Donald P. Schneider

Type II-P Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey and the Standardized Candle Method (2009)

D'Andrea, Chris B., Sako, Masao, Dilday, Benjamin, Frieman, Joshua A., Holtzman, Jon, Kessler, Richard, ...

We apply the Standardized Candle Method (SCM) for Type II Plateau supernovae (SNe II-P), which relates the velocity of the ejecta of a SN to its luminosity during the plateau, to 15 SNe II-P...

Ten More New Sightlines for the Study of Intergalactic Helium, and Hundreds of Far-UV-Bright Quasars, from SDSS, GALEX, and HST (2009)

Syphers, David, Anderson, Scott F., Zheng, Wei, Haggard, Daryl, Meiksin, Avery, Schneider, Donald P., ...

Absorption along quasar sightlines remains among the most sensitive direct measures of HeII reionization in much of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Until recently, fewer than a half-dozen unobscured...

First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters (2009)

Kessler, Richard, Becker, Andrew, Cinabro, David, Vanderplas, Jake, Frieman, Joshua A., Marriner, John, ...

We present measurements of the Hubble diagram for 103 Type Ia supernovae (SNe) with redshifts 0.04 < z < 0.42, discovered during the first season (Fall 2005) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: Photometry and Supernova Ia Light Curves from the 2005 data (2009)

Holtzman, Jon A., Marriner, John, Kessler, Richard, Sako, Masao, Dilday, Ben, Frieman, Joshua A., ...

We present ugriz light curves for 146 spectroscopically confirmed or spectroscopically probable Type Ia supernovae from the 2005 season of the SDSS-II Supernova survey. The light curves have been...

Binary Quasars at High Redshift I: 24 New Quasar Pairs at z ~ 3-4 (2009)

Hennawi, Joseph F., Myers, Adam D., Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Djorgovski, S. G., Fan, Xiaohui, ...

The clustering of quasars on small scales yields fundamental constraints on models of quasar evolution and the buildup of supermassive black holes. This paper describes the first systematic survey to...

The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Large-Scale Clustering in the SDSS LRG Sample (2009)

Kazin, Eyal A., Blanton, Michael R., Scoccimarro, Roman, McBride, Cameron K., Berlind, Andreas A., Bahcall, Neta A., ...

We examine the correlation function \xi of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Luminous Red Galaxy sample (LRG) at large scales (60

The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7 (2009)

Freedman, Wendy L., Burns, Christopher R., Phillips, M. M., Wyatt, Pamela, Persson, S. E., Madore, Barry F., ...

The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is designed to measure the luminosity distance for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift, and to set observational constraints on the dark energy...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the QSO luminosity function at 0.4 (2009)

Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Strauss, Michael A., Myers, Adam D., ...

We present the QSO luminosity function of the completed 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey, based on QSOs photometrically selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data and then observed...

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...

A Survey of z ~ 6 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Deep Stripe. II. Discovery of Six Quasars at z AB>21 (2009)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Bian, Fuyan, Annis, James, Chiu, Kuenley, Jester, Sebastian, ...

We present the discovery of six new quasars at z ~ 6 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along the...

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2009)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes...

A Survey of z~6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe. II. Discovery of Six Quasars at z_{AB}>21 (2009)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Bian, Fuyan, Annis, James, Chiu, Kuenley, Jester, Sebastian, ...

We present the discovery of six new quasars at z~6 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along the...

High-Redshift SDSS Quasars with Weak Emission Lines (2009)

Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Fan, Xiaohui, Brandt, W. N., Shemmer, Ohad, Strauss, Michael A., Anderson, Scott F., ...

We identify a sample of 74 high-redshift quasars (z>3) with weak emission lines from the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and present infrared, optical, and radio observations of a...

Eight-dimensional mid-infrared/optical Bayesian quasar selection (2009)

Richards, Gordon T., Deo, Rajesh P., Lacy, Mark, Myers, Adam D., Nichol, Robert C., Zakamska, Nadia L., ...

We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-infrared (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Sloan Digital Sky...

Clustering of Low-Redshift (z (2009)

Ross, Nicholas P., Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Connolly, Andrew J., Richards, Gordon T., ...

We present measurements of the quasar two-point correlation function, \xi_{Q}, over the redshift range z=0.3-2.2 based upon data from the SDSS. Using a homogeneous sample of 30,239 quasars with...

A Cross-Correlation Analysis of Mg II Absorption Line Systems and Luminous Red Galaxies from the SDSS DR5 (2009)

Lundgren, Britt F., Brunner, Robert J., York, Donald G., Ross, Ashley J., Quashnock, Jean M., Myers, Adam D., ...

We analyze the cross-correlation of 2,705 unambiguously intervening Mg II (2796,2803A) quasar absorption line systems with 1,495,604 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Fifth Data Release of the...

X-ray Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at High Redshift (2009)

Shemmer, Ohad, Brandt, W. N., Anderson, Scott F., Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...

We present Chandra observations of nine high-redshift quasars (z=2.7-5.9) discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with weak or undetectable high-ionization emission lines in their UV spectra...

X-Ray Insights Into the Physics of Mini-BAL Quasar Outflows (2009)

Gibson, Robert R., Brandt, W. N., Gallagher, S. C., Schneider, Donald P.

