Physical properties and environments of nearby galaxies (2009)
Blanton, Michael R., Moustakas, John
We review the physical properties of nearby, relatively luminous galaxies, using results from newly available massive data sets together with more detailed observations. First, we present the global...
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 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...
Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free: A Manifesto (2009)
Weiner, Benjamin J., Blanton, Michael R., Coil, Alison L., Cooper, Michael C., Davé, Romeel, Hogg, David W., ...
Astronomical software is now a fact of daily life for all hands-on members of our community. Purpose-built software for data reduction and modeling tasks becomes ever more critical as we handle...
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, ...
The [O II] lambda 3727 Luminosity Function at z ~ 1 (2008)
Zhu, Guangtun, Moustakas, John, Blanton, Michael R.
We measure the evolution of the [O II] lambda 3727 luminosity function at 0.75 < z < 1.45 using high-resolution spectroscopy of ~ 14,000 galaxies observed by the DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey. We find...
An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (2008)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Barentine, J.C., Blanton, Michael R., Brewington, Howard J., ...
We present an algorithm to photometrically calibrate wide field optical imaging surveys, that simultaneously solves for the calibration parameters and relative stellar fluxes using overlapping...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The Intrinsic Properties of SDSS Galaxies (2008)
Maller, Ariyeh H., Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W.
The observed properties of galaxies vary with inclination; for most applications we would rather have properties that are independent of inclination, intrinsic properties. One way to determine...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The 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...
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 growth of luminous red galaxies by merging (2007)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R.
We study the role of major and minor mergers in the mass growth of luminous red galaxies. We present small-scale ($0.01
Testing cold dark matter with the low mass Tully-Fisher relation (2007)
Blanton, Michael R., Geha, Marla, West, Andrew A.
The galaxy circular velocity function at small masses is related to the matter power spectrum on small scales. Although this function is well-studied for Local Group dwarfs, theoretical predictions...
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...
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 size distribution of galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey: Erratum (2007)
Shen, Shiyin, Mo, H. J., White, Simon D. M., Blanton, Michael R., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
The size distribution of galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey: Erratum (2007)
Shen, Shiyin, Mo, H. J., White, Simon D. M., Blanton, Michael R., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
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 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...
Environmental Dependence of Properties of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Park, Changbom, Choi, Yun-Young, Vogeley, Michael S., Gott III, J. Richard, Blanton, Michael R., Collaboration, For The SDSS
We investigate the dependence of physical properties of galaxies brighter than M_r=-18.0 in the SDSS on environment, as measured by local density using an adaptive smoothing kernel. We find that...
The Clustering of Galaxy Groups: Dependence on Mass and Other Properties (2006)
Berlind, Andreas A., Kazin, Eyal, Blanton, Michael R., Pueblas, Sebastian, Scoccimarro, Roman, Hogg, David W.
We investigate the clustering of galaxy groups and clusters in the SDSS using the Berlind et al. (2006) group sample, which is designed to identify galaxy systems that each occupy a single dark...
What aspects of galaxy environment matter? (2006)
Blanton, Michael R., Berlind, Andreas A., Hogg, David W.
We determine what aspects of the density field surrounding galaxies most affect their properties. For Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies, we measure the group environment, meaning the host group...
What triggers galaxy transformations? The environments of post-starburst galaxies (2006)
Hogg, David W., Masjedi, Morad, Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Quintero, Alejandro D., Brinkmann, J.
(abridged) There are good observational reasons to believe that the progenitors of red galaxies have undergone starbursts, followed by a post-starburst phase. We investigate the environments of...
K-corrections and filter transformations in the ultraviolet, optical, and near infrared (2006)
Blanton, Michael R., Roweis, Sam
Template fits to observed galaxy fluxes allow calculation of K-corrections and conversions among observations of galaxies at various wavelengths. We present a method for creating model-based template...
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...
SDSS Pre-Burst Observations of Recent Gamma-Ray Burst Fields (2006)
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Brinkmann, J., ...
In this paper, we present Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry and spectroscopy in the fields of 24 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by Swift, including bursts localized by Swift, HETE-2, and...
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, ...
Very small scale clustering and merger rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01 Mpc
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...
Chen, Jacqueline, Kravtsov, Andrey V., Prada, Francisco, Sheldon, Erin S., Klypin, Anatoly A., Blanton, Michael R., ...
