High-precision predictions for the acoustic scale in the non-linear regime (2009)
Seo, Hee-Jong, Eckel, Jonathan, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Mehta, Kushal, Metchnik, Marc, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, ...
We measure shifts of the acoustic scale due to nonlinear growth and redshift distortions to a high precision using a very large volume of high-force-resolution simulations. We compare results from...
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample (2009)
Percival, Will J., Reid, Beth A., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Bahcall, Neta A., Budavari, Tamas, Frieman, Joshua A., ...
The spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) galaxy sample represents the final set of galaxies observed using the original SDSS target selection criteria. We analyse the...
Reid, Beth A., Percival, Will J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Verde, Licia, Spergel, David N., Skibba, Ramin A., ...
We present the power spectrum of the reconstructed halo density field derived from a sample of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release (DR7). The halo...
The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes...
The Star Formation and Nuclear Accretion Histories of Normal Galaxies in the AGES Survey (2009)
Watson, Casey R., Kochanek, Christopher S., Forman, William R., Hickox, Ryan C., Jones, Christine J., Brown, Michael J. I., ...
We combine IR, optical and X-ray data from the overlapping, 9.3 square degree NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS), AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES), and XBootes Survey to measure the X-ray...
The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies (2008)
Zheng, Zheng, Zehavi, Idit, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Jing, Yipeng
We perform Halo Occupation Distribution (HOD) modeling to interpret small-scale and intermediate-scale clustering of 35,000 luminous early-type galaxies and their cross-correlation with a reference...
A cryogenic liquid-mirror telescope on the moon to study the early universe (2008)
Angel, Roger, Worden, Simon P., Borra, Ermanno F., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Foing, Bernard, Hickson, Paul, ...
We have studied the feasibility and scientific potential of zenith observing liquid mirror telescopes having 20 to 100 m diameters located on the moon. They would carry out deep infrared surveys to...
Non-linear structure formation and the acoustic scale (2008)
Seo, Hee-Jong, Siegel, Ethan R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., White, Martin
We present high signal-to-noise measurements of the acoustic scale in the presence of nonlinear growth and redshift distortions using 320(Gpc/h)^3 of cosmological PM simulations. Using simple fitting...
Luminosity Function Constraints on the Evolution of Massive Red Galaxies Since z~0.9 (2008)
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Fan, Xiaohui, Fukugita, Masataka, Jiang, Linhua, Maraston, Claudia, ...
We measure the evolution of the luminous red galaxy (LRG) luminosity function in the redshift range 0.1
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
On the Stellar Populations in Faint Red Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2008)
Stutz, Amelia M., Papovich, Casey, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
We study the nature of faint, red-selected galaxies at z ~ 2-3 using the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) and Spitzer IRAC photometry. We detect candidate galaxies to H < 26 mag, probing...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
Passive Evolution of Galaxy Clustering (2007)
Seo, Hee-Jong, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit
We present a numerical study of the evolution of galaxy clustering when galaxies flow passively from high redshift, respecting the continuity equation throughout. While passive flow is a special case...
Large-Scale Anisotropic Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2007)
Okumura, Teppei, Matsubara, Takahiko, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Kayo, Issha, Hikage, Chiaki, Szalay, Alexander S., ...
We study the large-scale anisotropic two-point correlation function using 46,760 luminous red galaxies at redshifts 0.16 -- 0.47 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We measure the correlation function...
Can Baryonic Features Produce the Observed (2007)
Gamma Mpc, Mpc Clustering, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu, Joseph Silk, Alexander S. Szalay
We assess the possibility that baryonic acoustic oscillations in adiabatic models may explain the observations of excess power in large-scale structure on 100h \Gamma1 Mpc scales. The observed...
Measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale using the SDSS and 2dFGRS (2007)
Percival, Will J., Cole, Shaun, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Nichol, Robert C., Peacock, John A., Pope, Adrian C., ...
We introduce a method to constrain general cosmological models using Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance measurements from galaxy samples covering different redshift ranges, and apply this...
The Three-Point Correlation Function of Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Kulkarni, Gauri V., Nichol, Robert C., Sheth, Ravi K., Seo, Hee-Jong, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gray, Alexander
We present measurements of the redshift-space three-point correlation function of 50,967 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from Data Release 3 (DR3) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We have studied...
