The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
- D. York, J. Adelman, N. Yasuda
- Physics
- 27 June 2000
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometrically and…
THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
- K. Abazajian, J. Adelman-McCarthy, D. Zucker
- Physics
- 3 December 2008
A series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions are described, including better flat fielding and improved wavelength calibration at the blue end, better processing of objects with extremely strong narrow emission lines, and an improved determination of stellar metallicities.
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z = 0.1
- M. Blanton, D. Hogg, D. Weinberg
- Physics
- 9 October 2002
Using a catalog of 147,986 galaxy redshifts and fluxes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we measure the galaxy luminosity density at z = 0.1 in five optical bandpasses corresponding to the…
Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
- D. Eisenstein, I. Zehavi, D. York
- Physics
- 10 January 2005
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 Gpc3 over…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release
- C. Stoughton, R. Lupton, Wei Zheng
- Physics
- 2002
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, 100,000…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release 3
- G. Richards, M. Strauss, S. Snedden
- Physics
- 19 January 2006
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 Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- J. Adelman-McCarthy, M. Agüeros, D. Zucker
- Physics
- 23 July 2007
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…
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample
- W. Percival, B. Reid, I. Zehavi
- Physics
- 10 July 2009
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…
The Luminosity Function of Galaxies in SDSS Commissioning Data
- M. Blanton, J. Dalcanton, D. York
- Physics
- 5 December 2000
In the course of its commissioning observations, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has produced one of the largest redshift samples of galaxies selected from CCD images. Using 11,275 galaxies…
The Luminosity and Color Dependence of the Galaxy Correlation Function
The HOD model fits nicely explain the color dependence of wp(rp) and the cross correlation between red and blue galaxies, and a conditional luminosity function (at fixed halo mass) in which central galaxies lie far above a Schechter function extrapolation of the satellite population.
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