Michael A. Strauss

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a measurement of the cosmic distance scale from detections of the baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), which is part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III).

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.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed a matrix-based method using pseudo-Karhunen-Loeve eigenmodes, producing uncorrelated minimum-variance measurements in 22 k-bands of both the clustering power and its anisotropy due to redshift-space distortions, with narrow and well-behaved window functions in the range 0.02 h/mpc < k < 0.3h/Mpc.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a compilation of properties of 105,783 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (DR7) quasar catalog, including radio properties, and flags indicating broad absorption line properties.

TL;DR: In this article, a compilation of properties of 105,783 quasars in the SDSS Data Release 7 (DR7) quasar catalog is presented, including radio properties, broad absorption line quasar (BALQSO) flags, and disk emitters.