We use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic sample to constrain the projected radial distribution of satellites around isolated ~ L* galaxies. We employ mock galaxy catalogs derived from...
Very Small-Scale Clustering and Merger Rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2005)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01
Galaxies in SDSS and DEEP2: a quiet life on the blue sequence? (2005)
In the six billion years between redshifts z=1 and z=0.1, galaxies change due to the aging of their stellar populations, the formation of new stars, and mergers with other galaxies. Here I explore...
What galaxies know about their nearest cluster (2005)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W.
We investigate the extent to which galaxies' star-formation histories and morphologies are determined by their clustocentric distance and their nearest cluster's richness. We look at three tracers of...
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Roweis, Sam T., Johnston, Kathryn V.
[abridged] A "missing data" algorithm is developed to model (ie, reconstruct) the three-dimensional velocity distribution function of a sample of stars using data (velocity measurements) every one of...
A New Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy in Ursa Major (2005)
Willman, Beth, Dalcanton, Julianne J., Martinez-Delgado, David, West, Andrew A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., ...
In this Letter, we report the discovery of a new dwarf satellite to the Milky Way, located at ($\alpha_{2000}, \delta_{2000}$) $=$ (158.72,51.92) in the constellation of Ursa Major. This object was...
Systematic errors in weak lensing: application to SDSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing (2005)
Mandelbaum, Rachel, Hirata, Christopher M., Seljak, Uros, Guzik, Jacek, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Blake, Cullen, ...
Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these...
Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. Emission-Line Luminosity Function (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., ...
The emission line luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is measured from about 3000 AGN included in the main galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey within a redshift range of $0
Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample Selection (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
We have compiled a large sample of low-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their emission line characteristics from the spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Since...
The third data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Active galactic nuclei in the sloan digital sky survey. I. Sample selection (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
Active galactic nuclei in the sloan digital sky survey. II. Emission-line luminosity function (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., ...
The sloan digital sky survey quasar catalog - III. Third data release (2005)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Sample Selection (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
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.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
The Intermediate-Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Nichol, Robert C., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Brinkmann, Jon, ...
We report the intermediate-scale (0.3 to 40 Mpc/h) clustering of 35,000 luminous early-type galaxies at redshifts 0.16 to 0.44 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We present the redshift-space...
Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Bahcall, Neta A., Brinkmann, J., Gunn, James E., ...
We test the homogeneity of the Universe at $z\sim 0.3$ with the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. First, the mean number $N(R)$ of LRGs within completely...
The scale-dependence of relative galaxy bias: encouragement for the halo model description (2004)
Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Zehavi, Idit
We investigate the relationship between the colors, luminosities, and environments of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectroscopic sample, using environmental measurements on scales ranging...
Rotation Velocities of Two Low Luminosity Field Galaxies (2004)
Pizagno, James, Blanton, Michael R., Weinberg, David H., Bahcall, Neta A., Brinkmann, Jon
We present H-alpha rotation curves of two low luminosity field galaxies with r-band absolute magnitudes M_r=-13.9^{+0.8}_{-0.5} and M_r=-14.7^{+0.3}_{-0.2} (for h=0.7; the large error bars reflect...
A New Milky Way Companion: Unusual Globular Cluster or Extreme Dwarf Satellite? (2004)
Willman, Beth, Blanton, Michael R., West, Andrew A., Dalcanton, Julianne J., Hogg, David W., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We report the discovery of SDSSJ1049+5103, an overdensity of resolved blue stars at (\alpha_{2000}, \delta_{2000}) = (162.343, 51.051). This object appears to be an old, metal-poor stellar system at...
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...
Anomalously low PAH emission from low-luminosity galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Tremonti, Christy A., Blanton, Michael R., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Quintero, Alejandro D., ...
The Spitzer Space Telescope First Look Survey Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) near and mid-infrared imaging data partially overlaps the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with 313 visually selected (r
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...
Interpreting the Relationship Between Galaxy Luminosity, Color and Environment (2004)
Berlind, Andreas A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Weinberg, David H., Davé, Romeel, Eisenstein, Daniel J., ...
We study the relationship between galaxy luminosity, color, and environment in a cosmological simulation of galaxy formation. We compare the predicted relationship with that found for SDSS galaxies...