Improved forecasts for the baryon acoustic oscillations and cosmological distance scale (2007)
Seo, Hee-Jong, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
We present the cosmological distance errors achievable using the baryon acoustic oscillations as a standard ruler. We begin from a Fisher matrix formalism that is upgraded from Seo & Eisenstein...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
The fifth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alastair C., ...
Abstract not available.
MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alastair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
Ross, Nicholas P., Da Angela, J., Shanks, T., Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, A. C., ...
We present a clustering analysis of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) using nearly 9 000 objects from the final catalogue of the 2dF-SDSS LRG And QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. We measure the redshift-space...
A Robust Estimator of the Small-Scale Galaxy Correlation Function (2006)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, White, Martin, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
We present a new estimator, omega, of the small scale galaxy correlation function that is robust against the effects of redshift space distortions and large scale structures. The estimator is a...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5,697 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hdelta (4101A) and [OII] (3727A) lines. LRGs are luminous (L>3L*),...
Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS (2006)
Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Fukugita, Masataka, Pope, Adrian C., ...
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyse the main...
The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum (2006)
Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Loveday, Jon, ...
We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. The aim of our...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Harris, Hugh C., Kleinmann, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, Silvestri, Nicole, ...
We present a catalog of 9316 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. We have selected the stars through photometric cuts and spectroscopic modeling,...
Hot DB White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Koester, Detlev, Kleinmann, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, Smith, Paul S., ...
We present ugriz photometry and optical spectroscopy for 28 DB and DO white dwarfs with temperatures between 28,000K and 45,000K. About 10 of these are particularly well-observed; the remainder are...
The Discovery of Three New z>5 Quasars in the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (2006)
Cool, Richard J., Kochanek, Christopher S., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Stern, Daniel, Brand, Kate, Brown, Michael J. I., ...
We present the discovery of three z>5 quasars in the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES) spectroscopic observations of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey (NDWFS) Bootes Field. These quasars were...
On the Robustness of the Acoustic Scale in the Low-Redshift Clustering of Matter (2006)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Seo, Hee-jong, White, Martin
We discuss the effects of non-linear structure formation on the signature of acoustic oscillations in the late-time galaxy distribution. We argue that the dominant non-linear effect is the...
Improving Cosmological Distance Measurements by Reconstruction of the Baryon Acoustic Peak (2006)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Seo, Hee-jong, Sirko, Edwin, Spergel, David
The baryon acoustic oscillations are a promising route to the precision measure of the cosmological distance scale and hence the measurement of the time evolution of dark energy. We show that the...
SDSS Pre-Burst Observations of Recent Gamma-Ray Burst Fields (2006)
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Brinkmann, J., ...
In this paper, we present Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry and spectroscopy in the fields of 24 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by Swift, including bursts localized by Swift, HETE-2, and...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
Very small scale clustering and merger rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01 Mpc
The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
The radial velocity experiment (RAVE) : first data release (2006)
Steinmetz, Matthias, Zwitter, Tomaz, Siebert, Arnaud, Watson, Fred G., Freeman, Kenneth C., Munari, Ulisse, ...
We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity,...
The radial velocity experiment (RAVE) : first data release (2006)
Steinmetz, Matthias, Zwitter, Tomaz, Siebert, Arnaud, Watson, Fred G., Freeman, Kenneth C., Munari, Ulisse, ...
We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity,...
The radial velocity experiment (RAVE) : first data release (2006)
Steinmetz, Matthias, Zwitter, Tomaz, Siebert, Arnaud, Watson, Fred G., Freeman, Kenneth C., Munari, Ulisse, ...
We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity,...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the H delta (4101 angstrom), and [O II] (3727 angstrom) lines and the D4000...
The radial velocity experiment (RAVE) : first data release (2006)
Steinmetz, Matthias, Zwitter, Tomaz, Siebert, Arnaud, Watson, Fred G., Freeman, Kenneth C., Munari, Ulisse, ...
We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity,...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the H delta (4101 angstrom), and [O II] (3727 angstrom) lines and the D4000...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
The radial velocity experiment (RAVE) : first data release (2006)
Steinmetz, Matthias, Zwitter, Tomaz, Siebert, Arnaud, Watson, Fred G., Freeman, Kenneth C., Munari, Ulisse, ...
We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity,...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
Very Small-Scale Clustering and Merger Rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2005)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01
The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from SDSS Imaging Data (2005)
Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Williams, Kurtis A., Von Hippel, Ted, ...
