S. J. Kleinman

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 Radio Search For Pulsar Companions To SDSS Low-Mass White Dwarfs (2009)

Agueros, Marcel A., Camilo, Fernando, Silvestri, Nicole M., Kleinman, S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Liebert, James W.

We have conducted a search for pulsar companions to 15 low-mass white dwarfs (LMWDs; M < 0.4 M_Sun) at 820 MHz with the NRAO Green Bank Telescope (GBT). These LMWDs were spectroscopically identified...

SDSS White Dwarf mass distribution at low effective temperatures (2008)

Koester, D., Kepler, S. O., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, A.

The DA white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, as analyzed in the papers for Data Releases 1 and 4, show an increase in surface gravity towards lower effective temperatures below 11500 K. We...

2006 Whole Earth Telescope Observations of GD358: A New Look at the Prototype DBV (2008)

Provencal, J. L., Montgomery, M. H., Kanaan, A., Shipman, H. L., Childers, D., Baran, A., ...

We report on the analysis of 436.1 hrs of nearly continuous high-speed photometry on the pulsating DB white dwarf GD358 acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during the 2006 international...

Lessons Learned from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Operations (2008)

Kleinman, S. J., Gunn, J. E., Boroski, B., Long, D., Snedden, S., Nitta, A., ...

Astronomy is changing. Large projects, large collaborations, and large budgets are becoming the norm. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one example of this new astronomy, and in operating the...

New Pulsating DB White Dwarf Stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)

Nitta, A., Kleinman, S. J., Krzesinski, J., Kepler, S. O., Metcalfe, T. S., Mukadam, Anjum S., ...

We are searching for new He atmosphere white dwarf pulsators (DBVs) based on the newly found white dwarf stars from the spectra obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. DBVs pulsate at hotter...

An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (2008)

Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Barentine, J.C., Blanton, Michael R., Brewington, Howard J., ...

We present an algorithm to photometrically calibrate wide field optical imaging surveys, that simultaneously solves for the calibration parameters and relative stellar fluxes using overlapping...

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

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

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

A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift $z\approx$ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey (2008)

Dilday, Benjamin, Kessler, R., Frieman, J. A., Holtzman, J., Marriner, J., Miknaitis, G., ...

We present a measurement of the rate of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first of three seasons of data from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. For this measurement, we include 17 SNe Ia at redshift...

The pulsation modes of the pre-white dwarf PG 1159-035 (2008)

Costa, J. E. S., Kepler, S. O., Winget, D. E., O'Brien, M. S., Kawaler, S. D., Costa, A. F. M., ...

Context. PG 1159-035, a pre-white dwarf with T_(eff) ≃ 140 000 K, is the prototype of both two classes: the PG 1159 spectroscopic class and the DOV pulsating class. Previous studies of PG 1159-035...

Lessons learned from Sloan Digital Sky Survey operations (2008)

Kleinman, S. J., Gunn, J. E., Boroski, B., Long, D., Snedden, S., Nitta, A., ...

Astronomy is changing. Large projects, large collaborations, and large budgets are becoming the norm. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one example of this new astronomy, and in operating the...

The pulsation modes of the pre-white dwarf PG 1159-035 (2007)

Costa, J. E. S., Kepler, S. O., Winget, D. E., O'Brien, M. S., Kawaler, S. D., Costa, A. F. M., ...

PG 1159-035, a pre-white dwarf with T_eff=140,000 K, is the prototype of both two classes: the PG1159 spectroscopic class and the DOV pulsating class. Previous studies of PG 1159-035 photometric data...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary (2007)

Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, B., Becker, A., Choi, C., Cinabro, D., DeJongh, F., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations (2007)

Sako, Masao, Bassett, B., Becker, A., Cinabro, D., DeJongh, F., Depoy, D. L., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey has identified a large number of new transient sources in a 300 sq. deg. region along the celestial equator during its first two seasons of a...

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...

An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (2007)

Padmanabhan, N., Schlegel, D. J., Finkbeiner, D. P., Barentine, J. C., Blanton, M. R., Brewington, H. 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...

Andromeda X, a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31: photometry (2007)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Martínez-Delgado, David, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Grebel, Eva K., ...

We report the discovery of Andromeda X, a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, based on stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using follow-up imaging data we have estimated its...

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...

Cats and dogs, hair and a hero: a quintet of New Milky Way companions (2007)

Belokurov, V., Zucker, D. B., Evans, N. W., Kleyna, J. T., Koposov, S., Hodgkin, S. T., ...

We present five new satellites of the Milky Way discovered in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data, four of which were followed up with either the Subaru or the Isaac Newton Telescopes. They...

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...

White Dwarf Mass Distribution in the SDSS (2006)

Kepler, S. O., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, A., Koester, D., Castanheira, B. G., Giovannini, O., ...

