TY - JOUR
T1 - Mock Quasar-Lyman-α forest data-sets for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
AU - Bautista, Julian E.
AU - Bailey, Stephen
AU - Font-Ribera, Andreu
AU - Pieri, Matthew M.
AU - Busca, Nicolas G.
AU - Miralda-Escudé, Jordi
AU - Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
AU - Rich, James
AU - Dawson, Kyle
AU - Feng, Yu
AU - Ge, Jian
AU - Gontcho, Satya Gontcho A.
AU - Ho, Shirley
AU - Goff, Jean Marc Le
AU - Noterdaeme, Pasquier
AU - Pâris, Isabelle
AU - Rossi, Graziano
AU - Schlegel, David
PY - 2015/5/28
Y1 - 2015/5/28
N2 - We describe mock data-sets generated to simulate the high-redshift quasar sample in Data Release 11 (DR11) of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The mock spectra contain Lyα forest correlations useful for studying the 3D correlation function including Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). They also include astrophysical effects such as quasar continuum diversity and high-density absorbers, instrumental effects such as noise and spectral resolution, as well as imperfections introduced by the SDSS pipeline treatment of the raw data. The Lyα forest BAO analysis of the BOSS collaboration, described in Delubac et al. 2014, has used these mock data-sets to develop and cross-check analysis procedures prior to performing the BAO analysis on real data, and for continued systematic cross checks. Tests presented here show that the simulations reproduce sufficiently well important characteristics of real spectra. These mock data-sets will be made available together with the data at the time of the Data Release 11.
AB - We describe mock data-sets generated to simulate the high-redshift quasar sample in Data Release 11 (DR11) of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). The mock spectra contain Lyα forest correlations useful for studying the 3D correlation function including Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO). They also include astrophysical effects such as quasar continuum diversity and high-density absorbers, instrumental effects such as noise and spectral resolution, as well as imperfections introduced by the SDSS pipeline treatment of the raw data. The Lyα forest BAO analysis of the BOSS collaboration, described in Delubac et al. 2014, has used these mock data-sets to develop and cross-check analysis procedures prior to performing the BAO analysis on real data, and for continued systematic cross checks. Tests presented here show that the simulations reproduce sufficiently well important characteristics of real spectra. These mock data-sets will be made available together with the data at the time of the Data Release 11.
KW - baryon acoustic oscillations
KW - Lyman alpha forest
KW - redshift surveys
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U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/060
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/060
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84930650973
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2015
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 5
M1 - 060
ER -