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...
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...
Bundy, Kevin, Fukugita, Masataka, Ellis, Richard S., Targett, Thomas A., Belli, Sirio, Kodama, Tadayuki
Using deep infrared observations conducted with the MOIRCS imager on the Subaru Telescope in the northern GOODS field combined with public surveys in GOODS-S, we investigate the dependence on stellar...
Measuring the galaxy-mass and galaxy-dust correlations through magnification and reddening (2009)
Ménard, Brice, Scranton, Ryan, Fukugita, Masataka, Richards, Gordon
We present a simultaneous detection of gravitational magnification and dust reddening effects due to galactic halos and large-scale structure. The measurement is based on correlating the brightness...
Bundy, Kevin, Fukugita, Masataka, Ellis, Richard S., Targett, Thomas A., Belli, Sirio, Kodama, Tadayuki
Using deep infrared observations conducted with the MOIRCS on the Subaru Telescope in GOODS-N combined with public surveys in GOODS-S, we investigate the dependence on stellar mass, M_*, and galaxy...
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, ...
Empirically Consistent Electroweak Radiative Corrections with the Two-Higgs Doublet Model (2008)
Fukugita, Masataka, Kubota, Takahiro
The electroweak radiative correction, which turned out to be marginal within the standard electroweak model having the minimal Higgs sector in view of the present experimental information, fits well...
Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert, Juric, Mario, Gunn, James, Knapp, Gillian, ...
Luminosity Function Constraints on the Evolution of Massive Red Galaxies Since z~0.9 (2008)
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Fan, Xiaohui, Fukugita, Masataka, Jiang, Linhua, Maraston, Claudia, ...
We measure the evolution of the luminous red galaxy (LRG) luminosity function in the redshift range 0.1
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., 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Exploring the variable sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert, Juric, Mario, Gunn, James, Knapp, Gillian, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:0704.0655 v1 Apr 4 2007
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...
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...
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...
Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: An Initial Sample, and Type Ia Rate, out to Redshift 1.6 (2007)
Poznanski, Dovi, Maoz, Dan, Yasuda, Naoki, Foley, Ryan J., Doi, Mamoru, Filippenko, Alexei V., ...
Large samples of high-redshift supernovae (SNe) are potentially powerful probes of cosmic star formation, metal enrichment, and SN physics. We present initial results from a new deep SN survey, based...
Yasuda, Naoki, Fukugita, Masataka, Schneider, Donald P.
Galactic extinction is tested using galaxy number counts at low Galactic latitude obtained from five band photometry of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The spatial variation of galaxy number counts for...
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...
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...
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...
SDSS J1029_2623: a gravitationally lensed quasar with an image separation of 22.5 inches (2006)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Morokuma, Tomoki, Doi, Mamoru, Yasuda, Naoki, Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a cluster-scale lensed quasar, SDSS J1029+2623, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The lens system exhibits two lensed images of a quasar at z p 2.197. The image...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel, Strauss, Michael, Weinberg, David, Blanton, Michael, Frieman, Joshua, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0608632 v2 Oct 30 2006
SDSS J1029+2623: A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with an Image Separation of 22.5 Arcseconds (2006)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Morokuma, Tomoki, Doi, Mamoru, Yasuda, Naoki, Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a cluster-scale lensed quasar, SDSS J1029+2623, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The lens system exhibits two lensed images of a quasar at z_s=2.197. The image...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline (2006)
Tucker, Douglas, Kent, Stephen, Richmond, Michael, Annis, James, Smith, James, Allam, S., ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0608575 v1 Aug 26 2006
Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS (2006)
Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Fukugita, Masataka, Pope, Adrian C., ...
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyse the main...
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...
Serenelli, Aldo M., Fukugita, Masataka
We attempt to document complete energetic transactions of stars in their life. We calculate photon and neutrino energies that are produced from stars in their each phase of evolution from 1 to 8...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. I. Candidate Selection Algorithm (2006)
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We present an algorithm for selecting an uniform sample of gravitationally lensed quasar candidates from low-redshift (0.6
Limit on the Neutrino Mass from the WMAP Three Year Data (2006)
Fukugita, Masataka, Ichikawa, Kazuhide, Kawasaki, Masahiro, Lahav, Ofer
We derive an upper limit on the neutrino mass from the WMAP three-year data alone by employing a deterministic minimisation method based on a grid search in multi-parameter space. Assuming the flat...
Fukugita, Masataka, Kubota, Takahiro
In a recent letter Marciano and Sirlin (Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 032002, (2006)) presented an improved calculation of the electroweak radiative correction to derive a precision value of the quark mixing...
