Cunha, Carlos E., Lima, Marcos, Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Frieman, Joshua, Lin, Huan
In Lima et al. 2008 we presented a new method for estimating the redshift distribution, N(z), of a photometric galaxy sample, using photometric observables and weighted sampling from a spectroscopic...
Discovery of A Very Bright, Strongly-Lensed z=2 Galaxy in the SDSS DR5 (2008)
Lin, Huan, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Diehl, H. Thomas, Kubik, Donna, ...
We report on the discovery of a very bright z = 2.00 star-forming galaxy that is strongly lensed by a foreground z=0.422 luminous red galaxy (LRG). This system was found in a systematic search for...
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...
Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert, Juric, Mario, Gunn, James, Knapp, Gillian, ...
Estimating the Redshift Distribution of Faint Galaxy Samples (2008)
Lima, Marcos, Cunha, Carlos E., Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Frieman, Joshua, Lin, Huan, Sheldon, Erin S.
We present an empirical method for estimating the underlying redshift distribution N(z) of galaxy photometric samples from photometric observables. The method does not rely on photometric redshift...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: technical summary (2008)
Frieman, Joshua, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, Choi, Changsu, Cinabro, David, DeJongh, Fritz, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:0708.2749 v1 Aug 21 2007
The sloan digital sky survey-II Supernova survey: technical summary (2008)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, Choi, Changsu, Cinabro, David, DeJongh, Fritz, ...
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 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 sixth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
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...
Exploring the variable sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert, Juric, Mario, Gunn, James, Knapp, Gillian, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:0704.0655 v1 Apr 4 2007
Banerji, Manda, Abdalla, Filipe B., Lahav, Ofer, Lin, Huan
We conduct a detailed analysis of the photometric redshift requirements for the proposed Dark Energy Survey (DES) using two sets of mock galaxy simulations and an artificial neural network code -...
Photometric Redshift Error Estimators (2007)
Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Lima, Marcos, Cunha, Carlos E., Lin, Huan, Frieman, Joshua
Photometric redshift (photo-z) estimates are playing an increasingly important role in extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. Crucial to many photo-z applications is the accurate quantification of...
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters I: Measurements (2007)
Sheldon, Erin S., Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, Koester, Ben P., McKay, Timothy A., Oyaizu, Hiroaki, ...
This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes...
The Mass Of The Coma Cluster From Weak Lensing In The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Kubo, Jeffrey M., Stebbins, Albert, Annis, James, Dell'Antonio, Ian P., Lin, Huan, Khiabanian, Hossein, ...
We present a weak lensing analysis of the Coma Cluster using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release Five. Complete imaging of a ~ 200 square degree region is used to measure the tangential...
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...
A Galaxy Photometric Redshift Catalog for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 6 (2007)
Oyaizu, Hiroaki, Lima, Marcos, Cunha, Carlos E., Lin, Huan, Frieman, Joshua, Sheldon, Erin S.
We present and describe a catalog of galaxy photometric redshifts (photo-z's) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 6 (DR6). We use the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technique to...
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...
SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82: the Dawn of Industrial 1% Optical Photometry (2007)
Ivezic, Zeljko, Smith, J. Allyn, Miknaitis, Gajus, Lin, Huan, Tucker, Douglas
We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of ten) 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., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
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...
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., Agüeros, 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...
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...
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, Strauss, Michael, Weinberg, David, Blanton, Michael, Frieman, Joshua, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0608632 v2 Oct 30 2006
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...
Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Lin, Huan, Diehl, H. Thomas, Annis, James, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J., ...
We report on the serendipitous discovery of the brightest Lyman Break Galaxy (LBG) currently known, a galaxy at z=2.73 that is being strongly lensed by the z=0.38 Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) SDSS...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline (2006)
Tucker, Douglas, Kent, Stephen, Richmond, Michael, Annis, James, Smith, James, Allam, S., ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0608575 v1 Aug 26 2006
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)...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, 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...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
Dark Energy Studies: Challenges to Computational Cosmology (2005)
Annis, James, Castander, Francisco J., Evrard, August E., Frieman, Joshua A., Gaztanaga, Enrique, Jain, Bhuvnesh, ...
