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Patrick McDonald
Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Publications - 37
Citations - 6716
Patrick McDonald is an academic researcher from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Redshift & Spectral density. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 37 publications receiving 5713 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick McDonald include Simon Fraser University.
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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.
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DESI and other Dark Energy experiments in the era of neutrino mass measurements
Andreu Font-Ribera,Andreu Font-Ribera,Patrick McDonald,Nick Mostek,Beth Reid,Hee-Jong Seo,Anže Slosar +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present Fisher matrix projections for future cosmological parameter measurements, including neutrino masses, dark energy, curvature, modified gravity, the inflationary perturbation spectrum, non-Gaussianity, and dark radiation.
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Measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations in the Lyman-α forest fluctuations in BOSS data release 9
Anže Slosar,Vid Iršič,D. Kirkby,Stephen Bailey,Nicolás G. Busca,Timothée Delubac,James Rich,Éric Aubourg,Julian E. Bautista,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Michael Blomqvist,Adam S. Bolton,Jo Bovy,Joel R. Brownstein,Bill Carithers,Rupert A. C. Croft,Kyle S. Dawson,Andreu Font-Ribera,Andreu Font-Ribera,J. M. Le Goff,Shirley Ho,K. Honscheid,Khee-Gan Lee,Daniel Margala,Patrick McDonald,Bumbarija Medolin,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Adam D. Myers,Robert C. Nichol,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Isabelle Pâris,Isabelle Pâris,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Yodovina Piškur,Natalie A. Roe,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Nao Suzuki,Erin Sheldon,Uroš Seljak,Matteo Viel,David H. Weinberg,Christophe Yèche +48 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the position of the Baryonic Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) feature in the three-dimensional correlation function in the Lyman-α flux fluctuations at a redshift zeff = 2.4.
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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.