Cosmography with Galaxy Clusters (2008)
Soares-Santos, M., De Carvalho, R. R., La Barbera, F., Lopes, P. A. A., Annis, J.
In the present work we focus on future experiments using cluster abundance observations to constraint the Dark Energy equation of state parameter, w. To obtain tight constraints from this kind of...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera (2008)
J. E. Gunn, M. Carr, C. Rockosi, M. Sekiguchi, K. Berry, ...
We have constructed a large format mosaic CCD camera for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The camera consists of two arrays, a photometric array which uses 30 2048\Theta2048 SITe/Tektronix CCDs (24...
Becker, MR, McKay, TA, Koester, B, Wechsler, RH, Rozo, E, Evrard, AE, ...
The distribution of galaxies in position and velocity around the centers of galaxy clusters encodes important information about cluster mass and structure. Using the maxBCG galaxy cluster catalog...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary (2007)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, B., Becker, A., Choi, C., Cinabro, D., DeJongh, F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using...
MaxBCG: A red-sequence galaxy cluster finder (2007)
Koester, BP, Mckay, TA, Annis, J, Wechsler, RH, Evrard, AE, Rozo, E, ...
Measurements of galaxy cluster abundances, clustering properties, and mass-to-light ratios in current and future surveys can provide important cosmological constraints. Digital wide-field imaging...
A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Koester, BP, McKay, TA, Annis, J, Wechsler, RH, Evrard, AE, Bleem, L, ...
We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected using the maxBCG red-sequence method from Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric data. This catalog includes 13,823 clusters with velocity dispersions...
Becker, M. R., McKay, T. A., Koester, B., Wechsler, R. H., Rozo, E., Evrard, A., ...
The distribution of galaxies in position and velocity around the centers of galaxy clusters encodes important information about cluster mass and structure. Using the maxBCG galaxy cluster catalog...
Estrada, J., Annis, J., Diehl, H. T., Hall, P. B., Las, T., Lin, H., ...
We present the results of a search for gravitationally-lensed giant arcs conducted on a sample of 825 SDSS galaxy clusters. Both a visual inspection of the images and an automated search were...
A MaxBCG Catalog of 13,823 Galaxy Clusters from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Koester, B. P., McKay, T. A., Annis, J., Wechsler, R. H., Evrard, A., Bleem, L., ...
We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected using the maxBCG redsequence method from Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric data. This catalog includes 13,823 clusters with velocity dispersions...
A MaxBCG catalog of 13,823 galaxy clusters from the sloan digital sky survey (2007)
Koester, B. P., Mckay, T. A., Annis, J., Wechsler, R. H., Evrard, A., Bleem, L., ...
Supernova / Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of the Dark Energy (2006)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
The Supernova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP) is a proposed space-based experiment designed to study the dark energy and alternative explanations of the acceleration of the Universe's expansion by...
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, M, Eisenstein, D, Strauss, M, Weinberg, D, Blanton, M, Frieman, J, ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline (2006)
Tucker, D. L., Kent, S., Richmond, M. W., Annis, J., Smith, J. A., Allam, S. S., ...
The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO),...
Cyber-infrastructure to Support Science and Data Management for the Dark Energy Survey (2006)
Ngeow, C., Mohr, J. J., Alam, T., Barkhouse, W. A., Beldica, C., Cai, D., ...
The Dark Energy Survey (DES; operations 2009-2015) will address the nature of dark energy using four independent and complementary techniques: (1) a galaxy cluster survey over 4000 deg2 in...
A guide for digitising manuscript climate data (2006)
S. Brönnimann, J. Annis, W. Dann, T. Ewen, A. N. Grant, T. Griesser, ...
Hand-written or printed manuscript data are an important source for paleo-climatological studies, but bringing them into a suitable format can be a time consuming adventure with uncertain success....
A guide for digitising manuscript climate data (2006)
Brönnimann, S., Annis, J., Dann, W., Ewen, T., Grant, A. N., Griesser, T., ...
Hand-written or printed manuscript data are an important source for paleo-climatological studies, but bringing them into a suitable format can be a time consuming adventure with uncertain success....
A guide for digitising manuscript climate data (2006)
Brönnimann, S., Annis, J., Dann, W., Ewen, T., Grant, A. N., Griesser, T., ...
