Data Acquisition System Design* (2008)
D. Petravick, E. Berman, T. Nicinski, R. Rechenmacher, G. Oleynik, R. Pordes, ...
is participating in the Digital Sky Survey (DSS). Fermiiab
Average Properties of a Large Sample of z_abs ~ z_em associated Mg II Absorption Line Systems (2008)
Berk, D. Vanden, Khare, P., York, D. G., Richards, G. T., Lundgren, B., Alsayyad, Y., ...
We have studied a sample of 415 associated (z_ab z_em; relative velocity with respect to QSO
D. P. Schneider, Gary J. Hill, X. Fan, L. W. Ramsey, P. J. Macqueen, D. W. Weedman, ...
ABSTRACT. This paper describes spectra of quasar candidates acquired during the commissioning phase of the Low-Resolution Spectrograph of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The objects were identiÐed as...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary (2007)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, B., Becker, A., Choi, C., Cinabro, D., DeJongh, F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using...
Supernova / Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of the Dark Energy (2006)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
The Supernova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP) is a proposed space-based experiment designed to study the dark energy and alternative explanations of the acceleration of the Universe's expansion by...
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, M, Eisenstein, D, Strauss, M, Weinberg, D, Blanton, M, Frieman, J, ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline (2006)
Tucker, D. L., Kent, S., Richmond, M. W., Annis, J., Smith, J. A., Allam, S. S., ...
The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO),...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Luminous Red Galaxy Survey (2006)
Cannon, R., Drinkwater, M., Edge, A., Eisenstein, D., Nichol, R. C., Outram, P., ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15,000 candidate intermediate-redshift Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i=19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The targets...
Development of NIR detectors and science driven requirements for SNAP (2006)
Brown, M.G., Bebek, C., Bernstein, G., Bonissent, A., Carithers, B., Cole, D., ...
Precision near infrared (NIR) measurements are essential for the next generation of ground and space based instruments. The SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) will measure thousands of type Ia...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)
Cannon, R, Drinkwater, M, Edge, A, Eisenstein, D, Nichol, R, Outram, P, ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15 000 candidate intermediate-redshift luminous red galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i = 19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)
Cannon, R, Drinkwater, M, Edge, A, Eisenstein, D, Nichol, R, Outram, P, ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15 000 candidate intermediate-redshift luminous red galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i = 19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The...
Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae (2005)
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) will use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators to measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the Universe. (SNAP's weak-lensing...
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
SNAP is a candidate for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) that seeks to place constraints on the dark energy using two distinct methods. The first, Type Ia SN, is discussed in a companion white...
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (2005)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
For true insight into the nature of dark energy, measurements of the precision and accuracy of the Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) are required. Precursor or scaled-down experiments are...
The Fall 2004 SDSS Supernova Survey (2005)
Sako, Masao, Romani, Roger, Frieman, Josh, Adelman-McCarthy, Jen, Becker, Andrew, DeJongh, Fritz, ...
In preparation for the Supernova Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II, a proposed 3-year extension to the SDSS, we have conducted an early engineering and science run during the fall of...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The z (2005)
Richards, G. T., Croom, S. M., Anderson, S. F., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Boyle, B. J., De Propris, R., ...
We have used the 2dF instrument on the AAT to obtain redshifts of a sample of z
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog III. Third Data Release (2005)
Schneider, D. P., Hall, P. B., Richards, G. T., Berk, D. E. Vanden, Anderson, S. F., Fan, X., ...
We present the third edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 46,420 objects in the SDSS Third Data Release that have luminosities larger than M_i =...
Eisenstein, D. J., Zehavi, I., Hogg, D. W., Scoccimarro, R., Blanton, M. R., Nichol, R. C., ...
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over...
Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae (2005)
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) will use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators to measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the Universe. (SNAP's weak-lensing...
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
SNAP is a candidate for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) that seeks to place constraints on the dark energy using two distinct methods. The first, Type Ia SN, is discussed in a companion white...
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (2005)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
For true insight into the nature of dark energy, measurements of the precision and accuracy of the Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) are required. Precursor or scaled-down experiments are...
Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae (2005)
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) will use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators to measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the Universe. (SNAP's weak-lensing...
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
SNAP is a candidate for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) that seeks to place constraints on the dark energy using two distinct methods. The first, Type Ia SN, is discussed in a companion white...
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (2005)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
For true insight into the nature of dark energy, measurements of the precision and accuracy of the Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) are required. Precursor or scaled-down experiments are...
Richards, GT, Croom, SM, Anderson, SF, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Boyle, BJ, De Propris, R, ...
