Type II-P Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey and the Standardized Candle Method (2009)
D'Andrea, Chris B., Sako, Masao, Dilday, Benjamin, Frieman, Joshua A., Holtzman, Jon, Kessler, Richard, ...
We apply the Standardized Candle Method (SCM) for Type II Plateau supernovae (SNe II-P), which relates the velocity of the ejecta of a SN to its luminosity during the plateau, to 15 SNe II-P...
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...
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...
Kessler, Richard, Becker, Andrew, Cinabro, David, Vanderplas, Jake, Frieman, Joshua A., Marriner, John, ...
We present measurements of the Hubble diagram for 103 Type Ia supernovae (SNe) with redshifts 0.04 < z < 0.42, discovered during the first season (Fall 2005) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: Photometry and Supernova Ia Light Curves from the 2005 data (2009)
Holtzman, Jon A., Marriner, John, Kessler, Richard, Sako, Masao, Dilday, Ben, Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We present ugriz light curves for 146 spectroscopically confirmed or spectroscopically probable Type Ia supernovae from the 2005 season of the SDSS-II Supernova survey. The light curves have been...
SNANA: A Public Software Package for Supernova Analysis (2009)
Kessler, Richard, Bernstein, Joseph P., Cinabro, David, Dilday, Benjamin, Frieman, Joshua A., Jha, Saurabh, ...
We describe a general analysis package for supernova (SN) light curves, called SNANA, that contains a simulation, light curve fitter, and cosmology fitter. The software is designed with the primary...
The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Large-Scale Clustering in the SDSS LRG Sample (2009)
Kazin, Eyal A., Blanton, Michael R., Scoccimarro, Roman, McBride, Cameron K., Berlind, Andreas A., Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We examine the correlation function \xi of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Luminous Red Galaxy sample (LRG) at large scales (60
The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7 (2009)
Freedman, Wendy L., Burns, Christopher R., Phillips, M. M., Wyatt, Pamela, Persson, S. E., Madore, Barry F., ...
The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is designed to measure the luminosity distance for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift, and to set observational constraints on the dark energy...
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...
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...
Lectures on Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration (2009)
The discovery ten years ago that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating put in place the present cosmological model, in which the Universe is composed of 4% baryons, 20% dark matter, and 76%...
Constraining Dark Energy with Clusters: Complementarity with Other Probes (2009)
Cunha, Carlos, Huterer, Dragan, Frieman, Joshua A.
The Figure of Merit Science Working Group (FoMSWG) recently forecast the constraints on dark energy that will be achieved prior to the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) by ground-based experiments...
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS maxBCG Cluster Catalog (2009)
Rozo, Eduardo, Wechsler, Risa H., Rykoff, Eli S., Annis, James T., Becker, Matthew R., Evrard, August E., ...
We use the abundance and weak lensing mass measurements of the SDSS maxBCG cluster catalog to simultaneously constrain cosmology and the richness--mass relation of the clusters. Assuming a flat...
2006 SQ372: A Likely Long-Period Comet from the Inner Oort Cloud (2009)
Kaib, Nathan A., Becker, Andrew C., Jones, R. Lynne, Puckett, Andrew W., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Dilday, Benjamin, ...
We report the discovery of a minor planet (2006 SQ372) on an orbit with a perihelion of 24 AU and a semimajor axis of 796 AU. Dynamical simulations show that this is a transient orbit and is unstable...
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, ...
Discovery of A Very Bright, Strongly-Lensed z=2 Galaxy in the SDSS DR5 (2008)
Lin, Huan, Buckley-Geer, Elizabeth, Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Diehl, H. Thomas, Kubik, Donna, ...
We report on the discovery of a very bright z = 2.00 star-forming galaxy that is strongly lensed by a foreground z=0.422 luminous red galaxy (LRG). This system was found in a systematic search for...
The 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...
First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey (2008)
Zheng, Chen, Romani, Roger W., Sako, Masao, Marriner, John, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, ...
This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band light curves of...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
Estrada, Juan, Sefusatti, Emiliano, Frieman, Joshua A.
We measure the two-point spatial correlation function for clusters selected from the photometric MaxBCG galaxy cluster catalog for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We evaluate the correlation...
The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary (2008)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, Choi, Changsu, Cinabro, David, DeJongh, Fritz, ...
First-year spectroscopy for the sloan digital sky survey - II. Supernova survey (2008)
Zheng, Chen, Romani, Roger W., Sako, Masao, Marriner, John, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, ...
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., 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...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
The 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...
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...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary (2007)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, B., Becker, A., Choi, C., Cinabro, D., DeJongh, F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
The 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...
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...
The peculiar SN 2005hk: Do some type Ia supernovae explode as deflagrations? (2007)
Phillips, M. M., Li, Weidong, Frieman, Joshua A., Blinnikov, S. I., DePoy, Darren, Prieto, José L., ...
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 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 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 peculiar SN 2005hk: Do some type ia supernovae explode as deflagrations? (2007)
Phillips, M. M., Li, Weidong, Frieman, Joshua A., Blinnikov, S. I., DePoy, Darren, Prietro, Jose L., ...