We examine the UV and X-ray properties of 256 radio-quiet SDSS quasars (QSOs) observed in X-rays with Chandra and/or XMM-Newton in order to study the relationship between QSOs with broad CIV...

Cataclysmic Variables from SDSS VII. The Seventh Year (2006) (2009)

Szkody, Paula, Anderson, Scott F., Hayden, Michael, Kronberg, Martin, McGurk, Rosalie, Riecken, Thomas, ...

Coordinates, magnitudes and spectra are presented for 39 cataclysmic variables found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra that were primarily obtained in 2006. Of these, 12 were CVs identified prior...

2006 SQ372: A Likely Long-Period Comet from the Inner Oort Cloud (2009)

Kaib, Nathan A., Becker, Andrew C., Jones, R. Lynne, Puckett, Andrew W., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Dilday, Benjamin, ...

We report the discovery of a minor planet (2006 SQ372) on an orbit with a perihelion of 24 AU and a semimajor axis of 796 AU. Dynamical simulations show that this is a transient orbit and is unstable...

CCD observations of clusters of galaxies (2008)

Schneider, Donald P.

A sample of 84 Abell clusters has been investigated to determine photometric and metric properties of brightest cluster galaxies as a function of cluster richness. The clusters are distributed fairly...

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

Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties (2008)

Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Ross, Nicholas P., Hall, Patrick B., Lin, Yen-Ting, Richards, Gordon T., ...

Using a homogenous sample of 38,208 quasars with a sky coverage of $4000 {\rm deg^2}$ drawn from the SDSS Data Release Five quasar catalog, we study the dependence of quasar clustering on luminosity,...

Eight-Dimensional Mid-Infrared/Optical Bayesian Quasar Selection (2008)

Richards, Gordon T., Deo, Rajesh P., Lacy, Mark, Myers, Adam D., Nichol, Robert C., Zakamska, Nadia L., ...

We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-IR (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-IRAC and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We apply modern...

A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (2008)

Gibson, Robert R., Jiang, Linhua, Brandt, W. N., Hall, Patrick B., Shen, Yue, Wu, Jianfeng, ...

We present a catalog of 5039 broad absorption line (BAL) quasars (QSOs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) QSO catalog that have absorption troughs covering a continuous...

Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. ~1,000,000 Quasars from Data Release Six (2008)

Richards, Gordon T., Myers, Adam D., Gray, Alexander G., Riegel, Ryan N., Nichol, Robert C., Brunner, Robert J., ...

We present a catalog of 1,172,157 quasar candidates selected from the photometric imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The objects are all point sources to a limiting magnitude of...

A High Yield of New Sightlines for the Study of Intergalactic Helium: Far-UV-Bright Quasars from SDSS, GALEX, and HST (2008)

Syphers, David, Anderson, Scott F., Zheng, Wei, Haggard, Daryl, Meiksin, Avery, Chiu, Kuenley, ...

Investigations of He II Ly-alpha (304 A rest) absorption toward a half-dozen quasars at z~3-4 have demonstrated the great potential of helium studies of the IGM, but the current critically small...

Five New High-Redshift Quasar Lenses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Shin, Min-Su, Kayo, Issha, Strauss, Michael A., Morokuma, Tomoki, ...

We report the discovery of five gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). All five systems are selected as two-image lensed quasar candidates from a sample of...

Mass models and environment of the new quadruply lensed quasar SDSS J1330+1810 (2008)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Blackburne, Jeffrey A., Shin, Min-Su, Kayo, Issha, Strauss, Michael A., ...

We present the discovery of a new quadruply lensed quasar. The lens system, SDSS J1330+1810 at z_s=1.393, was identified as a lens candidate from the spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky...

Are Optically-Selected Quasars Universally X-Ray Luminous? X-Ray/UV Relations in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars (2008)

Gibson, Robert R., Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P.

We analyze archived Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observations of 536 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) quasars (QSOs) at 1.7

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity (2008)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...

Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F and G type main sequence stars (0.2

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

A Large Sample of BL Lacs from SDSS and FIRST (2008)

Plotkin, Richard M., Anderson, Scott F., Hall, Patrick B., Margon, Bruce, Voges, Wolfgang, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We present a large sample of 501 radio-selected BL Lac candidates from the combination of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 optical spectroscopy and from the Faint Images of the...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6 (2008)

Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton M., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Cannon, Russell, ...

We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey carefully...

First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey (2008)

Zheng, Chen, Romani, Roger W., Sako, Masao, Marriner, John, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, ...

This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band light curves of...

HST Images of Twenty Nearby Luminous (2008)

John N. Bahcall, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider

Abstract. We present observations with the Hubble Space Telescope for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These observations show that...

A new survey for giant arcs (2008)

Hennawi, Joseph F., Gladders, Michael D., Oguri, Masamune, Dalal, Neal, Koester, Benjamin, Natarajan, Priyamvada, ...

We report on the first results of an imaging survey to detect strong gravitational lensing targeting the richest clusters selected from the photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. III. Constraints on dark energy from the third data release quasar lens catalog (2008)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...

We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical lens sample from the third data release (2008)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...

We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)

Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...

We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)

Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...

We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6 (2008)

Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...

We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6 (2008)

Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...

We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)

Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...

We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6 (2008)

Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...

We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)

Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...

We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6 (2008)

Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...

We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...

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...

