Type II-P Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey and the Standardized Candle Method (2009)
D'Andrea, Chris B., Sako, Masao, Dilday, Benjamin, Frieman, Joshua A., Holtzman, Jon, Kessler, Richard, ...
We apply the Standardized Candle Method (SCM) for Type II Plateau supernovae (SNe II-P), which relates the velocity of the ejecta of a SN to its luminosity during the plateau, to 15 SNe II-P...
Galaxy Zoo: Passive Red Spirals (2009)
Masters, Karen L., Mosleh, Moein, Romer, A. Kathy, Nichol, Robert C., Bamford, Steven P., Schawinski, Kevin, ...
We study the spectroscopic properties and environments of red spiral galaxies found by the Galaxy Zoo project. By carefully selecting face-on, disk dominated spirals we construct a sample of truly...
Kessler, Richard, Becker, Andrew, Cinabro, David, Vanderplas, Jake, Frieman, Joshua A., Marriner, John, ...
We present measurements of the Hubble diagram for 103 Type Ia supernovae (SNe) with redshifts 0.04 < z < 0.42, discovered during the first season (Fall 2005) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: Photometry and Supernova Ia Light Curves from the 2005 data (2009)
Holtzman, Jon A., Marriner, John, Kessler, Richard, Sako, Masao, Dilday, Ben, Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We present ugriz light curves for 146 spectroscopically confirmed or spectroscopically probable Type Ia supernovae from the 2005 season of the SDSS-II Supernova survey. The light curves have been...
Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies (2009)
Cardamone, Carolin N., Schawinski, Kevin, Sarzi, Marc, Bamford, Steven P., Bennert, Nicola, Urry, C. M., ...
We investigate a class of rapidly growing emission line galaxies, known as "Green Peas", first noted by volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project because of their peculiar bright green colour and small...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the QSO luminosity function at 0.4 (2009)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Strauss, Michael A., Myers, Adam D., ...
We present the QSO luminosity function of the completed 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey, based on QSOs photometrically selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data and then observed...
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...
Parkinson, David, Kunz, Martin, Liddle, Andrew R., Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Vardanyan, Mihran
We extend our study of the optimization of large baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) surveys to return the best constraints on the dark energy, building on Paper I of this series (Parkinson et al....
Eight-dimensional mid-infrared/optical Bayesian quasar selection (2009)
Richards, Gordon T., Deo, Rajesh P., Lacy, Mark, Myers, Adam D., Nichol, Robert C., Zakamska, Nadia L., ...
We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-infrared (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Sloan Digital Sky...
Early assembly of the most massive galaxies (2009)
Collins, Chris A., Stott, John P., Hilton, Matt, Kay, Scott T., Stanford, S. Adam, Davidson, Michael, ...
The current consensus is that galaxies begin as small density fluctuations in the early Universe and grow by in situ star formation and hierarchical merging. Stars begin to form relatively quickly in...
Galaxy Zoo: A sample of blue early-type galaxies at low redshift (2009)
Schawinski, Kevin, Lintott, Chris, Thomas, Daniel, Sarzi, Marc, Andreescu, Dan, Bamford, Steven P., ...
We report the discovery of a population of nearby, blue early-type galaxies with high star formation rates (0.5 < SFR < 50 Msun/yr). They are identified by their visual morphology as provided by...
Hilton, Matt, Stanford, S. Adam, Stott, John P., Collins, Chris A., Hoyle, Ben, Davidson, Michael, ...
We present a study of the morphological fractions and color-magnitude relation in the most distant X-ray selected galaxy cluster currently known, XMMXCS J2215.9-1738 at z=1.46, using a combination of...
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, ...
Galaxy Zoo: a sample of blue early-type galaxies at low redshift (2009)
Schawinski, Kevin, Lintott, Chris, Thomas, Daniel, Sarzi, Marc, Andreescu, Dan, Bamford, Steven P., ...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2009)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at probing in...
Galaxy Zoo: Disentangling the Environmental Dependence of Morphology and Colour (2008)
Skibba, Ramin A., Bamford, Steven P., Nichol, Robert C., Lintott, Chris J., Andreescu, Dan, Edmondson, Edward M., ...
We analyze the environmental dependence of galaxy morphology and colour with two-point clustering statistics, using data from the Galaxy Zoo, the largest sample of visually classified morphologies...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. This is a deep, 18
Eight-Dimensional Mid-Infrared/Optical Bayesian Quasar Selection (2008)
Richards, Gordon T., Deo, Rajesh P., Lacy, Mark, Myers, Adam D., Nichol, Robert C., Zakamska, Nadia L., ...
