Wide-Field Astronomical Surveys in the Next Decade (2009)
Strauss, M. A., Tyson, J. A., Anderson, S. F., Axelrod, T. S., Becker, A. C., Bickerton, S. J., ...
Wide-angle surveys have been an engine for new discoveries throughout the modern history of astronomy, and have been among the most highly cited and scientifically productive observing facilities in...
Dark Matter Structures in the Universe: Prospects for Optical Astronomy in the Next Decade (2009)
Marshall, P. J., Auger, M., Bartlett, J. G., Bradac, M., Cooray, A., Dalal, N., ...
The Cold Dark Matter theory of gravitationally-driven hierarchical structure formation has earned its status as a paradigm by explaining the distribution of matter over large spans of cosmic distance...
Thermal Emission from Warm Dust in the Most Distant Quasars (2008)
Wang, R., Carilli, C. L., Wagg, J., Bertoldi, F., Walter, F., Menten, K. M., ...
We report new continuum observations of fourteen z~6 quasars at 250 GHz and fourteen quasars at 1.4 GHz. We summarize all recent millimeter and radio observations of the sample of the thirty-three...
D. P. Schneider, Gary J. Hill, X. Fan, L. W. Ramsey, P. J. Macqueen, D. W. Weedman, ...
ABSTRACT. This paper describes spectra of quasar candidates acquired during the commissioning phase of the Low-Resolution Spectrograph of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. The objects were identiÐed as...
Evidence for short-lived SN Ia progenitors (2007)
Aubourg, E., Tojeiro, R., Jimenez, R., Heavens, A. F., Strauss, M. A., Spergel, D. N.
The standardization of SNIa as standard candles is still largely empirical and may be affected by as-yet unexplored effects evolving with redshift. A systematic effect of 1-2% in the peak luminosity...
An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (2007)
Padmanabhan, N., Schlegel, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., Barentine, J. C., Blanton, M. R., Brewington, H. 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 Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (2006)
Padmanabhan, N., Schlegel, D. J., Seljak, U., Makarov, A., Bahcall, N. A., Blanton, M. R., ...
We present the 3D real space clustering power spectrum of a sample of \~600,000 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using photometric redshifts. This sample...
Jiang, L., Fan, X., Cool, R. J., Eisenstein, D. J., Zehavi, I., Richards, G. T., ...
In this paper we present the first results of a deep spectroscopic survey of faint quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, a deep survey carried out by repeatedly imaging a...
Dust emission from the most distant quasars (2005)
Bertoldi, F., Carilli, C. L., Cox, P., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Beelen, A., ...
We report observations of three SDSS z>6 QSOs at 250 GHz (1.2mm) using the 117-channel Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer (MAMBO-2) array at the IRAM 30-meter telescope. J1148+5251 (z=6.41) and...
Shemmer, O., Brandt, W. N., Vignali, C., Schneider, D. P., Fan, X., Richards, G. T., ...
We perform a detailed investigation of moderate-to-high quality X-ray spectra of ten of the most luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) known at z>4 (up to z~6.28). This study includes five new XMM...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The z (2005)
Richards, G. T., Croom, S. M., Anderson, S. F., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Boyle, B. J., De Propris, R., ...
We have used the 2dF instrument on the AAT to obtain redshifts of a sample of z
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog III. Third Data Release (2005)
Schneider, D. P., Hall, P. B., Richards, G. T., Berk, D. E. Vanden, Anderson, S. F., Fan, X., ...
We present the third edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 46,420 objects in the SDSS Third Data Release that have luminosities larger than M_i =...
SDSS Data Management and Photometric Quality Assessment (2004)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Schlegel, D., Boroski, B., Adelman-McCarthy, J., Yanny, B., ...
We summarize the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data acquisition and processing steps, and describe runQA, a pipeline designed for automated data quality assessment. In particular, we show how the position...
The Luminosity and Color Dependence of the Galaxy Correlation Function (2004)
Zehavi, I., Zheng, Z., Weinberg, D. H., Frieman, J. A., Berlind, A. A., Blanton, M. R., ...
