The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey: Four Strongly Lensed Galaxies with Redshift >2 (2009)
Diehl, H. Thomas, Allam, Sahar S., Annis, James, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J., Frieman, Joshua A., Kubik, Donna, ...
We report the discovery of four very bright, strongly-lensed galaxies found via systematic searches for arcs in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 and 6. These were followed-up with spectroscopy...
Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Grammer, Skyler H., Morgan, Dylan P., Becker, Andrew C., Juric, Mario, ...
We present an improved analysis of halo substructure traced by RR Lyrae stars in the SDSS stripe 82 region. With the addition of SDSS-II data, a revised selection method based on new ugriz light...
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters. I. Measurements (2009)
Sheldon, Erin S., Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, Koester, Benjamin 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 Sloan Nearby Cluster Weak Lensing Survey (2009)
Kubo, Jeffrey M., Annis, James, Hardin, Frances Mei, Kubik, Donna, Lawhorn, Kelsey, Lin, Huan, ...
We describe and present initial results of a weak lensing survey of nearby ($\rm{z}\lesssim0.1$) galaxy clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In this first study, galaxy clusters are...
Hao, Jiangang, Koester, Benjamin P., Mckay, Timothy A., Rykoff, Eli S., Rozo, Eduardo, Evrard, August, ...
The red sequence is an important feature of galaxy clusters and plays a crucial role in optical cluster detection. Measurement of the slope and scatter of the red sequence are affected both by...
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...
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, ...
The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey : Six Strongly Lensed Galaxies at z=0.4-1.4 (2008)
Kubo, Jeffrey M., Allam, Sahar S., Annis, James, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth J., Diehl, H. Thomas, Kubik, Donna, ...
We present new results of our program to systematically search for strongly lensed galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. In this study six strong lens systems are presented...
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...
Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli S., Evrard, August, Becker, Matthew, McKay, Timothy, Wechsler, Risa H., ...
We measure the logarithmic scatter in mass at fixed richness for clusters in the maxBCG cluster catalog, an optically selected cluster sample drawn from SDSS imaging data. Our measurement is achieved...
An Improved Cluster Richness Estimator (2008)
Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli S., Koester, Benjamin P., McKay, Timothy, Hao, Jiangang, Evrard, August, ...
Minimizing the scatter between cluster mass and accessible observables is an important goal for cluster cosmology. In this work, we introduce a new matched filter richness estimator, and test its...
Finding Galaxy Clusters: When SQL meets the grid (2008)
Er S. Szalay, Jim Gray, Aniruddha R. Thakar, William J. O’mullane, James Annis
We illustrate the benefits of combining database systems and grid technologies for data-intensive applications. Using a cluster of SQL servers, we reimplemented an existing grid application to find...
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 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-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...
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 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...
Years, and Evolutionarily Plausible Models Suggest the Rise of Intelligence Takes (2007)
This paper points out that the Solar System itself is not a closed box, and in principle mass extinction events could be caused by galactic events, and could be on galactic scales. We were never...
Michael A. Strauss, Xiaohui Fan, James E. Gunn, S. K. Leggett, T. R. Geballe, Jeffrey R. Pier, ...
We report the discovery of the coolest field dwarf yet known, selected as an unresolved object with extremely red colors from commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Its spectrum...
An Astrophysical Explanation for the Great Silence (2007)
An astrophysical model is proposed to answer Fermi's question. Gamma-ray bursts have the correct rates of occurrence and plausibly the correct energetics to have consequences for the evolution...
Johnston, David E., Sheldon, Erin S., Wechsler, Risa H., Rozo, Eduardo, Koester, Benjamin P., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We interpret and model the statistical weak lensing measurements around 130,000 groups and clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey presented by Sheldon et al. 2007 (Paper I). We present...
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...
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters III: Mass-to-light Ratios (2007)
Sheldon, Erin S., Johnston, David E., Masjedi, Morad, McKay, Timothy A., Blanton, Michael R., Scranton, Ryan, ...
We present measurements of the excess mass-to-light ratio measured aroundMaxBCG galaxy clusters observed in the SDSS. This red sequence cluster sample includes objects from small groups with masses...
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...
Cosmological Constraints from SDSS maxBCG Cluster Abundances (2007)
Rozo, Eduardo, Wechsler, Risa H., Koester, Benjamin P., McKay, Timothy A., Evrard, August E., Johnston, David, ...
We perform a maximum likelihood analysis of the cluster abundance measured in the SDSS using the maxBCG cluster finding algorithm. Our analysis is aimed at constraining the power spectrum...
MaxBCG: A Red Sequence Galaxy Cluster Finder (2007)
Koester, Benjamin P., McKay, Timothy A., Annis, James, Wechsler, Risa H., Evrard, August E., Rozo, Eduardo, ...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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
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, ...