Thermal emission from warm dust in the most distant quasars (2008)

Wang, Ran, Carilli, Chris L., Wagg, Jeff, Bertoldi, Frank, Walter, Fabian, Menten, Karl M., ...

We report new continuum observations of 14 z~6 quasars at 250 GHz and 14 quasars at 1.4 GHz. We summarize all recent millimeter and radio observations of the sample of the 33 quasars known with...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar lens search. III. Constraints on dark energy from the Third Data Release Quasar Lens Catalog (2008)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...

We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...

A survey of z ~ 6 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Deep Stripe. I. a Flux-Limited Sample at zAB < 21 (2008)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Annis, James, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We present the discovery of five quasars at z ~ 6 selected from 260 deg2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along...

The milky way tomography with SDSS. II. Stellar metallicity (2008)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...

Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F- and G-type main-sequence stars (0.2

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar lens search. II. Statistical lens sample from the Third Data Release (2008)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...

We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...

The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo (2008)

Bell, Eric F., Zucker, Daniel B., Belokurov, Vasily, Sharma, Sanjib, Johnston, Kathryn V., Bullock, James S., ...

We have used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 to explore the overall structure and substructure of the stellar halo of the Milky Way using ~4 million color-selected...

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)

Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...

We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: evolution of the clustering of luminous red galaxies since z = 0.6 (2008)

Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...

We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...

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...

Do broad absorption line quasars live in different environments from ordinary quasars? (2007)

Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Schneider, Donald P., York, Donald G., Bahcall, Neta A.

We select a sample of $\sim 4200$ traditionally defined broad absorption line quasars (BALQs) from the Fifth Data Release quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For a statistically...

Quasar Broad Absorption Line Variability on Multi-Year Time Scales (2007)

Gibson, Robert R., Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P., Gallagher, S. C.

We use quantitative metrics to characterize the variation of CIV 1549 A broad absorption lines (BALs) over 3--6 (rest-frame) years in a sample of 13 quasars at 1.7

Large-Scale Anisotropic Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2007)

Okumura, Teppei, Matsubara, Takahiko, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Kayo, Issha, Hikage, Chiaki, Szalay, Alexander S., ...

We study the large-scale anisotropic two-point correlation function using 46,760 luminous red galaxies at redshifts 0.16 -- 0.47 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We measure the correlation function...

Galaxy Clustering Around Nearby Luminous Quasars (2007)

Karl Fisher John, John N. Bahcall, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider, Hubble Space Telescope

We examine the clustering of galaxies around a sample of 20 luminous low redshift (z ! 0:30) quasars observed with the Wide Field Camera-2 on the Hubble Space Telescope. The HST resolution makes...

Hubble Space Telescope Images Of A Sample Of Twenty Nearby Luminous Quasars (2007)

John Bahcall Sofia, Sofia Kirhakos, David H. Saxe, Donald P. Schneider

Observations with the Wide-Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are presented for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These...

HST Images of Twenty Nearby Luminous Quasars (2007)

John Bahcall Sofia, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider

. We present observations with the Hubble Space Telescope for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These observations show that luminous...

The Apparently Normal Galaxy Hosts For Two Luminous Quasars (2007)

John Bahcall Sofia, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider

HST images (with WFPC2) of PHL 909 (z = 0:171) and PG 0052+251 (z = 0:155) show that these luminous radio-quiet quasars each occur in an apparently normal host galaxy. The host galaxy of PHL 909 is...

A Study of Quasar Clustering at (2007)

From The Palomar, Andrew W. Stephens, Donald P. Schneider, Maarten Schmidt, James E. Gunn, David H. Weinberg

The quest for structure indicators at earlier and earlier times in the evolution of the universe has led to the search for objects with ever higher redshifts. The Palomar Transit Grism Survey has...

Xiaohui Fan (2007)

Xiaohui Fan, Michael Strauss, Donald P. Schneider, James E. Gunn, Robert H. Lupton, Brian Yanny, ...

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of 15 high-redshift quasars (z ? 3:6) discovered from ¸ 140 deg 2 of five-color (u 0 g 0 r 0 i 0 z 0 ) imaging data taken by the Sloan Digital...

A new quadruply lensed quasar: SDSS J125107.57+293540.5 (2007)

Kayo, Issha, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Hall, Patrick B., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., ...

We report the discovery of a quadruply imaged quasar, SDSS J125107.57+293540.5, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Follow-up imaging reveals that the system consists of four blue pointlike...

Quasar Clustering at $25\kpch$ from a Complete Sample of Binaries (2007)

Myers, Adam D., Richards, Gordon T., Brunner, Robert J., Schneider, Donald P., Strand, Natalie E., Hall, Patrick B., ...

We present spectroscopy of binary quasar candidates selected from Data Release 4 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR4) using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE). We present 27 new sets of...

Biases in Virial Black Hole Masses: An SDSS Perspective (2007)

Shen, Yue, Greene, Jenny E., Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P.

We compile black hole (BH) masses for $\sim 60,000$ quasars in the redshift range $0.1 \lesssim z \lesssim 4.5$ included in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using virial...

A Survey of z~6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe: I. a Flux-Limited Sample at z_{AB} (2007)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Annis, James, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We present the discovery of five quasars at z~6 selected from 260 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. III. Constraints on Dark Energy from the Third Data Release Quasar Lens Catalog (2007)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...

