Robert H. Lupton

Light Curve Templates and Galactic Distribution of RR Lyrae Stars from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82 (2009)

Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Grammer, Skyler H., Morgan, Dylan P., Becker, Andrew C., Juric, Mario, ...

We present an improved analysis of halo substructure traced by RR Lyrae stars in the SDSS stripe 82 region. With the addition of SDSS-II data, a revised selection method based on new ugriz light...

First Results from the Swarms Survey. SDSS 1257+5428: A Nearby, Massive White Dwarf Binary with a Likely Neutron Star or Black Hole Companion (2009)

Badenes, Carles, Mullally, Fergal, Thompson, Susan E., Lupton, Robert H.

We present the first results from SWARMS (Sloan White dwArf Radial velocity data Mining Survey), an ongoing project to identify compact white dwarf (WD) binaries in the spectroscopic catalog of the...

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...

Cosmological Constraints from the Clustering of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Luminous Red Galaxies (2009)

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...

A Survey of z ~ 6 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Deep Stripe. II. Discovery of Six Quasars at z AB>21 (2009)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Bian, Fuyan, Annis, James, Chiu, Kuenley, Jester, Sebastian, ...

We present the discovery of six new quasars at z ~ 6 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along the...

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...

A Survey of z~6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe. II. Discovery of Six Quasars at z_{AB}>21 (2009)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Bian, Fuyan, Annis, James, Chiu, Kuenley, Jester, Sebastian, ...

We present the discovery of six new quasars at z~6 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along the...

Galactic Globular and Open Clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Crowded Field Photometry and Cluster Fiducial Sequences in ugriz (2008)

An, Deokkeun, Johnson, Jennifer A., Clem, James L., Yanny, Brian, Rockosi, Constance M., Morrison, Heather L., ...

We present photometry for globular and open cluster stars observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In order to exploit over 100 million stellar objects with r < 22.5 mag observed by SDSS,...

The Size Distributions of Asteroid Families in the SDSS Moving Object Catalog 4 (2008)

Parker, Alex H., Ivezic, Zeljko, Juric, Mario, Lupton, Robert H., Sekora, Michael D., Kowalski, Adam F.

Asteroid families, traditionally defined as clusters of objects in orbital parameter space, often have distinctive optical colors. We show that the separation of family members from background...

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 Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity (2008)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...

Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F and G type main sequence stars (0.2

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

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., 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...

A survey of z ~ 6 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Deep Stripe. I. a Flux-Limited Sample at zAB < 21 (2008)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Annis, James, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We present the discovery of five quasars at z ~ 6 selected from 260 deg2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along...

The milky way tomography with SDSS. II. Stellar metallicity (2008)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...

Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F- and G-type main-sequence stars (0.2

The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...

This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...

In Pursuit of LSST Science Requirements: A Comparison of Photometry Algorithms (2007)

Becker, Andrew C., Silvestri, Nicole M., Owen, Russell E., Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H.

We have developed an end-to-end photometric data processing pipeline to compare current photometric algorithms commonly used on ground-based imaging data. This testbed is exceedingly adaptable, and...

Michael A. Strauss (2007)

Michael A. Strauss, Xiaohui Fan, James E. Gunn, S. K. Leggett, T. R. Geballe, Jeffrey R. Pier, ...

We report the discovery of the coolest field dwarf yet known, selected as an unresolved object with extremely red colors from commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Its spectrum...

Xiaohui Fan (2007)

Xiaohui Fan, Michael Strauss, Donald P. Schneider, James E. Gunn, Robert H. Lupton, Brian Yanny, ...

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of 15 high-redshift quasars (z ? 3:6) discovered from ¸ 140 deg 2 of five-color (u 0 g 0 r 0 i 0 z 0 ) imaging data taken by the Sloan Digital...

A Survey of z~6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe: I. a Flux-Limited Sample at z_{AB} (2007)

Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Annis, James, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We present the discovery of five quasars at z~6 selected from 260 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along...

Stellar SEDs from 0.3-2.5 Microns: Tracing the Stellar Locus and Searching for Color Outliers in SDSS and 2MASS (2007)

Covey, Kevin R., Ivezic, Zeljko, Schlegel, David J., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Lupton, Robert H., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) are rich resources for studying stellar astrophysics and the structure and formation history of the Galaxy. As new surveys...

