Parametrization and Classification of 20 Billion LSST Objects: Lessons from SDSS (2008)
Ivezic, Z., Axelrod, T., Becker, A. C.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will be a large, wide-field ground-based system designed to obtain, starting in 2015, multiple images of the sky that is visible from Cerro Pachon in...
Loebman, S., Roskar, R., Ivezic, Z.
The data obtained by the recent modern sky surveys enable detailed studies of the stellar distribution in the multi-dimensional space spanned by spatial coordinates, velocity and metallicity, from...
Time Variability of Quasars: the Structure Function Variance (2008)
MacLeod, C., Ivezic, Z., De Vries, W., Sesar, B., Becker, A.
Significant progress in the description of quasar variability has been recently made by employing SDSS and POSS data. Common to most studies is a fundamental assumption that photometric observations...
LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products (2008)
Ivezic, Z., Tyson, J. A., Allsman, R., Andrew, J., Angel, R., Collaboration, For The LSST
We describe the most ambitious survey currently planned in the visible band, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and...
Smolcic, V., Schinnerer, E., Scodeggio, M., Franzetti, P., Aussel, H., Bondi, M., ...
We explore the properties of the submillijansky radio population at 20 cm by applying a newly developed optical color-based method to separate star forming (SF) from AGN galaxies at intermediate...
Two More Candidate AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) Binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Anderson, S. F., Becker, A. C., Haggard, D., Prieto, J. L., Knapp, G. R., Sako, M., ...
AM CVn systems are a select group of ultracompact binaries with the shortest orbital periods of any known binary subclass; mass-transfer is likely from a low-mass (partially-)degenerate secondary...
Light and Motion in SDSS Stripe 82: The Catalogues (2008)
Bramich, D. M., Vidrih, S., Wyrzykowski, L., Munn, J. A., Lin, H., Evans, N. W., ...
We present a new public archive of light-motion curves in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82, covering 99 deg in right ascension from RA = 20.7 h to 3.3 h and spanning 2.52 deg in declination...
Distances to Galactic high-velocity clouds. Complex C (2007)
Wakker, B. P., York, D. G., Howk, J. C., Barentine, J. C., Wilhelm, R., Peletier, R. F., ...
We report the first determination of a distance bracket for the high-velocity cloud (HVC) complex C. Combined with previous measurements showing that this cloud has a metallicity of 0.15 times solar,...
Distances to Galactic high-velocity clouds. I. Cohen Stream, complex GCP, cloud g1 (2007)
Wakker, B. P., York, D. G., Wilhelm, R., Barentine, J. C., Richter, P., Beers, T. C., ...
The high- and intermediate-velocity interstellar clouds (HVCs/IVCs) are tracers of energetic processes in and around the Milky Way. Clouds with near-solar metallicity about one kpc above the disk...
Smolcic, V., Zucker, D., Bell, E. F., Coleman, M. G., Rix, H. W., Schinnerer, E., ...
We explore how well crowded field point-source photometry can be accomplished with SDSS data: We present a photometric pipeline based on DoPhot, and tuned for analyzing crowded-field images from 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...
The Properties of Jovian Trojan Asteroids Listed in SDSS Moving Object Catalog 3 (2007)
Szabo, Gy. M., Ivezic, Z., Juric, M., Lupton, R.
We analyze 1187 observations of about 860 unique candidate Jovian Trojan asteroids listed in the 3rd release of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Moving Object Catalog. The sample is complete at the...
Science Results Enabled by SDSS Astrometric Observations (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Bond, N., Juric, M., Munn, J. A., Lupton, R. H., Pier, J. R., ...
We discuss several results made possible by accurate SDSS astrometric measurements in a large sky area, with emphasis on asteroids and stellar proper motions obtained by comparing POSS and SDSS. SDSS...
LSST: Comprehensive NEO Detection, Characterization, and Orbits (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Tyson, J. A., Juric, M., Kubica, J., Connolly, A., Pierfederici, F., ...
(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. Solar System mapping is one of the four key scientific design...
The Impact of LSST on Asymptotic Giant Branch Star Research (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Collaboration, For The LSST
(Abridged) The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is currently by far the most ambitious proposed ground-based optical survey. The main science themes that drive the LSST system design are Dark...
A Comparison of SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82 with Stetson's Photometric Standards (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Smith, J. A., Miknaitis, G., Lin, H., Tucker, D., Lupton, R., ...
We compare Stetson's photometric standards with measurements listed in a standard star catalog constructed using repeated SDSS imaging observations. The SDSS catalog includes over 700,000 candidate...
SDSS spectroscopic survey of stars (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Schlegel, D., Uomoto, A., Bond, N., Beers, T., Prieto, C. Allende, ...
In addition to optical photometry of unprecedented quality, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is also producing a massive spectroscopic database. We discuss determination of stellar parameters,...
Smolcic, V., Zucker, D. B., Bell, E. F., Coleman, M. G., Rix, H. W., Schinnerer, E., ...
We explore how well crowded-field point-source photometry can be accomplished with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data. For this purpose, we present a photometric pipeline based on DoPHOT and tuned...