We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical Lens Sample from the Third Data Release (2007)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...

We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...

Discovery of Four Gravitationally Lensed Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Clocchiatti, Alejandro, Kayo, Issha, Shin, Min-Su, Hennawi, Joseph F., ...

We present the discovery of four gravitationally lensed quasars selected from the spectroscopic quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We describe imaging and spectroscopic follow-up...

Improved Photometric Calibrations for Red Stars Observed with the SDSS Photometric Telescope (2007)

Davenport, James R. A., Bochanski, John J., Covey, Kevin R., Hawley, Suzanne L., West, Andrew A., Schneider, Donald P.

We present a new set of photometric transformations for red stars observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 0.5-m Photometric Telescope (PT) and the SDSS 2.5-m telescope at the Apache Point...

Stellar SEDs from 0.3-2.5 Microns: Tracing the Stellar Locus and Searching for Color Outliers in SDSS and 2MASS (2007)

Covey, Kevin R., Ivezic, Zeljko, Schlegel, David J., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Lupton, Robert H., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) are rich resources for studying stellar astrophysics and the structure and formation history of the Galaxy. As new surveys...

Exploring the Local Milky Way: M Dwarfs as Tracers of Galactic Populations (2007)

Bochanski, John J., Munn, Jeffrey A., Hawley, Suzanne L., West, Andrew A., Covey, Kevin R., Schneider, Donald P.

We have assembled a spectroscopic sample of low-mass dwarfs observed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey along one Galactic sightline, designed to investigate the observable properties of the...

A New Quadruply Lensed Quasar: SDSSJ125107.57+293540.5 (2007)

Kayo, Issha, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Hall, Patrick B., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., ...

We report the discovery of a quadruply imaged quasar, SDSSJ125107.57+293540.5, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Follow-up imaging reveals that the system consists of four blue point-like...

The Overdensity in Virgo, Sagittarius Debris, and the Asymmetric Spheroid (2007)

Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Cole, Nate, Beers, Timothy C., Fiorentin, Paola Re, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We investigate the relationship between several previously identified Galactic halo stellar structures in the direction of Virgo using imaging and spectroscopic observations of F turnoff stars and...

Spatial Variations of Galaxy Number Counts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. II. Test of Galactic Extinction in High Extinction Regions (2007)

Yasuda, Naoki, Fukugita, Masataka, Schneider, Donald P.

Galactic extinction is tested using galaxy number counts at low Galactic latitude obtained from five band photometry of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The spatial variation of galaxy number counts for...

The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo (2007)

Bell, Eric F., Zucker, Daniel B., Belokurov, Vasily, Sharma, Sanjib, Johnston, Kathryn V., Bullock, James S., ...

We have used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 to explore the overall structure and substructure of the stellar halo of the Milky Way using about 4 million color-selected...

Ten Year Review of Queue Scheduling of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (2007)

Shetrone, Matthew, Cornell, Mark E., Fowler, James R., Gaffney, Niall, Laws, Benjamin, Mader, Jeff, ...

This paper presents a summary of the first 10 years of operating the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) in queue mode. The scheduling can be quite complex but has worked effectively for obtaining the most...

Clustering of high-redshift (z >= 2.9) quasars from the sloan digital sky survey (2007)

Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Hennawi, Joseph F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...

We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4426 luminous optical quasars with redshift 2:9 z 5:4 selected over 4041 deg2 from the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan...

A Catalogue of Morphologically Classified Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: North Equatorial Region (2007)

Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Okamura, Sadanori, Yasuda, Naoki, Barentine, John C., Brinkmann, Jon, ...

We present a catalogue of morphologically classified bright galaxies in the north equatorial stripe (230 deg$^2$) derived from the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)....

New Close Binary Systems from the SDSS-I (Data Release Five) and the Search for Magnetic White Dwarfs in Cataclysmic Variable Progenitor Systems (2007)

Silvestri, Nicole M., Lemagie, Mara P., Hawley, Suzanne L., West, Andrew A., Schmidt, Gary D., Liebert, James, ...

We present the latest catalog of more than 1200 spectroscopically-selected close binary systems observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey through Data Release Five. We use the catalog to search for...

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...

Simulations for Multi-Object Spectrograph Planet Surveys (2007)

Kane, Stephen R., Schneider, Donald P., Ge, Jian

Radial velocity surveys for extra-solar planets generally require substantial amounts of large telescope time in order to monitor a sufficient number of stars. Two of the aspects which can limit such...

Clustering of High Redshift ($z\ge 2.9$) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Hennawi, Joseph F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...

(Abridged) We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4,426 luminous optical quasars with redshift $2.9 \le z\le 5.4$ selected over 4041 deg$^2$ from the Fifth Data...

Discovery of a gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J133222.62+034739.9 (2007)

Morokuma, Tomoki, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi, Kawano, Yozo, Tokita, Kouichi, ...

We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J133222.62+034739.9 (SDSS J1332+ 0347) with an image separation of ¼1:1400. This system consists of a source quasar at zs...

Two new gravitationally lensed double quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Kayo, Issha, Kochanek, Christopher S., ...

We report the discoveries of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasars SDSS J074653.03+440351.3 and SDSS J140624.82+612640.9, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS J0746+4403,...

MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)

Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...

We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. 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, 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...