Primordial Helium Abundance: A Reanalysis of the Izotov-Thuan Spectroscopic Sample (2006)
Fukugita, Masataka, Kawasaki, Masahiro
A reanalysis is made for the helium abundance determination for the Izotov-Thuan (2004) spectroscopic sample of extragalactic H II regions. We find that the effect of underlying stellar absorption of...
Nagamine, Kentaro, Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Fukugita, Masataka, Cen, Renyue
Taking three independent approaches, we investigate the simultaneous constraints set on the cosmic star formation history from various observations, including stellar mass density and extragalactic...
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., 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...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
Massive Neutrinos in Cosmology (2005)
The roles of massive neutrinos in cosmology -- in leptogenesis and in the evolution of mass density fluctuations -- are reviewed. Emphasis is given to the limit on neutrino mass from these...
The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from SDSS Imaging Data (2005)
Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Williams, Kurtis A., Von Hippel, Ted, ...
A sample of white dwarfs is selected from SDSS DR3 imaging data using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from SDSS plus USNO-B combined data. Numerous SDSS and followup...
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...
Radiative Corrections to the Neutrino-Deuteron Reactions (2005)
Fukugita, Masataka, Kubota, Takahiro
The $O(\alpha)$ QED and electroweak radiative corrections to neutrino deuteron reactions is investigated with particular emphasis given to the constant terms, which have not been treated properly in...
A Snapshot Survey for Gravitational Lenses Among z>=4.0 Quasars: II. Constraints on the 4.0 (2005)
Richards, Gordon T., Haiman, Zoltan, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
We report on i-band snapshot observations of 157 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars at 4-4.63 obtained from the absence of lensing in four z>5.7 quasars. Such constraints are important for our...
Photometric Covariance in Multi-Band Surveys: Understanding the Photometric Error in the SDSS (2005)
Scranton, Ryan, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Lupton, Robert H., Johnston, David, Budavari, Tamas, ...
In this paper we describe a detailed analysis of the photometric uncertainties present within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging survey based on repeat observations of approximately 200...
Massive Coronae of Galaxies (2005)
Fukugita, Masataka, Peebles, P. J. E.
There is reason to suspect that about half of the baryons are in pressure-supported plasma in the halos of normal galaxies, drawn in by gravity along with about half of the dark matter. To be...
Yamauchi, Chisato, Ichikawa, Shin-ichi, Doi, Mamoru, Yasuda, Naoki, Yagi, Masafumi, Fukugita, Masataka, ...
We devise improved photometric parameters for the morphological classification of galaxies using a bright sample from the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In addition to using an...
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,...
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.
The properties and luminosity function of extremely low luminosity galaxies (2004)
Blanton, Michael R., Lupton, Robert H., Schlegel, David J., Strauss, Michael A., Brinkmann, J., Fukugita, Masataka, ...
We examine a sample of low redshift (10 < d < 150 Mpc) galaxies including galaxies with r-band absolute magnitudes as faint as -12.5 (for h=1), selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release...
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...
Constraining Neutrino Masses by CMB Experiments Alone (2004)
Ichikawa, Kazuhide, Fukugita, Masataka, Kawasaki, Masahiro
It is shown that a subelectronvolt upper limit can be derived on the neutrino mass from the CMB data alone in the Lambda CDM model with the power-law adiabatic perturbations, without the aid of any...
Distributions of Galaxy Spectral Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Yip, Ching-Wa, Connolly, Andrew, Szalay, Alex, Budavari, Tamas, SubbaRao, Mark, Frieman, Joshua, ...
We perform an objective classification of 170,000 galaxy spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using the Karhunen-Lo\`eve (KL) transform. With about one-sixth of the total set of galaxy...
The Cosmic Energy Inventory (2004)
Fukugita, Masataka, Peebles, P. J. E.
We present an inventory of the cosmic mean densities of energy associated with all the known states of matter and radiation at the present epoch. The observational and theoretical bases for the...
Fukugita, Masataka, Kubota, Takahiro
We present a calculation of full one-loop radiative corrections, including the constant term, to the asymmetry parameter of polarised neutron beta decay. This gives the radiative correction to the...
The Lyman-alpha Forest Power Spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
McDonald, Patrick, Seljak, Uros, Burles, Scott, Schlegel, David J., Weinberg, David H., Shih, David, ...
We measure the power spectrum, P_F(k,z), of the transmitted flux in the Ly-alpha forest using 3035 high redshift quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This sample is almost two orders of...
