The Lyman-α forest in three dimensions: Measurements of large scale UX correlations from BOSS 1st-year data

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Slosar, Aňze ^a   Font Ribera, Andreu ^b   Pieri, Matthew M ^c,d   Rich, James ^e   Le Goff, Jean Marc ^e   Aubourg, Eric ^e,f   Brinkmann, Jon ^g   Busca, Nicolas ^f   Carithers, Bill ^h   Charlassier, Romain ^e   Cor̂es, Marina ^h   Croft, Rupert ⁱ   Dawson, Kyle S ^j   Eisenstein, Daniel ^k   Hamilton, Jean Christophe ^f   Ho, Shirley ^h   Lee, Khee Gan ^l   Lupton, Robert ^l   McDonald, Patrick ^a,h   Medolin, Bumbarija ^m   Muna, Demitri ⁿ   Miralda Escudé, Jordi ^o,p   Myers, Adam D ^q,r   Nichol, Robert C ^s   Palanque Delabrouille, Nathalie ^e   Pris, Isabelle ^t   Petitjean, Patrick ^t   Pǐskur, Yodovina ⁱ   Rollinde, Emmanuel ^t   Ross, Nicholas P ^h   Schlegel, David J ^h   Schneider, Donald P ^u   Sheldon, Erin ^a   Weaver, Benjamin A ⁿ   Weinberg, David H ^d   Yeche, Christophe ^e   York, Donald G ^v,w   more..

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CEA SACLAY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^k The Harvard College Observatory   (United States)

^l PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m New York University ^*  (United States)

ⁿ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^t SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^u PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

baryon acoustic oscillations; cosmic web; Lyman alpha forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053502637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/001     Document Type: Article

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