We study the luminosity and color dependence of the galaxy 2-point correlation function in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, starting from a sample of 200,000 galaxies over 2500 deg^2. We concentrate on...
Multiwavelength View of SDSS Galaxies (2004)
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Kauffmann, G., Lupton, R. H., Tremonti, C., Brinchmann, J., ...
We summarize the detection rates at wavelengths other than optical for \~99,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 ``main'' spectroscopic sample. The analysis is based...
Quasar Variability Measurements With SDSS Repeated Imaging and POSS Data (2004)
Ivezic, Z, Lupton, R. H., Juric, M., Anderson, S., Hall, P. B., Richards, G. T., ...
We analyze the properties of quasar variability using repeated SDSS imaging data in five UV-to-far red photometric bands, accurate to 0.02 mag, for 13,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars. The...
Unconventional AGN from the SDSS (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Knapp, G. R., Richards, G. T., Strauss, M. A., Anderson, S. F., Schneider, D. P., ...
We discuss some of the most unusual active galactic nuclei (AGN) discovered to date by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS): the first broad absorption line quasar seen to exhibit He II absorption,...
The Distribution of Quasars and Galaxies in Radio Color-Color and Morphology Diagrams (2004)
Ivezic, Z., Siverd, R. J., Steinhardt, W., Jagoda, A. S., Knapp, G. R., Lupton, R. H., ...
We positionally match the 6 cm GB6, 20 cm FIRST and NVSS, and 92 cm WENSS radio catalogs and find 16,500 matches in ~3,000 deg2 of sky. Using this unified radio database, we construct radio...
A Second Stellar Color Locus: a Bridge from White Dwarfs to M stars (2004)
Smolcic, V., Ivezic, Z., Knapp, G. R., Lupton, R. H., Pavlovski, K., Ilijic, S., ...
We report the discovery of a locus of stars in the SDSS g-r vs. u-g color-color diagram that connects the colors of white dwarfs and M dwarfs. While its contrast with respect to the main stellar...
A large sample of double-peaked Hα lines and AGN accretion disks (2004)
Strateva, I. V., Strauss, M. A., Hao, L., Schlegel, D. J., Hall, P. B., Gunn, J. E., ...
Multiwavelength view of SDSS galaxies (2004)
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Kauffmann, G., Knapp, G. R., Gunn, J. E., ...
Radio continuum imaging of far-infrared-luminous QSOs at z > 6 (2004)
Carilli, C. L., Walter, F., Bertoldi, F., Menten, K. M., Fan, X., Lewis, G. F., ...
Resolved molecular gas in a quasar host galaxy at redshift z=6.42 (2004)
Walter, F., Carilli, C., Bertoldi, F., Menten, K., Cox, P., Lo, K. Y., ...
A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with Quadruple Images Separated by 14.62 Arcseconds (2003)
Inada, N., Oguri, M., Pindor, B., Hennawi, J. F., Chiu, K., Zheng, W., ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures predicts the existence...
Counts of Low-redshift SDSS Quasar Candidates (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Johnston, D. E., Richards, G. T., Hall, P. B., Schlegel, D., ...
We analyze the counts of low-redshift quasar candidates selected using nine-epoch SDSS imaging data. The co-added catalogs are more than 1 mag deeper than single-epoch SDSS data, and allow the...
Quasar Radio Dichotomy: Two Peaks, or not Two Peaks, that is the Question (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Richards, G. T., Hall, P. B., Lupton, R. H., Jagoda, A. S., Knapp, G. R., ...
Recent claims by Ivezic et al. (2002) that the distribution of the radio-to-optical flux ratio, R, for quasars is bimodal (the so-called quasar radio dichotomy) were questioned on statistical grounds...
Reaching to the Edge of the Milky Way Halo with SDSS (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Schlegel, D., Smolcic, V., Johnston, D., Gunn, J. E., ...
