Fitting methods for baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyman-α forest fluctuations in BOSS data release 9

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Kirkby, David ^a   Margala, Daniel ^a   Anze Slosar ^b   Bailey, Stephen ^c   Busca, Nicolás G ^d   Delubac, Timothée ^e   Rich, James ^e   Bautista, Julian E ^d   Blomqvist, Michael ^a   Brownstein, Joel R ^f   Carithers, Bill ^c   Croft, Rupert A C ^g   Dawson, Kyle S ^f   Font Ribera, Andreu ^c,h   Miralda Escudé, Jordi ^i,j   D Myers, Adam ^k   Nichol, Robert C ^l   Palanque Delabrouille, Nathalie ^e   Pâris, Isabelle ^m,n   Petitjean, Patrick ^m   Rossi, Graziano ^e   Schlegel, David J ^c   Schneider, Donald P ^o   Viel, Matteo ^p,q   Weinberg, David H ^r   Yèche, Christophe ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^e CEA SACLAY   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^g CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^m SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^o PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^q SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^r OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

baryon acoustic oscillations; cosmological parameters from LSS; dark energy experiments; Lyman alpha forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875831232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/03/024     Document Type: Article

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