We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-IR (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-IRAC and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We apply modern...
Richards, Gordon T., Myers, Adam D., Gray, Alexander G., Riegel, Ryan N., Nichol, Robert C., Brunner, Robert J., ...
We present a catalog of 1,172,157 quasar candidates selected from the photometric imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The objects are all point sources to a limiting magnitude of...
Revealing components of the galaxy population through nonparametric techniques (2008)
Bamford, Steven P., Rojas, Alex L., Nichol, Robert C., Miller, Christopher J., Wasserman, Larry, Genovese, Christopher R., ...
The distributions of galaxy properties vary with environment, and are often multimodal, suggesting that the galaxy population may be a combination of multiple components. The behaviour of these...
Maraston, Claudia, Stromback, Gustav, Thomas, Daniel, Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C.
Predicting the colors of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been a long-standing problem. The g,r,i colors of LRGs are inconsistent with stellar population models...
Inference for the Dark Energy Equation of State Using Type Ia Supernova Data (2008)
Genovese, Christopher R., Freeman, Peter, Wasserman, Larry, Nichol, Robert C., Miller, Christopher
The surprising discovery of an accelerating universe led cosmologists to posit the existence of "dark energy" -- a mysterious energy field that permeates the universe. Understanding dark energy has...
Galaxy Zoo: the dependence of morphology and colour on environment (2008)
Bamford, Steven P., Nichol, Robert C., Baldry, Ivan K., Land, Kate, Lintott, Chris J., Schawinski, Kevin, ...
We analyse the relationships between galaxy morphology, colour, environment and stellar mass using data for over 100,000 objects from Galaxy Zoo, the largest sample of visually classified...
Lintott, Chris J., Schawinski, Kevin, Slosar, Anze, Land, Kate, Bamford, Steven, Thomas, Daniel, ...
In order to understand the formation and subsequent evolution of galaxies one must first distinguish between the two main morphological classes of massive systems: spirals and early-type systems....
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...
X-ray Observations of Optically Selected Giant Elliptical-Dominated Galaxy Groups (2008)
Voevodkin, Alexey, Miller, Christopher J., Borozdin, Konstantin, Heitmann, Katrin, Habib, Salman, Ricker, Paul, ...
We present a combined optical and X-ray analysis of three optically selected X-ray bright groups with giant elliptical galaxies in the center. These massive ellipticals were targeted for XMM-Newton...
Sahlén, Martin, Viana, Pedro T. P., Liddle, Andrew R., Romer, A. Kathy, Davidson, Michael, Sabirli, Kivanc, ...
We forecast the constraints on the values of sigma_8, Omega_m, and cluster scaling relation parameters which we expect to obtain from the XMM Cluster Survey (XCS). We assume a flat Lambda-CDM...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton M., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Cannon, Russell, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey carefully...
First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey (2008)
Zheng, Chen, Romani, Roger W., Sako, Masao, Marriner, John, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, ...
This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band light curves of...
Mass and Redshift Dependence of Star Formation in Relaxed Galaxy Clusters (2008)
Finn, Rose A., Balogh, Michael L., Zaritsky, Dennis, Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C.
We investigate the star-formation properties of dynamically relaxed galaxy clusters as a function of cluster mass for 308 low-redshift clusters drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) C4...
Brent Bryan, Robert C. Nichol, Christopher R. Genovese, Jeff Schneider, Christopher J. Miller, Observatorio Cerro Tololo, ...
We present an efficient algorithm to actively select queries for learning the boundaries separating a function domain into regions where the function is above and below a given threshold. We develop...
Brent Bryan, Robert C. Nichol, Christopher R. Genovese, Jeff Schneider, Christopher J. Miller, Observatorio Cerro Tololo, ...
We present an efficient algorithm to actively select queries for learning the boundaries separating a function domain into regions where the function is above and below a given threshold. We develop...
Active Learning For Identifying Function (2008)
Threshold Boundaries Brent, Brent Bryan, Robert C. Nichol, Christopher R. Genovese, Jeff Schneider, Christopher J. Miller, ...
We present an efficient algorithm to actively select queries for learning the boundaries separating a function domain into regions where the function is above and below a given threshold. We develop...
