Conroy, Charlie, Gunn, James E.
Stellar population synthesis (SPS) provides the link between the stellar and dust content of galaxies and their observed spectral energy distributions. In the present work we perform a comprehensive...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Conroy, Charlie, White, Martin, Gunn, James E.
Models for the formation and evolution of galaxies readily predict physical properties such as the star formation rates, metal enrichment histories, and, increasingly, gas and dust content of...
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, ...
Conroy, Charlie, Gunn, James E., White, Martin
The stellar masses, mean ages, metallicities, and star formation histories of galaxies are now commonly estimated via stellar population synthesis (SPS) techniques. SPS relies on stellar evolution...
An, Deokkeun, Johnson, Jennifer A., Clem, James L., Yanny, Brian, Rockosi, Constance M., Morrison, Heather L., ...
We present photometry for globular and open cluster stars observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In order to exploit over 100 million stellar objects with r < 22.5 mag observed by SDSS,...
An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (2008)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Barentine, J.C., Blanton, Michael R., Brewington, Howard J., ...
We present an algorithm to photometrically calibrate wide field optical imaging surveys, that simultaneously solves for the calibration parameters and relative stellar fluxes using overlapping...
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 SDSS Discovery of a Strongly Lensed Post-Starburst Galaxy at z=0.766 (2008)
Shin, Min-Su, Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Falco, Emilio E., Broadhurst, Tom, ...
We present the first result of a survey for strong galaxy-galaxy lenses in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) images. SDSS J082728.70+223256.4 was selected as a lensing candidate using selection...
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...
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...
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., 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...
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...
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...
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...
Dong, Feng, Pierpaoli, Elena, Gunn, James E., Wechsler, Risa H.
We present a modified adaptive matched filter algorithm designed to identify clusters of galaxies in wide-field imaging surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The cluster-finding technique is...
A New Technique for Galaxy Photometric Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Wray, James J., Gunn, James E.
Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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 Tully-Fisher relation and its residuals for a broadly selected sample of galaxies (2007)
Pizagno, James, Prada, Francisco, Weinberg, David H., Rix, Hans-Walter, Pogge, Richard W., Grebel, Eva K., ...
We measure the relation between galaxy luminosity and disk circular velocity (the Tully-Fisher [TF] relation), in the g, r, i, and z bands, for a broadly selected sample of galaxies from the Sloan...
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...
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...
The Tully-Fisher Relation and Its Residuals for a Broadly Selected Sample of Galaxies (2006)
Pizagno, James, Prada, Francisco, Weinberg, David H., Rix, Hans-Walter, Pogge, Richard W., Grebel, Eva K., ...
We measure the relation between galaxy luminosity and disk circular velocity (the Tully-Fisher [TF] relation), in the g, r, i, and z-bands, for a broadly selected sample of galaxies from the Sloan...
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...
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...
The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Gunn, James E., Siegmund, Walter A.
We describe the design, construction, and performance of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope located at Apache Point Observatory. The telescope is a modified two-corrector Ritchey-Chretien design...
The SDSS Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Three (2006)
Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform...
The 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, ...
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar survey: Quasar luminosity function from data release 3 (2006)
Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform...
The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., 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...
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....
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...
The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution (2005)
Juric, Mario, Ivezic, Zeljko, Brooks, Alyson, Lupton, Robert H., Schlegel, David, Finkbeiner, Douglas, ...
Abridged: We estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and map their 3D number density distribution in 100 < D < 20 kpc range over 6,500 deg^2 of sky. The...
The SDSS View of the Palomar-Green Bright Quasar Survey (2005)
Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Green, Richard F., Schmidt, Maarten, Hall, Patrick B., ...
We investigate the extent to which the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) is complete and representative of the general quasar population by comparing with imaging and spectroscopy from...
The UV, Optical, and IR Properties of SDSS Sources Detected by GALEX (2005)
Agueros, Marcel A., Ivezic, Zeljko, Covey, Kevin R., Obric, Mirela, Hao, Lei, Walkowicz, Lucianne M., ...
We discuss the UV, optical, and IR properties of the SDSS sources detected by GALEX as part of its All-sky Imaging Survey Early Release Observations. Virtually all of the GALEX sources in the overlap...
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...
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 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., ...
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, ...
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 sloan digital sky survey quasar catalog - III. Third data release (2005)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
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, ...
Strateva, Iskra V., Strauss, Michael A., Hao, Lei, Schlegel, David J., Hall, Pat B., Gunn, James E., ...
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.
