Mock Quasar-Lyman-alpha forest data-sets for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

作者：Bautista Julian E^*; Bailey Stephen; Font Ribera Andreu; Pieri Matthew M; Busca Nicolas G; Miralda Escude Jordi; Palanque Delabrouille Nathalie; Rich James; Dawson Kyle; Feng Yu; Ge Jian; Gontcho Satya A Gontcho; Ho Shirley; Le Goff Jean Marc; Noterdaeme Pasquier; Paris Isabelle; Rossi Graziano; Schlegel David

来源：Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015, 2015(5): 060.

DOI：10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/060

• redshift surveys
• Lyman alpha forest
• baryon acoustic oscillations

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 Ly alpha 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 Ly alpha 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.

• 出版日期2015-5
• 单位中国地震局