Radiative Corrections to Neutrino-Nucleon Quasielastic Scattering (2004)
Fukugita, Masataka, Kubota, Takahiro
Full one-loop radiative corrections are calculated for low energy neutrino-nucleon quasi-elastic scattering, $\bar \nu_{e}+p \longrightarrow e^{+} + n$, which involves both Fermi and Gamow-Teller...
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., ...
Tremonti, Christy A., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Brinchmann, Jarle, Jenkins, Stéphane Charlot, White, Simon D. M., ...
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 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...
A Ly alpha-only active galactic nucleus from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Hoversten, E. A., Tremonti, Christy A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a z = 2.4917 radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a luminous, variable, low-polarization UV continuum, H I two-photon emission, and a moderately...
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...
A Ly alpha-only active galactic nucleus from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Hoversten, E. A., Tremonti, Christy A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a z = 2.4917 radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a luminous, variable, low-polarization UV continuum, H I two-photon emission, and a moderately...
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...
Cosmic Matter Distribution: Cosmic Baryon Budget Revisited (2003)
The cosmic baryon budget is revisited using modern observations that have become available since our first publication. I also present an estimate for the heavy element abundance. An increased...
Actively Star Forming Elliptical Galaxies at Low Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Turner, Edwin L., Helmboldt, Joe, Nichol, R. C.
We report discovery of actively star forming elliptical galaxies in a morphologically classified sample of bright galaxies at a low redshift obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The emission...
Nakamura, Osamu, Fukugita, Masataka, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P.
We present a study of the H$\alpha$ line emission from a sample of 1482 optically-selected, morphologically-classified bright galaxies (median redshift of 0.05) derived from the Sloan Digital Sky...
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...
Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Schneider, Donald P., Doi, Mamoru, Kashikawa, Nobunari
We present an investigation of the environment (\approx 600 kpc radius) of a pair of luminous z=4.25 quasars, SDSS J1439-0034 A,B, separated by 33''. An analysis of high-quality Subaru spectra of the...
A Slow Merger History of Field Galaxies Since z~1 (2003)
Bundy, Kevin, Fukugita, Masataka, Ellis, Richard S., Kodama, Tadayuki, Conselice, Christopher J.
Using deep infrared observations conducted with the CISCO imager on the Subaru Telescope, we investigate the field-corrected pair fraction and the implied merger rate of galaxies in redshift survey...
Anderson, Scott, Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trumper, Joachim, Agueros, Marcel, Boller, Thomas, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0305093 v2 Aug 16 2003
Discovery of Eight New Extremely Metal--Poor Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Kniazev, Alexei Y., Grebel, Eva K., Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Fukugita, Masataka
We report the discovery of eight new extremely metal-poor galaxies (XMPGs; 12+log(O/H) < 7.65) and the recovery of four previously known or suspected XMPGs (IZw18, HS0822+3542, HS0837+4717 and...
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...
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
Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Using Supervised Artificial Neural Networks (2003)
Ball, Nicholas M, Loveday, Jon, Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Okamura, Sadanori, Brinkmann, Jon, ...
Supervised artificial neural networks are used to predict useful properties of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in this instance morphological classifications, spectral types and redshifts....
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...
Ostriker, Jeremiah P., Nagamine, Kentaro, Cen, Renyue, Fukugita, Masataka
While second and higher order correlations of the light distribution have received extensive study, the lowest order probability distribution function (PDF) -- the probability that a unit volume of...
A Merged Catalog of Clusters of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2003)
Bahcall, Neta A., McKay, Timothy A., Annis, James, Kim, Rita, Dong, Feng, Hansen, Sarah, ...
We present a catalog of 799 clusters of galaxies in the redshift range z_est = 0.05 - 0.3 selected from ~400 deg^2 of early SDSS commissioning data along the celestial equator. The catalog is based...
Anderson, Scott F., Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trümper, Joachim, Agüeros, Marcel A., Boller, Thomas, ...
Many open questions in X-ray astronomy are limited by the relatively small number of objects in uniform optically-identified samples, especially when rare subclasses are considered, or subsets...
The Host Galaxies of AGN (2003)
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy M., Tremonti, Christy, Brinchmann, Jarle, Charlot, Stephane, White, Simon D. M., ...
We examine the properties of the host galaxies of 22,623 narrow-line AGN with 0.02
Hdelta-Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: The Catalog (2003)
Goto, Tomotsugu, Nichol, Robert C., Miller, Christopher J., Bernardi, Mariangela, Hopkins, Andrew, Tremonti, Christy, ...