Active Learning For Identifying Function (2008)
Threshold Boundaries Brent, Brent Bryan, Robert C. Nichol, Christopher R. Genovese, Jeff Schneider, Christopher J. Miller, ...
We present an efficient algorithm to actively select queries for learning the boundaries separating a function domain into regions where the function is above and below a given threshold. We develop...
Combined analysis of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and cosmological implications (2008)
Giannantonio, Tommaso, Scranton, Ryan, Crittenden, Robert G., Nichol, Robert C., Boughn, Stephen P., Myers, Adam D., ...
We present a global measurement of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect obtained by cross-correlating all relevant large scale galaxy data sets with the cosmic microwave background radiation map...
The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary (2008)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, Choi, Changsu, Cinabro, David, DeJongh, Fritz, ...
First-year spectroscopy for the sloan digital sky survey - II. Supernova survey (2008)
Zheng, Chen, Romani, Roger W., Sako, Masao, Marriner, John, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, ...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
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., ...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
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...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) (2008)
Driver, Simon P., Baldry, Ivan K., Bamford, S., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bridges, Terry J., Cameron, Ewan, ...
The GAMA survey aims to deliver 250,000 optical spectra (3--7Ang resolution) over 250 sq. degrees to spectroscopic limits of r_{AB}
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) (2008)
Driver, Simon P., Baldry, Ivan K., Bamford, S., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bridges, Terry J., Cameron, Ewan, ...
The GAMA survey aims to deliver 250,000 optical spectra (3--7Ang resolution) over 250 sq. degrees to spectroscopic limits of r_{AB}
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at...
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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) (2008)
Driver, Simon P., Baldry, Ivan K., Bamford, S., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Bridges, Terry J., Cameron, Ewan, ...
The GAMA survey aims to deliver 250,000 optical spectra (3--7Ang resolution) over 250 sq. degrees to spectroscopic limits of r_{AB}
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at...
The XMM Cluster Survey: The Dynamical State of XMMXCS J2215.9-1738 at z=1.457 (2007)
Hilton, Matt, Collins, Chris A., Stanford, S. Adam, Lidman, Chris, Dawson, Kyle S., Davidson, Michael, ...
We present new spectroscopic observations of the most distant X-ray selected galaxy cluster currently known, XMMXCS J2215.9-1738 at z=1.457, obtained with the DEIMOS instrument at the W. M. Keck...
Cosmology with Galaxy Correlations (2007)
In this review, I outline the use of galaxy correlations to constrain cosmological parameters. As with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the density of dark and baryonic matter imprints...
Measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale using the SDSS and 2dFGRS (2007)
Percival, Will J., Cole, Shaun, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Nichol, Robert C., Peacock, John A., Pope, Adrian C., ...
We introduce a method to constrain general cosmological models using Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance measurements from galaxy samples covering different redshift ranges, and apply this...
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Parkinson, David, Hamana, Takashi, Nichol, Robert C., Suto, Yasushi
We consider the extent to which future imaging surveys of galaxies can distinguish between dark energy and modified gravity models for the origin of the cosmic acceleration. Dynamical dark energy...
Mapping the Cosmological Confidence Ball Surface (2007)
Bryan, Brent, Schneider, Jeff, Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Genovese, Christopher, Wasserman, Larry
We present a new technique to compute simultaneously valid confidence intervals for a set of model parameters. We apply our method to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe's (WMAP) Cosmic...
The Three-Point Correlation Function of Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Kulkarni, Gauri V., Nichol, Robert C., Sheth, Ravi K., Seo, Hee-Jong, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gray, Alexander
We present measurements of the redshift-space three-point correlation function of 50,967 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from Data Release 3 (DR3) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We have studied...
Optimising Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Surveys - I: Testing the concordance LCDM cosmology (2007)
Parkinson, David, Blake, Chris, Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), with particular emphasis on the...
Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys I : testing the concordance (2007)
Parkinson, David R., Blake, Christopher A., Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl, ...
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. 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 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...
Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys I: testing the concordance (2007)
Parkinson, David, Blake, Chris, Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
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...
Parkinson, David, Blake, Chris, Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys I : testing the concordance (2007)
Parkinson, David R., Blake, Christopher A., Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
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...
Parkinson, David, Blake, Chris, Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
Optimizing baryon acoustic oscillation surveys I : testing the concordance (2007)
Parkinson, David R., Blake, Christopher A., Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
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...
Parkinson, David, Blake, Chris, Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alastair C., ...