The overdensity in Virgo, Sagittarius Debris, and the asymmetric spheroid (2007)

Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Cole, Nate, Beers, Timothy C., Re Fiorentin, Paola, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We investigate the relationship between several previously identified Galactic halo stellar structures in the direction of Virgo using imaging and spectroscopic observations of F turnoff stars and...

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...

MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)

Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...

We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...

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...

MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)

Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...

We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...

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...

MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)

Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...

We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...

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...

MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)

Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...

We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...

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...

Reverberation Mapping of High-Luminosity Quasars: First Results (2006)

Kaspi, Shai, Brandt, W. N., Maoz, Dan, Netzer, Hagai, Schneider, Donald P., Shemmer, Ohad

Reverberation mapping of nearby active galactic nuclei has led to estimates of broad-line-region (BLR) sizes and central-object masses for some 37 objects to date. However, successful reverberation...

SDSS J1029_2623: a gravitationally lensed quasar with an image separation of 22.5 inches (2006)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Morokuma, Tomoki, Doi, Mamoru, Yasuda, Naoki, Becker, Robert H., ...

We report the discovery of a cluster-scale lensed quasar, SDSS J1029+2623, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The lens system exhibits two lensed images of a quasar at z p 2.197. The image...

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 Survey: The LRG 2-Point Correlation Function and Redshift-Space Distortions (2006)

Ross, Nicholas P., Da Angela, J., Shanks, T., Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, A. C., ...

We present a clustering analysis of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) using nearly 9 000 objects from the final catalogue of the 2dF-SDSS LRG And QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. We measure the redshift-space...

Clustering Analyses of 300,000 Photometrically Classified Quasars--I. Luminosity and Redshift Evolution in Quasar Bias (2006)

Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Nichol, Robert C., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, Neta A.

Using ~300,000 photometrically classified quasars, by far the largest quasar sample ever used for such analyses, we study the redshift and luminosity evolution of quasar clustering on scales of ~50...

Clustering Analyses of 300,000 Photometrically Classified Quasars--II. The Excess on Very Small Scales (2006)

Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, Neta A.

We study quasar clustering on small scales, modeling clustering amplitudes using halo-driven dark matter descriptions. From 91 pairs on scales 2, than at z < 2, at the $2.0\sigma$ level. However, as...

Radio galaxies in the 2SLAQ Luminous Red Galaxy Survey: I. The evolution of low-power radio galaxies to z~0.7 (2006)

Sadler, Elaine M., Cannon, Russell D., Mauch, Tom, Hancock, Paul J., Wake, David A., Ross, Nic, ...

We have combined optical data from the 2dF-SDSS Luminous Red Galaxy and QSO (2SLAQ) redshift survey with radio measurements from the 1.4 GHz VLA FIRST and NVSS surveys to identify a volume-limited...

The Radio-Loud Fraction of Quasars is a Strong Function of Redshift and Optical Luminosity (2006)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Ivezic, Zeljko, Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., ...

Using a sample of optically-selected quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we have determined the radio-loud fraction (RLF) of quasars as a function of redshift and optical luminosity. The...

SDSS J1029+2623: A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with an Image Separation of 22.5 Arcseconds (2006)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Morokuma, Tomoki, Doi, Mamoru, Yasuda, Naoki, Becker, Robert H., ...

We report the discovery of a cluster-scale lensed quasar, SDSS J1029+2623, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The lens system exhibits two lensed images of a quasar at z_s=2.197. The image...

Two Additions to the New Class of Low Accretion-Rate Magnetic Binaries (2006)

Schmidt, Gary D., Szkody, Paula, Henden, Arne, Anderson, Scott F., Lamb, Don Q., Margon, Bruce, ...

Two new magnetic white dwarf accretion binaries with extremely low mass-transfer rates have been discovered in the course of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Measured magnetic fields are 42 MG and 57...

Broad Absorption Line Variability in Repeat Quasar Observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Lundgren, Britt F., Wilhite, Brian C., Brunner, Robert J., Hall, Patrick B., Schneider, Donald P., York, Donald G., ...

We present a time-variability analysis of 29 broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs) observed in two epochs by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These spectra are selected from a larger sample of...

A New Survey for Giant Arcs (2006)

Hennawi, Joseph F., Gladders, Michael D., Oguri, Masamune, Dalal, Neal, Koester, Benjamin, Natarajan, Priyamvada, ...

We report on the first results of an imaging survey to detect strong gravitational lensing targeting the richest clusters selected from the photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)...

Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J133222.62+034739.9 (2006)

Morokuma, Tomoki, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi, Kawano, Yozo, Tokita, Kouichi, ...

We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J133222.62+034739.9 (SDSS J1332+0347) with an image separation of Delta_theta=1.14". This system consists of a source...

Two New Gravitationally Lensed Double Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Kayo, Issha, Kochanek, Christopher S., ...

We report the discoveries of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasars, SDSS J0746+4403 and SDSS J1406+6126, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS J0746+4403, which will be...

A Large, Uniform Sample of X-ray Emitting AGN from the ROSAT All-Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: the Data Release 5 Sample (2006)

Anderson, Scott F., Margon, Bruce, Voges, Wolfgang, Plotkin, Richard M., Syphers, David, Haggard, Daryl, ...

We describe further results of a program aimed to yield ~10^4 fully characterized optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources. Our program employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS),...