A sample of white dwarfs is selected from SDSS DR3 imaging data using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from SDSS plus USNO-B combined data. Numerous SDSS and followup...
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Johnston, David, Scranton, Ryan, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P., ...
Using a sample of nearly 20,000 massive early-type galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the color-magnitude relation for the most luminous (L > 2.2 L^{*}) field galaxies in...
WFMOS - Sounding the Dark Cosmos (2005)
Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Vast sound waves traveling through the relativistic plasma during the first million years of the universe imprint a preferred scale in the density of matter. We now have the ability to detect this...
SDSSJ102111.02+491330.4: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2005)
Pindor, Bart, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, ...
We report follow-up observations of two gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) dataset. We have confirmed that SDSS J102111.02+491330.4 is a previously...
Probing Galaxy Formation with He II Cooling Lines (2005)
Yang, Yujin, Zabludoff, Ann I., Davé, Romeel, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Pinto, Philip A., Katz, Neal, ...
Using high resolution cosmological simulations, we study hydrogen and helium gravitational cooling radiation. We focus on the HeII cooling lines, which arise from gas with a different temperature...
Black Hole Masses and Eddington Ratios at 0.3 (2005)
Kollmeier, Juna A., Onken, Christopher A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Gould, Andrew, Weinberg, David H., Dietrich, Matthias, ...
We study the distribution of Eddington luminosity ratios, L_bol/L_edd, of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) discovered in the AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey (AGES). We combine H-beta, MgII, and CIV line...
Baryonic acoustic oscillations in simulated galaxy redshift surveys (2005)
Seo, Hee-Jong, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Baryonic acoustic oscillations imprinted in the galaxy power spectrum provide a promising tool for probing the cosmological distance scale and dark energy. We present results from a suite of...
SDSS J0246-0825: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Inada, Naohisa, Burles, Scott, Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Schechter, Paul L., Eisenstein, Daniel J., ...
We report the discovery of a new two-image gravitationally lensed quasar, SDSS J024634.11-082536.2 (SDSS J0246-0825). This object was selected as a lensed quasar candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky...
Magnetic White Dwarfs from the SDSS II. The Second and Third Data Releases (2005)
Vanlandingham, Karen M., Schmidt, Gary D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Harris, Hugh C., Anderson, Scott F., Hall, Pat B., ...
Fifty-two magnetic white dwarfs have been identified in spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) obtained between mid-2002 and the end of 2004, including Data Releases 2...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...
We report the discovery of a fifth image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004+4112. A faint point source located 0.2'' from the center of the brightest galaxy in the lensing...
The third data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The sloan digital sky survey quasar catalog - III. Third data release (2005)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg2,...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...
We report on the discovery of a fifth lensed image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004 + 4112. A faint point source located 0.''2 from the center of the brightest galaxy in the...
Calibrating photometric redshifts of luminous red galaxies (2005)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavari, Tamas, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, ...
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
Calibrating photometric redshifts of luminous red galaxies (2005)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavari, Tamas, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, ...
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
The Intermediate-Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Nichol, Robert C., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Brinkmann, Jon, ...
We report the intermediate-scale (0.3 to 40 Mpc/h) clustering of 35,000 luminous early-type galaxies at redshifts 0.16 to 0.44 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We present the redshift-space...
The Small-scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies via Cross-Correlation Techniques (2004)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael, Zehavi, Idit, Bahcall, Neta, Brinkmann, Jon, Loveday, Jon, ...
We present the small-scale (0.2h^{-1} to 7h^{-1} Mpc) cross-correlations between 32,000 luminous early-type galaxies and a reference sample of 16 million normal galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky...
Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Bahcall, Neta A., Brinkmann, J., Gunn, James E., ...
We test the homogeneity of the Universe at $z\sim 0.3$ with the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. First, the mean number $N(R)$ of LRGs within completely...
The scale-dependence of relative galaxy bias: encouragement for the halo model description (2004)
Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Zehavi, Idit
We investigate the relationship between the colors, luminosities, and environments of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic sample, using environmental measurements on scales ranging...
Galaxies at z~7-8: z-dropouts in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2004)
Bouwens, Rychard J., Thompson, Rodger I., Illingworth, Garth D., Franx, Marijn, Van Dokkum, Pieter, Fan, Xaiohui, ...