[Abridged] We present here a new and homogeneous sample of 3340 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) based solely on the observed strength of their Hdelta absorption line. These...
A Low Latitude Halo Stream around the Milky Way (2003)
Yanny, Brian, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Grebel, Eva K., Kent, Steve, Odenkirchen, Michael, Rockosi, Connie M., ...
We present evidence for a ring of stars in the plane of the Milky Way, extending at least from l = 180 deg to l = 227 deg with turnoff magnitude $g \sim 19.5$; the ring could encircle the Galaxy. We...
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy M., White, Simon D. M., Charlot, Stéphane, Tremonti, Christy, Brinchmann, Jarle, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
Anderson, Scott F., Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trümper, Joachim, Agüeros, Marcel A., Boller, Thomas, ...
A merged catalog of clusters of galaxies from early Sloan Digital Sky Survey data (2003)
Bahcall, Neta A., McKay, Timothy A., Annis, James, Kim, Rita S. J., Dong, Feng, Hansen, Sarah, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62arcseconds (2003)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures (that is, clusters of...
Discovery of eight new extremely metal poor galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Kniazev, Alexei Y., Grebel, Eva K., Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Brinkmann, Jonathan, Fukugita, Masataka
We report the discovery of eight new extremely metal poor galaxies [XMPGs; 12+log(O/H) lt;7.65] and the recovery of four previously known or suspected XMPGs (I Zw 18, HS 0822+3542, HS 0837+4717, and...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the cosmic spectrum and star formation history (2003)
Glazebrook, Karl, Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, Jon, Connolly, Andrew J., Csabai, Istvan, ...
We present a determination of the "cosmic optical spectrum" of the universe, i.e., the ensemble emission from galaxies, as determined from the red-selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey main galaxy...
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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the cosmic spectrum and star formation history (2003)
Glazebrook, Karl, Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, Jon, Connolly, Andrew J., Csabai, Istvan, ...
We present a determination of the "cosmic optical spectrum" of the universe, i.e., the ensemble emission from galaxies, as determined from the red-selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey main galaxy...
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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Cosmic Spectrum and Star-Formation History (2002)
Glazebrook, Karl, Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, Jon, Connolly, Andrew, Csabai, Istvan, ...
We present a determination of the `Cosmic Optical Spectrum' of the Universe, i.e. the ensemble emission from galaxies, as determined from the red-selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey main galaxy sample...
Luminosity Function of Morphologically Classified Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)
Nakamura, Osamu, Fukugita, Masataka, Yasuda, Naoki, Loveday, Jon, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P., ...
The morphological dependence of the luminosity function is studied using a sample containing approximately 1500 bright galaxies classified into Hubble types by visual inspections for a homogeneous...
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...
Photometric Redshifts for the SDSS Early Data Release (2002)
Csabai, Istvan, Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Gyory, Zsuzsanna, Benitez, Narciso, ...
The Early Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky survey provides one of the largest multicolor photometric catalogs currently available to the astronomical community. In this paper we present the...
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z=0.1 (2002)
Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Brinkmann, J., Connolly, Andrew J., Csabai, Istvan, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
Using a catalog of 147,986 galaxy redshifts and fluxes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) we measure the galaxy luminosity density at z=0.1 in five optical bandpasses corresponding to the SDSS...
The u'g'r'i'z' standard star network (2002)
Smith, Allyn, Tucker, Douglas, Kent, Stephen, Richmond, Michael, Fukugita, Masataka, Ichikawa, Takashi, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0201143 v2 1 Mar 2002
The u'g'r'i'z' standard star network (2002)
Smith, Allyn, Tucker, Douglas, Kent, Stephen, Richmond, Michael, Fukugita, Masataka, Ichikawa, Takashi, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0201143 v2 1 Mar 2002
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...
Dynamical Confirmation of SDSS Weak Lensing Scaling Laws (2002)
McKay, Timothy A., Sheldon, Erin Scott, Johnston, David, Grebel, Eva K., Prada, Francisco, Rix, Hans-Walter, ...
Galaxy masses can be estimated by a variety of methods; each applicable in different circumstances, and each suffering from different systematic uncertainties. Confirmation of results obtained by one...
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy M., White, Simon D. M., Charlot, Stephane, Tremonti, Christy, Brinchmann, Jarle, ...
We develop a new method to constrain the star formation histories, dust attenuation and stellar masses of galaxies. It is based on two stellar absorption line indices, the 4000 Angstrom break...