A Catalogue of Morphologically Classified Galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: North Equatorial Region (2007)

Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Okamura, Sadanori, Yasuda, Naoki, Barentine, John C., Brinkmann, Jon, ...

We present a catalogue of morphologically classified bright galaxies in the north equatorial stripe (230 deg$^2$) derived from the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)....

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)

Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Anderson, Scott F., ...

We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...

Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...

We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS Stripe 82, and contains 58 million photometric...

Exploring the variable sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...

We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS stripe 82, which lies along the celestial equator...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)

Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., ...

We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Standard Star Catalog for stripe 82: the dawn of industrial 1% optical photometry (2007)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Allyn Smith, J., Miknaitis, Gajus, Lin, Huan, Tucker, Douglas, Lupton, Robert H., ...

We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of 10) in the ugriz system. The catalog includes 1.01 million...

The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...

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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. I. Candidate Selection Algorithm (2006)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...

We present an algorithm for selecting an uniform sample of gravitationally lensed quasar candidates from low-redshift (0.6

Quasars Probing Quasars I: Optically Thick Absorbers Near Luminous Quasars (2006)

Hennawi, Joseph F., Prochaska, Jason X., Burles, Scott, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schlegel, David J., ...

With close pairs of quasars at different redshifts, a background quasar sightline can be used to study a foreground quasar's environment in absorption. We search 149 moderate resolution background...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar survey: Quasar luminosity function from data release 3 (2006)

Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform...

The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...

The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...

The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...

Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)

Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...

We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...

Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)

Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...

We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...

The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)

Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...

Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)

Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...

We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...

A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars (2005)

Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., ...

We present the discovery of seven quasars at z>5.7, selected from ~2000 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The new quasars have redshifts z from 5.79 to 6.13....

The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from SDSS Imaging Data (2005)

Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Williams, Kurtis A., Von Hippel, Ted, ...

A sample of white dwarfs is selected from SDSS DR3 imaging data using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from SDSS plus USNO-B combined data. Numerous SDSS and followup...

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution (2005)

Juric, Mario, Ivezic, Zeljko, Brooks, Alyson, Lupton, Robert H., Schlegel, David, Finkbeiner, Douglas, ...

Abridged: We estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and map their 3D number density distribution in 100 < D < 20 kpc range over 6,500 deg^2 of sky. The...

Photometric Covariance in Multi-Band Surveys: Understanding the Photometric Error in the SDSS (2005)

Scranton, Ryan, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Lupton, Robert H., Johnston, David, Budavari, Tamas, ...

In this paper we describe a detailed analysis of the photometric uncertainties present within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging survey based on repeat observations of approximately 200...

The UV, Optical, and IR Properties of SDSS Sources Detected by GALEX (2005)

Agueros, Marcel A., Ivezic, Zeljko, Covey, Kevin R., Obric, Mirela, Hao, Lei, Walkowicz, Lucianne M., ...

We discuss the UV, optical, and IR properties of the SDSS sources detected by GALEX as part of its All-sky Imaging Survey Early Release Observations. Virtually all of the GALEX sources in the overlap...

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., ...

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,...

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James E. Gunn, Walter A. Siegmund, Edward J. Mannery, Russell E. Owen, Charles L. Hull, R. French Leger, ...

We describe the design, construction, and performance of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey telescope located at Apache Point Observatory. The telescope is a modified two-corrector Ritchey-Chrétien design...

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 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...

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...

A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III: Discovery of Five Additional Quasars (2004)

Fan, Xiaohui, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Donley, Jennifer L., ...

We present the discovery of five new quasars at z>5.7, selected from the multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Three of them, at redshifts 5.93, 6.07, and 6.22, were...

A Strategy for Finding Near Earth Objects with the SDSS Telescope (2004)

Raymond, Sean N., Fraser, Oliver J., Garg, Arti, Hawley, Suzanne L., Jedicke, Robert, Miknaitis, Gajus, ...

We present a detailed observational strategy for finding Near Earth Objects (NEOs) with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope. We investigate strategies in normal, unbinned mode as well as...