Publicación ISI
The peculiar SN 2005hk: Do some type ia supernovae explode as deflagrations? (2007)
Phillips, M. M., Li, Weidong, Frieman, Joshua A., Blinnikov, S. I., DePoy, Darren, Prietro, Jose L., ...
Publicación ISI
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...
Rosenfeld, Rogerio, Frieman, Joshua A.
We derive constraints on a simple quintessential inflation model, based on a spontaneously broken Phi^4 theory, imposed by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe three-year data (WMAP3) and by...
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 shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum (2006)
Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Loveday, Jon, ...
We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. The aim of our...
Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Warren, Michael S., Abazajian, Kevork, ...
We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friends linking lengths...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
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...
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...
Johnston, David E., Sheldon, Erin S., Tasitsiomi, Argyro, Frieman, Joshua A., Wechsler, Risa, McKay, Timothy A.
We present a new non-parametric method for determining mean 3D density and mass profiles from weak lensing measurements around stacked samples of galaxies or clusters, that is, from measurement of...
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 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, ...
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,...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Johnston, David E., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We report the discovery of two doubly imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789, and with image separations of 2.86" and 2.90",...
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.
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.
Probing the evolution of the dark energy density with future supernova surveys (2004)
Wang, Yun, Kostov, Veselin, Freese, Katherine, Frieman, Joshua A, Gondolo, Paolo
The time dependence of the dark energy density can be an important clue to the nature of dark energy in the universe. We show that future supernova data from dedicated telescopes (such as SNAP), when...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Johnston, David E., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We report the discovery of two doubly-imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789 and with image separations of 2.86'' and 2.90'',...
Abazajian, Kevork, Zheng, Zheng, Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Frieman, Joshua A., Berlind, Andreas A., ...
We use the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) of a volume-limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main galaxy redshift catalogue to measure the halo occupation distribution...
Microlensing of the Broad Emission Line Region in the Quadruple Lens SDSS J1004+4112 (2004)
Richards, Gordon T., Keeton, Charles R., Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Hall, Patrick B., Turner, Edwin L., ...
We present seven epochs of spectroscopy on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSS J1004+4112, spanning observed-frame time delays from 1 to 322 days. The spectra reveal differences in the emission lines...
Probing the Evolution of the Dark Energy Density with Future Supernova Surveys (2004)
Wang, Yun, Kostov, Veselin, Freese, Katherine, Frieman, Joshua A., Gondolo, Paolo
The time dependence of the dark energy density can be an important clue to the nature of dark energy in the universe. We show that future supernova data from dedicated telescopes (such as SNAP), when...
Halo Model Analysis of Cluster Statistics (2004)
Rozo, Eduardo, Dodelson, Scott, Frieman, Joshua A.
We use the halo model formalism to provide expressions for cluster abundances and bias, as well as estimates for the correlation matrix between these observables. Off-diagonal elements due to scatter...
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 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., ...
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., ...
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...
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...
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...
SDSS J115517.35+634622.0: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2003)
Pindor, Bart, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Inada, Naohisa, Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Brinkmann, Jon, ...
We report the discovery of SDSSJ115517.35+634622.0, a previously unknown gravitationally lensed quasar. The lens system exhibits two images of a $z = 2.89$ quasar, with an image separation of...
SDSS J1335+0118: A New Two-Image Gravitational Lens (2003)
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Castander, Francisco J., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi, ...
We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1335+0118. The object was selected as a lens candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The imaging and spectroscopic...
SDSS J0903+5028: A New Gravitational Lens (2003)
Johnston, David E., Richards, Gordon T., Frieman, Joshua A., Keeton, Charles R., Strauss, Michael A., Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J090334.92+502819.2. This object was targeted for SDSS spectroscopy as a Luminous Red Galaxy...
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...
Inada, Naohisa, Becker, Robert H., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francisco J., Eisenstein, Daniel, Hall, Patrick B., ...
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J092455.87+021924.9 (SDSS J0924+0219). This object was selected from among known SDSS quasars by...
On Departures From a Power Law in the Galaxy Correlation Function (2003)
Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Roman, ...
We measure the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for a flux-limited sample of 118,000 galaxies and for a volume limited subset of 22,000 galaxies with absolute...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
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...
Identification and quantification of disease-related gene clusters (2003)
Firneisz, Gábor, Zehavi, Idit, Vermes, Csaba, Hanyecz, Anita, Frieman, Joshua A., Glant, Tibor T.
Motivation: DNA microarray technology and the completion of human and mouse genome sequencing programs are now offering new avenues for the investigation of complex genetic diseases. In particular,...
Frieman, Joshua A., Huterer, Dragan, Linder, Eric V., Turner, Michael S.
A primary goal for cosmology and particle physics over the coming decade will be to unravel the nature of the dark energy that drives the accelerated expansion of the Universe. In particular,...
Corrective lenses for high redshift supernovae (2002)
Dalal, Neal, Holz, Daniel E., Chen, Xuelei, Frieman, Joshua A.
Weak lensing of high-redshift Type Ia supernovae induces an external dispersion in their observed standard candle brightnesses, comparable in magnitude to the intrinsic dispersion for redshifts z>1....