Agüeros, Marcel A., Anderson, Scott F., Margon, Bruce, Posselt, Bettina, Haberl, Frank, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 C4 Clustering Algorithm: Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert, Reichart, Dan, Wechsler, Risa, Evrard, August, 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...
When Database Systems Meet the Grid (2005)
Nieto-Santisteban, Maria A., Szalay, Alexander S., Thakar, Aniruddha R., O'Mullane, William J., Gray, Jim, Annis, James
We illustrate the benefits of combining database systems and Grid technologies for data-intensive applications. Using a cluster of SQL servers, we reimplemented an existing Grid application that...
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 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, ...
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...
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,...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
When Database Systems Meet The Grid (2005)
Jim Gray, Er S. Szalay, James Annis, Aniruddha R. Thakar, William J. O’mullane
We illustrate the benefits of combining database systems and Grid technologies for data-intensive applications. Using a cluster of SQL servers, we reimplemented an existing Grid application that...
I.: Planning Spatial Workflows to Optimize Grid Performance (2005)
Luiz Meyer, James Annis, Marta Mattoso, Mike Wilde, Ian Foster
Abstract. In many scientific workflows, particularly those that operate on spatially oriented data, jobs that process adjacent regions of space often reference large numbers of files in common. Such...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
Hansen, Sarah M., McKay, Timothy A., Wechsler, Risa H., Annis, James, Sheldon, Erin Scott, Kimball, Amy
Imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is used to measure the empirical size-richness relation for a large sample of galaxy clusters. Using population subtraction methods, we determine the...
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...
Andromeda IX: A New Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite of M31 (2004)
Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martinez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...
We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, Andromeda IX, based on resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using both SDSS and public archival...
Fan, Xiaohui, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Donley, Jennifer L., ...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
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., ...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
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., ...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Keeton, Charles R., Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Gregg, Michael 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 was...
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...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies-relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter-offer an exceptional laboratory for the study...
Andromeda IX: A new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31 (2004)
Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martínez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...
We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, Andromeda IX, based on resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using both SDSS and public archival...
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 second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
When Database Sytems Meet the Grid (2004)
Alexander S. Szalay, Aniruddha R. Thakar, William J. O’mullane, William J. O'Mullane, Jim Gray, James Annis, ...
We illustrate the benefits of combining database systems and Grid technologies for data-intensive applications. Using a cluster of SQL servers, we reimplemented an existing Grid application that...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the RSDSS commissioning data (2003)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Blanton, Michael R., Johnston, David E., ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the...
Anderson, Scott, Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trumper, Joachim, Agueros, Marcel, Boller, Thomas, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0305093 v2 Aug 16 2003
A Merged Catalog of Clusters of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2003)
Bahcall, Neta A., McKay, Timothy A., Annis, James, Kim, Rita, Dong, Feng, Hansen, Sarah, ...
We present a catalog of 799 clusters of galaxies in the redshift range z_est = 0.05 - 0.3 selected from ~400 deg^2 of early SDSS commissioning data along the celestial equator. The catalog is based...
Anderson, Scott F., Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trümper, Joachim, Agüeros, Marcel A., Boller, Thomas, ...
Many open questions in X-ray astronomy are limited by the relatively small number of objects in uniform optically-identified samples, especially when rare subclasses are considered, or subsets...
The Morphological Butcher-Oemler effect in the SDSS Cut&Enhance Galaxy Cluster Catalog (2003)
Goto, Tomotsugu, Okamura, Sadanori, Yagi, Masafumi, Sheth, Ravi K., Bahcall, Neta A., Zabel, Shane A., ...
We investigate the evolution of the fractions of late type cluster galaxies as a function of redshift, using one of the largest, most uniform cluster samples available. The sample consists of 514...
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, ...
Anderson, Scott F., Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trümper, Joachim, Agüeros, Marcel A., Boller, Thomas, ...
A merged catalog of clusters of galaxies from early Sloan Digital Sky Survey data (2003)
Bahcall, Neta A., McKay, Timothy A., Annis, James, Kim, Rita S. J., Dong, Feng, Hansen, Sarah, ...
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, ...
A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62arcseconds (2003)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, ...
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...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
Grid-Based Galaxy Morphology Analysis for the National Virtual Observatory (2003)
Ewa Deelman, Raymond Plante, Carl Kesselman, Gurmeet Singh, Mei-hui Su, Gretchen Greene, ...