We determined masses for the 7167 DA and 507 DB white dwarf stars classified as single and non-magnetic in data release four of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We obtained revised Teff and log g...

Towards a pure ZZ Ceti instability strip (2006)

Castanheira, B. G., Kepler, S. O., Costa, A. F. M., Giovannini, O., Robinson, E. L., Winget, D. E., ...

We have observed again two stars inside the ZZ Ceti instability strip that were previously classified as not-observed-to-vary (NOV) by Mukadam et al. (2004) and found them to be low-amplitude...

Observational constraints on the evolutionary connection between PG 1159 stars and DO white dwarfs (2006)

Huegelmeyer, S. D., Dreizler, S., Werner, K., Krzesinski, J., Nitta, A., Kleinman, S. J.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has provided spectra of a large number of new PG 1159 stars and DO white dwarfs. This increase in known hot H-deficient compact objects significantly improves the...

Cats and Dogs, Hair and A Hero: A Quintet of New Milky Way Companions (2006)

Belokurov, V., Zucker, D. B., Evans, N. W., Kleyna, J. T., Koposov, S., Hodgkin, S. T., ...

We present five new satellites of the Milky Way discovered in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data, four of which were followed-up with either the Subaru or the Isaac Newton Telescopes. They...

A Curious New Milky Way Satellite in Ursa Major (2006)

Zucker, D. B., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W., Kleyna, J. T., Irwin, M. J., Wilkinson, M. I., ...

In this Letter, we study a localized stellar overdensity in the constellation of Ursa Major, first identified in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data and subsequently followed up with Subaru imaging....

Spectral analyses of eighteen hot H-deficient (pre-) white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (2006)

Huegelmeyer, S. D., Dreizler, S., Homeier, D., Krzesinski, J., Werner, K., Nitta, A., ...

Context: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 has provided spectra of several new PG 1159 stars and DO white dwarfs. This increase in known hot H-deficient compact objects significantly...

A New Milky Way Dwarf Satellite in Canes Venatici (2006)

Zucker, D. B., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W., Wilkinson, M. I., Irwin, M. J., Sivarani, T., ...

In this Letter, we announce the discovery of a new dwarf satellite of the Milky Way, located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was found as a stellar overdensity in the North Galactic Cap using...

A Faint New Milky Way Satellite in Bootes (2006)

Belokurov, V., Zucker, D. B., Evans, N. W., Wilkinson, M. I., Irwin, M. J., Hodgkin, S., ...

In this Letter, we announce the discovery of a new satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation of Bootes at a distance of 60 kpc. It was found in a systematic search for stellar overdensities in...

A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release (2006)

Trump, Jonathan R., Hall, Patrick B., Reichard, Timothy A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...

We present a total of 4784 unique broad absorption line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release. An automated algorithm was used to match a continuum to each quasar and to...

Andromeda X, A New Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite of M31: Photometry (2006)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Martinez-Delgado, David, Bell, Eric F., Rix, Hans-Walter, Grebel, Eva K., ...

We report the discovery of Andromeda X, a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, based on stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using follow-up imaging data we have estimated...

Percolation Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the SDSS Redshift Survey: Identification, Catalogs, and the Multiplicity Function (2006)

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...

A new Milky Way dwarf satellite in Canes Venatici (2006)

Zucker, D. B., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W., Wilkinson, M. I., Irwin, M. J., Sivarani, T., ...

In this Letter, we announce the discovery of a new dwarf satellite of the Milky Way, located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was found as a stellar overdensity in the north Galactic cap using...

A curious Milky Way satellite in Ursa Major (2006)

Zucker, D. B., Belokurov, V., Evans, N. W., Kleyna, J. T., Irwin, M. J., Wilkinson, M. I., ...

In this Letter, we study a localized stellar overdensity in the constellation of Ursa Major, first identified in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data and subsequently followed up with Subaru imaging....

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...

A faint new Milky Way satellite in Bootes (2006)

Belokurov, V., Zucker, D. B., Evans, N. W., Wilkinson, M. I., Irwin, M. J., Hodgkin, S., ...

We announce the discovery of a new satellite of the Milky Way in the constellation of Bootes at a distance of ~60 kpc. It was found in a systematic search for stellar overdensities in the north...

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...

SDSS J0806+2006 and SDSS J1353+1138: Two New Gravitationally Lensed Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Gregg, Michael D., Schechter, Paul L., ...

We report the discoveries of two, two-image gravitationally lensed quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J0806+2006 at z_s=1.540 and SDSS J1353+1138 at z_s=1.629 with image...

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....

Discovery of eleven new ZZ Ceti stars (2005)

Castanheira, B. G., Kepler, S. O., Mullally, F., Winget, D. E., Koester, D., Voss, B., ...