Hand-written or printed manuscript data are an important source for paleo-climatological studies, but bringing them into a suitable format can be a time consuming adventure with uncertain success....
A guide for digitising manuscript climate data (2006)
Brönnimann, S., Annis, J., Dann, W., Ewen, T., Grant, A. N., Griesser, T., ...
Hand-written or printed manuscript data are an important source for paleo-climatological studies, but bringing them into a suitable format can be a time consuming adventure with uncertain success....
A guide for digitising manuscript climate data (2006)
Brönnimann, S., Annis, J., Dann, W., Ewen, T., Grant, A. N., Griesser, T., ...
Hand-written or printed manuscript data are an important source for paleo-climatological studies, but bringing them into a suitable format can be a time consuming adventure with uncertain success....
S. Brönnimann, J. Annis, W. Dann, T. Ewen, A. N. Grant, T. Griesser, ...
Abstract. Hand-written or printed manuscript data are an important source for paleo-climatological studies, but bringing them into a suitable format can be a time consuming adventure with uncertain...
Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae (2005)
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) will use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators to measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the Universe. (SNAP's weak-lensing...
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
SNAP is a candidate for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) that seeks to place constraints on the dark energy using two distinct methods. The first, Type Ia SN, is discussed in a companion white...
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (2005)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
For true insight into the nature of dark energy, measurements of the precision and accuracy of the Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) are required. Precursor or scaled-down experiments are...
The C4 clustering algorithm: clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Miller, CJ, Nichol, RC, Reichart, D, Wechsler, RH, Evrard, AE, Annis, J, ...
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...
Eisenstein, D. J., Zehavi, I., Hogg, D. W., Scoccimarro, R., Blanton, M. R., Nichol, R. C., ...
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over...
The SDSS u-band Galaxy Survey: Luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, I. K., Glazebrook, K., Budavari, T., Eisenstein, D. J., Annis, J., Bahcall, N. A., ...
We construct and analyze a u-band selected galaxy sample from the SDSS Southern Survey, which covers 275 sq. deg. The sample includes 43223 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the range 0.005
Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae (2005)
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) will use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators to measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the Universe. (SNAP's weak-lensing...
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
SNAP is a candidate for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) that seeks to place constraints on the dark energy using two distinct methods. The first, Type Ia SN, is discussed in a companion white...
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (2005)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
For true insight into the nature of dark energy, measurements of the precision and accuracy of the Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) are required. Precursor or scaled-down experiments are...
Supernova Acceleration Probe: Studying Dark Energy with Type Ia Supernovae (2005)
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
The Supernova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) will use Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators to measure the effect of dark energy on the expansion history of the Universe. (SNAP's weak-lensing...
Albert, J., Aldering, G., Allam, S., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., ...
SNAP is a candidate for the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) that seeks to place constraints on the dark energy using two distinct methods. The first, Type Ia SN, is discussed in a companion white...
Seeing the Nature of the Accelerating Physics: It's a SNAP (2005)
Aldering, G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
For true insight into the nature of dark energy, measurements of the precision and accuracy of the Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) are required. Precursor or scaled-down experiments are...
Supernova / Acceleration Probe: A Satellite Experiment to Study the Nature of the Dark Energy (2004)
Aldering, SNAP Collaboration: G., Althouse, W., Amanullah, R., Annis, J., Astier, P., Baltay, C., ...
The Supernova / Acceleration Probe (SNAP) is a proposed space-based experiment designed to study the dark energy and alternative explanations of the acceleration of the Universe's expansion by...
The Grid2003 Production Grid: Principles and Practice (2004)
I. Foster, J. Gieraltowski, S. Gose, N. Maltsev, E. May, D. Sulakhe, ...
The Grid2003 Project has deployed a multi-virtual organization, application-driven grid laboratory (“Grid3”) that has sustained for several months the production-level services required by...
The Grid2003 Production Grid: Principles and Practice (2004)
I. Foster, J. Gieraltowski, S. Gose, N. Maltsev, E. May, D. Sulakhe, ...
The Grid2003 Project has deployed a multi-virtual organization, application-driven grid laboratory (“Grid3”) that has sustained for several months the production-level services required by...
A Catalog of Compact Groups of Galaxies in the SDSS Commissioning Data (2003)
Lee, B. C., Allam, S. S., Tucker, D. L., Annis, J., Blanton, M. R., Johnston, D. E., ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the...