We have used the Two-Degree Field (2dF) instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to obtain redshifts of a sample of z < 3 and 18.0 < g < 21.85 quasars selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
Richards, GT, Croom, SM, Anderson, SF, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Boyle, BJ, De Propris, R, ...
We have used the Two-Degree Field (2dF) instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to obtain redshifts of a sample of z < 3 and 18.0 < g < 21.85 quasars selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
SDSS Data Management and Photometric Quality Assessment (2004)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Schlegel, D., Boroski, B., Adelman-McCarthy, J., Yanny, B., ...
We summarize the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data acquisition and processing steps, and describe runQA, a pipeline designed for automated data quality assessment. In particular, we show how the position...
Supernova / Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of the Dark Energy (2004)
Aldering, SNAP Collaboration: G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
The Supernova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP) is a proposed space-based experiment designed to study the dark energy and alternative explanations of the acceleration of the Universe's expansion by...
PRIME: A deep near-infrared survey project (2004)
Omont, A., Team, The Prime, Zheng, W., Ford, H. C., Kruk, J. W., Tsvetanov, Z. I., ...
A Catalog of Compact Groups of Galaxies in the SDSS Commissioning Data (2003)
Lee, B. C., Allam, S. S., Tucker, D. L., Annis, J., Blanton, M. R., Johnston, D. E., ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the...
Luminosity and Redshift Dependence of Quasar Spectral Properties (2003)
Berk, D. E. Vanden, Connolly, A. J., Jester, S., Stoughton, C.
Using a large sample of quasar spectra from the SDSS, we examine the composite spectral trends of quasars as functions of both redshift and luminosity, independently of one another. Aside from the...
Asymmetries in the Production of Lambda0 in 250 GeV/c pi+-, K+- and p -- Nucleon Interactions (2003)
Alves, G. A., Amato, S., Anjos, J. C., Appel, J. A., Astorga, J., Bernard, T., ...
Using data from Fermilab fixed-target experiment E769, we have measured particle-antiparticle production asymmetries for Lambda0 hyperons in 250 GeV/c pi+-, K+- and p -- nucleon interactions. The...
Data Mining the SDSS SkyServer Database (2002)
Gray, J, Szalay, A S, Thakar, A R, Kunszt, Zoltán, Stoughton, C, Slutz, D, ...
An earlier paper (Szalay et. al. "Designing and Mining MultiTerabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey," ACM SIGMOD 2000) described the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's (SDSS) data...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. I. Early data release (2002)
Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...
We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects ( 3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release...
Galaxy clustering in early Sloan Digital Sky Survey redshift data (2002)
Zehavi, I., Blanton, M. R., Frieman, J. A., Weinberg, D. H., Mo, H. J., Strauss, M. A., ...
We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5700 km s(-1) less than or equal...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, C., Lupton, R. H., Bernardi, M., Blanton, M. R., Burles, S., Castander, F. J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
LOTIS, Super-LOTIS, SDSS and Tautenburg Observations of GRB 010921 (2001)
Park, H. S., Williams, G. G., Hartmann, D. H., Lamb, D. Q., Lee, B. C., Tucker, D. L., ...
We present multi-instrument optical observations of the High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-2)/Interplanetary Network (IPN) error box of GRB 010921. This event was the first gamma ray burst (GRB)...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog I. Early Data Release (2001)
Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that...
Odenkirchen, M., Grebel, E. K., Rockosi, C. M., Dehnen, W., Ibata, R., ...
We report the discovery of two well-defined tidal tails emerging from the sparse remote globular cluster Palomar 5. These tails stretch out symmetrically to both sides of the cluster in the direction...
Using Multiple RISC CPUs in Parallel to Study Charm Quarks (2000)
We have integrated a system of 16 RISC CPUs to help reconstruct and analyze a 1.3 Terabyte data set of 400 million high energy physics interactions. These new CPUs provided an affordable means of...
Yanny, B., Newberg, H. J., Kent, S., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., Pier, J. R., Richards, G. T., ...
A sample of 4208 objects with magnitude 15 < g* < 22 and colors of main sequence A stars has been selected from 370 square degrees of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning observations. The...
Richards, GT, Croom, SM, Anderson, SF, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Boyle, BJ, De Propris, R, ...
We have used the Two-Degree Field (2dF) instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to obtain redshifts of a sample of z < 3 and 18.0 < g < 21.85 quasars selected from Sloan Digital...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Luminous Red Galaxy Survey
Cannon, R, Drinkwater, M, Edge, A, Eisenstein, D, Nichol, R, Outram, P, ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15 000 candidate intermediate-redshift luminous red galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i = 19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey monitor telescope pipeline
Kent, S., Richmond, M.W., Annis, J., Smith, J.A., Allam, S.S., Rodgers, C.T., ...
The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO),...