Measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyman-α forest fluctuations in BOSS data release 9

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Slosar, Anže ^a   Iršič, Vid ^b   Kirkby, David ^c   Bailey, Stephen ^d   Nicolas G Busca ^e   Delubac, Timothée ^f   Rich, James ^f   Aubourg, Éric ^e   Bautista, Julian E ^e   Bhardwaj, Vaishali ^d,g   Blomqvist, Michael ^c   Bolton, Adam S ^h   Bovy, Jo ⁱ   Brownstein, Joel ^h   Carithers, Bill ^d   Croft, Rupert A C ^j   Dawson, Kyle S ^h   Font Ribera, Andreu ^d,k   Goff, J M Le ^f   Ho, Shirley ^j   Honscheid, Klaus ^l   Lee, Khee Gan ^m   Margala, Daniel ^c   McDonald, Patrick ^d   Medolin, Bumbarija ⁿ   Miralda Escudé, Jordi ^o,p   Myers, Adam D ^q   Nichol, Robert C ^r   Noterdaeme, Pasquier ^s   Palanque Delabrouille, Nathalie ^f   Pâris, Isabelle ^s,t   Petitjean, Patrick ^s   Pieri, Matthew M ^r   Piškur, Yodovina ⁿ   Roe, Natalie A ^d   Ross, Nicholas P ^d   Rossi, Graziano ^f   Schlegel, David J ^d   Schneider, Donald P ^u   Suzuki, Nao ^d   Sheldon, Erin S ^a   Seljak, Uroš ^d   Viel, Matteo ^v,w   Weinberg, David H ^l   Yèche, Christophe ^f   more..

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^j CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^l OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

ⁿ FITA IFAT   (United States)

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

^p UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^s SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^u PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^w SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

baryon acoustic oscillations; dark energy experiments; Lyman alpha forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877941163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/04/026     Document Type: Article

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