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...
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,...
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,...
Albrecht, Andreas, Frieman, Joshua A., Trodden, Mark
This is the report of the {\em Working Group on Early Universe Cosmology and Tests of Fundamental Physics}, group P4.8 of the of the Snowmass 2001 conference. Here we summarize the impressive array...
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 $2.5^\circ$...
Galaxy Mass and Luminosity Scaling Laws Determined by Weak Gravitational Lensing (2001)
McKay, Timothy A., Sheldon, Erin Scott, Racusin, Judith, Fischer, Philippe, Seljak, Uros, Stebbins, Albert, ...
We present new measurements of scaling laws relating the luminosity of galaxies to the amplitude and shape of their dark matter halos. Early imaging and spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky...
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...
Galaxy Clustering in Early SDSS Redshift Data (2001)
Collaboration, SDSS, Zehavi, Idit, Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., Weinberg, David H., Mo, Houjun J., ...
We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5,700 km/s < cz < 39,000 km/s,...
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...
Feldman, Hume A., Frieman, Joshua A., Fry, J. N., Scoccimarro, Roman
We compute the bispectrum for the \IRAS PSCz catalog and find that the galaxy distribution displays the characteristic signature of gravity. Assuming Gaussian initial conditions, we obtain galaxy...
Waga, Ioav, Frieman, Joshua A.
We explore the implications of gravitationally lensed QSOs and high-redshift SNe Ia observations for spatially flat cosmological models in which a classically evolving scalar field currently...
Weak Gravitational Lensing by Voids (1998)
Amendola, Luca, Frieman, Joshua A., Waga, Ioav
We consider the prospects for detecting weak gravitational lensing by underdensities (voids) in the large-scale matter distribution. We derive the basic expressions for magnification and distortion...
Hyperextended Cosmological Perturbation Theory: Predicting Non-linear Clustering Amplitudes (1998)
Scoccimarro, Roman, Frieman, Joshua A.
We consider the long-standing problem of predicting the hierarchical clustering amplitudes $S_p$ in the strongly non-linear regime of gravitational evolution. N-body results for the non-linear...
The Bispectrum as a Signature of Gravitational Instability in Redshift-Space (1998)
Scoccimarro, Roman, Couchman, H. M. P., Frieman, Joshua A.
The bispectrum provides a characteristic signature of gravitational instability that can be used to probe the Gaussianity of the initial conditions and the bias of the galaxy distribution. We study...
Constraints from High Redshift Supernovae upon Scalar Field Cosmologies (1997)
Frieman, Joshua A., Waga, Ioav
Recent observations of high-redshift Type Ia supernovae have placed stringent constraints on the cosmological constant $\Lambda$. We explore the implications of these SNe observations for...
Non-Linear Evolution of the Bispectrum of Cosmological Perturbations (1997)
Scoccimarro, Roman, Colombi, Stephane, Fry, J. N., Frieman, Joshua A., Hivon, Eric, Melott, Adrian
The bispectrum, the three-point function of density fluctuations in Fourier space, is the lowest order statistic that carries information about the spatial coherence of large-scale structures. For...
Weak Lensing and the Measurement of q0 from Type Ia Supernovae (1996)
On-going projects to discover Type Ia supernovae at redshifts z = 0.3 - 1, coupled with improved techniques to narrow the dispersion in SN Ia peak magnitudes, have renewed the prospects for...
Weak Lensing and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (1995)
Stebbins, Albert, Mckay, Tim, Frieman, Joshua A.
While the strategy for the first applications of weak lensing has been to ``go deep'' it is equally interesting to use one's telescope time to instead ``go wide''. The Sloan Survey (SDSS) provides a...
Surpi, Gabriela C., Harari, Diego D., Frieman, Joshua A.
We analyse the effects of large-scale inhomogeneities upon the observables of a gravitational lens system, focusing on the issue of whether large-scale structure imperils the program to determine the...
Can MACHOs Probe the Shape of the Galaxy Halo? (1993)
Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Román
We study the prospects for the current microlensing searches, which have recently discovered several candidates, to yield useful information about the flattening of the Galaxy dark matter halo....
The Three-point Function as a Probe of Models for Large-scale Structure (1993)
Frieman, Joshua A., Gaztanaga, Enrique
We analyze the consequences of models of structure formation for higher-order ($n$-point) galaxy correlation functions in the mildly non-linear regime. Several variations of the standard $\Omega=1$...
Minimal Microwave Anisotropy from Perturbations Induced at Late Times (1993)
Jaffe, Andrew H., Stebbins, Albert, Frieman, Joshua A.
Aside from primordial gravitational instability of the cosmological fluid, various mechanisms have been proposed to generate large-scale structure at relatively late times, including, e.g.,...
Large- and Small-Scale Constraints on Power Spectra in $\Omega=1$ Universes (1992)
Gelb, James. M., Gradwohl, Ben-Ami, Frieman, Joshua A.
The cold dark matter (CDM) model of structure formation, normalized on large scales, leads to excessive pairwise velocity dispersions on small scales. In an attempt to circumvent this problem, we...