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
James E. Gunn, Walter A. Siegmund, Edward J. Mannery, Russell E. Owen, Charles L. Hull, R. French Leger, ...
We describe the design, construction, and performance of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope located at Apache Point Observatory. The telescope is a modified two-corrector Ritchey-Chrétien design...
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.
Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Bahcall, Neta A., Brinkmann, J., Gunn, James E., ...
We test the homogeneity of the Universe at $z\sim 0.3$ with the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. First, the mean number $N(R)$ of LRGs within completely...
NYU-VAGC: a galaxy catalog based on new public surveys (2004)
Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Strauss, Michael A., Brinkmann, J., Finkbeiner, Douglas, Fukugita, Masataka, ...
Here we present the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC), a catalog of local galaxies (mostly below a redshift of about 0.3) based on a set of publicly-released surveys...
Weinstein, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Younger, Joshua D., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., ...
We present an empirical algorithm for obtaining photometric redshifts of quasars using 5-band Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry. Our algorithm generates an empirical model of the quasar...
Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: 100,000 z (2004)
Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Gray, Alexander G., Brunner, Robert J., Lupton, Robert H., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present a catalog of 100,563 unresolved, UV-excess (UVX) quasar candidates to g=21 from 2099 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1) imaging data. Existing spectra of...
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...
Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts (2004)
Pope, Adrian C., Matsubara, Takahiko, Szalay, Alexander S., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gray, Jim, ...
We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to the analysis of the 3D power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2004)
Hoog, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
Fan, Xiaohui, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Donley, Jennifer L., ...
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., ...
On departures from a power law in the galaxy correlation function (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Román, ...
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 dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The distribution in color and absolute magnitude is presented for 55,158 galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range 0.08lt;zlt;0.12, as a function of the galaxy...
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...
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...
Selection and photometric properties of K+A galaxies (2004)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., ...
Two different simple measurements of galaxy star formation rate with different timescales are compared empirically on 156,395 fiber spectra of galaxies with r < 17.77 mag taken from the Sloan...
Knapp, Gillian R., Leggett, Sandy K., Fan, Xiaohui, Marley, Mark S., Geballe, Thomas R., Golimowski, David A., ...
We present new JHK photometry on the MKO-NIR system and JHK spectroscopy for a large sample of L and T dwarfs. Photometry has been obtained for 71 dwarfs, and spectroscopy for 56. The sample...
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...
Selection and photometric properties of K+A galaxies (2004)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., ...
Two different simple measurements of galaxy star formation rate with different timescales are compared empirically on 156,395 fiber spectra of galaxies with r < 17.77 mag taken from the Sloan...
Knapp, Gillian R., Leggett, Sandy K., Fan, Xiaohui, Marley, Mark S., Geballe, Thomas R., Golimowski, David A., ...
We present new JHK photometry on the MKO-NIR system and JHK spectroscopy for a large sample of L and T dwarfs. Photometry has been obtained for 71 dwarfs, and spectroscopy for 56. The sample...
Fukugita, Masataka, Yasuda, Naoki, Brinkmann, Jon, Gunn, James E., Ivezic, Zeljko, Knapp, Gillian R., ...
We study the spatial variation of galaxy number counts using five band photometric images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The spatial variation of this sample of 46 million galaxies collected from...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog II. First Data Release (2003)
Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Richards, Gordon T., Stoughton, Chris, ...
We present the second edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of 16713 objects in the SDSS First Data Release (DR1) that have luminosities larger than...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2003)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The distribution in color and absolute magnitude is presented for 55,158 galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range $0.08
The Richness-Dependent Cluster Correlation Function: Early SDSS Data (2003)
Bahcall, Neta A., Dong, Feng, Hao, Lei, Bode, Paul, Annis, Jim, Gunn, James E., ...
The cluster correlation function and its richness dependence are determined from 1108 clusters of galaxies -- the largest sample of clusters studied so far -- found in 379 deg^2 of Sloan Digital Sky...
Selection and photometric properties of K+A galaxies (2003)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., ...
Two different simple measurements of galaxy star formation rate with different timescales are compared empirically on $156,395$ fiber spectra of galaxies with $r
Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Szapudi, Istvan, Csabai, Istvan, Scranton, Ryan, ...
Understanding the clustering of galaxies has long been a goal of modern observational cosmology. Utilizing our photometric redshift technique a volume limited sample containing more than 2 million...
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...
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Haiman, Zoltan, ...