Abstract not available.
Parkinson, David, Blake, Chris, Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alastair C., ...
Abstract not available.
Parkinson, David, Blake, Chris, Kunz, Martin, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Glazebrook, Karl
We optimize the design of future spectroscopic redshift surveys for constraining the dark energy via precision measurements of the baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs), with particular emphasis on the...
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...
Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Nichol, Robert C., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, Neta A.
Using ~300,000 photometrically classified quasars, by far the largest quasar sample ever used for such analyses, we study the redshift and luminosity evolution of quasar clustering on scales of ~50...
Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, Neta A.
We study quasar clustering on small scales, modeling clustering amplitudes using halo-driven dark matter descriptions. From 91 pairs on scales 2, than at z < 2, at the $2.0\sigma$ level. However, as...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5,697 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hdelta (4101A) and [OII] (3727A) lines. LRGs are luminous (L>3L*),...
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...
A high redshift detection of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (2006)
Giannantonio, Tommaso, Crittenden, Robert G., Nichol, Robert C., Scranton, Ryan, Richards, Gordon T., Myers, Adam D., ...
We present evidence of a large angle correlation between the cosmic microwave background measured by WMAP and a catalog of photometrically detected quasars from the SDSS. The observed cross...
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Suto, Yasushi, Yahata, Kazuhiro
We discuss how the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) signatures in the galaxy power spectrum can distinguish between modified gravity and the cosmological constant as the source of cosmic...
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, ...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the H delta (4101 angstrom), and [O II] (3727 angstrom) lines and the D4000...
Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment (2006)
Baldry, Ivan K., Balogh, Michael L., Bower, Richard G., Glazebrook, Karl, Nichol, Robert C., Bamford, S. P., ...
Abstract not available.
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...
Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment (2006)
Baldry, Ivan K., Balogh, Michael L., Bower, Richard G., Glazebrook, Karl, Nichol, Robert C., Bamford, S. P., ...
Abstract not available.
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...
Universal fitting formulae for baryon oscillation surveys (2006)
Blake, Chris, Parkinson, David, Bassett, Bruce A., Glazebrook, Karl, Kunz, Martin, Nichol, Robert C.
The next generation of galaxy surveys will attempt to measure the baryon oscillations in the clustering power spectrum with high accuracy. These oscillations encode a preferred scale which may be...
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...
Universal fitting formulae for baryon oscillation surveys (2006)
Blake, Christopher A., Parkinson, David R., Bassett, Bruce A., Glazebrook, Karl, Kunz, Martin, Nichol, Robert C.
The next generation of galaxy surveys will attempt to measure the baryon oscillations in the clustering power spectrum with high accuracy. These oscillations encode a preferred scale which may be...
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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the H delta (4101 angstrom), and [O II] (3727 angstrom) lines and the D4000...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
Galaxy bimodality versus stellar mass and environment (2006)
Baldry, Ivan K., Balogh, Michael L., Bower, Richard G., Glazebrook, Karl, Nichol, Robert C., Bamford, S. P., ...
Abstract not available.
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...
Universal fitting formulae for baryon oscillation surveys (2006)
Blake, Chris, Parkinson, David, Bassett, Bruce A., Glazebrook, Karl, Kunz, Martin, Nichol, Robert C.
The next generation of galaxy surveys will attempt to measure the baryon oscillations in the clustering power spectrum with high accuracy. These oscillations encode a preferred scale which may be...
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 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
Statistical Computations with AstroGrid and the Grid (2005)
Nichol, Robert C, Smith, Garry, Miller, Christopher J, Genovese, Chris, Wasserman, Larry, Bryan, Brent, ...
We outline our first steps towards marrying two new and emerging technologies; the Virtual Observatory (e.g, AstroGrid) and the computational grid. We discuss the construction of VOTechBroker, which...
First Measurement of the Clustering Evolution of Photometrically-Classified Quasars (2005)
Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present new measurements of the quasar autocorrelation from a sample of \~80,000 photometrically-classified quasars taken from SDSS DR1. We find a best-fit model of $\omega(\theta) =...
WFMOS - Sounding the Dark Cosmos (2005)
Bassett, Bruce A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J.
Vast sound waves traveling through the relativistic plasma during the first million years of the universe imprint a preferred scale in the density of matter. We now have the ability to detect this...