We have detected likely z~7-8 galaxies in the 144"x144" NICMOS observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Objects are required to be >3 sigma detections in both NICMOS bands, J and H. The selection...
Calibrating Photometric Redshifts of Luminous Red Galaxies (2004)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavari, Tamas, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, ...
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing...
Theoretical uncertainty in baryon oscillations (2004)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., White, Martin
We discuss the systematic uncertainties in the recovery of dark energy properties from the use of baryon acoustic oscillations as a standard ruler. We demonstrate that while unknown relativistic...
Interpreting the Relationship Between Galaxy Luminosity, Color and Environment (2004)
Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Weinberg, David H., Davé, Romeel, Eisenstein, Daniel J., ...
We study the relationship between galaxy luminosity, color, and environment in a cosmological simulation of galaxy formation. We compare the predicted relationship with that found for SDSS galaxies...
A Quasar Without Broad Lyman-alpha Emission (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Snedden, Stephanie A., Niederste-Ostholt, Martin, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., York, Donald G., ...
The z=3.02 quasar SDSS J095253.83+011421.9 exhibits broad metal-line emission (CIV FWHM=9000 km/s), but broad Ly-alpha emission is not present. Instead, only a narrow Ly-alpha line is observed...
Kleinman, S. J., Harris, Hugh C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Nitta, Atsuko, Krzesiński, Jurek, ...
We present the full spectroscopic white dwarf and hot subdwarf sample from the SDSS first data release, DR1. We find 2551 white dwarf stars of various types, 240 hot subdwarf stars, and an additional...
Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts (2004)
Pope, Adrian C., Matsubara, Takahiko, Szalay, Alexander S., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gray, Jim, ...
We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to the analysis of the 3D power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2004)
Hoog, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The distribution in color and absolute magnitude is presented for 55,158 galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range 0.08lt;zlt;0.12, as a function of the galaxy...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Keeton, Charles R., Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Gregg, Michael D., ...
We study the recently discovered gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, the first quasar lensed by a cluster of galaxies. It consists of four images with a maximum separation of 14.62". The system was...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt, Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg2 of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) mosaic camera and telescope have obtained five-band optical-wavelength imaging near the Galactic plane outside of the nominal survey boundaries. These additional...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
Selection and photometric properties of K+A galaxies (2004)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., ...
Two different simple measurements of galaxy star formation rate with different timescales are compared empirically on 156,395 fiber spectra of galaxies with r < 17.77 mag taken from the Sloan...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
Selection and photometric properties of K+A galaxies (2004)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., ...
Two different simple measurements of galaxy star formation rate with different timescales are compared empirically on 156,395 fiber spectra of galaxies with r < 17.77 mag taken from the Sloan...
SDSS J115517.35+634622.0: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2003)
Pindor, Bart, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Inada, Naohisa, Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Brinkmann, Jon, ...
We report the discovery of SDSSJ115517.35+634622.0, a previously unknown gravitationally lensed quasar. The lens system exhibits two images of a $z = 2.89$ quasar, with an image separation of...
SDSS J1335+0118: A New Two-Image Gravitational Lens (2003)
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Castander, Francisco J., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi, ...
We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1335+0118. The object was selected as a lens candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The imaging and spectroscopic...
Bolton, Adam S., Burles, Scott, Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Brinkmann, J.
We present a catalog of 49 spectroscopic strong gravitational lens candidates selected from a Sloan Digital Sky Survey sample of 50996 luminous red galaxies. Potentially lensed star-forming galaxies...
Seo, Hee-Jong, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
We show that the measurement of the baryonic acoustic oscillations in large high redshift galaxy surveys offers a precision route to the measurement of dark energy. The cosmic microwave background...
SDSS J0903+5028: A New Gravitational Lens (2003)
Johnston, David E., Richards, Gordon T., Frieman, Joshua A., Keeton, Charles R., Strauss, Michael A., Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J090334.92+502819.2. This object was targeted for SDSS spectroscopy as a Luminous Red Galaxy...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2003)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The distribution in color and absolute magnitude is presented for 55,158 galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range $0.08
Selection and photometric properties of K+A galaxies (2003)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., ...
Two different simple measurements of galaxy star formation rate with different timescales are compared empirically on $156,395$ fiber spectra of galaxies with $r
Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Szapudi, Istvan, Csabai, Istvan, Scranton, Ryan, ...