A Comparison of SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82 with Stetson's Photometric Standards (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Smith, J. A., Miknaitis, G., Lin, H., Tucker, D. L., Lupton, R., ...
We compare Stetson's photometric standards with measurements listed in a standard star catalog constructed using repeated SDSS imaging observations. The SDSS catalog includes over 700,000 candidate...
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, M, Eisenstein, D, Strauss, M, Weinberg, D, Blanton, M, Frieman, J, ...
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 Monitor Telescope Pipeline (2006)
Tucker, D. L., Kent, S., Richmond, M. W., Annis, J., Smith, J. A., Allam, S. S., ...
The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO),...
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Best, P. N., Lupton, R. H., Tremonti, C., Brinchmann, J., ...
We discuss the panchromatic properties of 99,088 galaxies selected from the SDSS Data Release 1 spectroscopic sample (a flux-limited sample for 1360 deg^2). These galaxies are positionally matched to...
The Rest-frame Optical Colors of 99,000 SDSS Galaxies (2006)
Smolcic, V., Ivezic, Z., Gacesa, M., Rakos, K., Pavlovski, K., Ilijic, S., ...
We synthesize the rest-frame Stroemgren colors using SDSS spectra for 99,088 galaxies selected from Data Release 1. This narrow-band ~200 AA photometric system (uz, vz, bz, yz), first designed for...
The Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (2006)
Padmanabhan, N., Schlegel, D. J., Seljak, U., Makarov, A., Bahcall, N. A., Blanton, M. R., ...
We present the 3D real space clustering power spectrum of a sample of \~600,000 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using photometric redshifts. This sample...
Chandra multiwavelength project: normal galaxies at intermediate redshift (2006)
Barkhouse, W. A., Romero-Colmenero, E., Green, P. J., Kim, M., Mossman, A., ...
The rest-frame optical colours of 99000 Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies (2006)
Smolcic, V., Ivezic, Z., Gacesa, M., Rakos, K., Pavlovski, K., Ilijic, S., ...
We discuss the colours of 99088 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 `main' spectroscopic sample (a flux-limited sample, rPet < 17.77, for 1360 deg2) in the...
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Best, P. N., Lupton, R. H., Tremonti, C., Brinchmann, J., ...
We discuss the panchromatic properties of 99088 galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 `main' spectroscopic sample (a flux-limited sample for 1360deg2). These...
SDSS spectroscopic survey of stars (2006)
Ivezic, Z., Schlegel, D., Uomoto, A., Bond, N., Beers, T., Allende Prieto, C., ...
In addition to optical photometry of unprecedented quality, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is also producing a massive spectroscopic database. We discuss determination of stellar parameters,...
The field of streams: Sagittarius and its siblings (2006)
Belokurov, V., Zucker, D. B., Evans, N. W., Gilmore, G., Vidrih, S., Bramich, D. M., ...
We use Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) u, g, r, i, z photometry to study Milky Way halo substructure in the area around the north Galactic cap. A simple color cut (g-r
Chandra Multiwavelength Project: Normal Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift (2005)
Barkhouse, W. A., Colmenero, E. R., Green, P. J., Kim, M., Mossman, A., ...
(abridged) We have investigated 136 Chandra extragalactic sources without broad optical emission lines, including 93 galaxies with narrow emission lines (NELG) and 43 with only absorption lines...
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...
A sample of radio-loud AGN in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Best, P. N., Kauffmann, G., Heckman, T. M., Ivezic, Z.
A sample of 2712 radio-luminous galaxies is defined from the second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) by cross-comparing the main spectroscopic galaxy sample with two radio surveys:...
The host galaxies of radio-loud AGN: mass dependencies, gas cooling and AGN feedback (2005)
Best, P. N., Kauffmann, G., Heckman, T. M., Brinchmann, J., Charlot, S., Ivezic, Z., ...
The properties of the host galaxies of a well-defined sample of 2215 radio-loud AGN with redshifts 0.03 < z < 0.3, defined from the SDSS, are investigated. These are predominantly low radio...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The z (2005)
Richards, G. T., Croom, S. M., Anderson, S. F., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Boyle, B. J., De Propris, R., ...
We have used the 2dF instrument on the AAT to obtain redshifts of a sample of z
Eisenstein, D. J., Zehavi, I., Hogg, D. W., Scoccimarro, R., Blanton, M. R., Nichol, R. C., ...
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.72 h^{-3} Gpc^3 over...
Richards, GT, Croom, SM, Anderson, SF, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Boyle, BJ, De Propris, R, ...
We have used the Two-Degree Field (2dF) instrument on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to obtain redshifts of a sample of z < 3 and 18.0 < g < 21.85 quasars selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
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...
The Luminosity and Color Dependence of the Galaxy Correlation Function (2004)
Zehavi, I., Zheng, Z., Weinberg, D. H., Frieman, J. A., Berlind, A. A., Blanton, M. R., ...
We study the luminosity and color dependence of the galaxy 2-point correlation function in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, starting from a sample of 200,000 galaxies over 2500 deg^2. We concentrate on...