Universal fitting formulae for baryon oscillation surveys (2005)
Blake, Chris, Parkinson, David, Bassett, Bruce, Glazebrook, Karl, Kunz, Martin, Nichol, Robert C.
The next generation of galaxy surveys will attempt to measure the baryon oscillations in the clustering power spectrum with high accuracy. These oscillations encode a preferred scale which may be...
Detection of Cosmic Magnification with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Scranton, Ryan, Menard, Brice, Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Myers, Adam D., Jain, Bhuvnesh, ...
We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this measurement we used...
Wake, David A., Collins, Chris A., Nichol, Robert C., Jones, Laurence R., Burke, Douglas. J.
We present a wide-field imaging study of the colors of bright galaxies in 12 X-ray selected clusters and groups of galaxies at z ~ 0.3. The systems cover one of the largest ranges in X-ray luminosity...
$XMM-Newton$ $\Omega$ project: III. Gas mass fraction shape in high redshift clusters (2005)
Sadat, Rachida, Blanchard, Alain, Vauclair, Sebastien C., Lumb, David H., Bartlett, James, Romer, A. K., ...
We study the gas mass fraction, $f\_{\rm gas},$ behavior in $XMM-Newton$ $\Omega$ project. The typical $f\_{\rm gas}$ shape of high redshift galaxy clusters follows the global shape inferred at low...
An Empirical Calibration of the Completeness of the SDSS Quasar Survey (2005)
Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Brunner, Robert, ...
Spectra of nearly 20000 point-like objects to a Galactic reddening corrected magnitude of i=19.1 have been obtained to test the completeness of the SDSS quasar survey. The spatially-unresolved...
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., ...
Star-forming galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey - the view from Pittsburgh (2005)
Schulte-Ladbeck, Regina E., Miller, Christopher J., Hopp, Ulrich, Hopkins, Andrew, Nichol, Robert C., Voges, Wolfgang, ...
The C4 clustering algorithm: clusters of galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey (2005)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Reichart, Daniel, Wechsler, Risa H., Evrard, August E., Annis, James, ...
Strateva, Iskra V., Strauss, Michael A., Hao, Lei, Schlegel, David J., Hall, Pat B., Gunn, James E., ...
The C4 clustering algorithm: Clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Reichart, Daniel, Wechsler, Risa H., Evrard, August E., Annis, James, ...
We present the C4 Cluster Catalog, a new sample of 748 clusters of galaxies identified in the spectroscopic sample of the Second Data Release (DR2) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The C4...
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,...
Calibrating photometric redshifts of luminous red galaxies (2005)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavari, Tamas, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, ...
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing...
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...
Calibrating photometric redshifts of luminous red galaxies (2005)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavari, Tamas, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, ...
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing...
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...
Nonparametric Inference for the Cosmic Microwave Background (2004)
Genovese, Christopher R., Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Arjunwadkar, Mihir, Wasserman, Larry
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which permeates the entire Universe, is the radiation left over from just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. On very large scales, the CMB radiation field is...
Bassett, Bruce A., Parkinson, David, Nichol, Robert C.
We highlight the flexibility of the IPSO experiment-design framework by contrasting its application to CMB, weak lensing and redshift surveys. We illustrate the latter with a 10 parameter MCMC...
Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: 100,000 z (2004)
Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Gray, Alexander G., Brunner, Robert J., Lupton, Robert H., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present a catalog of 100,563 unresolved, UV-excess (UVX) quasar candidates to g=21 from 2099 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1) imaging data. Existing spectra of...
Calibrating Photometric Redshifts of Luminous Red Galaxies (2004)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavari, Tamas, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, ...
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing...
The Clustering of AGN in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Wake, David A., Miller, Christopher J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Nichol, Robert C., Pope, Adrian, Szalay, Alexander S., ...
We present the two--point correlation function (2PCF) of narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected within the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using a sample of 13605 AGN...
XMM Cluster Survey: X-ray source identification using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Land, Kate R., Nichol, Robert C., Davidson, Michael, Sabirli, Kivanc, Romer, A. Kathy, Liddle, Andrew R., ...
[ABRIDGED] The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is predicted to detect thousands of clusters observed serendipitously in XMM-Newton pointings. We investigate automating optical follow-up of cluster...
Nonparametric Inference for the Cosmic Microwave Background (2004)
Genovese, Christopher R., Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Arjunwadkar, Mihir, Wasserman, Larry
The cosmic microwave background (CMB), which permeates the entire Universe, is the radiation left over from just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. On very large scales, the CMB radiation field is...