Understanding the clustering of galaxies has long been a goal of modern observational cosmology. Utilizing our photometric redshift technique a volume limited sample containing more than 2 million...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62arcseconds (2003)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures (that is, clusters of...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
Deprojecting Densities from Angular Cross-Correlations (2002)
I present a model-independent spherically symmetric density estimator to be used in the cross-correlation of imaging catalogs with objects of known redshift. The estimator is a simple modification of...
The overdensities of galaxy environments as a function of luminosity and color (2002)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., Schlegel, David J., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We study the mean environments of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of rest-frame luminosity and color. Overdensities in galaxy number are estimated in $8 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$...
Average spectra of massive galaxies in the SDSS (2002)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Bernardi, Mariangela, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., ...
We combine Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra of 22,000 luminous, red, bulge-dominated galaxies to get high S/N average spectra in the rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (2600A to 7000A). The average...
Hogg, David W., Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J.
The K correction "corrects" for the fact that sources observed at different redshifts are, in general, compared with standards or each other at different rest-frame wavelengths. It is part of the...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chirs, Lupton, Rpbert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francsico J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francisco J., ...
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Rockosi, Connie, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, Brinkmann, Jon, ...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
Higher Order Moments of the Angular Distribution of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Szapudi, István, Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Roman, Szalay, Alexander S., Connolly, Andrew J., Dodelson, Scott, ...
We present initial results for counts in cells statistics of the angular distribution of galaxies in early data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyze a rectangular stripe $2.5^\circ$...
Collaboration, SDSS, Scranton, Ryan, Johnston, David, Dodelson, Scott, Frieman, Joshua A., Connolly, Andy, ...
The angular distribution of galaxies encodes a wealth of information about large scale structure. Ultimately, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will record the angular positions of order 10^8...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zaldarriaga, Matias
We reconsider the inference of spatial power spectra from angular clustering data and show how to include correlations in both the angular correlation function and the spatial power spectrum....
Foregrounds and Forecasts for the Cosmic Microwave Background (1999)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne
One of the main challenges facing upcoming CMB experiments will be to distinguish the cosmological signal from foreground contamination. We present a comprehensive treatment of this problem and study...
Max Tegmark, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu
One of the main challenges facing upcoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments will be to distinguish the cosmological signal from foreground contamination. We present a comprehensive...
The Structure of Structure Formation Theories (1998)
Hu, Wayne, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
We study the general structure of models for structure formation, with applications to the reverse engineering of the model from observations. Through a careful accounting of the degrees of freedom...
Cosmic Complementarity: Joint Parameter Estimation from CMB Experiments and Redshift Surveys (1998)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne, Tegmark, Max
We study the ability of future CMB anisotropy experiments and redshift surveys to constrain a thirteen-dimensional parameterization of the adiabatic cold dark matter model. Each alone is unable to...
Observationally Determining the Properties of Dark Matter (1998)
Hu, Wayne, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Tegmark, Max, White, Martin
Determining the properties of the dark components of the universe remains one of the outstanding challenges in cosmology. We explore how upcoming CMB anisotropy measurements, galaxy power spectrum...
Cosmic Complementarity: H_0 and Omega_m from Combining CMB Experiments and Redshift Surveys (1998)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne, Tegmark, Max
We show that upcoming CMB satellite experiments and large redshift surveys can be used together to yield 5% determinations of H_0 and Omega_m, an order of magnitude improvement over CMB data alone....
Cosmic complementarity: probing the acceleration of the Universe (1998)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne, Kron, Richard
We assess the accuracy with which Omega and Lambda can be measured by combining various types of upcoming experiments. Useful expressions for the Fisher information matrix are derived for classical...
Cosmic complementarity: combining CMB and supernova observations (1998)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne
We compute the accuracy with which Omega and Lambda can be measured by combining future SN Ia and CMB experiments, deriving a handy expression for the SN Ia Fisher information matrix. The two data...
Max Tegmark, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu, Richard G. Kron
We assess the accuracy with which Ωm and ΩΛ can be measured by combining various types of upcoming experiments. Useful expressions for the Fisher information matrix are derived for classical...
COSMIC COMPLEMENTARITY: COMBINING CMB AND SUPERNOVA OBSERVATIONS (1998)
Max Tegmark A, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu B
We compute the accuracy with which Ωm and ΩΛ can be measured by combining future SN Ia and CMB experiments, deriving a handy expression for the SN Ia Fisher information matrix. The two data sets...
Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu, Joseph Silk, Er S. Szalay
We assess the possibility that baryonic acoustic oscillations in adiabatic models may explain the observations of excess power in large-scale structure on 100 h�1 Mpc scales. The observed location...
HOP: A New Group-Finding Algorithm for N-body Simulations (1997)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hut, Piet
We describe a new method (HOP) for identifying groups of particles in N-body simulations. Having assigned to every particle an estimate of its local density, we associate each particle with the...
Weighing Neutrinos with Galaxy Surveys (1997)
Hu, Wayne, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Tegmark, Max
We show that galaxy redshift surveys sensitively probe the neutrino mass, with eV mass neutrinos suppressing power by a factor of two. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey can potentially detect $N$ nearly...
Can Baryonic Features Produce the Observed 100 Mpc Clustering? (1997)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne, Silk, Joseph, Szalay, Alex
We assess the possibility that baryonic acoustic oscillations in adiabatic models may explain the observations of excess power in large-scale structure on 100h^-1 Mpc scales. The observed location...
Power Spectra for Cold Dark Matter and its Variants (1997)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne
The bulk of recent cosmological research has focused on the adiabatic cold dark matter model and its simple extensions. Here we present an accurate fitting formula that describes the matter transfer...
Small Scale Perturbations in a General MDM Cosmology (1997)
Hu, Wayne, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
For a universe with massive neutrinos, cold dark matter, and baryons, we solve the linear perturbation equations analytically in the small-scale limit and find agreement with numerical codes at the...
Baryonic Features in the Matter Transfer Function (1997)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hu, Wayne
We provide scaling relations and fitting formulae for adiabatic cold dark matter cosmologies that account for all baryon effects in the matter transfer function to better than 10% in the large-scale...
An analytic expression is given for the growth function for linear perturbations in a low-density universe made flat by a cosmological constant. The result involves elliptic integrals but is...
Comment on the Appropriate Null Hypothesis for Cosmological Birefringence (1997)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Bunn, Emory F.
A recent paper (Nodland and Ralston, PRL 78, 3043, astro-ph/9704196) claims to have detected evidence for birefringence in the propagation of radio waves across cosmological distances. In order to...
Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu
We provide scaling relations and Ðtting formulae for adiabatic cold dark matter cosmologies that account for all baryon e†ects in the matter transfer function to better than 10 % in the...
Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu
The bulk of recent cosmological research has focused on the adiabatic cold dark matter model and its simple extensions. Here we present an accurate Ðtting formula that describes the matter transfer...
Can Baryonic Features Produce the Observed 100h -1 Mpc Clustering? (1997)
Daniel J. Eisenstein, Wayne Hu, Joseph Silk, Alexander S. Szalay
We assess the possibility that baryonic acoustic oscillations in adiabatic models may explain the observations of excess power in large-scale structure on 100h -1 Mpc scales. The observed location...
Dynamical Mass Estimates of Large-Scale Filaments in Redshift Surveys (1996)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loeb, Abraham, Turner, Edwin L.
We propose a new method to measure the mass of large-scale filaments in galaxy redshift surveys. The method is based on the fact that the mass per unit length of isothermal filaments depends only on...
Can the Tully-Fisher Relation be the Result of Initial Conditions? (1995)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loeb, Abraham
We use Monte Carlo realizations of halo formation histories and a spherical accretion model to calculate the expected scatter in the velocity dispersions of galactic halos of a given mass due to...
Probing Early Clustering with Lyman-Alpha Absorption Lines Beyond the Quasar Redshift (1994)
Loeb, Abraham, Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Groups and clusters of galaxies hosting a quasar can be found through the detection of Lyman-alpha absorption lines beyond the quasar redshift. The effect occurs whenever the distortion to the...
An Analytical Model for the Triaxial Collapse of Cosmological Perturbations (1994)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loeb, Abraham
We present an analytical model for the non-spherical collapse of overdense regions out of a Gaussian random field of initial cosmological perturbations. The collapsing region is treated as an...
Origin of Quasar Progenitors from the Collapse of Low-Spin Cosmological Perturbations (1994)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loeb, Abraham
We show that seeds for quasar black holes could have originated from the initial cosmological collapse of overdense regions with unusually small rotation. The gas in these rare regions collapses into...