The Linear Theory Power Spectrum from the Lyman-alpha Forest in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
McDonald, P., Seljak, U., Cen, R., Shih, D., Weinberg, D. H., Burles, S., ...
We analyze the SDSS Ly-alpha forest P_F(k,z) measurement to determine the linear theory power spectrum. Our analysis is based on fully hydrodynamic simulations, extended using hydro-PM simulations....
Seljak, U., Makarov, A., McDonald, P., Anderson, S., Bahcall, N., Brinkmann, J., ...
We combine the constraints from the recent Ly-alpha forest and bias analysis of the SDSS with previous constraints from SDSS galaxy clustering, the latest supernovae, and WMAP . Combining WMAP and...
Multiwavelength View of SDSS Galaxies (2004)
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Kauffmann, G., Lupton, R. H., Tremonti, C., Brinchmann, J., ...
We summarize the detection rates at wavelengths other than optical for \~99,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 ``main'' spectroscopic sample. The analysis is based...
Quasar Variability Measurements With SDSS Repeated Imaging and POSS Data (2004)
Ivezic, Z, Lupton, R. H., Juric, M., Anderson, S., Hall, P. B., Richards, G. T., ...
We analyze the properties of quasar variability using repeated SDSS imaging data in five UV-to-far red photometric bands, accurate to 0.02 mag, for 13,000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars. The...
The Distribution of Quasars and Galaxies in Radio Color-Color and Morphology Diagrams (2004)
Ivezic, Z., Siverd, R. J., Steinhardt, W., Jagoda, A. S., Knapp, G. R., Lupton, R. H., ...
We positionally match the 6 cm GB6, 20 cm FIRST and NVSS, and 92 cm WENSS radio catalogs and find 16,500 matches in ~3,000 deg2 of sky. Using this unified radio database, we construct radio...
Variable Faint Optical Sources Discovered by Comparing POSS and SDSS Catalogs (2004)
Sesar, B., Svilkovic, D., Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Munn, J. A., Finkbeiner, D., ...
We present a study of variable faint optical sources discovered by comparing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS) catalogs. We use SDSS measurements to...
A Second Stellar Color Locus: a Bridge from White Dwarfs to M stars (2004)
Smolcic, V., Ivezic, Z., Knapp, G. R., Lupton, R. H., Pavlovski, K., Ilijic, S., ...
We report the discovery of a locus of stars in the SDSS g-r vs. u-g color-color diagram that connects the colors of white dwarfs and M dwarfs. While its contrast with respect to the main stellar...
Color-Induced Displacement double stars in SDSS (2004)
Pourbaix, D., Ivezic, Z., Knapp, G. R., Gunn, J. E.
We report the first successful application of the astrometric color-induced displacement technique (CID, the displacement of the photocenter between different bandpasses due to a varying contribution...
Multiwavelength view of SDSS galaxies (2004)
Obric, M., Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Kauffmann, G., Knapp, G. R., Gunn, J. E., ...
A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with Quadruple Images Separated by 14.62 Arcseconds (2003)
Inada, N., Oguri, M., Pindor, B., Hennawi, J. F., Chiu, K., Zheng, W., ...
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 predicts the existence...
Counts of Low-redshift SDSS Quasar Candidates (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Johnston, D. E., Richards, G. T., Hall, P. B., Schlegel, D., ...
We analyze the counts of low-redshift quasar candidates selected using nine-epoch SDSS imaging data. The co-added catalogs are more than 1 mag deeper than single-epoch SDSS data, and allow the...
Quasar Radio Dichotomy: Two Peaks, or not Two Peaks, that is the Question (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Richards, G. T., Hall, P. B., Lupton, R. H., Jagoda, A. S., Knapp, G. R., ...
Recent claims by Ivezic et al. (2002) that the distribution of the radio-to-optical flux ratio, R, for quasars is bimodal (the so-called quasar radio dichotomy) were questioned on statistical grounds...
The Ensemble Photometric Variability of ~25000 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Berk, D. E. Vanden, Wilhite, B. C., Kron, R. G., Anderson, S. F., Brunner, R. J., Hall, P. B., ...
Using a sample of over 25000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we show how quasar variability in the rest frame optical/UV regime depends upon rest frame time...
Quantifying the bimodal color-magnitude distribution of galaxies (2003)
Baldry, I. K., Glazebrook, K., Brinkmann, J., Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Nichol, R. C., ...
We analyse the bivariate distribution, in color versus absolute magnitude (u-r vs. M_r), of a low redshift sample of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; 2400 deg^2, 0.004
Zakamska, Nadia L., Strauss, Michael A., Krolik, Julian H., Collinge, M. J., Hall, P. B., Hao, L., ...
Type II quasars are the long-sought luminous analogs of type II (narrow emission line) Seyfert galaxies, suggested by unification models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and postulated to account for...
Color Variability of Asteroids in SDSS Moving Object Catalog (2003)
Szabo, G., Ivezic, Z., Juric, M., Lupton, R. H., Kiss, L. L.
We report a detection of statistically significant color variations for a sample of 7,531 multiply observed asteroids that are listed in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog. Using...