Mock Quasar-Lyman-{\alpha} Forest Data-sets for the SDSS-III Baryon
  Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
  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.