As part of the development of the National Virtual Observatory (NVO), a Data Grid for astronomy, we have developed a prototype science application to explore the dynamical history of galaxy clusters...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
The u'g'r'i'z' standard star network (2002)
Smith, Allyn, Tucker, Douglas, Kent, Stephen, Richmond, Michael, Fukugita, Masataka, Ichikawa, Takashi, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0201143 v2 1 Mar 2002
The u'g'r'i'z' standard star network (2002)
Smith, Allyn, Tucker, Douglas, Kent, Stephen, Richmond, Michael, Fukugita, Masataka, Ichikawa, Takashi, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0201143 v2 1 Mar 2002
The Cluster Mass Function from Early SDSS Data: Cosmological Implications (2002)
Bahcall, Neta A., Dong, Feng, Bode, Paul, Kim, Rita, Annis, James, McKay, Timothy A., ...
The mass function of clusters of galaxies is determined from 400 deg^2 of early commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; ~300 clusters in the redshift range z = 0.1 - 0.2 are used....
Goto, Tomotsugu, Okamura, Sadanori, Mckay, Timothy A., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., Bernardi, Mariangela, ...
We present here results on the composite luminosity functions of galaxies in the clusters of galaxies selected from the SDSS Cut and Enhance cluster catalog (CE; Goto et al. 2001). We construct the...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. I. Early data release (2002)
Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...
We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects ( 3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chirs, Lupton, Rpbert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francsico 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...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francisco J., ...
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Rockosi, Connie, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, Brinkmann, Jon, ...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
Applying Chimera Virtual Data Concepts to Cluster Finding in the Sloan Sky Survey (2002)
James Annis, Yong Zhao, Jens Voeckler, Michael Wilde, Steve Kent, Ian Foster
In many scientific disciplines – especially long running, data-intensive collaborations – it is important to track all aspects of data capture, production, transformation, and analysis. In...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
The Cut & Enhance method : selecting clusters of galaxies from the SDSS commissioning data (2001)
Goto, Tomotsugu, Sekiguchi, Maki, Nichol, Robert C., Bahcall, Neta A., Kim, Rita S. J., Annis, James, ...
We describe an automated method, the Cut & Enhance method (CE) for detecting clusters of galaxies in multi-color optical imaging surveys. This method uses simple color cuts, combined with a density...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Annis, James, Gunn, James, Szalay, Alexander, Connolly, Andrew, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0108153 v1 9 Aug 2001
Kim, Rita S. J., Kepner, Jeremy V., Postman, Marc, Strauss, Michael A., Bahcall, Neta A., Gunn, James E., ...
We present a comparison of three cluster finding algorithms from imaging data using Monte Carlo simulations of clusters embedded in a 25 deg^2 region of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data:...
Evidence for Reionization at z ~ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in a z=6.28 Quasar (2001)
Becker, Robert H., Fan, Xiaohui, White, Richard L., Strauss, Michael A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., ...
We present moderate resolution Keck spectroscopy of quasars at z=5.82, 5.99 and 6.28, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the Ly Alpha absorption in the spectra of these...
Weak Lensing Measurements of 42 SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters (2001)
Sheldon, Erin Scott, Annis, James, Bohringer, Hans, Fischer, Philippe, Frieman, Joshua A., Joffre, Michael, ...
We present a lensing study of 42 galaxy clusters imaged in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. Cluster candidates are selected optically from SDSS imaging data and confirmed for this...
An Astrophysical Explanation for the Great Silence (1999)
An astrophysical model is proposed to answer Fermi's question. Gamma-ray bursts have the correct rates of occurrence and plausibly the correct energetics to have consequences for the evolution of...
Spectroscopy of Quasar Candidates from SDSS Commissioning Data (1998)
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Annis, James, Gunn, James E., Hennessy, Gregory S., Ivezic, Zeljko, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained images in five broad-band colors for several hundred square degrees. We present color-color diagrams for stellar objects, and demonstrate that quasars are...
Carleton, Michael, Mao, Mao, Biery, Matthew, Warrener, Paul, Kim, Sammy, Buser, Carolyn, ...
KIF14 is a microtubule motor protein whose elevated expression is associated with poor-prognosis breast cancer. Here we demonstrate KIF14 accumulation in mitotic cells, where it associated with...
Carleton, Michael, Mao, Mao, Biery, Matthew, Warrener, Paul, Kim, Sammy, Buser, Carolyn, ...
KIF14 is a microtubule motor protein whose elevated expression is associated with poor-prognosis breast cancer. Here we demonstrate KIF14 accumulation in mitotic cells, where it associated with...
Klinghoffer, Richard A., Frazier, Jason, Annis, James, Berndt, Jason D., Roberts, Brian S., Arthur, William T., ...
The multi-protein β-catenin destruction complex tightly regulates β-catenin protein levels by shuttling β-catenin to the proteasome. Glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β), a key serine/threonine...