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Rachel Mandelbaum
Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
Publications - 304
Citations - 46396
Rachel Mandelbaum is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Weak gravitational lensing. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 272 publications receiving 41590 citations. Previous affiliations of Rachel Mandelbaum include Princeton University.
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The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Kevork N. Abazajian,Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,Carlos Allende Prieto,Deokkeun An,Deokkeun An,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,J. C. Barentine,Bruce A. Bassett,Andrew C. Becker,Timothy C. Beers,Eric F. Bell,Vasily Belokurov,Andreas A. Berlind,E. Berman,Mariangela Bernardi,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,John P. Blakeslee,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,Howard Brewington,Jarle Brinchmann,Jarle Brinchmann,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tams Budavri,Larry N. Carey,Samuel Carliles,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,D. Cinabro,Andrew J. Connolly,I. Csabai,Carlos E. Cunha,Paul C. Czarapata,James R. A. Davenport,Ernst De Haas,B. Dilday,B. Dilday,Mamoru Doi,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Nick Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Boris T. Gänsicke,Evalyn Gates,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Belinda Gonzalez,Carlos F. Gonzalez,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Zsuzsanna Gyory,Patrick B. Hall,Paul Harding,Frederick H. Harris,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,John S. Hendry,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,Joshua Hoblitt,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,J. B. Hyde,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,Myungshin Im,Eljko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,Linhua Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Stephen M. Kent,Richard Kessler,S. J. Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Kohki Konishi,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,Hubert Lampeitl,Svetlana Lebedeva,Myung Gyoon Lee,Young Sun Lee,R. French Leger,Sébastien Lépine,Nolan Li,Marcos Lima,Marcos Lima,Huan Lin,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,E. A. Magnier,Olena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Bruce Margon,John Marriner,David Martínez-Delgado,Takahiko Matsubara,P. M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Jeffrey A. Munn,Tara Murphy,Tara Murphy,Thomas Nash,Ada Nebot,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Peter R. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Sadanori Okamura,Daniel Oravetz,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Kaike Pan,Changbom Park,George Pauls,John Peoples,Will J. Percival,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Dimitri Pourbaix,Dimitri Pourbaix,Paul A. Price,Norbert Purger,Thomas R. Quinn,M. Jordan Raddick,Paola Re Fiorentin,Paola Re Fiorentin,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Adam G. Riess,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Masao Sako,Masao Sako,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,R. D. Scholz,Matthias R. Schreiber,Axel Schwope,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Branimir Sesar,Erin Sheldon,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Valena C. Sibley,A. Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,J. Allyn Smith,Martin C. Smith,Vernesa Smolić,Stephanie A. Snedden,Albert Stebbins,Matthias Steinmetz,Chris Stoughton,Michael A. Strauss,Mark SubbaRao,Mark SubbaRao,Yasushi Suto,Alexander S. Szalay,Istvn Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Masayuki Tanaka,Max Tegmark,Luis Teodoro,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,A. Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,S. Vidrih,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Yogesh Wadadekar,Yogesh Wadadekar,Shannon Watters,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,B. C. Wilhite,Alainna C. Wonders,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Stefano Zibetti,Daniel B. Zucker +223 more
TL;DR: A series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions are described, including better flat fielding and improved wavelength calibration at the blue end, better processing of objects with extremely strong narrow emission lines, and an improved determination of stellar metallicities.
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LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
