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 Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System
- M. Fukugita, T. Ichikawa, J. Gunn, M. Doi, K. Shimasaku, D. Schneider
- Physics
- 1 April 1996
The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- J. Gunn, W. Siegmund, Shu-i Wang
- Physics
- 15 February 2006
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…
Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample
- M. Strauss, D. Weinberg, I. Zehavi
- Physics
- 13 June 2002
We describe the algorithm that selects the main sample of galaxies for spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) from the photometric data obtained by the imaging survey. Galaxy photometric…
Secondary standard stars for absolute spectrophotometry
Based on an adopted absolute spectral energy distribution for the primary standard star Alpha Lyrae, absolute fluxes are given for the four very metal-deficient F type subdwarfs HD 19445, HD 84937,…
Constraining the Evolution of the Ionizing Background and the Epoch of Reionization with z ∼ 6 Quasars. II. A Sample of 19 Quasars
- X. Fan, M. Strauss, M. Fukugita
- Physics
- 4 December 2005
We study the evolution of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at the end of the reionization epoch using moderate-resolution spectra of a sample of 19 quasars at 5.74 < zem < 6.42…
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…
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…
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…
Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data
- I. Strateva, Ž. Ivezić, D. York
- Physics
- 11 July 2001
We study the optical colors of 147,920 galaxies brighter than g* = 21, observed in five bands by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) over ∼100 deg2 of high Galactic latitude sky along the celestial…
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