Chris Stoughton

A ground-based 21cm Baryon acoustic oscillation survey (2009)

Seo, Hee-Jong, Dodelson, Scott, Marriner, John, Mcginnis, Dave, Stebbins, Albert, Stoughton, Chris, ...

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide a robust standard ruler with which to measure the acceleration of the Universe. The BAO feature has so far been detected in optical galaxy surveys....

Noise and bias in square-root compression schemes (2009)

Bernstein, Gary M., Bebek, Chris, Rhodes, Jason, Stoughton, Chris, Vanderveld, Ali, Yeh, Penshu

We investigate data compression schemes for proposed all-sky diffraction-limited visible/NIR sky surveys aimed at the dark energy problem. We show that lossy square-root compression to 1 bit of noise...

Pixel-based correction for Charge Transfer Inefficiency in the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (2009)

Massey, Richard, Stoughton, Chris, Leauthaud, Alexie, Rhodes, Jason, Koekemoer, Anton, Ellis, Richard, ...

Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI) due to radiation damage above the Earth's atmosphere creates spurious trailing in Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images. Radiation damage also creates unrelated warm...

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample (2009)

Percival, Will J., Reid, Beth A., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Bahcall, Neta A., Budavari, Tamas, Frieman, Joshua A., ...

The spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) galaxy sample represents the final set of galaxies observed using the original SDSS target selection criteria. We analyse the...

Cosmological Constraints from the Clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Luminous Red Galaxies (2009)

Reid, Beth A., Percival, Will J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Verde, Licia, Spergel, David N., Skibba, Ramin A., ...

We present the power spectrum of the reconstructed halo density field derived from a sample of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release (DR7). The halo...

21 cm Intensity Mapping (2009)

Peterson, Jeffrey B., Aleksan, Roy, Ansari, Reza, Bandura, Kevin, Bond, Dick, Bunton, John, ...

Using the 21 cm line, observed all-sky and across the redshift range from 0 to 5, the large scale structure of the Universe can be mapped in three dimensions. This can be accomplished by studying...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2009)

Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...

We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at probing in...

Data Acquisition System Design* (2008)

D. Petravick, E. Berman, T. Nicinski, R. Rechenmacher, G. Oleynik, R. Pordes, ...

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The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)

Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...

We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. This is a deep, 18

The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System (2008)

Mohr, Joseph J., Barkhouse, Wayne, Beldica, Cristina, Bertin, Emmanuel, Cai, Y. Dora, Da Costa, Luiz, ...

The Dark Energy Survey collaboration will study cosmic acceleration with a 5000 deg2 griZY survey in the southern sky over 525 nights from 2011-2016. The DES data management (DESDM) system will be...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)

Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...

We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)

Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...

We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)

Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Anderson, Scott F., ...

We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...

Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...

We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS Stripe 82, and contains 58 million photometric...

Exploring the variable sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...

We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS stripe 82, which lies along the celestial equator...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)

Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., ...

We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Standard Star Catalog for stripe 82: the dawn of industrial 1% optical photometry (2007)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Allyn Smith, J., Miknaitis, Gajus, Lin, Huan, Tucker, Douglas, Lupton, Robert H., ...

We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of 10) in the ugriz system. The catalog includes 1.01 million...

The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

Photometric Calibration of the DES (2006)

Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James T., Lin, Huan, Kent, Stephen, Stoughton, Chris, Peoples, John, ...

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq deg griz imaging survey to be conducted using a proposed 3 sq deg (2.2deg-diameter) wide-field mosaic camera on the CTIO Blanco 4m telescope. The primary...

The SDSS Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Three (2006)

Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar survey: Quasar luminosity function from data release 3 (2006)

Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform...

The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...

The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...

Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)

Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...

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...

Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)

Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...

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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)

Cannon, Russell, Drinkwater, Michael, Edge, Alastair, Eisenstein, Daniel, Nichol, Robert, Outram, Phillip, ...

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 fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...

Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)

Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...

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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)

Cannon, Russell, Drinkwater, Michael, Edge, Alastair, Eisenstein, Daniel, Nichol, Robert, Outram, Phillip, ...

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 SDSS View of the Palomar-Green Bright Quasar Survey (2005)

Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Green, Richard F., Schmidt, Maarten, Hall, Patrick B., ...

We investigate the extent to which the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) is complete and representative of the general quasar population by comparing with imaging and spectroscopy from...

The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...

The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...

The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...

A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)

Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...

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 study...

The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...

The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...

A Survey of Open Clusters in the u'g'r'i'z' Filter System: I. Results for NGC2548 (M48) (2003)

Rider, Cristin J., Tucker, Douglas L., Smith, J. Allyn, Stoughton, Chris, Allam, Sahar S., Neilsen, Eric H.

We present initial results of a photometric survey of open star clusters, primarily in the southern hemisphere, taken in the u'g'r'i'z' filter system. While our entire observed sample covers more...

A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the RSDSS commissioning data (2003)

Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Blanton, Michael R., Johnston, David 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...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog II. First Data Release (2003)

Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Richards, Gordon T., Stoughton, Chris, ...

We present the second edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of 16713 objects in the SDSS First Data Release (DR1) that have luminosities larger than...

The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...

The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...

Photometric Redshifts for the SDSS Early Data Release (2002)

Csabai, Istvan, Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Gyory, Zsuzsanna, Benitez, Narciso, ...

The Early Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky survey provides one of the largest multicolor photometric catalogs currently available to the astronomical community. In this paper we present the...

Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Quasar Sample (2002)

Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We describe the algorithm for selecting quasar candidates for optical spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Quasar candidates are selected via their non-stellar colors in "ugriz" broad-band...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)

Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco 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 ≈ 106 galaxies,...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)

Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco 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 ≈ 106 galaxies,...

Evidence for Reionization at z ~ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in a z=6.28 Quasar (2001)

Becker, Robert H., Fan, Xiaohui, White, Richard L., Strauss, Michael A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., ...

We present moderate resolution Keck spectroscopy of quasars at z=5.82, 5.99 and 6.28, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the Ly Alpha absorption in the spectra of these...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Multicolor Observations of GRB010222 (2001)

Lee, Brian C., Tucker, Douglas L., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Yanny, Brian, Reichart, Daniel E., Adelman, Jennifer, ...

The discovery of an optical counterpart to GRB010222 (detected by BeppoSAX; Piro 2001) was announced 4.4 hrs after the burst by Henden (2001a). The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's 0.5m photometric...

QSOs and Absorption Line Systems Surrounding the Hubble Deep Field (2000)

Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Stoughton, Chris, Crotts, Arlin P. S., Tytler, David, Kirkman, David

We have imaged a 45x45 sq. arcmin. area centered on the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) in UBVRI passbands, down to respective limiting magnitudes of approximately 21.5, 22.5, 22.2, 22.2, and 21.2. The...