Željko Ivezić,Steven M. Kahn,J. Anthony Tyson,Bob Abel,Emily Acosta,R. A. Allsman,David Alonso,Yusra AlSayyad,Scott F. Anderson,John Andrew,James Roger P. Angel,George Angeli,R. Ansari,P. Antilogus,Constanza Araujo,Robert Armstrong,Kirk Arndt,Pierre Astier,Éric Aubourg,Nicole Auza,Tim Axelrod,Deborah Bard,J. Barr,A. Barrau,James G. Bartlett,Amanda E. Bauer,Brian J. Bauman,S. Baumont,Andrew C. Becker,Jacek Becla,Cristina E. Beldica,Steve Bellavia,Federica B. Bianco,Rahul Biswas,G. Blanc,Jonathan Blazek,Roger Blandford,Josh Bloom,J.R. Bogart,Tim W. Bond,A. W. Borgland,Kirk D. Borne,James Bosch,D. Boutigny,Craig A. Brackett,Andrew Bradshaw,W. N. Brandt,Michael E. Brown,James S. Bullock,Patricia R. Burchat,D. L. Burke,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Daniel Calabrese,Shawn Callahan,Alice L. Callen,Srinivasan Chandrasekharan,Glenaver Charles-Emerson,Steve Chesley,Elliott Cheu,Hsin-Fang Chiang,James Chiang,Carol Chirino,Derek Chow,David R. Ciardi,Charles F. Claver,Johann Cohen-Tanugi,Joseph J. Cockrum,Rebecca Coles,Andrew J. Connolly,Kem H. Cook,Asantha Cooray,Kevin R. Covey,Chris Cribbs,Wei Cui,Roc M. Cutri,P. N. Daly,Scott F. Daniel,Felipe Daruich,Guillaume Daubard,Greg Daues,William A. Dawson,Francisco Delgado,Alfred Dellapenna,Robert de Peyster,Miguel de Val-Borro,Seth Digel,Peter Doherty,Richard Dubois,G. P. Dubois-Felsmann,Josef Durech,Frossie Economou,Michael Eracleous,Henry C. Ferguson,Enrique Figueroa,Merlin Fisher-Levine,W. B. Focke,Michael D. Foss,James Frank,Michael D. Freemon,E. Gangler,Eric Gawiser,John C. Geary,Perry M. Gee,Marla Geha,Charles J. B. Gessner,Robert R. Gibson,D. Kirk Gilmore,T. Glanzman,William Glick,Tatiana Goldina,Daniel A. Goldstein,Iain Goodenow,Melissa L. Graham,William J. Gressler,Philippe Luc Yves Gris,Leanne P. Guy,Augustin Guyonnet,Gunther Haller,Ron Harris,P. Hascall,Justine Haupt,Fabio Hernandez,Sven Herrmann,Edward Hileman,Joshua Hoblitt,John A. Hodgson,Craig J. Hogan,Dajun Huang,M.E. Huffer,P. Ingraham,Walter R. Innes,Suzanne Jacoby,Bhuvnesh Jain,Fabrice Jammes,James Jee,Tim Jenness,G. Jernigan,Darko Jevremović,Kenneth Johns,A. S. Johnson,M. W. G. Johnson,R. Lynne Jones,Claire Juramy-Gilles,Mario Juric,Jason S. Kalirai,Nitya Kallivayalil,Bryce Kalmbach,Jeffrey P. Kantor,P. Karst,Mansi M. Kasliwal,H. Kelly,Richard Kessler,Veronica Kinnison,D. Kirkby,Lloyd Knox,Ivan Kotov,V. Krabbendam,K. Simon Krughoff,Petr Kubánek,John Kuczewski,Shri Kulkarni,John Ku,N. Kurita,Craig S. Lage,Ron Lambert,Travis Lange,J. Brian Langton,Laurent Le Guillou,D. Levine,Ming Liang,Kian-Tat Lim,Chris Lintott,Kevin E. Long,Margaux Lopez,Paul J. Lotz,Robert H. Lupton,Nate B. Lust,Lauren A. MacArthur,Ashish Mahabal,Rachel Mandelbaum,Darren S. Marsh,Philip J. Marshall,S. L. Marshall,Morgan May,Robert McKercher,Michelle McQueen,Joshua Meyers,Myriam Migliore,M. L. Miller,David J. Mills,Connor Miraval,Joachim Moeyens,David G. Monet,M. Moniez,Serge Monkewitz,Christopher Montgomery,Fritz Mueller,Gary P. Muller,Freddy Munoz Arancibia,Douglas R. Neill,Scott P. Newbry,Jean-Yves Nief,Andrei Nomerotski,Martin Nordby,Paul O'Connor,John Oliver,Scot S. Olivier,Knut Olsen,William O'Mullane,Sandra Ortiz,Shawn Osier,Russell Owen,Reynald Pain,Paul E. Palecek,John K. Parejko,James B. Parsons,Nathan M. Pease,J. Matt Peterson,John R. Peterson,Don Petravick,M. E.Libby Petrick,C. E. Petry,Francesco Pierfederici,Stephen R. Pietrowicz,R. Pike,Philip A. Pinto,Raymond Plante,S. Plate,Paul A. Price,Michael Prouza,V. Radeka,J. Rajagopal,Andrew P. Rasmussen,Nicolas Regnault,Kevin Reil,David J Reiss,Michael A. Reuter,Stephen T. Ridgway,Vincent J. Riot,Steve Ritz,Sean M. Robinson,William Roby,A. Roodman,Wayne Rosing,Cecille Roucelle,Matthew R. Rumore,Stefano Russo,Abhijit Saha,B. Sassolas,T. Schalk,Pim Schellart,Rafe Schindler,Samuel Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Michael Schneider,William Schoening,German Schumacher,Megan E. Schwamb,Jacques Sebag,Brian M. Selvy,G. H. Sembroski,Lynn G. Seppala,Andrew Serio,Eduardo P. Serrano,Richard A. Shaw,Ian Shipsey,Jonathan Sick,Nicole M. Silvestri,C. T. Slater,J. Allyn Smith,R. Chris Smith,Shahram Sobhani,Christine Soldahl,Lisa J. Storrie-Lombardi,Edward Stover,Michael A. Strauss,Rachel Street,Christopher W. Stubbs,Ian Sullivan,Donald W. Sweeney,John D. Swinbank,Alexander S. Szalay,Péter Takács,Stephen A. Tether,Jon J Thaler,J. G. Thayer,Sandrine Thomas,V. Thukral,Jeff Tice,David Trilling,M. Turri,Richard Van Berg,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,K. Vetter,Francoise Virieux,Tomislav Vucina,William Wahl,Lucianne M. Walkowicz,Brian Walsh,C. W. Walter,Daniel L. Wang,Shin-Yawn Wang,Michael Warner,Oliver Wiecha,Beth Willman,Scott Winters,David Wittman,Sidney C. Wolff,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Xiuqin Wu,Bo Xin,Peter Yoachim,Hu Zhan +312 more
TL;DR: The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the solar system, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.