The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)

Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...

We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5,697 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hdelta (4101A) and [OII] (3727A) lines. LRGs are luminous (L>3L*),...

Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS (2006)

Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Fukugita, Masataka, Pope, Adrian C., ...

We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyse the main...

The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum (2006)

Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Loveday, Jon, ...

We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. The aim of our...

Probing the Evolution of IR Properties of z~6 Quasars: Spitzer Observations (2006)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Hines, Dean C., Shi, Yong, Vestergaard, Marianne, Bertoldi, Frank, ...

We present Spitzer observations of thirteen z~6 quasars using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). All the quasars except SDSS J000552.34-000655.8...

MegaZ-LRG: A photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)

Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell, Croom, Scott, Drinkwater, Michael, ...

We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...

A high redshift detection of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (2006)

Giannantonio, Tommaso, Crittenden, Robert G., Nichol, Robert C., Scranton, Ryan, Richards, Gordon T., Myers, Adam D., ...

We present evidence of a large angle correlation between the cosmic microwave background measured by WMAP and a catalog of photometrically detected quasars from the SDSS. The observed cross...

A Catalog of Spectroscopically Confirmed White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (2006)

Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Harris, Hugh C., Kleinmann, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, Silvestri, Nicole, ...

We present a catalog of 9316 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. We have selected the stars through photometric cuts and spectroscopic modeling,...

Hot DB White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Koester, Detlev, Kleinmann, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, Smith, Paul S., ...

We present ugriz photometry and optical spectroscopy for 28 DB and DO white dwarfs with temperatures between 28,000K and 45,000K. About 10 of these are particularly well-observed; the remainder are...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. I. Candidate Selection Algorithm (2006)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...

We present an algorithm for selecting an uniform sample of gravitationally lensed quasar candidates from low-redshift (0.6

The First Extrasolar Planet Discovered with a New Generation High Throughput Doppler Instrument (2006)

Ge, Jian, Van Eyken, Julian, Mahadevan, Suvrath, DeWitt, Curtis, Kane, Stephen R., Cohen, Roger, ...

We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD 102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new generation Doppler instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar...

SDSS J1534+1615AB: A Novel T Dwarf Binary Found with Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics and the Potential Role of Binarity in the L/T Transition (2006)

Liu, Michael C., Leggett, S. K., Golimowski, David A., Chiu, Kuenley, Fan, Xiaohui, Geballe, T. R., ...

We have resolved the newly discovered T dwarf SDSS J1534+1615 into a 0.11'' binary using the Keck sodium laser guide star adaptive optics system. With an integrated-light spectral type of T3.5, this...

Quasars Probing Quasars I: Optically Thick Absorbers Near Luminous Quasars (2006)

Hennawi, Joseph F., Prochaska, Jason X., Burles, Scott, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schlegel, David J., ...

With close pairs of quasars at different redshifts, a background quasar sightline can be used to study a foreground quasar's environment in absorption. We search 149 moderate resolution background...

Type II Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: V. Imaging host galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope (2006)

Zakamska, Nadia L., Strauss, Michael A., Krolik, Julian H., Ridgway, Susan E., Schmidt, Gary D., Smith, Paul S., ...

Type II quasars are luminous Active Galactic Nuclei whose centers are obscured by large amounts of gas and dust. In this paper we present 3-band HST images of nine type II quasars with redshifts 0.2...

A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release (2006)

Trump, Jonathan R., Hall, Patrick B., Reichard, Timothy A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...

We present a total of 4784 unique broad absorption line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release. An automated algorithm was used to match a continuum to each quasar and to...

Chandra Observations of the Highest Redshift Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Shemmer, Ohad, Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., ...

We present new Chandra observations of 21 z>4 quasars, including 11 sources at z>5. These observations double the number of X-ray detected quasars at z>5, allowing investigation of the X-ray spectral...

Hosts of Type II Quasars: an HST Study (2006)

Zakamska, Nadia L., Strauss, Michael A., Krolik, Julian H., Ridgway, Susan E., Schmidt, Gary D., Smith, Paul S., ...

Type II quasars are luminous Active Galactic Nuclei whose centers are obscured by large amounts of gas and dust. In this contribution we present 3-band HST images of nine type II quasars with...

Spectral Energy Distributions and Multiwavelength Selection of Type 1 Quasars (2006)

Richards, Gordon T., Lacy, Mark, Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Hall, Patrick B., Gallagher, S. C., Hines, Dean C., ...

We present an analysis of the mid-infrared (MIR) and optical properties of type 1 (broad-line) quasars detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The MIR color-redshift relation is characterized to...

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...

Percolation Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the SDSS Redshift Survey: Identification, Catalogs, and the Multiplicity Function (2006)

Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Warren, Michael S., Abazajian, Kevork, ...

We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friends linking lengths...

Average Extinction Curves and Relative Abundances for QSO Absorption Line Systems at 1 (2006)

York, Donald G., Khare, Pushpa, Berk, Daniel Vanden, Kulkarni, Varsha P., Crotts, Arlin P. S., Lauroesch, James T., ...

We have studied a sample of 809 Mg II absorption systems with 1.0 < z_abs < 1.86 in the spectra of SDSS QSOs, with the aim of understanding the nature and abundance of the dust and the chemical...