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 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...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging of Low Galactic Latitude Fields: Technical Summary and Data Release (2004)

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...

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,...

Near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of L and T dwarfs: the effects of temperature, clouds, and gravity (2004)

Knapp, Gillian R., Leggett, Sandy K., Fan, Xiaohui, Marley, Mark S., Geballe, Thomas R., Golimowski, David A., ...

We present new JHK photometry on the MKO-NIR system and JHK spectroscopy for a large sample of L and T dwarfs. Photometry has been obtained for 71 dwarfs, and spectroscopy for 56. The sample...

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,...

Near-infrared photometry and spectroscopy of L and T dwarfs: the effects of temperature, clouds, and gravity (2004)

Knapp, Gillian R., Leggett, Sandy K., Fan, Xiaohui, Marley, Mark S., Geballe, Thomas R., Golimowski, David A., ...

We present new JHK photometry on the MKO-NIR system and JHK spectroscopy for a large sample of L and T dwarfs. Photometry has been obtained for 71 dwarfs, and spectroscopy for 56. The sample...

The Selection of RR Lyrae Stars Using Single-epoch Data (2003)

Ivezic, Zeljko, Vivas, A. Katherina, Lupton, Robert H., Zinn, Robert

We utilize a complete sample of RR Lyrae stars discovered by the QUEST survey using light curves to design selection criteria based on SDSS colors. Thanks to the sensitivity of the u-g color to...

Angular Clustering with Photometric Redshifts in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Bimodality in the Clustering Properties of Galaxies (2003)

Budavari, Tamas, Connolly, Andrew J., Szalay, Alexander S., Szapudi, Istvan, Csabai, Istvan, Scranton, Ryan, ...

Understanding the clustering of galaxies has long been a goal of modern observational cosmology. Utilizing our photometric redshift technique a volume limited sample containing more than 2 million...

Determining the Lensing Fraction of SDSS Quasars: Methods and Results from the EDR (2003)

Pindor, Bart, Turner, Edwin L., Lupton, Robert H., Brinkmann, J.

We present an algorithm for selecting gravitational lens candidates from amongst Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars. In median Early Data Release (EDR) conditions, the algorithm allows for the...

A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: Discovery of Three Additional Quasars at z>6 (2003)

Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Haiman, Zoltan, ...

We present the discovery of three new quasars at z>6 in 1300 deg^2 of SDSS imaging data, J114816.64+525150.3 (z=6.43), J104845.05+463718.3 (z=6.23) and J163033.90+401209.6 (z=6.05). The first two...

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...

AN IMPROVED PROPER-MOTION CATALOG COMBINING USNO-B AND THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY (2003)

Jeffrey A. Munn, David G. Monet, Stephen E. Levine, Blaise Canzian, Jeffrey R. Pier, Hugh C. Harris, ...

An improved proper-motion catalog is presented, combining the USNO-B and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) catalogs in the area of sky covered by SDSS Data Release 1 (DR1; 2099 deg 2). USNO-B positions...

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...

Astrometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)

Pier, Jeffrey R., Munn, Jeffrey A., Hindsley, Robert B., Hennessy, G. S., Kent, Stephen M., Lupton, Robert H., ...

The astrometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is described. For point sources brighter than r ~ 20 the astrometric accuracy is 45 milliarcseconds (mas) rms per coordinate when reduced...

Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample (2002)

Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Lupton, Robert H., Narayanan, Vijay K.

We describe the algorithm that selects the main sample of galaxies for spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from the photometric data obtained by the imaging survey. Galaxy photometric...

Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Quasar Sample (2002)

Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., ...

We describe the algorithm for selecting quasar candidates for optical spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Quasar candidates are selected via their non-stellar colors in "ugriz" broad-band...

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...

Optical and radio properties of extragalactic sources observed by the first survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)

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 Angular Clustering of Galaxy Pairs (2001)

Infante, Leopoldo, Strauss, Michael A., Bahcall, Neta A., Knapp, Gillian R., Lupton, Robert H., Kim, Rita S. J., ...

We identify close pairs of galaxies from 278 deg^2 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning imaging data. The pairs are drawn from a sample of 330,041 galaxies with 18 < r^* < 20. We determine the...

