Yip, Ching-Wa, Connolly, Andrew, Berk, Daniel Vanden, Scranton, Ryan, Krughoff, Simon, Szalay, Alex, ...
Under the unified model for active galactic nuclei (AGNs), narrow-line (Type 2) AGNs are, in fact, broad-line (Type 1) AGNs but each with a heavily obscured accretion disk. We would therefore expect...
An Improved Cluster Richness Estimator (2008)
Rozo, Eduardo, Rykoff, Eli S., Koester, Benjamin P., McKay, Timothy, Hao, Jiangang, Evrard, August, ...
Minimizing the scatter between cluster mass and accessible observables is an important goal for cluster cosmology. In this work, we introduce a new matched filter richness estimator, and test its...
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...
Spatially Resolved Galaxy Star Formation and its Environmental Dependence I (2007)
Welikala, Niraj, Connolly, Andrew J., Hopkins, Andrew M., Scranton, Ryan, Conti, Alberto
We use the photometric information contained in individual pixels of 44,964 (0.019
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters I: Measurements (2007)
Sheldon, Erin S., Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, Koester, Ben P., McKay, Timothy A., Oyaizu, Hiroaki, ...
This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as MaxBCG, includes...
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters III: Mass-to-light Ratios (2007)
Sheldon, Erin S., Johnston, David E., Masjedi, Morad, McKay, Timothy A., Blanton, Michael R., Scranton, Ryan, ...
We present measurements of the excess mass-to-light ratio measured aroundMaxBCG galaxy clusters observed in the SDSS. This red sequence cluster sample includes objects from small groups with masses...
Sky in Google Earth: The Next Frontier in Astronomical Data Discovery and Visualization (2007)
Scranton, Ryan, Connolly, Andrew, Krughoff, Simon, Brewer, Jeremy, Conti, Alberto, Christian, Carol, ...
Astronomy began as a visual science, first through careful observations of the sky using either an eyepiece or the naked eye, then on to the preservation of those images with photographic media and...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
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., 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...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel, Strauss, Michael, Weinberg, David, Blanton, Michael, Frieman, Joshua, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0608632 v2 Oct 30 2006
Wake, D. A., Nichol, R. C., Eisenstein, D. J., Loveday, J., Edge, A. C., Cannon, R., ...
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...
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...
Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Warren, Michael S., Abazajian, Kevork, ...
We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friends linking lengths...
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 Luminosity-Weighted or `Marked' Correlation Function (2005)
Skibba, Ramin, Sheth, Ravi K., Connolly, Andrew J., Scranton, Ryan
We present measurements of the redshift-space luminosity-weighted or `marked' correlation function in the SDSS. These are compared with a model in which the luminosity function and luminosity...
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
Eisenstein, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David, Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael, Nichol, Robert, ...
Also archived in: arXiv:astro-ph/0501171 v1 10 Jan 2005
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) =...
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Johnston, David, Scranton, Ryan, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P., ...
Using a sample of nearly 20,000 massive early-type galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the color-magnitude relation for the most luminous (L > 2.2 L^{*}) field galaxies in...
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...
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...
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., ...
Measuring Dark Energy Clustering with CMB-Galaxy Correlations (2004)
The integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) as measured through its correlation with galaxies provides a unique opportunity to study the dynamics of the dark...
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...
Galaxy-galaxy weak lensing in SDSS: intrinsic alignments and shear calibration errors (2004)
Hirata, Christopher M., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Seljak, Uros, Guzik, Jacek, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Blake, Cullen, ...
Galaxy-galaxy lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the dark matter halos of galaxies, but is subject to contamination if intrinsically aligned satellites of the lens galaxy are used as part of...
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...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
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., ...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
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., ...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies-relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter-offer an exceptional laboratory for the study...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the RSDSS commissioning data (2003)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Blanton, Michael R., Johnston, David E., ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the...
SDSS J0903+5028: A New Gravitational Lens (2003)
Johnston, David E., Richards, Gordon T., Frieman, Joshua A., Keeton, Charles R., Strauss, Michael A., Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J090334.92+502819.2. This object was targeted for SDSS spectroscopy as a Luminous Red Galaxy...
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...
Quasar-Galaxy and Galaxy-Galaxy Cross-Correlations: Model Predictions with Realistic Galaxies (2003)
Jain, Bhuvnesh, Scranton, Ryan, Sheth, Ravi K.
Several measurements of QSO-galaxy correlations have reported signals much larger than predictions of magnification by large-scale structure. We find that the expected signal depends stronly on the...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
Testing the Halo Model Against the SDSS Photometric Survey (2002)
We present halo model predictions for the expected angular clustering and associated errors from the completed Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric galaxy sample. These results are used to...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chirs, Lupton, Rpbert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francsico J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
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 $2.5^\circ$...
Modeling Galaxy Clustering by Color (2001)
We extend the mass-halo formalism for analytically generating power spectra to allow for the different clustering behavior observed in galaxy sub-populations. Although applicable to other...
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...