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Sdss-iii: massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the milky way, and extra-solar planetary systems
Daniel J. Eisenstein,Daniel J. Eisenstein,David H. Weinberg,Eric Agol,Hiroaki Aihara,Carlos Allende Prieto,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,James A. Arns,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Robert H. Barkhouser,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Casey T. Bosman,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Ben Breslauer,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Dan Burger,Nicolás G. Busca,H. Campbell,Phillip Cargile,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,Michael A. Carr,Liang Chang,Liang Chang,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Fernando de Simoni,Janice D. R. Dean,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,J. Eiting,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Leticia D. Ferreira,Greg Fitzgerald,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Eric B. Ford,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Ana E. García Pérez,B. Scott Gaudi,Jian Ge,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Léo Girardi,J. Richard Gott,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,J. C. Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Joseph F. Hennawi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Peng Jiang,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Hubert Lampeitl,Dustin Lang,James E. Lawler,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Brian Lee,Young Sun Lee,Jarron Leisenring,Yen-Ting Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Paul Maseman,Paul Maseman,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena Requejo,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Paulo S. Pellegrini,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,I. Neill Reid,Céline Reylé,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Emmanuel Rollinde,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Bruno M. Rossetto,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Kris Sellgren,Alaina Shelden,Erin Sheldon,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,John D. Silverman,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Mark H. Stockett,Todd Stollberg,Michael A. Strauss,Alexander S. Szalay,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Xiaoke Wan,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Erick T. Young,Erick T. Young,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Bo Zhao +263 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as mentioned in this paper is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars.
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SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
Daniel J. Eisenstein,David H. Weinberg,Eric Agol,Hiroaki Aihara,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,James A. Arns,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Robert H. Barkhouser,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Casey T. Bosman,Jo Bovy,Howard Brewington,W. N. Brandt,Ben Breslauer,J. Brinkmann,Peter de Nully Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Dan Burger,Nicolás G. Busca,Heather Campbell,Phillip Cargile,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,Michael A. Carr,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Luiz N. da Costa,Katia Cunha,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Fernando de Simoni,Janice D. R. Dean,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,J. Eiting,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Leticia D. Ferreira,Greg Fitzgerald,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Eric B. Ford,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Ana G. Pérez,B. Scott Gaudi,Jian Ge,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Léo Girardi,J. Richard Gott,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Gillian R. Knapp,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Dustin Lang,James E. Lawler,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Brian L. Lee,Young Sun Lee,Jarron Leisenring,Yen-Ting Lin,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas R. MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Paul Maseman,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena Requejo,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Paris,Paulo S. Pellegrini,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,Celine Ryle,I. Neill Reid,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,Helio J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Emmanuel Rollinde,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Bruno M. Rossetto,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Kris Sellgren,Alaina Shelden,Erin S. Sheldon,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,John D. Silverman,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anze Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Mark H. Stockett,Todd Stollberg,Michael A. Strauss,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Xiaoke Wan,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Erick T. Young,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Bo Zhao +239 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as discussed by the authors is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars.
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The baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey of sdss-iii
Kyle S. Dawson,David J. Schlegel,Christopher P. Ahn,Scott F. Anderson,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Robert H. Barkhouser,Julian E. Bautista,Alessandra Beifiori,Andreas A. Berlind,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,Adam S. Bolton,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Howard Brewington,Jon Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,Nicolás G. Busca,William Carithers,A. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Yanmei Chen,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Frances Cope,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Timothée Delubac,Roland de Putter,Roland de Putter,Saurav Dhital,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,Xiaohui Fan,N. Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Andreu Font-Ribera,Andreu Font-Ribera,Ricardo Genova-Santos,Ricardo Genova-Santos,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Daryl Haggard,Patrick B. Hall,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,Ben Harris,David W. Harris,Shirley Ho,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Diana Holder,K. Honscheid,Joe Huehnerhoff,Beatrice Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Khee-Gan Lee,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Marcio A. G. Maia,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Rachel Mandelbaum,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Robert C. Nichol,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Sebastián E. Nuza,Matthew D. Olmstead,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Isabelle Pâris,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Rafael Rebolo,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Lado Samushia,Lado Samushia,Ariel G. Sánchez,Conor Sayres,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Claudia G. Scóccola,Claudia G. Scóccola,Hee-Jong Seo,Alaina Shelden,Erin S. Sheldon,Yue Shen,Yiping Shu,Anže Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Stephanie A. Snedden,Fritz Stauffer,Oliver Steele,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Tomer Tal,Masayuki Tanaka,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,David A. Wake,M. G. Watson,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Andrew A. West,Martin White,Martin White,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng +184 more
TL;DR: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) as discussed by the authors was designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of all previous spectroscopic surveys of large-scale structure.