Kayo, Issha, Suto, Yasushi, Nichol, Robert C., Pan, Jun, Szapudi, Istvan, Connolly, Andrew J., ...
We present measurements of the redshift--space three-point correlation function of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For the first time, we analyze the dependence of this statistic on...
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...
Multi-Tree Methods for Statistics on Very Large Datasets in Astronomy (2004)
Gray, Alexander G., Moore, Andrew W., Nichol, Robert C., Connolly, Andrew J., Genovese, Christopher, Wasserman, Larry
Many fundamental statistical methods have become critical tools for scientific data analysis yet do not scale tractably to modern large datasets. This paper will describe very recent algorithms based...
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 clustering of active galactic nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Wake, David A., Miller, Christopher J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Nichol, Robert C., Pope, Adrian, Szalay, Alexander S., ...
On departures from a power law in the galaxy correlation function (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Román, ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Keeton, Charles R., Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Gregg, Michael D., ...
We study the recently discovered gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, the first quasar lensed by a cluster of galaxies. It consists of four images with a maximum separation of 14.62". The system was...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt, Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg2 of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
Galaxy ecology : groups and low-density environments in the SDSS and 2dFGRS (2004)
Balogh, Michael L., Eke, Vince, Miller, Christopher J., Lewis, Ian, Bower, Richard G., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We analyse the observed correlation between galaxy environment and Hα emission-line strength, using volume-limited samples and group catalogues of 24 968 galaxies at 0.05 < z < 0.095,...
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...
Quantifying the bimodal color-magnitude distribution of galaxies (2004)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Brinkmann, Jon, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Nichol, Robert C., ...
We analyze the bivariate distribution, in color versus absolute magnitude (u-r vs. Mr), of a low-redshift sample of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2400 deg2, 0.004 < z < 0.08,...
The bimodal galaxy color distribution: dependence on luminosity and environment (2004)
Balogh, Michael L., Baldry, Ivan K., Nichol, Robert C., Miller, Christopher J., Bower, Richard G., Glazebrook, Karl
We analyze the u - r color distribution of 24,346 galaxies with M r ≤ -18 and z < 0.08, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey first data release, as a function of luminosity and...
Galaxy ecology: groups and low-density environments in the SDSS and 2dFGRS (2004)
Balogh, Michael L., Eke, Vince, Miller, Christopher J., Lewis, Ian, Bower, Richard G., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We analyse the observed correlation between galaxy environment and Hα emission-line strength, using volume-limited samples and group catalogues of 24 968 galaxies at 0.05 < z < 0.095, drawn from 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...
Quantifying the bimodal color-magnitude distribution of galaxies (2004)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Brinkmann, Jon, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Nichol, Robert C., ...
We analyze the bivariate distribution, in color versus absolute magnitude (u-r vs. Mr), of a low-redshift sample of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2400 deg2, 0.004 < z < 0.08,...
The bimodal galaxy color distribution: dependence on luminosity and environment (2004)
Balogh, Michael L., Baldry, Ivan K., Nichol, Robert C., Miller, Christopher J., Bower, Richard G., Glazebrook, Karl
We analyze the u - r color distribution of 24,346 galaxies with M r ≤ -18 and z < 0.08, drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey first data release, as a function of luminosity and...
Star-Forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey -- The View from Pittsburgh (2003)
Schulte-Ladbeck, Regina E., Miller, Christopher J., Hopp, Ulrich, Hopkins, Andrew, Nichol, Robert C., Voges, Wolfgang, ...
We used data from the Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in order to define a catalog of about 13,000 star-forming galaxies (SFG). We discuss the results of two projects....
The Environment of AGNs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Gomez, Percy, Hopkins, Andrew, Bernardi, Mariangela
We present the observed fraction of galaxies with an Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) as a function of environment in the Early Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using 4921 galaxies...
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...
Clusters of Galaxies in the SDSS (2003)
I review here past and present research on clusters and groups of galaxies within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In particular, I discuss the C4 algorithm which is designed to search for...
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...
The Interplay of Cluster and Galaxy Evolution (2003)
Nichol, Robert C., Miller, Christopher J., Goto, Tomotsugu
We review here the interplay of cluster and galaxy evolution. As a case study, we consider the Butcher-Oemler effect and propose that it is the result of the changing rate of cluster merger events in...
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy M., White, Simon D. M., Charlot, Stéphane, Tremonti, Christy, Brinchmann, Jarle, ...
