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Title

The clustering of massive galaxies at z ~ 0.5 from the first semester of BOSS data

Author(s)

White, Martin;  Blanton, M.;  Bolton, A.;  Schlegel, D.;  Tinker, J.;  Berlind, A.;  da Costa, L.;  Kazin, E.;  Lin, Y.-T.;  Maia, M.;  McBride, C. K.;  Padmanabhan, N.;  Parejko, J.;  Percival, W.;  Prada, F.;  Ramos, B.;  Sheldon, E.;  de Simoni, F.;  Skibba, R.;  Thomas, D.;  Wake, D.;  Zehavi, I.;  Zheng, Z.;  Nichol, R.;  Schneider, Donald P.;  Strauss, Michael A.;  Weaver, B. A.;  Weinberg, David H.

Abstract

We calculate the real- and redshift-space clustering of massive galaxies at z~0.5 using the first semester of data by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). We study the correlation functions of a sample of 44,000 massive galaxies in the redshift range 0.4

Publication type

Journal article

Source

Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 728, no. 2 (Feb 2011), article no. 126

Publication year

2011

FOR Code(s)

0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences;  0305 Organic Chemistry;  0306 Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

Keyword(s)

Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey;  Large-scale structure of universe

Publisher

Institute of Physics Publishing

ISSN

2041-8205

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/728/2/126

Copyright

Copyright © 2011 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. The American Astronomical Society does not allow Swinburne Research Bank to archive either the accepted manuscript or the published version of the article. However you can find an earlier version of the full text here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4915

Peer reviewed