The Mass Function of Void Galaxies in the SDSS Data Release 2 (2004)
Goldberg, David M., Jones, Timothy D., Hoyle, Fiona, Rojas, Randall R., Vogeley, Michael S., Blanton, Michael R.
We estimate the Mass Function of void galaxies in the second public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from a sample of 1000 galaxies with local density contrasts of delta_v < -0.6. The...
A more informative picture of the HST Ultra Deep Field (2004)
Wherry, Nicholas, Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W.
The Hubble Space Telescope has obtained some of its well-deserved impact by producing stunning three-color (RGB) pictures from three-band imaging data. Here we produce a new RGB representation of the...
Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts (2004)
Pope, Adrian C., Matsubara, Takahiko, Szalay, Alexander S., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gray, Jim, ...
We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to the analysis of the 3D power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2004)
Hoog, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
On departures from a power law in the galaxy correlation function (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Román, ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The distribution in color and absolute magnitude is presented for 55,158 galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range 0.08lt;zlt;0.12, as a function of the galaxy...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt, Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg2 of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) mosaic camera and telescope have obtained five-band optical-wavelength imaging near the Galactic plane outside of the nominal survey boundaries. These additional...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
Selection and photometric properties of K+A galaxies (2004)
Quintero, Alejandro D., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., ...
Two different simple measurements of galaxy star formation rate with different timescales are compared empirically on 156,395 fiber spectra of galaxies with r < 17.77 mag taken from the Sloan...
David W. Hogg, Michael R. Blanton, Sam T. Roweis, Kathryn V. Johnston
An algorithm is developed to model the three-dimensional velocity distribution function of a sample of stars using only measurements of each star’s two-dimensional tangential velocity. The...
David M. Goldberg, Timothy D. Jones, Fiona Hoyle, All R. Rojas, Michael S, Michael R. Blanton
We estimate the Mass Function of void galaxies in the second public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from a sample of 1000 galaxies with local density contrasts of δv < −0.6. The...
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...
Preparing Red-Green-Blue (RGB) Images from CCD Data (2003)
Lupton, Robert, Blanton, Michael R., Fekete, George, Hogg, David W., O'Mullane, Wil, Szalay, Alex, ...
We present a new, and we believe arguably correct, algorithm for producing Red-Green-Blue (RBG) composites from 3-band astronomical images. Our method ensures that an object with a specified...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the RSDSS commissioning data (2003)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Blanton, Michael R., Johnston, David 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...
The dependence on environment of the color-magnitude relation of galaxies (2003)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Brinchmann, Jarle, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Schlegel, David J., Gunn, James E., ...
The distribution in color and absolute magnitude is presented for 55,158 galaxies taken from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the redshift range $0.08
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
A simple model for the clustering of subhalos as a function of mass (2003)
Astrophysicists do not associate galaxies with the massive dark matter halos so easily detected in particle simulations and whose mass function can be predicted by the Press-Schechter formalism and...
The size distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Shen, Shiyin, Mo, H. J., White, Simon D. M., Blanton, Michael R., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
abridged: We use a complete sample of about 140,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to study the size distribution of galaxies and its dependence on their luminosity, stellar mass,...
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 size distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Shen, Shiyin, Mo, H. J., White, Simon D. M., Blanton, Michael R., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
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, ...
The size distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Shen, Shiyin, Mo, H. J., White, Simon D. M., Blanton, Michael R., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
The size distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Shen, Shiyin, Mo, H. J., White, Simon D. M., Blanton, Michael R., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
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...
The overdensities of galaxy environments as a function of luminosity and color (2002)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., Schlegel, David J., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We study the mean environments of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of rest-frame luminosity and color. Overdensities in galaxy number are estimated in $8 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$...
Hogg, David W., Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J.
The K correction "corrects" for the fact that sources observed at different redshifts are, in general, compared with standards or each other at different rest-frame wavelengths. It is part of 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
Michael R. Blanton, Huan Lin, Robert H. Lupton, F. Miller Maley, Neal Young
Large surveys using multiobject spectrographs require automated methods for deciding how to efficiently point observations and how to assign targets to each pointing. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
The Three-Dimensional Power Spectrum Of Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (1998)
Tegmark, Max, Blanton, Michael R., Strauss, Michael A., Hennessy, Greg, Munn, Jeffrey A.
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) by using a sample of 205,443 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, covering 2417 effective square degrees with mean redshift z = 0.1....