We report the discovery of eleven new ZZ Cetis using telescopes at OPD (Observat\'orio do Pico dos Dias/LNA) in Brazil, the 4.1 m SOAR (Southern Astrophysical Research) telescope at Cerro Pachon,...

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...

SDSSJ102111.02+491330.4: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2005)

Pindor, Bart, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, ...

We report follow-up observations of two gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) dataset. We have confirmed that SDSS J102111.02+491330.4 is a previously...

Candidate spectroscopic binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Pourbaix, D., Knapp, G. R., Szkody, P., Ivezic, Z., Kleinman, S. J., Long, D., ...

We have examined the radial velocity data for stars spectroscopically observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) more than once to investigate the incidence of spectroscopic binaries, and to...

Spectral analyses of DO white dwarfs and PG1159 stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Huegelmeyer, S. D., Dreizler, S., Werner, K., Krzesinski, J., Nitta, A., Kleinman, S. J.

We present a model atmosphere analysis of ten new DO white dwarfs and five new PG 1159 stars discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR1, DR2 and DR3. This is a significant increase in the number...

Discovery of fourteen new ZZ Cetis with SOAR (2005)

Kepler, S. O., Castanheira, B. G., Saraiva, M. F. O., Nitta, A., Kleinman, S. J., Mullally, F., ...

We report the discovery of fourteen new ZZ Cetis with the 4.1m Southern Astrophysical Research telescope, at Cerro Pachon, in Chile. The candidates were selected from the SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky...

Ultracompact AM CVn Binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Three Candidates Plus the First Confirmed Eclipsing System (2005)

Anderson, Scott F., Haggard, Daryl, Homer, Lee, Joshi, Nikhil R., Margon, Bruce, Silvestri, Nicole M., ...

AM CVn systems are a rare (about a dozen previously known) class of cataclysmic variables, arguably encompassing the shortest orbital periods (down to about 10 minutes) of any known binaries. Both...

New Low Accretion-Rate Magnetic Binary Systems and their Significance for the Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables (2005)

Schmidt, G. D., Szkody, P., Vanlandingham, K. M., Anderson, S. F., Barentine, J. C., Brewington, H. J., ...

Discoveries of two new white dwarf plus M star binaries with striking optical cyclotron emission features from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) brings to six the total number of X-ray faint,...

A New Milky Way Dwarf Galaxy in Ursa Major (2005)

Willman, Beth, Dalcanton, Julianne J., Martinez-Delgado, David, West, Andrew A., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., ...

In this Letter, we report the discovery of a new dwarf satellite to the Milky Way, located at ($\alpha_{2000}, \delta_{2000}$) $=$ (158.72,51.92) in the constellation of Ursa Major. This object was...

Eleven New DAVs from the Sloan Survey (2005)

Mullally, F., Thompson, S. E., Castanheira, B. G., Winget, D. E., Kepler, S. O., Eisenstein, D. J., ...

We report the discovery of eleven new variable DA white dwarf (ZZ Ceti) stars. Candidates were selected by deriving temperatures from model fits to spectra obtained from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey....

Spectral Analyses of DO White Dwarfs and PG1159 Stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Huegelmeyer, S. D., Dreizler, S., Werner, K., Nitta, A., Kleinman, S. J., Krzesinski, J.

SDSS (DR1 and DR2) has recently proposed 7 new DO white dwarfs as well as 6 new PG1159 stars. This is a significant increase in the known number of DOs and PG1159 stars. Our spectral analyses provide...

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,...

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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...

SDSS Data Management and Photometric Quality Assessment (2004)

Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Schlegel, D., Boroski, B., Adelman-McCarthy, J., Yanny, B., ...

We summarize the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data acquisition and processing steps, and describe runQA, a pipeline designed for automated data quality assessment. In particular, we show how the position...

Mass-producing spectra: The SDSS spectrographic system (2004)

Newman, Peter R., Long, Dan C., Snedden, Stephanie A., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, Harvanek, Michael, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is the largest redshift survey conducted to date, and the principal survey observations have all been conducted on the dedicated SDSS 2.5m and 0.5m telescopes at Apache...

Discovery of New Ultracool White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)

Gates, Evalyn, Gyuk, Geza, Harris, Hugh C., Subbarao, Mark, Anderson, Scott, Kleinman, S. J., ...

We report the discovery of five very cool white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Four are ultracool, exhibiting strong collision induced absorption (CIA) from molecular hydrogen and are...

Andromeda IX: A New Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martinez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, Andromeda IX, based on resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using both SDSS and public archival...

A Helium White Dwarf of Extremely Low Mass (2004)

Liebert, James, Bergeron, P., Eisenstein, Daniel, Harris, H. C., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, ...