SDSS Pre-Burst Observations of Recent Gamma-Ray Burst Fields (2006)

Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Brinkmann, J., ...

In this paper, we present Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry and spectroscopy in the fields of 24 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by Swift, including bursts localized by Swift, HETE-2, and...

The 2df SDSS LRG and QSO survey: evolution of the luminosity function of luminous red galaxies to z = 0.6 (2006)

Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...

We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...

Spectral decomposition of broad-line AGNs and host galaxies (2006)

Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Shen, Jiajian, Yip, Ching-Wa, Schneider, Donald P., Connolly, Andrew J., Burton, Ross E., ...

Using an eigenspectrum decomposition technique, we separate the host galaxy from the broad-line active galactic nucleus (AGN) in a set of 4666 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), from...

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...

Spectral energy distributions and multiwavelength selection of type 1 quasars (2006)

Richards, Gordon T., Lacy, Mark, Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Hall, Patrick B., Gallagher, S. C., Hines, Dean C., ...

We present an analysis of the mid-infrared (MIR) and optical properties of type 1 (broad-line) quasars detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The MIR color-redshift relation is characterized to...

Probing the evolution of infrared properties of z ~ 6 quasars: Spitzer observations (2006)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Hines, Dean C., Shi, Yong, Vestergaard, Marianne, Bertoldi, Frank, ...

We present Spitzer observations of 13 z~6 quasars using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). All the quasars except SDSS J000552.34-000655.8 (SDSS...

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 FIRST EXTRASOLAR PLANET DISCOVERED WITH A NEW-GENERATION HIGH-THROUGHPUT DOPPLER INSTRUMENT (2006)

Jian Ge, Julian Van Eyken, Suvrath Mahadevan, Curtis Dewitt, Stephen R. Kane, Roger Cohen, ...

We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD 102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new-generation Doppler instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar...

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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)

Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...

We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...

The 2df SDSS LRG and QSO survey: evolution of the luminosity function of luminous red galaxies to z = 0.6 (2006)

Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...

We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...

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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)

Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...

We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...

The 2df SDSS LRG and QSO survey: evolution of the luminosity function of luminous red galaxies to z = 0.6 (2006)

Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...

We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...

SDSS J0806+2006 and SDSS J1353+1138: Two New Gravitationally Lensed Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Gregg, Michael D., Schechter, Paul L., ...

We report the discoveries of two, two-image gravitationally lensed quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J0806+2006 at z_s=1.540 and SDSS J1353+1138 at z_s=1.629 with image...

A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars (2005)

Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., ...

We present the discovery of seven quasars at z>5.7, selected from ~2000 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The new quasars have redshifts z from 5.79 to 6.13....

Constraining the Evolution of the Ionizing Background and the Epoch of Reionization with z ~ 6 Quasars II: A Sample of 19 Quasars (2005)

Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...

We study the evolution of the ionization state of the IGM at the end of the reionization epoch using spectra of a sample of nineteen quasars at 5.7411}, and the average length of dark gaps with...

Candidate Isolated Neutron Stars and Other Optically Blank X-ray Fields Identified from the ROSAT All-Sky and Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (2005)

Agueros, Marcel A., Anderson, Scott F., Margon, Bruce, Posselt, Bettina, Haberl, Frank, Voges, Wolfgang, ...

Only seven radio-quiet isolated neutron stars (INSs) emitting thermal X rays are known, a sample that has yet to definitively address such fundamental issues as the equation of state of degenerate...

The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from SDSS Imaging Data (2005)

Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Williams, Kurtis A., Von Hippel, Ted, ...

A sample of white dwarfs is selected from SDSS DR3 imaging data using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from SDSS plus USNO-B combined data. Numerous SDSS and followup...

First Measurement of the Clustering Evolution of Photometrically-Classified Quasars (2005)

Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...

We present new measurements of the quasar autocorrelation from a sample of \~80,000 photometrically-classified quasars taken from SDSS DR1. We find a best-fit model of $\omega(\theta) =...

Broadband Optical Properties of Massive Galaxies: the Dispersion Around the Field Galaxy Color-Magnitude Relation Out to z~0.4 (2005)

Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Johnston, David, Scranton, Ryan, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P., ...

Using a sample of nearly 20,000 massive early-type galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the color-magnitude relation for the most luminous (L > 2.2 L^{*}) field galaxies in...

Chandra Observations of Six QSOs at z $\approx$ 3 (2005)

Miyaji, Takamitsu, Hasinger, Guenther, Lehmann, Ingo, Schneider, Donald P.

We report the results of our Chandra observations of six QSOs at $z\sim 3$ from the Palomer Transit Grism Survey. Our primary goal is to investigate the possible systematic change of $\alpha_{ox}$...

Spectral Decomposition of Broad-Line AGNs and Host Galaxies (2005)

Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Shen, Jiajian, Yip, Ching-Wa, Schneider, Donald P., Connolly, Andrew J., Burton, Ross E., ...

Using an eigenspectrum decomposition technique, we separate the host galaxy from the broad line active galactic nucleus (AGN) in a set of 4666 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), from...

SDSSJ102111.02+491330.4: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2005)

Pindor, Bart, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, ...

We report follow-up observations of two gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) dataset. We have confirmed that SDSS J102111.02+491330.4 is a previously...

A Snapshot Survey for Gravitational Lenses Among z>=4.0 Quasars: II. Constraints on the 4.0 (2005)

Richards, Gordon T., Haiman, Zoltan, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...