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy, White, Simon D. M., Charlot, Stéphane, Tremonti, Christy, Peng, Eric W., ...
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, ...
Double-peaked low-ionization emission lines in active galactic nuclei (2003)
Strateva, Iskra V., Strauss, Michael A., Hao, Lei, Schlegel, David J., Hall, Pat B., Gunn, James E., ...
Anderson, Scott F., Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trümper, Joachim, Agüeros, Marcel A., Boller, Thomas, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62arcseconds (2003)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures (that is, clusters of...
The 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...
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...
Measuring Sigma8 with Cluster Lensing : Biases from Unrelaxed Clusters (2002)
Smith, Graham P., Edge, Alastair C., Eke, Vincent R., Nichol, Robert C., Smail, Ian, Kneib, Jean-Paul
We use gravitational lens models and X-ray spectral analysis of ten X-ray luminous galaxy clusters at z~0.2 to study the impact of cluster substructure on attempts to normalize the matter power...
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...
Detecting the Baryons in Matter Power Spectra (2002)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Chen, Xuelei
We examine power spectra from the Abell/ACO rich cluster survey and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dfGRS) for observational evidence of features produced by the baryons. A non-negligible baryon...
The Cluster Mass Function from Early SDSS Data: Cosmological Implications (2002)
Bahcall, Neta A., Dong, Feng, Bode, Paul, Kim, Rita, Annis, James, McKay, Timothy A., ...
The mass function of clusters of galaxies is determined from 400 deg^2 of early commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; ~300 clusters in the redshift range z = 0.1 - 0.2 are used....
Kauffmann, Guinevere, Heckman, Timothy M., White, Simon D. M., Charlot, Stephane, Tremonti, Christy, Peng, Eric W., ...
We study the relations between stellar mass, star formation history, size and internal structure for a complete sample of 122,808 galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We show that...
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 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 Cut & Enhance method : selecting clusters of galaxies from the SDSS commissioning data (2001)
Goto, Tomotsugu, Sekiguchi, Maki, Nichol, Robert C., Bahcall, Neta A., Kim, Rita S. J., Annis, James, ...
We describe an automated method, the Cut & Enhance method (CE) for detecting clusters of galaxies in multi-color optical imaging surveys. This method uses simple color cuts, combined with a density...
A Non-parametric Analysis of the CMB Power Spectrum (2001)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Genovese, Christopher, Wasserman, Larry
We examine Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature power spectra from the BOOMERANG, MAXIMA, and DASI experiments. We non-parametrically estimate the true power spectrum with no model...
Non-Parametric Inference in Astrophysics (2001)
Wasserman, Larry, Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Genovese, Chris, Jang, Woncheol, Connolly, Andrew J., ...
We discuss non-parametric density estimation and regression for astrophysics problems. In particular, we show how to compute non-parametric confidence intervals for the location and size of peaks of...
Viana, Pedro T. P., Nichol, Robert C., Liddle, Andrew R.
We describe a new approach to constrain the amplitude of the power spectrum of matter perturbations in the Universe, parametrized by sigma_8 as a function of the matter density Omega_0. We compare...
Higher Order Moments of the Angular Distribution of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Szapudi, István, Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Roman, Szalay, Alexander S., Connolly, Andrew J., Dodelson, Scott, ...
We present initial results for counts in cells statistics of the angular distribution of galaxies in early data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyze a rectangular stripe $2.5^\circ$...
Kim, Rita S. J., Kepner, Jeremy V., Postman, Marc, Strauss, Michael A., Bahcall, Neta A., Gunn, James E., ...
We present a comparison of three cluster finding algorithms from imaging data using Monte Carlo simulations of clusters embedded in a 25 deg^2 region of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data:...
The Butcher-Oemler Effect in High Redshift X-ray Selected Clusters (2001)
Wake, David A., Collins, Chris A., Fairley, Bruce W., Jones, Laurence R., Burke, Doug J., Nichol, Robert C., ...
We are engaged in a wide-field, multi-colour imaging survey of X-ray selected clusters at intermediate and high redshift. We present blue fractions for the first 8 out of 29 clusters, covering almost...
Collaboration, SDSS, Scranton, Ryan, Johnston, David, Dodelson, Scott, Frieman, Joshua A., Connolly, Andy, ...
The angular distribution of galaxies encodes a wealth of information about large scale structure. Ultimately, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will record the angular positions of order 10^8...
The Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Collaboration, SDSS, Connolly, Andrew, Scranton, Ryan, Johnston, David, Dodelson, Scott, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Universe. In this Letter...
The Angular Power Spectrum of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data (2001)
Collaboration, SDSS, Tegmark, Max, Dodelson, Scott, Eisenstein, Daniel, Narayanan, Vijay, Scoccimarro, Roman, ...
We compute the angular power spectrum C_l from 1.5 million galaxies in early SDSS data on large angular scales, l
Collaboration, SDSS, Szalay, Alexander S., Jain, Bhuvnesh, Matsubara, Takahiko, Scranton, Ryan, Vogeley, Michael S., ...
We present measurements of parameters of the 3-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering from 222 square degrees of early imaging data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The projected galaxy...
The 3D Power Spectrum from Angular Clustering of Galaxies in Early SDSS Data (2001)
Dodelson, Scott, Narayanan, Vijay K., Tegmark, Max, Scranton, Ryan, Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew, ...
Early photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) contain angular positions for 1.5 million galaxies. In companion papers, the angular correlation function $w(\theta)$ and 2D power...
Controlling the False Discovery Rate in Astrophysical Data Analysis (2001)
Miller, Christopher J., Genovese, Christopher, Nichol, Robert C., Wasserman, Larry, Connolly, Andrew, Reichart, Daniel, ...
The False Discovery Rate (FDR) is a new statistical procedure to control the number of mistakes made when performing multiple hypothesis tests, i.e. when comparing many data against a given model...
Acoustic Oscillations in the Early Universe and Today (2001)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Batuski, David J.
During its first ~100,000 years, the universe was a fully ionized plasma with a tight coupling by Thompson scattering between the photons and matter. The trade--off between gravitational collapse and...
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...
Possible Detection of Baryonic Fluctuations in the Large-Scale Structure Power Spectrum (2001)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Batuski, David J.
We present a joint analysis of the power spectra of density fluctuations from three independent cosmological redshift surveys; the PSCz galaxy catalog, the APM galaxy cluster catalog and the...
The Angular Power Spectrum of EDSGC Galaxies (2000)
Huterer, Dragan, Knox, Lloyd, Nichol, Robert C.
We determine the angular power spectrum, C_l, of the Edinburgh/Durham Southern Galaxy Catalog (EDSGC) and use this statistic to constrain cosmological parameters. Our methods for determining C_l, and...
Collaboration, SDSS, Castander, Francisco J., Nichol, Robert C., Merrelli, Aronne, Burles, Scott, Pope, Adrian, ...
On 26 May 1999, one of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) fiber-fed spectrographs saw astronomical first light. This was followed by the first spectroscopic commissioning run during the dark period...
Wavelength Doesn't Matter: Optical vs. X-ray Luminosities of Galaxy Clusters (1999)
Miller, Christopher J., Melott, Adrian L., Nichol, Robert C.
We examine the relationship between the total X-ray and optical luminosities of groups and clusters of galaxies taken from various samples in the literature. The clusters and groups were drawn from...
Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Gray, Alexander G., Brunner, Robert J., Lupton, Robert H.
We present a catalog of 100,563 unresolved, UV-excess (UVX) quasar candidates to g = 21 from 2099 deg squared of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1) imaging data. Existing...
Optical/near-infrared observations of GRO J1744-28 (1997)
Cole, David M., Van Den Berk, Daniel E., Severson, Scott A., Miller, M. Coleman, Quashnock, J. M., Nichol, Robert C., ...
We present results from a series of optical (g- and r-band) and near-infrared (K'-band) observations of the region of the sky including the entire Rossi X-Ray Tinting Explorer and ROSAT error circles...
Optical/near-infrared observations of GRO J1744-28 (1997)
Cole, David M., Van Den Berk, Daniel E., Severson, Scott A., Miller, M. Coleman, Quashnock, J. M., Nichol, Robert C., ...
We present results from a series of optical (g- and r-band) and near-infrared (K'-band) observations of the region of the sky including the entire Rossi X-Ray Tinting Explorer and ROSAT error circles...
Higher Order Statistics from the EDSGC Survey I: Counts in Cells (1996)
Szapudi, István, Meiksin, Avery, Nichol, Robert C.
Counts in cells are used to analyse the higher order properties of the statistics of the EDSGC survey. The probability distribution is obtained from an equal area projection source catalog with...