THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH DATA RELEASES OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FINAL DATA FROM SDSS-III
- S. Alam, F. D. Albareti, Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy
- Physics
- 5 January 2015
The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical…
THE NINTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY
- Christopher P. Ahn, R. Alexandroff, J. Zinn
- Physics
- 30 July 2012
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes…
THE BARYON OSCILLATION SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF SDSS-III
- K. Dawson, D. Schlegel, Zheng Zheng
- Physics
- 31 July 2012
The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) is designed to measure the scale of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the clustering of matter over a larger volume than the combined efforts of…
THE TENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST SPECTROSCOPIC DATA FROM THE SDSS-III APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY GALACTIC EVOLUTION EXPERIMENT
- Christopher P. Ahn, R. Alexandroff, G. Zhu
- Physics
- 29 July 2013
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the Tenth Public Data Release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes…
THE NIRSPEC ULTRACOOL DWARF RADIAL VELOCITY SURVEY
- C. Blake, D. Charbonneau, R. White
- Physics, Geology
- 23 August 2010
We report the results of an infrared Doppler survey designed to detect brown dwarf and giant planetary companions to a magnitude-limited sample of ultracool dwarfs. Using the NIRSPEC spectrograph on…
Closing in on a Short-Hard Burst Progenitor: Constraints from Early-Time Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy of a Possible Host Galaxy of GRB 050509b
- J. Bloom, J. Prochaska, W. Wood-Vasey
- Physics
- 24 May 2005
The localization of the short-duration, hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst GRB 050509b by the Swift satellite was a watershed event. We report the discovery of the probable host galaxy, a bright…
Systematic errors in weak lensing: application to SDSS galaxy-galaxy weak lensing
- R. Mandelbaum, C. Hirata, J. Brinkmann
- Physics
- 12 January 2005
Weak lensing is emerging as a powerful observational tool to constrain cosmological models, but is at present limited by an incomplete understanding of many sources of systematic error. Many of these…
Type Ia Supernovae Are Good Standard Candles in the Near Infrared: Evidence from PAIRITEL
- W. Wood-Vasey, A. Friedman, A. Rest
- Physics
- 13 November 2007
We have obtained 1087 NIR (JHKs) measurements of 21 SNe Ia using PAIRITEL, nearly doubling the number of well-sampled NIR SN Ia light curves. These data strengthen the evidence that SNe Ia are…
FROM SHOCK BREAKOUT TO PEAK AND BEYOND: EXTENSIVE PANCHROMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE TYPE Ib SUPERNOVA 2008D ASSOCIATED WITH SWIFT X-RAY TRANSIENT 080109
- M. Modjaz, W. Li, W. Wood-Vasey
- Physics
- 15 May 2008
We present extensive early photometric (ultraviolet through near-infrared) and spectroscopic (optical and near-infrared) data on supernova (SN) 2008D as well as X-ray data analysis on the associated…
Galaxy–galaxy weak lensing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: intrinsic alignments and shear calibration errors
- C. Hirata, R. Mandelbaum, A. Szalay
- Physics
- 10 March 2004
Galaxy-galaxy lensing has emerged as a powerful probe of the dark matter haloes of galaxies, but is subject to contamination if intrinsically aligned satellites of the lens galaxy are used as part of…
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