We discuss a sample of over 3000 candidate RR Lyrae stars selected by various methods using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data for about 1000 deg^2 of sky. These stars probe the halo structure out to ~100...
Halo Structure Traced by SDSS RR Lyrae (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Schlegel, D., Smolcic, V., Johnston, D., Gunn, J. E., ...
We discuss the density and radial velocity distributions of over 3000 candidate RR Lyrae stars selected by various methods using Sloan Digital Sky Survey data for about 1000 deg^2 of sky. This is...
Stellar and Dynamical Masses of Ellipticals in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Padmanabhan, N., Seljak, U., Strauss, M. A., Blanton, M. R., Kauffmann, G., Schlegel, D. J., ...
We study the variation of the dark matter mass fraction of elliptical galaxies as a function of their luminosity, stellar mass, and size using a sample of 29,469 elliptical galaxies culled from the...
An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Harris, H. C., Liebert, J., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, A., Anderson, S. F., Knapp, G. R., ...
An initial assessment is made of white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In a small area of sky (190 square degrees), observed much like the full survey will be,...
Dust emission from the most distant quasars (2003)
Bertoldi, F., Carilli, C. L., Cox, P., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Beelen, A., ...
We report observations of three SDSS z>6 QSOs at 250 GHz (1.2mm) using the 117-channel Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer (MAMBO-2) array at the IRAM 30-meter telescope. J1148+5251 (z=6.41) and...
Variability Studies with SDSS (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Anderson, S., Eyer, L., Juric, M., Knapp, G. R., ...
The potential of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for wide-field variability studies is illustrated using multi-epoch observations for 3,000,000 point sources observed in 700 deg2 of sky, with time spans...
Dust emission from the most distant quasars (2003)
Bertoldi, F., Carilli, C. L., Cox, P., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Beelen, A., ...
We report observations of three SDSS z>6 QSOs at 250 GHz (1.2mm) using the 117-channel Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer (MAMBO-2) array at the IRAM 30-meter telescope. J1148+5251 (z=6.41) and...
Dust emission from the most distant quasars (2003)
Bertoldi, F., Carilli, C. L., Cox, P., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Beelen, A., ...
We report observations of three SDSS z>6 QSOs at 250 GHz (1.2mm) using the 117-channel Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer (MAMBO-2) array at the IRAM 30-meter telescope. J1148+5251 (z=6.41) and...
New z > 6 Quasars Discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Schneider, D. P., Becker, R. H., White, R. L., Narayanan, V. K., ...
Dust emission from the most distant quasars (2003)
Bertoldi, F., Carilli, C. L., Cox, P., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Beelen, A., ...
We report observations of three SDSS z > 6 QSOs at 250 GHz (1.2 mm) using the 117-channel Max-Planck Millimeter Bolometer (MAMBO-2) array at the IRAM 30-meter telescope. J1148 + 5251 (z = 6.42) and...
High-excitation CO in a quasar host galaxy at z=6.42 (2003)
Bertoldi, F., Cox, P., Neri, R., Carilli, C. L., Walter, F., Omont, A., ...
We report the detection of high excitation CO emission from the most distant quasar currently known, SDSS J114816.64+525150.3 (hereafter J1148+5251), at a redshift z = 6.419. The CO (J = 6 --> 5) and...
Molecular gas in the host galaxy of a quasar at redshift z=6.42 (2003)
Walter, F., Bertoldi, F., Carilli, C., Cox, P., Lo, K. Y., Neri, R., ...
Observations of molecular hydrogen in quasar host galaxies at high redshifts provide fundamental constraints on galaxy evolution, because it is out of this molecular gas that stars form. Molecular...
Sensitive observations at 1.4 and 250 GHz of z > 5 QSOs (2003)
Petric, A. O., Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Fan, X. H., Cox, P., Strauss, M. A., ...
We present 1.4 and 5 GHz observations taken with the Very Large Array, and observations at 250 GHz obtained with the Max Planck Millimeter Bolometer Array at the IRAM 30 m telescope, of 10 optically...
