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 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…
A CATALOG OF QUASAR PROPERTIES FROM SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY DATA RELEASE 7
- Yue Shen, G. Richards, A. Simmons
- Physics
- 1 June 2011
We present a compilation of properties of the 105,783 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (DR7) quasar catalog. In this product, we compile continuum and emission line measurements…
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 Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. I. Stellar Number Density Distribution
Using the photometric parallax method we estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and map their three-dimensional number density distribution in the…
THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY QUASAR CATALOG. V. SEVENTH DATA RELEASE
- D. Schneider, G. Richards, D. Weinberg
- Physics
- 7 April 2010
We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog, which contains 105,783 spectroscopically confirmed…
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…
ERRATUM: “THE EIGHTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST DATA FROM SDSS-III” (2011, ApJS, 193, 29)
- SDSS-III collaboration Hiroaki Aihara, C. Prieto, I. Zehavi
- Geology
- 8 January 2011
Section 3.5 of Aihara et al. (2011) described various sources of systematic error in the astrometry of the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In addition to these sources of error,…
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