The ability to test the nature of dark mass-energy components in the universe through large-scale structure studies hinges on accurate predictions of sky survey expectations within a given world...
Constraining Dark Energy with the Dark Energy Survey: Theoretical Challenges (2005)
Annis, James, Bridle, Sarah, Castander, Francisco J., Evrard, August E., Fosalba, Pablo, Frieman, Joshua A., ...
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will use a new imaging camera on the Blanco 4-m telescope at CTIO to image 5000 square degrees of sky in the South Galactic Cap in four optical bands, and to carry out...
The Dependence of Galaxy Colors on Luminosity and Environment at z~0.4 (2005)
Yee, H. K. C., Hsieh, B. C., Lin, Huan, Gladders, M. D.
We analyse the B-R_c colors of galaxies as functions of luminosity and local galaxy density using a large photometric redshift catalog based on the Red-Sequence Cluster Survey. We select two samples...
The third data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, 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,...
Fan, Xiaohui, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Donley, Jennifer L., ...
We present the discovery of five new quasars at z>5.7, selected from the multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Three of them, at redshifts 5.93, 6.07, and 6.22, were...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt, 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 deg2 of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) mosaic camera and telescope have obtained five-band optical-wavelength imaging near the Galactic plane outside of the nominal survey boundaries. These additional...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
Very Red and Extremely Red Galaxies in the Fields of z ~ 1.5 Radio-Loud Quasars (2001)
Hall, Patrick B., Sawicki, Marcin, Martini, Paul, Finn, Rose A., Pritchet, C. J., Osmer, Patrick S., ...
We previously identified an excess of mostly red galaxies around 31 RLQs at z=1-2. These fields have an ERO (extremely red object, R-K>6) density 2.7 times higher than the field. Assuming the EROs...
Moderately and Extremely Red Galaxies in the Fields of Radio-Loud Quasars at (2000)
A. Mazure, O. Le Fevre, V. Le Brun, Patrick B. Hall, Marcin Sawicki, Huan Lin
We present new studies of an excess population of mainly red galaxies around a sample of 31 radio-loud quasars at z = 1 Gamma 2. These fields have a surface density of extremely red objects (EROs) at...
The Distribution of [OII] Equivalent Widths of LCRS Galaxies (2000)
We present a simple functional form for the joint distribution of R-band luminosity and [OII] 3727 emission-line equivalent widths of galaxies, and show that this form is a good fit to the galaxies...
Active Galactic Nuclei in the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2000)
Hall, Patrick B., Yee, H. K. C., Lin, Huan, Morris, Simon L., Patton, David R., Sawicki, Marcin, ...
We present a sample of 47 confirmed and 14 candidate Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) discovered in the Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology field galaxy redshift survey (CNOC2). The sample...
Spectroscopic Gravitational Lens Candidates in the CNOC2 Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (2000)
Hall, Patrick B., Yee, H. K. C., Lin, Huan, Morris, Simon L., Gladders, Michael D., Carlberg, R. G., ...
We present five candidate gravitational lenses discovered spectroscopically in the Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology Field Galaxy Redshift Survey (CNOC2), along with one found in followup...
The Galaxy-Weighted Small-Scale Velocity Dispersion of the Las Campanas Redshift Survey (1999)
Baker, Jonathan E., Davis, Marc, Lin, Huan
The pair-weighted relative velocity dispersion of galaxies provides a measure of the thermal energy of fluctuations of the observed galaxy distribution, but the measure is difficult to interpret and...
Star Formation in Las Campanas Compact Groups (1999)
Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Lin, Huan, Hashimoto, Yasuhiro
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies offer an exceptional laboratory for the study of dense galaxian environments --- where interactions, tidally induced activity, and mergers are expected to be at their...