/8/10
N2 - The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 luminous red galaxies (LRGs). By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail of the BOSS galaxy sample, we form a sample of LRGs at an effective redshift z = 0.72, covering an effective volume of 0.9 Gpc3. We account for spurious fluctuations caused by targeting and by redshift failures, which were validated on a set of mock catalogs. This analysis is sufficient to provide a 2.5% measurement of spherically averaged baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), Mpc, at 2.8σ of significance. Together with the recent quasar-based BAO measurement at z = 1.5 and forthcoming emission line galaxy-based measurements, this measurement demonstrates that eBOSS is fulfilling its remit of extending the range of redshifts covered by such measurements, laying the groundwork for forthcoming surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey and Euclid.
AB - The extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) Data Release 14 sample includes 80,118 luminous red galaxies (LRGs). By combining these galaxies with the high-redshift tail of the BOSS galaxy sample, we form a sample of LRGs at an effective redshift z = 0.72, covering an effective volume of 0.9 Gpc3. We account for spurious fluctuations caused by targeting and by redshift failures, which were validated on a set of mock catalogs. This analysis is sufficient to provide a 2.5% measurement of spherically averaged baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), Mpc, at 2.8σ of significance. Together with the recent quasar-based BAO measurement at z = 1.5 and forthcoming emission line galaxy-based measurements, this measurement demonstrates that eBOSS is fulfilling its remit of extending the range of redshifts covered by such measurements, laying the groundwork for forthcoming surveys such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Survey and Euclid.
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U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/aacea5
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/aacea5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051533428
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 863
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - 110
ER -