Examinando por Autor "Lang, Dustin"

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    ODIN: Improved Narrowband Lyα Emitter Selection Techniques for z = 2.4, 3.1, and 4.5
    (Institute of Physics, 2024-10) Firestone, Nicole M.; Gawiser, Eric; Ramakrishnan, Vandana; Lee, Kyoung-Soo; Valdes, Francisco; Park, Changbom; Yang, Yujin; Ciardullo, Robin; Artale, María Celeste; Benda, Barbara; Broussard, Adam; Eid, Lana; Farooq, Rameen; Gronwall, Caryl; Guaita, Lucia; Gwyn, Stephen; Hwang, Ho Seong; Im, Sang Hyeok; Jeong, Woong-Seob; Karthikeyan, Shreya; Lang, Dustin; Moon, Byeongha; Padilla, Nelson; Sawicki, Marcin; Seo, Eunsuk; Singh, Akriti; Song, Hyunmi; Troncoso Iribarren, Paulina
    Lyman-alpha-emitting galaxies (LAEs) are typically young, low-mass, star-forming galaxies with little extinction from interstellar dust. Their low dust attenuation allows their Lyα emission to shine brightly in spectroscopic and photometric observations, providing an observational window into the high-redshift Universe. Narrowband surveys reveal large, uniform samples of LAEs at specific redshifts that probe large-scale structure and the temporal evolution of galaxy properties. The One-hundred-deg2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN) utilizes three custom-made narrowband filters on the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to discover LAEs at three equally spaced periods in cosmological history. In this paper, we introduce the hybrid-weighted double-broadband continuum estimation technique, which yields improved estimation of Lyα equivalent widths. Using this method, we discover 6032, 5691, and 4066 LAE candidates at z = 2.4, 3.1, and 4.5 in the extended COSMOS field (∼9 deg2). We find that [O ii] emitters are a minimal contaminant in our LAE samples, but that interloping Green Pea-like [O iii] emitters are important for our redshift 4.5 sample. We introduce an innovative method for identifying [O ii] and [O iii] emitters via a combination of narrowband excess and galaxy colors, enabling their study as separate classes of objects. We present scaled median stacked spectral energy distributions for each galaxy sample, revealing the overall success of our selection methods. We also calculate rest-frame Lyα equivalent widths for our LAE samples and find that the EW distributions are best fit by exponential functions with scale lengths of w 0 = 53 ± 1, 65 ± 1, and 59 ± 1 Å, respectively.
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    The One-hundred-deg2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN): Survey Design and Science Goals
    (Institute of Physics, 2024-02-11) Lee, Kyoung-Soo; Gawiser, Eric; Park, Changbom; Yang, Yujin; Valdes, Francisco; Lang, Dustin; Ramakrishnan, Vandana; Moon, Byeongha; Firestone, Nicole; Appleby, Stephen; Artale, Maria Celeste; Andrews, Moira; Bauer, Franz; Benda, Barbara; Broussard, Adam; Chiang, Yi-Kuan; Ciardullo, Robin; Dey, Arjun; Farooq, Rameen; Gronwall, Caryl; Guaita, Lucia; Huang, Yun; Hwang, Ho Seong; Sang Hyeok; Jeong, Woong-Seob; Karthikeyan, Shreya; Kim, Hwihyun; Kim, Seongjae; Kumar, Ankit; Nagaraj, Gautam R.; Nantais, Julie; Padilla, Nelson; Park, Jaehong; Pope, Alexandra; Popescu, Roxana; Schlegel, David; Seo, Eunsuk; Singh, Akriti; Song, Hyunmi; Troncoso, Paulina; Vivas, A. Katherina; Zabludoff, Ann; Zenteno, Alfredo
    We describe the survey design and science goals for One-hundred-deg2 DECam Imaging in Narrowbands (ODIN), a NOIRLab survey using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to obtain deep (AB ∼ 25.7) narrowband images over an unprecedented area of sky. The three custom-built narrowband filters, N419, N501, and N673, have central wavelengths of 419, 501, and 673 nm and respective FWHM of 7.5, 7.6, and 10.0 nm, corresponding to Lyα at z = 2.4, 3.1, and 4.5 and cosmic times of 2.8, 2.1, and 1.4 Gyr, respectively. When combined with even deeper, public broadband data from the Hyper Suprime-Cam, DECam, and in the future, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, the ODIN narrowband images will enable the selection of over 100,000 Lyα-emitting (LAE) galaxies at these epochs. ODIN-selected LAEs will identify protoclusters as galaxy overdensities, and the deep narrowband images enable detection of highly extended Lyα blobs (LABs). Primary science goals include measuring the clustering strength and dark matter halo connection of LAEs, LABs, and protoclusters, and their respective relationship to filaments in the cosmic web. The three epochs allow for the redshift evolution of these properties to be determined during the period known as Cosmic Noon, where star formation was at its peak. The narrowband filter wavelengths are designed to enable interloper rejection and further scientific studies by revealing [O ii] and [O iii] at z = 0.34, Lyα and He ii 1640 at z = 3.1, and Lyman continuum plus Lyα at z = 4.5. Ancillary science includes similar studies of the lower-redshift emission-line galaxy samples and investigations of nearby star-forming galaxies resolved into numerous [O iii] and [S ii] emitting regions.