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., ...
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Rockosi, Connie, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, Brinkmann, Jon, ...
Dynamical Confirmation of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Weak-lensing Scaling Laws (2002)
McKay, Timothy A., Sheldon, Erin Scott, Johnston, David, Grebel, Eva K., Prada, Francisco, Rix, Hans-Walter, ...
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,...
The Angular Clustering of Galaxy Pairs (2001)
Infante, Leopoldo, Strauss, Michael A., Bahcall, Neta A., Knapp, Gillian R., Lupton, Robert H., Kim, Rita S. J., ...
We identify close pairs of galaxies from 278 deg^2 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning imaging data. The pairs are drawn from a sample of 330,041 galaxies with 18 < r^* < 20. We determine the...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Annis, James, Gunn, James, Szalay, Alexander, Connolly, Andrew, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0108153 v1 9 Aug 2001
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...
Galaxy Number Counts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data (2001)
Yasuda, Naoki, Fukugita, Masataka, Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., Strateva, Iskra, Strauss, Michael A., ...
We present bright galaxy number counts in five broad bands ($u', g', r', i', z'$) from imaging data taken during the commissioning phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The counts are derived...
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...
Evolution of the Luminosity Function and Colors of Galaxies in a Lambda-CDM Universe (2001)
Nagamine, Kentaro, Fukugita, Masataka, Cen, Renyue, Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
The luminosity function of galaxies is derived from a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation of a Lambda cold dark matter (CDM) universe with the aid of a stellar population synthesis model. At z=0,...
Cosmology and particle physics (2000)
The state of our understanding of cosmology is reviewed from an astrophysical cosmologist point of view with a particular emphasis given to recent observations and their impact. Discussion is then...
Star Formation History and Stellar Metallicity Distribution in a Cold Dark Matter Universe (2000)
Nagamine, Kentaro, Fukugita, Masataka, Cen, Renyue, Ostriker, Jeremiah P.
We study star formation history and stellar metallicity distribution in galaxies in a Lambda cold dark matter universe using a hydrodynamic cosmological simulation. Our model predicts star formation...
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...
CMB Observables and Their Cosmological Implications (2000)
Hu, Wayne, Fukugita, Masataka, Zaldarriaga, Matias, Tegmark, Max
We show that recent measurements of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies by BOOMERanG and MAXIMA can be characterized by four observables, the position of the first acoustic...
The Global Cosmological Parameters (2000)
This lecture note presents a survey of the current status of the determination of the three cosmological parameters, the Hubble constant, the mass density paramater and the cosmological constant, to...
Wayne Hu, Masataka Fukugita, Matias Zaldarriaga, Max Tegmark
We show that recent measurements of the power spectrum of cosmic microwave background anisotropies by Boomerang and MAXIMA can be mainly characterized by four observables: the position of the Ðrst...
Limits on Neutrino Mass from Cosmic Structure Formation (1999)
Fukugita, Masataka, Liu, Guo-Chin, Sugiyama, Naoshi
We consider the effect of three species of neutrinos with nearly degenerate mass on the cosmic structure formation in a low matter-density universe within a hierarchical clustering scenario with a...
A Study of the B-V Colour Temperature Relation (1999)
Sekiguchi, Maki, Fukugita, Masataka
We attempt to construct a B-V colour temperature relation for stars in the least model dependent way employing the best modern data. The fit we obtained with the form Teff = Teff((B-V)0,[Fe/H],log g)...
The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (1998)
Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Kleinman, S. J., Metcalfe, T. S., ...
A sample of white dwarfs is selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 3 using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from combined SDSS and USNO-B data....
Galaxy Mergers and Gravitational Lens Statistics (1994)
Rix, Hans-Walter, Maoz, Dan, Turner, Edwin L., Fukugita, Masataka
We investigate the impact of hierarchical galaxy merging on the statistics of gravitational lensing of distant sources. Since no definite theoretical predictions for the merging history of luminous...
Nakazawa, Takashi, Kawai, Hikaru, Okamoto, Yuko, Fukugita, Masataka
A tertiary structure prediction is described using Monte Carlo simulated annealing for the peptide fragment corresponding to residues 16–36 of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI). The...
Okamoto, Yuko, Fukugita, Masataka, Nakazawa, Takashi, Kawai, Hikaru
Conformation of the C-peptide fragment of RNase A is calculated by Monte Carlo simulated annealing. We adopt the total potential energy as given by the sum of generic interatomic energies whose...