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...
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 Baryon Content of Extremely Low Mass Dwarf Galaxies (2006)
Geha, M., Blanton, M. R., Masjedi, M., West, A. A.
We investigate the gas content and baryonic Tully-Fisher relationship for extremely low luminosity dwarf galaxies in the absolute magnitude range -13.5 > Mr > -16. The sample is selected from the...
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Best, P. N., Lupton, R. H., Tremonti, C., Brinchmann, J., ...
We discuss the panchromatic properties of 99,088 galaxies selected from the SDSS Data Release 1 spectroscopic sample (a flux-limited sample for 1360 deg^2). These galaxies are positionally matched to...
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...
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Best, P. N., Lupton, R. H., Tremonti, C., Brinchmann, J., ...
We discuss the panchromatic properties of 99088 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 `main' spectroscopic sample (a flux-limited sample for 1360deg2). These...
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 =...
Eisenstein, D. J., Zehavi, I., Hogg, D. W., Scoccimarro, R., Blanton, M. R., Nichol, R. C., ...
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over...
The SDSS u-band Galaxy Survey: Luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, I. K., Glazebrook, K., Budavari, T., Eisenstein, D. J., Annis, J., Bahcall, N. A., ...
We construct and analyze a u-band selected galaxy sample from the SDSS Southern Survey, which covers 275 sq. deg. The sample includes 43223 galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts in the range 0.005
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...
A Catalog of Compact Groups of Galaxies in the SDSS Commissioning Data (2003)
Lee, B. C., Allam, S. S., Tucker, D. L., Annis, J., Blanton, M. R., Johnston, D. E., ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the...
Blanton, M. R., Eisenstein, D. J., Hogg, D. W., Schlegel, D. J., Brinkmann, J.
We examine the relationship between environment and the luminosities, surface brightnesses, colors, and profile shapes of luminous galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For the SDSS...
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...
The size distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Shen, S. Y., Mo, H. J., White, S. D. M, Blanton, M. R., Kauffmann, G., ...
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...
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...
An Efficient Algorithm for Positioning Tiles in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2001)
Blanton, M. R., Lupton, R. H., Maley, F. Miller, Young, N., Zehavi, I., Loveday, J.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will observe around 10^6 spectra from targets distributed over an area of about 10,000 square degrees, using a multi-object fiber spectrograph which can...
The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in SDSS Commissioning Data (2000)
Collaboration, SDSS, Blanton, M. R.
During commissioning observations, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has produced one of the largest existing galaxy redshift samples selected from CCD images. Using 11,275 galaxies complete to r^*...