Selection of metal-poor giant stars using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometric system (2003)
Helmi, A., Ivezic, Z., Prada, F., Pentericci, L., Rockosi, C.M., Schneider, D.P., ...
Pentericci, L., Prada, F., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Schneider, D. P., ...
We present J-H-K' photometry for a sample of 45 high redshift quasars found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sample was originally selected on the basis of optical colors and spans a redshift...
Selection of Metal-poor Giant Stars Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System (2002)
Helmi, A., Ivezic, Z., Prada, F., Pentericci, L., Rockosi, C. M., Schneider, D. P., ...
We present a method for photometric selection of metal-poor halo giants from the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These stars are offset from the stellar locus in the (g-r) vs....
The Broad-band Optical Properties of Galaxies with Redshifts 0.0 < z < 0.2 (2002)
Blanton, M. R., Hogg, D. W., Bahcall, N. A., Baldry, I. K., Brinkmann, J., Csabai, I., ...
Using photometry and spectroscopy of 144,609 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we present bivariate distributions of pairs of seven galaxy properties: four optical colors, surface...
Unusual Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)
Hall, Patrick B., Anderson, S. F., Strauss, M. A., York, D. G., Richards, G. T., Fan, X., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has confirmed the existence of populations of broad absorption line (BAL) quasars with various unusual properties. We present and discuss twenty-three such objects and...
Exploratory Chandra Observations of the Three Highest Redshift Quasars Known (2002)
Brandt, W. N., Schneider, D. P., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Gunn, J. E., Richards, G. 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...
Galaxy clustering in early Sloan Digital Sky Survey redshift data (2002)
Zehavi, I., Blanton, M. R., Frieman, J. A., Weinberg, D. H., Mo, H. J., Strauss, M. A., ...
We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5700 km s(-1) less than or equal...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, C., Lupton, R. H., Bernardi, M., Blanton, M. R., Burles, S., Castander, F. J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
A New Extremely Low-Metallicity Galaxy Discovered in the SDSS (2002)
Kniazev, A. Y., Grebel, E. K., Hao, L., Strauss, M. A.
The SDSS spectroscopic database, which will ultimately contain spectra of one million galaxies, provides an ideal resource for searches for extremely low-metallicity galaxies. Using the current...
VLT observations of the z=6.28 quasar SDSS 1030+0524 (2001)
Pentericci, L., Fan, X., Rix, H. W., Strauss, M. A., Narayanan, V. K., Richards, G T., ...
We present new VLT spectroscopic observations of the most distant quasar known, SDSS J1030+0524 at z=6.28 which was recently discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We confirm the presence of a...
Ivezic, Z., Becker, R. H., Blanton, M., Fan, X., Finlator, K., Gunn, J. E., ...
We positionally match sources observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) survey. Practically...
J-Band Spectroscopy of the z = 5.74 BAL QSO SDSSp J104433.04-012502.2 (2001)
Goodrich, R. W., Campbell, R., Chaffee, F., Hill, G. M., Sprayberry, D., Brandt, W. N., ...
We use the NIRSPEC near-IR spectrometer on Keck II to obtain moderate resolution (R = 1540) spectroscopy that shows conclusively that the C IV emission line in the z = 5.74 quasar SDSSp...
Eisenstein, D. J., Annis, J., Gunn, J. E., Szalay, A. S., Connolly, A. J., Nichol, R. C., ...
We describe the target selection and resulting properties of a spectroscopic sample of luminous, red galaxies (LRG) from the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These galaxies are...
Extreme BAL Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2001)
Hall, Patrick B., Gunn, J. E., Knapp, G. R., Narayanan, V. K., Strauss, M. A., Anderson, S. F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a population of broad absorption line quasars with various extreme properties. Many show absorption from metastable states of FeII with varying...
A New Very Cool White Dwarf Discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2001)
Harris, H. C., Hansen, B. M. S., Liebert, J., Berk, D. E. Vanden, Anderson, S. F., Knapp, G. R., ...