A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62 arcseconds (2003)
Inada, N, Oguri, M, Pindor, B, Hennawi, JF, Chiu, KL, Zheng, W, ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures ( that is, clusters of...
A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with Quadruple Images Separated by 14.62 Arcseconds (2003)
Inada, N., Oguri, M., Pindor, B., Hennawi, J. F., Chiu, K., Zheng, W., ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures predicts the existence...
Oguri, M., Inada, N., Keeton, C. R., Pindor, B., Hennawi, J. F., Gregg, M. D., ...
We study the recently discovered gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, the first quasar lensed by a cluster of galaxies. It consists of four images with a maximum separation of 14.62''. The system has...
Merging Galaxies in the SDSS EDR (2003)
Allam, S. S., Tucker, D. L., Smith, J. A., Lee, B. C., Annis, J., Lin, H., ...
We present a new catalog of merging galaxies obtained through an automated systematic search routine. The 1479 new pairs of merging galaxies were found in approximately 462 sq deg of the Sloan...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. II. Correlations between observables (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A magnitude limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. III. The Fundamental Plane (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A magnitude limited sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. IV. Colors and chemical evolution (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Finkbeiner, D. P., Lupton, R. H., ...
The colors and chemical abundances of early-type galaxies at redshifts z
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. I. The sample (2003)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. This paper describes how...
The u'g'r'i'z' Standard Star Network (2002)
Smith, J. A., Tucker, D. L., Kent, S., Richmond, M. W., Fukugita, M., Ichikawa, T., ...
We present the 158 standard stars that define the u'g'r'i'z' photometric system. These stars form the basis for the photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The defining...
Galaxy clustering in early Sloan Digital Sky Survey redshift data (2002)
Zehavi, I., Blanton, M. R., Frieman, J. A., Weinberg, D. H., Mo, H. J., Strauss, M. A., ...
We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5700 km s(-1) less than or equal...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, C., Lupton, R. H., Bernardi, M., Blanton, M. R., Burles, S., Castander, F. J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
SDSS J124602.54+011318.8: A Highly Luminous Optical Transient at z=0.385 (2001)
Berk, D. E. Vanden, Lee, B. C., Wilhite, B. C., Beacom, J. F., Lamb, D. Q., Annis, J., ...
We report the discovery of a highly luminous optical transient (OT), SDSS J124602.54+011318.8, associated with a galaxy at a redshift of 0.385. In this paper we consider the possibility that the OT...
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS (2001)
Bernardi, M., Sheth, R. K., Annis, J., Burles, S., Eisenstein, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., ...
A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01
Eisenstein, D. J., Annis, J., Gunn, J. E., Szalay, A. S., Connolly, A. J., Nichol, R. C., ...
We describe the target selection and resulting properties of a spectroscopic sample of luminous, red galaxies (LRG) from the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These galaxies are...
SDSS-RASS: Next Generation of Cluster-Finding Algorithms (2000)
Nichol, R., Miller, C., Connolly, A., Chong, S., Genovese, C., Moore, A., ...
We outline here the next generation of cluster-finding algorithms. We show how advances in Computer Science and Statistics have helped develop robust, fast algorithms for finding clusters of galaxies...
Zheng, W., Tsvetanov, Z. I., Schneider, D. P., Fan, X., Becker, R. H., Davis, M., ...
We report the discovery of five quasars with redshifts of 4.67 - 5.27 and z'-band magnitudes of 19.5-20.7 M_B ~ -27. All were originally selected as distant quasar candidates in optical/near-infrared...
Yanny, B., Newberg, H. J., Kent, S., Laurent-Muehleisen, S. A., Pier, J. R., Richards, G. T., ...
A sample of 4208 objects with magnitude 15 < g* < 22 and colors of main sequence A stars has been selected from 370 square degrees of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning observations. The...
An optical and near-IR survey of nearby clusters of galaxies (1997)
Andreon, S., Annis, J., Davoust, E., Gardner, J. P., Mellier, Y., ...
We present an optical and near-infrared survey of galaxies in nearby clusters aimed at determining fundamental quantities of galaxies, such as multivariate luminosity function and color distribution...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey monitor telescope pipeline
Kent, S., Richmond, M.W., Annis, J., Smith, J.A., Allam, S.S., Rodgers, C.T., ...
The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO),...