THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY REVERBERATION MAPPING PROJECT: FIRST BROAD-LINE Hβ AND Mg ii LAGS AT z ≳ 0.3 FROM SIX-MONTH SPECTROSCOPY

Support for the work of Y.S. was provided by NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant number HST-HF-51314, awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS 5-26555. K.H. acknowledges support from UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) grant ST/M001296/1. C.J.G. and W.N.B. acknowledge support from NSF grant AST-1517113 and the V.M. Willaman Endowment. B.M.P. is grateful for support from the National Science Foundation through grant AST-1008882. K.D.D. is supported by an NSF AAPF fellowship awarded under NSF grant AST-1302093. J.R.T. acknowledges support from NASA through Hubble Fellowship grant HST-HF-51330 awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA under contract NAS 5-26555. M.S. acknowledges support from the China Scholarship Council (No. [2013]3009). L.C.H. is supported by the Chinese Academy of Science through grant No. XDB09030102 (Emergence of Cosmological Structures) from the strategic Priority Research Program, and from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through grant No. 11473002. L.J. acknowledges the support from a 985 project at Peking University. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

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