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 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…
The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. II. Stellar Metallicity
Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F- and G-type main-sequence stars (0.2 < g − r < 0.6), we develop polynomial models for estimating these parameters…
A Universal Stellar Initial Mass Function? A critical look at variations in extreme environments
- N. Bastian, K. Covey, S. Observatory
- Physics
- 18 January 2010
Whether the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is universal or is instead sensitive to environmental conditions is of critical importance: The IMF influences most observable properties of stellar…
LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
- vZeljko Ivezi'c, S. Kahn, for the Lsst Collaboration
- PhysicsAstrophysical Journal
- 15 May 2008
The LSST design is driven by four main science themes: probing dark energy and dark matter, taking an inventory of the solar system, exploring the transient optical sky, and mapping the Milky Way.
Characterization of M, L, and T Dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
An extensive sample of M, L, and T dwarfs identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been compiled. The sample of 718 dwarfs includes 677 new objects (629 M dwarfs and 48 L dwarfs),…
CONSTRAINING THE AGE–ACTIVITY RELATION FOR COOL STARS: THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY DATA RELEASE 5 LOW-MASS STAR SPECTROSCOPIC SAMPLE
- A. West, S. Hawley, Michael Masuda
- Physics
- 10 December 2007
We present a spectroscopic analysis of over 38,000 low-mass stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5). Analysis of this unprecedentedly large sample confirms the previously…
The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- K. Abazajian, J. Adelman-McCarthy, D. Zucker
- Physics
- 26 May 2003
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of…
Stellar SEDs from 0.3 to 2.5 μm: Tracing the Stellar Locus and Searching for Color Outliers in the SDSS and 2MASS
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) are rich resources for studying stellar astrophysics and the structure and formation history of the Galaxy. As new surveys…
The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the Second Phase of the Apache Point…
- Bela Abolfathi, D. Aguado, H. Zou
- PhysicsAstrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- 28 July 2017
The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) has been in operation since 2014 July. This paper describes the second data release from this phase, and the 14th from SDSS overall…
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