The Alignment Effect of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in the SDSS (2001)

Kim, Rita S. J., Annis, Jim, Strauss, Michael A., Lupton, Robert H., Bahcall, Neta A., Gunn, James E., ...

One of the most vital observational clues for unraveling the origin of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG) is the observed alignment of the BCGs with their host cluster and its surroundings. We have...

L Dwarfs Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data II. Hobby-Eberly Telescope Observations (2001)

Schneider, Donald P., Knapp, Gillian R., Hawley, Suzanne L., Covey, Kevin R., Fan, Xiaohui, Ramsey, Lawrence W., ...

Low dispersion optical spectra have been obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope of 22 very red objects found in early imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The objects are assigned...

Detecting Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I : Monte Carlo Comparison of Cluster Detection Algorithms (2001)

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:...

Evidence for Reionization at z ~ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in a z=6.28 Quasar (2001)

Becker, Robert H., Fan, Xiaohui, White, Richard L., Strauss, Michael A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., ...

We present moderate resolution Keck spectroscopy of quasars at z=5.82, 5.99 and 6.28, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the Ly Alpha absorption in the spectra of these...

A Survey of z>5.8 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I: Discovery of Three New Quasars and the Spatial Density of Luminous Quasars at z~6 (2001)

Fan, Xiaohui, Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., Strauss, Michael A., Knapp, Gillian R., Becker, Robert H., ...

We present the results from a survey of i-dropout objects selected from ~1550 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, to search for luminous quasars at z>5.8. Objects with...

Galaxy Mass and Luminosity Scaling Laws Determined by Weak Gravitational Lensing (2001)

McKay, Timothy A., Sheldon, Erin Scott, Racusin, Judith, Fischer, Philippe, Seljak, Uros, Stebbins, Albert, ...

We present new measurements of scaling laws relating the luminosity of galaxies to the amplitude and shape of their dark matter halos. Early imaging and spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky...

Galaxy Number Counts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data (2001)

Yasuda, Naoki, Fukugita, Masataka, Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., Strateva, Iskra, Strauss, Michael A., ...

We present bright galaxy number counts in five broad bands ($u', g', r', i', z'$) from imaging data taken during the commissioning phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The counts are derived...

Weak Lensing Measurements of 42 SDSS/RASS Galaxy Clusters (2001)

Sheldon, Erin Scott, Annis, James, Bohringer, Hans, Fischer, Philippe, Frieman, Joshua A., Joffre, Michael, ...

We present a lensing study of 42 galaxy clusters imaged in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data. Cluster candidates are selected optically from SDSS imaging data and confirmed for this...

Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with VLA-FIRST Radio Detections (2001)

Menou, Kristen, Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Ivezic, Zeljko, Kim, Rita S. J., Knapp, Gillian R., Richards, Gordon T., ...

We present 13 Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasars, including 12 new objects, which were identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and matched within 2'' to sources in the FIRST radio survey...

AN EFFICIENT TARGETING STRATEGY FOR MULTIOBJECT SPECTROGRAPH SURVEYS: THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY ‘ ‘ TILING ’ ’ ALGORITHM (2001)

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...

Discovery of a Close Pair of z = 4.25 Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2000)

Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Richards, Gordon T., Knapp, G. R., ...

We report the discovery of a pair of z = 4.25 quasars with a separation of 33 arcseconds. The brighter of the two objects was identified as a high-redshift quasar candidate from Sloan Digital Sky...

Finding Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using Voronoi Tessellation (1999)

Kim, Rita S. J., Strauss, Michael A., Bahcall, Neta A., Gunn, James E., Lupton, Robert H., Voges, Wolfgang, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained 450 square degrees of photometric scan data, in five bands (u',g',r',i',z'), which we use to identify clusters of galaxies. We illustrate how we do...

Spectroscopy of Quasar Candidates from SDSS Commissioning Data (1998)

Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Annis, James, Gunn, James E., Hennessy, Gregory S., Ivezic, Zeljko, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained images in five broad-band colors for several hundred square degrees. We present color-color diagrams for stellar objects, and demonstrate that quasars are...

Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: 100,000 z < 3 Quasars From Data Release One (1998)

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...