We analyze the spectrum of an unusually-low mass white dwarf, SDSSJ123410.37-022802.9 (0335-264-52000), found in our recent, white dwarf catalog from the SDSS DR1 data release. Two independent, model...

A Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarf Stars in the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)

Kleinman, S. J., Harris, Hugh C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Nitta, Atsuko, Krzesiński, Jurek, ...

We present the full spectroscopic white dwarf and hot subdwarf sample from the SDSS first data release, DR1. We find 2551 white dwarf stars of various types, 240 hot subdwarf stars, and an additional...

A New Giant Stellar Structure in the Outer Halo of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martinez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has revealed an overdensity of luminous red giant stars ~ 3 degrees (40 projected kpc) to the northeast of M31, which we have called Andromeda NE. The line-of-sight...

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...

Andromeda IX: A new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martínez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal satellite of M31, Andromeda IX, based on resolved stellar photometry from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Using both SDSS and public archival...

A new giant stellar structure in the outer halo of M31 (2004)

Zucker, Daniel B., Kniazev, Alexei Y., Bell, Eric F., Martínez-Delgado, David, Grebel, Eva K., Rix, Hans-Walter, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has revealed an overdensity of luminous red giant stars ~3‚‚deg; (40 projected kpc) to the northeast of M31, which we have called Andromeda NE. The line-of-sight...

Redshift Measurements of Faint Distant Giant Radio Galaxies and Observational Constraints on their Jet Power and Dynamical Age (2003)

Chyzy, K., Jamrozy, M., Kleinman, S. J., Krzesinski, J., Machalski, J., McMillan, R., ...

The redshifts of faint radio galaxies identified with giant radio source candidates selected from the sample of Machalski et al. (2001) have been measured. Given the redshift, the projected linear...

An Initial Survey of White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)

Harris, H. C., Liebert, J., Kleinman, S. J., Nitta, A., Anderson, S. F., Knapp, G. R., ...

An initial assessment is made of white dwarf and hot subdwarf stars observed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In a small area of sky (190 square degrees), observed much like the full survey will be,...

SDSS J092455.87+021924.9: an Interesting Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)

Inada, Naohisa, Becker, Robert H., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francisco J., Eisenstein, Daniel, Hall, Patrick B., ...

We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J092455.87+021924.9 (SDSS J0924+0219). This object was selected from among known SDSS quasars by...

The Everchanging Pulsating White Dwarf GD358 (2003)

Kepler, S. O., Nather, R. E., Winget, D. E., Nitta, A., Kleinman, S. J., Metcalfe, T., ...

We report 323 hours of nearly uninterrupted time series photometric observations of the DBV star GD 358 acquired with the Whole Earth Telescope (WET) during May 23rd to June 8th, 2000. We acquired...

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...

Cataclysmic variables from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. The first results (2002)

Szkody, Paula, Anderson, Scott F., Agüeros, Marcel, Covarrubias, Ricardo, Bentz, Misty, Hawley, Suzanne, ...

The commissioning year of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has demonstrated that many cataclysmic variables (CVs) have been missed in previous surveys with brighter limits. We report the...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)

Stoughton, Chirs, Lupton, Rpbert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francsico J., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)

Stoughton, C., Lupton, R. H., Bernardi, M., Blanton, M. R., Burles, S., Castander, F. 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...

LOTIS, Super-LOTIS, SDSS and Tautenburg Observations of GRB 010921 (2001)

Park, H. S., Williams, G. G., Hartmann, D. H., Lamb, D. Q., Lee, B. C., Tucker, D. L., ...

We present multi-instrument optical observations of the High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-2)/Interplanetary Network (IPN) error box of GRB 010921. This event was the first gamma ray burst (GRB)...

Cataclysmic Variables from SDSS I. The First Results (2001)

Szkody, P., Anderson, S. F., Agueros, M., Covarrubias, R., Bentz, M., Hawley, S., ...

The commissioning year of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has demonstrated that many cataclysmic variables have been missed in previous surveys with brighter limits. We report the identification of 22...

Discovery of New Ultracool White Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (1998)

Gates, Evalyn, Gyuk, Geza, Harris, Hugh D., Subbarao, Mark, Anderson, Scott, Kleinman, S. J., ...

We report the discovery of five new white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Four are ultracool, exhibiting strong collision-induced absorption (CIA) from molecular hydrogen and are similar in...

The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (1998)

Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Kleinman, S. J., Metcalfe, T. S., ...

A sample of white dwarfs is selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 3 using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from combined SDSS and USNO-B data....

Understanding the Cool DA White Dwarf, G29-38 (1997)

Kleinman, S. J., Nather, R. E., Winget, D. E., Clemens, J. C., Bradley, P. A., Kanaan, A., ...

The white dwarfs are promising laboratories for the study of cosmochronology and stellar evolution. Through observations of the pulsating white dwarfs, we can measure their internal structures and...