The Sloan digital sky survey reverberation mapping project : technical overview
- Shen, Y.
- Brandt, W.N.
- Dawson, K.S.
- Hall, P.B.
- McGreer, I.D.
- Anderson, S.F.
- Chen, Y.
- Denney, K.D.
- Eftekharzadeh, S.
- Fan, X.
- Gao, Y.
- Green, P.J.
- Greene, J.E.
- Ho, L.C.
- Horne, K.
- Jiang, L.
- Kelly, B.C.
- Kinemuchi, K.
- Kochanek, C.S.
- Pâris, I.
- Peters, C.M.
- Peterson, B.M.
- Petitjean, P.
- Ponder, K.
- Richards, G.T.
- Schneider, D.P.
- Seth, A.
- Smith, R.N.
- Strauss, M.A.
- Tao, C.
- Trump, J.R.
- Wood-Vasey, W.M.
- Zu, Y.
- Eisenstein, D.J.
- Pan, K.
- Bizyaev, D.
- Malanushenko, V.
- Malanushenko, E.
- Oravetz, D.
DOIAbstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project is a dedicated multi-object RM experiment that has spectroscopically monitored a sample of 849 broad-line quasars in a single 7 deg2 field with the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey spectrograph. The RM quasar sample is flux-limited to i psf = 21.7 mag, and covers a redshift range of 0.1 0.3, and will investigate the prospects of RM with all major broad lines covered in optical spectroscopy. SDSS-RM will provide guidance on future multi-object RM campaigns on larger scales, and is aiming to deliver more than tens of BLR lag detections for a homogeneous sample of quasars. We describe the motivation, design, and implementation of this program, and outline the...
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