Early data taken during commissioning of the SDSS have resulted in the discovery of a very cool white dwarf. It appears to have stronger collision induced absorption from molecular hydrogen than any...
Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Richards, G. T., Newman, J. A., Becker, R. H., Schneider, D. P., ...
This is the third paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the SDSS during its commissioning phase. In...
Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Schneider, D. P., Gunn, J. E., Lupton, R. H., Becker, R. H., ...
This is the fourth paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the SDSS. during its commissioning phase. In this paper,...
The Discovery of a Luminous z=5.80 Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2000)
Fan, X., White, R. L., Davis, M., Becker, R. H., Strauss, M. A., Haiman, Z., ...
We present observations of SDSSp J104433.04--012502.2, a luminous quasar at z=5.80 discovered from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) multicolor imaging data. This object was selected as an i'-band...
Zheng, W., Tsvetanov, Z. I., Schneider, D. P., Fan, X., Becker, R. H., Davis, M., ...
We report the discovery of five quasars with redshifts of 4.67 - 5.27 and z'-band magnitudes of 19.5-20.7 M_B ~ -27. All were originally selected as distant quasar candidates in optical/near-infrared...
Shellflow. I. The Convergence of the Velocity Field at 6000 km/s (2000)
Courteau, S., Willick, J. A., Strauss, M. A., Schlegel, D., Postman, M.
We present the first results from the Shellflow program, an all-sky Tully-Fisher (TF) peculiar velocity survey of 276 Sb-Sc galaxies with redshifts between 4500 and 7000 km/s. Shellflow was designed...
First Results from the Shellflow Survey (1999)
Courteau, S., Willick, J. A., Strauss, M. A., Schlegel, D., Postman, M.
We present preliminary results from the Shellflow program, an all-sky Tully-Fisher (TF) survey of 297 Sb-Sc with redshifts between 4000 and 7500 km/s. The program was designed to ensure uniformity of...
The Supergalactic Plane revisited with the Optical Redshift Survey (1998)
Lahav, O., Santiago, B. X., Webster, A. M., Strauss, M. A., Davis, M., Dressler, A., ...
We re-examine the existence and extent of the planar structure in the local galaxy density field, the so-called Supergalactic Plane (SGP). This structure is studied here in three dimensions using...
IRAS versus POTENT Density Fields on Large Scales: Biasing and Omega (1997)
Sigad, Y., Eldar, A., Dekel, A., Strauss, M. A., Yahil, A.
The galaxy density field as extracted from the IRAS 1.2 Jy redshift survey is compared to the mass density field as reconstructed by the POTENT method from the Mark III catalog of peculiar...
Hermit Astronomical, S. Hermit, B. X. Santiago, O. Lahav, M. A. Strauss, M. Davis, ...
Introduction It is an important goal of astronomy to understand the formation of galaxies and large scale structure. One of the ways to constrain these models is by quantifying the clustering of the...
An HI survey of the Bootes Void. II. The Analysis (1995)
Szomoru, A., Van Gorkom, J. H., Gregg, M. D., Strauss, M. A.
We discuss the results of a VLA HI survey of the Bootes void and compare the distribution and HI properties of the void galaxies to those of galaxies found in a survey of regions of mean cosmic...
The Optical Redshift Survey: Sample Selection and the Galaxy Distribution (1994)
Santiago, B. X., Strauss, M. A., Lahav, O., Davis, M., Dressler, A., Huchra, J.
This is the first in a series of papers describing the {\it Optical Redshift Survey} (ORS), a redshift survey of optically selected galaxies covering 98\% of the sky above $|b| = 20^\circ$ (8.09...
Can Standard Cosmological Models Explain the Observed Abell Cluster Bulk Flow? (1994)
Strauss, M. A., Cen, R., Ostriker, J. P., Lauer, T. R., Postman, M.
Lauer \& Postman (LP) observe that all Abell clusters with redshifts less than 15,000\kms\ appear to be participating in a bulk flow of 689 km s$^{-1}$ with respect to the Cosmic Microwave...