We present the discovery of three new quasars at z>6 in 1300 deg^2 of SDSS imaging data, J114816.64+525150.3 (z=6.43), J104845.05+463718.3 (z=6.23) and J163033.90+401209.6 (z=6.05). The first two...
Reichard, Timothy A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Tolea, Alin, Krolik, Julian H., ...
We present a catalog of 224 broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Early Data Release Quasar Catalog, including a relatively complete and homogeneous subsample of...
Selection of Metal-poor Giant Stars Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System (2003)
Helmi, Amina, Ivezic, Zeljko, Prada, Francisco, Pentericci, Laura, Rockosi, Constance M., Schneider, Donald P., ...
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, ...
Double-peaked low-ionization emission lines in active galactic nuclei (2003)
Strateva, Iskra V., Strauss, Michael A., Hao, Lei, Schlegel, David J., Hall, Pat B., Gunn, James E., ...
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...
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 overdensities of galaxy environments as a function of luminosity and color (2002)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., Schlegel, David J., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We study the mean environments of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of rest-frame luminosity and color. Overdensities in galaxy number are estimated in $8 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$...
Average spectra of massive galaxies in the SDSS (2002)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Bernardi, Mariangela, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., ...
We combine Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra of 22,000 luminous, red, bulge-dominated galaxies to get high S/N average spectra in the rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (2600A to 7000A). The average...
Estimating Fixed Frame Galaxy Magnitudes in the SDSS (2002)
Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, J., Csabai, Istvan, Doi, Mamoru, Eisenstein, Daniel, Fukugita, Masataka, ...
Broad-band measurements of flux for galaxies at different redshifts measure different regions of the rest-frame galaxy spectrum. Certain astronomical questions, such as the evolution of the...
Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Quasar Sample (2002)
Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We describe the algorithm for selecting quasar candidates for optical spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Quasar candidates are selected via their non-stellar colors in "ugriz" broad-band...
Exploratory Chandra observations of the three highest redshift quasars known (2002)
Brandt, William N., Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We report on exploratory Chandra observations of the three highest redshift quasars known (z = 5.82, 5.99, and 6.28), all found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These data, combined with a previous...
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...
Ivezic, Zeljko, Menou, Kristen, Knapp, Gillian R., Strauss, Michael A., Lupton, Robert H., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...
We discuss the optical and radio properties of similar to30,000 FIRST (radio, 20 cm, sensitive to 1 mJy) sources positionally associated within 1."5 with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (optical,...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francisco J., ...
A Matched-Filter Analysis of the Tidal Tails of the Globular Cluster Palomar 5 (2002)
Rockosi, Constance M., Odenkirchen, Michael, Grebel, Eva K., Dehnen, Walter, Cudworth, Kyle M., Gunn, James E., ...
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Rockosi, Connie, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, Brinkmann, Jon, ...
Unusual Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)
Hall, Patrick B., Anderson, Scott F., Strauss, Michael A., York, Donald G., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
Higher Order Moments of the Angular Distribution of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Szapudi, István, Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Roman, Szalay, Alexander S., Connolly, Andrew J., Dodelson, Scott, ...
We present initial results for counts in cells statistics of the angular distribution of galaxies in early data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyze a rectangular stripe $2.5^\circ$...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog I. Early Data Release (2001)
Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
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 that...
The Alignment Effect of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in the SDSS (2001)
Kim, Rita S. J., Annis, Jim, Strauss, Michael A., Lupton, Robert H., Bahcall, Neta A., Gunn, James E., ...
One of the most vital observational clues for unraveling the origin of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG) is the observed alignment of the BCGs with their host cluster and its surroundings. We have...
Schneider, Donald P., Knapp, Gillian R., Hawley, Suzanne L., Covey, Kevin R., Fan, Xiaohui, Ramsey, Lawrence W., ...
Low dispersion optical spectra have been obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope of 22 very red objects found in early imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The objects are assigned...
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...
Fan, Xiaohui, Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., Strauss, Michael A., Knapp, Gillian R., Becker, Robert H., ...
We present the results from a survey of i-dropout objects selected from ~1550 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, to search for luminous quasars at z>5.8. Objects with...
Collaboration, SDSS, Scranton, Ryan, Johnston, David, Dodelson, Scott, Frieman, Joshua A., Connolly, Andy, ...
The angular distribution of galaxies encodes a wealth of information about large scale structure. Ultimately, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will record the angular positions of order 10^8...
The Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Collaboration, SDSS, Connolly, Andrew, Scranton, Ryan, Johnston, David, Dodelson, Scott, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Universe. In this Letter...