We report on i-band snapshot observations of 157 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars at 4-4.63 obtained from the absence of lensing in four z>5.7 quasars. Such constraints are important for our...

Ultracompact AM CVn Binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Three Candidates Plus the First Confirmed Eclipsing System (2005)

Anderson, Scott F., Haggard, Daryl, Homer, Lee, Joshi, Nikhil R., Margon, Bruce, Silvestri, Nicole M., ...

AM CVn systems are a rare (about a dozen previously known) class of cataclysmic variables, arguably encompassing the shortest orbital periods (down to about 10 minutes) of any known binaries. Both...

SDSS J0246-0825: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Inada, Naohisa, Burles, Scott, Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Schechter, Paul L., Eisenstein, Daniel J., ...

We report the discovery of a new two-image gravitationally lensed quasar, SDSS J024634.11-082536.2 (SDSS J0246-0825). This object was selected as a lensed quasar candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky...

Sensitive observations at 1.4 and 250 GHz of z > 5 QSOs (2005)

Petric, A. O., Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Fan, Xiaohui, Cox, P., Strauss, Michael A., ...

We present 1.4 and 5 GHz observations taken with the Very Large Array (VLA), and observations at 250 GHz obtained with the Max-Planck millimeter bolometer (MAMBO) at the IRAM 30~m telescope, of ten...

Characteristic QSO Accretion Disk Temperatures from Spectroscopic Continuum Variability (2005)

Pereyra, Nicolas A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Turnshek, David A., Hillier, D. John, Wilhite, Brian C., Kron, Richard G., ...

Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar spectra taken at multiple epochs, we find that the composite flux density differences in the rest frame wavelength range 1300-6000 AA can be fit by a...

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...

Magnetic White Dwarfs from the SDSS II. The Second and Third Data Releases (2005)

Vanlandingham, Karen M., Schmidt, Gary D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Harris, Hugh C., Anderson, Scott F., Hall, Pat B., ...

Fifty-two magnetic white dwarfs have been identified in spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) obtained between mid-2002 and the end of 2004, including Data Releases 2...

Binary Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Evidence for Excess Clustering on Small Scales (2005)

Hennawi, Joseph F., Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Richards, Gordon T., Pindor, Bartosz, ...

We present a sample of 218 new quasar pairs with proper transverse separations R_prop < 1 Mpc/h over the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3.0, discovered from an extensive follow up campaign to find...

Detection of Cosmic Magnification with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Scranton, Ryan, Menard, Brice, Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Myers, Adam D., Jain, Bhuvnesh, ...

We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this measurement we used...

Spectral Variability of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I: Wavelength Dependence (2005)

Wilhite, Brian C., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Kron, Richard G., Schneider, Donald P., Pereyra, Nicholas, Brunner, Robert J., ...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) repeat spectroscopic observations have resulted in multiple-epoch spectroscopy for roughly 2500 quasars observed more than 50 days apart. From this sample, we identify...

The Color Selection of Quasars from Redshifts 5 to 10: Cloning and Discovery (2005)

Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, Schneider, Donald P., Glazebrook, Karl, Iye, Masanori, Kashikawa, Nobunari, ...

We present simulations of quasar colors, magnitudes, and numbers at redshifts 54.7 quasars increases by a factor of 3X by extending 0.7 i-magnitudes deeper than the SDSS spectroscopic survey limit of...

Discovery of a Fifth Image of the Large Separation Gravitationally Lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112 (2005)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We report the discovery of a fifth image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004+4112. A faint point source located 0.2'' from the center of the brightest galaxy in the lensing...

Intergalactic stars in z~0.25 galaxy clusters: systematic properties from stacking of Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data (2005)

Zibetti, Stefano, White, Simon D. M., Schneider, Donald P., Brinkmann, Jon

We analyse the spatial distribution and colour of the intracluster light (ICL) in 683 clusters of galaxies between z=0.2 and 0.3, selected from approx 1500 deg^2 of the SDSS-DR1. Surface photometry...

An Empirical Calibration of the Completeness of the SDSS Quasar Survey (2005)

Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Brunner, Robert, ...

Spectra of nearly 20000 point-like objects to a Galactic reddening corrected magnitude of i=19.1 have been obtained to test the completeness of the SDSS quasar survey. The spatially-unresolved...

Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. Emission-Line Luminosity Function (2005)

Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., ...

The emission line luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is measured from about 3000 AGN included in the main galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey within a redshift range of $0

Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample Selection (2005)

Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...

We have compiled a large sample of low-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their emission line characteristics from the spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Since...

The C4 clustering algorithm: Clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Reichart, Daniel, Wechsler, Risa H., Evrard, August E., Annis, James, ...

We present the C4 Cluster Catalog, a new sample of 748 clusters of galaxies identified in the spectroscopic sample of the Second Data Release (DR2) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The C4...

Discovery of two gravitationally lensed quasars with image separations of 3" from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Johnston, David E., Frieman, Joshua A., ...

We report the discovery of two doubly imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789, and with image separations of 2.86" and 2.90",...

Discovery of a fifth image of the large separation gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 (2005)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We report on the discovery of a fifth lensed image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004 + 4112. A faint point source located 0.''2 from the center of the brightest galaxy in the...