@article {604565,
	title = {The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: observational systematics and baryon acoustic oscillations in the correlation function},
	journal = {Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
	volume = {464},
	year = {2017},
	month = {January 1, 2017},
	pages = {1168-1191},
	abstract = {We present baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) scale measurementsdetermined from the clustering of 1.2 million massive galaxies withredshifts 0.2 < z < 0.75 distributed over 9300 deg2, asquantified by their redshift-space correlation function. In order tofacilitate these measurements, we define, describe, and motivate theselection function for galaxies in the final data release (DR12) of theSDSS III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This includesthe observational footprint, masks for image quality and Galacticextinction, and weights to account for density relationships intrinsicto the imaging and spectroscopic portions of the survey. We simulate theobserved systematic trends in mock galaxy samples and demonstrate thatthey impart no bias on BAO scale measurements and have a minor impact onthe recovered statistical uncertainty. We measure transverse and radialBAO distance measurements in 0.2 < z < 0.5, 0.5 < z < 0.75,and (overlapping) 0.4 < z < 0.6 redshift bins. In each redshiftbin, we obtain a precision that is 2.7 per cent or better on the radialdistance and 1.6 per cent or better on the transverse distance. Thecombination of the redshift bins represents 1.8 per cent precision onthe radial distance and 1.1 per cent precision on the transversedistance. This paper is part of a set that analyses the final galaxyclustering data set from BOSS. The measurements and likelihoodspresented here are combined with others in Alam et al. to produce thefinal cosmological constraints from BOSS.},
	keywords = {cosmology: observations;  large-scale structure of Universe},
	isbn = {0035-8711},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.464.1168R},
	author = {Ashley J. Ross and Beutler, Florian and Chuang, Chia-Hsun and Pellejero-Ibanez, Marcos and Seo, Hee-Jong and Vargas-Maga{\~n}a, Mariana and Antonio J. Cuesta and Will J. Percival and Burden, Angela and S{\'a}nchez, Ariel G. and Niklas Grieb, Jan and Reid, Beth and Brownstein, Joel R. and Dawson, Kyle S. and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Ho, Shirley and Francisco-Shu Kitaura and Robert C. Nichol and Olmstead, Matthew D. and Prada, Francisco and Rodr{\'\i}guez-Torres, Sergio A. and Saito, Shun and Salazar-Albornoz, Salvador and Schneider, Donald P. and Thomas, Daniel and Tinker, Jeremy and Tojeiro, Rita and Wang, Yuting and White, Martin and Zhao, Gong-bo}
}