The Angular Power Spectrum of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Collaboration, SDSS, Tegmark, Max, Dodelson, Scott, Eisenstein, Daniel, Narayanan, Vijay, Scoccimarro, Roman, ...
We compute the angular power spectrum C_l from 1.5 million galaxies in early SDSS data on large angular scales, l
Collaboration, SDSS, Szalay, Alexander S., Jain, Bhuvnesh, Matsubara, Takahiko, Scranton, Ryan, Vogeley, Michael S., ...
We present measurements of parameters of the 3-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering from 222 square degrees of early imaging data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The projected galaxy...
The 3D Power Spectrum from Angular Clustering of Galaxies in Early SDSS Data (2001)
Dodelson, Scott, Narayanan, Vijay K., Tegmark, Max, Scranton, Ryan, Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew, ...
Early photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) contain angular positions for 1.5 million galaxies. In companion papers, the angular correlation function $w(\theta)$ and 2D power...
A photometricity and extinction monitor at the Apache Point Observatory (2001)
Hogg, David W., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E.
An unsupervised software ``robot'' that automatically and robustly reduces and analyzes CCD observations of photometric standard stars is described. The robot measures extinction coefficients and...
Anderson, Scott F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present results on over 100 high-redshift quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using automated selection algorithms applied to SDSS imaging data and with spectroscopic...
Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with VLA-FIRST Radio Detections (2001)
Menou, Kristen, Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Ivezic, Zeljko, Kim, Rita S. J., Knapp, Gillian R., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We present 13 Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasars, including 12 new objects, which were identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and matched within 2'' to sources in the FIRST radio survey...
The SDSS Imaging Pipelines (2001)
Lupton, Robert, Gunn, James E., Ivezic, Zeljko, Knapp, Gillian R., Kent, Stephen, Yasuda, Naoki
We summarise the properties of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) project, discuss our software infrastructure, and outline the architecture of the SDSS image processing pipelines. We then discuss...
Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Richards, Gordon T., Hill, Gary J., ...
We report the discovery of 27 quasars with redshifts between 3.58 and 4.49. The objects were identified as high-redshift candidates based on their colors in Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning...
Collaboration, SDSS, Castander, Francisco J., Nichol, Robert C., Merrelli, Aronne, Burles, Scott, Pope, Adrian, ...
On 26 May 1999, one of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) fiber-fed spectrographs saw astronomical first light. This was followed by the first spectroscopic commissioning run during the dark period...
Discovery of a Close Pair of z = 4.25 Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2000)
Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Richards, Gordon T., Knapp, G. R., ...
We report the discovery of a pair of z = 4.25 quasars with a separation of 33 arcseconds. The brighter of the two objects was identified as a high-redshift quasar candidate from Sloan Digital Sky...
Finding Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using Voronoi Tessellation (1999)
Kim, Rita S. J., Strauss, Michael A., Bahcall, Neta A., Gunn, James E., Lupton, Robert H., Voges, Wolfgang, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained 450 square degrees of photometric scan data, in five bands (u',g',r',i',z'), which we use to identify clusters of galaxies. We illustrate how we do...
An Unusual Mini-BAL Quasar at z=4.59 (1999)
Churchill, Christopher W., Schneider, Donald P., Schmidt, Maarten, Gunn, James E.
The z=4.591 quasar PC 1415+3408 exhibits very strong associated metal-line absorption from the N V (1238,1242), Si IV (1393,1402), and C IV (1548,1550) doublets spanning the velocity interval -1700 <...
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...
A Study of Quasar Clustering at z>2.7 from the Palomar Transit Grism Survey (1997)
Stephens, Andrew W., Schneider, Donald P., Schmidt, Maarten, Gunn, James E., Weinberg, David H.
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...
A Catalog of Digital Images of 113 Nearby Galaxies (1995)
Frei, Zsolt, Guhathakurta, Puragra, Gunn, James E., Tyson, J. Anthony
We present a digital catalog of images of 113 galaxies in this paper. These galaxies are all nearby, bright, large and well resolved. All images were recorded with charge coupled devices (CCDs) at...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (1994)
Gunn, James E., Weinberg, David H.
We summarize the plans for and the current status of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a digital imaging and spectroscopic survey of $\pi$ steradians in the northern Galactic cap. The CCD photometric...
Modern cosmology : an oral history inquiry / (1979)
Wright, Paul Freeman., Burbidge, Geoffrey R., Gunn, James E., Schmidt, Maarten., Arp, Halton.
Thesis (M.A.)--California State University, Fullerton.
Thesis (Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering)--S.M.U.