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    The SDSS-IV extended baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey: Overview and early data
    (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2016-02) Dawson, Kyle S.; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Percival, Will J.; Alam, Shadab; Albareti, Franco D.; Anderson, Scott F.; Armengaud, Eric; Aubourg, Éric; Bailey, Stephen; Bautista, Julian E.; Berlind, Andreas A.; Bershady, Matthew A.; Beutler, Florian; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Blanton, Michael R.; Blomqvist, Michael; Bolton, Adam S.; Bovy, Jo; Brandt, W.N.; Brinkmann, Jon; Brownstein, Joel R.; Burtin, Etienne; Busca, N.G.; Cai, Zheng; Chuang, Chia-Hsun; Clerc, Nicolas; Comparat, Johan; Cope, Frances; Croft, Rupert A. C.; Cruz-Gonzalez, Irene; Da Costa, Luiz N; Cousinou, Marie-Claude; Darling, Jeremy; De La MacOrra, Axel; De La Torre, Sylvain; Delubac, Timothée; Du Mas Des Bourboux, Hélion; Dwelly, Tom; Ealet, Anne; Eisenstein, Daniel J.; Eracleous, Michael; Escoffier, S.; Fan, Xiaohui; Finoguenov, Alexis; Font-Ribera, Andreu; Frinchaboy, Peter; Gaulme, Patrick; Georgakakis, Antonis; Green, Paul; Guo, Hong; Guy, Julien; Ho, Shirley; Holder, Diana; Huehnerhoff, Joe; Hutchinson, Timothy; Jing, Yipeng; Jullo, Eric; Kamble, Vikrant; Kinemuchi, Karen; Kirkby, David; Kitaura, Francisco-Shu; Klaene, Mark A.; Laher, Russ R.; Lang, Dustin; Laurent, Pierre; Goff, Jean-Marc Le; Li, Cheng; Liang, Yu; Lima, Marcos; Lin, Qiufan; Lin, Weipeng; Lin, Yen-Ting; Long, Daniel C.; Lundgren, Britt; MacDonald, Nicholas; Maia, Marcio Antonio Geimba; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Mariappan, Vivek; McBride, Cameron K.; McGreer, Ian D.; Ménard, Brice; Merloni, Andrea; Meza, Andres; Montero-Dorta, Antonio D.; Muna, Demitri; Myers, Adam D.; Nandra, Kirpal; Naugle, Tracy; Newman, Jeffrey A.; Noterdaeme, Pasquier; Nugent, Peter; Ogando, Ricardo; Olmstead, Matthew D.; Oravetz, Audrey; Oravetz, Daniel J.; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie; Pan, Kaike; Parejko, John K.; Pâris, Isabelle; Peacock, John A.; Petitjean, Patrick; Pieri, Matthew M.; Pisani, Alice; Prada, Francisco; Prakash, Abhishek; Raichoor, Anand; Reid, Beth; Rich, James; Ridl, Jethro; Rodriguez-Torres, Sergio; Rosell, Aurelio Carnero; Ross, Ashley J.; Rossi, Graziano; Ruan, John; Salvato, Mara; Sayres, Conor; Schneider, Donald P.; Schlegel, David J.; Seljak, Uros; Seo, Hee-Jong; Sesar, Branimir; Shandera, Sarah; Shu, Yiping; Slosar, Anže; Sobreira, Flavia; Streblyanska, Alina; Suzuki, Nao; Taylor, Donna; Tao, Charling; Tinker, Jeremy L.; Tojeiro, Rita; Vargas-Magaña, Mariana; Wang, Yuting; Weaver, Benjamin A.; Weinberg, David H.; White, Martin; Wood-Vasey, W.M.; Yeche, Christophe; Zhai, Zhongxu; Zhao, Cheng; Zhao, Gong-Bo; Zheng, Zheng; Zhu, Guangtun Ben; Zou, Hu
    In a six-year program started in 2014 July, the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) will conduct novel cosmological observations using the BOSS spectrograph at Apache Point Observatory. These observations will be conducted simultaneously with the Time Domain Spectroscopic Survey (TDSS) designed for variability studies and the Spectroscopic Identification of eROSITA Sources (SPIDERS) program designed for studies of X-ray sources. In particular, eBOSS will measure with percent-level precision the distance-redshift relation with baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter. eBOSS will use four different tracers of the underlying matter density field to vastly expand the volume covered by BOSS and map the large-scale structures over the relatively unconstrained redshift range 0.6 < z < 2.2. Using more than 250,000 new, spectroscopically confirmed luminous red galaxies at a median redshift z = 0.72, we project that eBOSS will yield measurements of the angular diameter distance dA(z) to an accuracy of 1.2% and measurements of H(z) to 2.1% when combined with the z > 0.6 sample of BOSS galaxies. With ∼195,000 new emission line galaxy redshifts, we expect BAO measurements of dA(z) to an accuracy of 3.1% and H(z) to 4.7% at an effective redshift of z = 0.87. A sample of more than 500,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars will provide the first BAO distance measurements over the redshift range 0.9 < z < 2.2, with expected precision of 2.8% and 4.2% on dA(z) and H(z), respectively. Finally, with 60,000 new quasars and re-observation of 60,000 BOSS quasars, we will obtain new Lyα forest measurements at redshifts z > 2.1; these new data will enhance the precision of dA(z) and H(z) at z > 2.1 by a factor of 1.44 relative to BOSS. Furthermore, eBOSS will provide improved tests of General Relativity on cosmological scales through redshift-space distortion measurements, improved tests for non Gaussianity in the primordial density field, and new constraints on the summed mass of all neutrino species. Here, we provide an overview of the cosmological goals, spectroscopic target sample, demonstration of spectral quality from early data, and projected cosmological constraints from eBOSS.