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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: ninth data release

We present the Data Release 9 Quasar (DR9Q) catalog from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. The catalog includes all BOSS objects that were targeted as quasar candidates during the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Isabelle Pâris , Patrick Petitjean , Eric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Nicholas P. Ross , Adam D. Myers , Michael A. Strauss , Scott F. Anderson , Eduard Arnau , Julian Bautista , Dmitry Bizyaev , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , William N. Brandt , Howard Brewington , Joel R. Brownstein , Nicolas Busca , Daniel Capellupo , William Carithers , Rupert A. C. Croft , Kyle Dawson , Timothée Delubac , Garrett Ebelke , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Philip Engelke , Xiaohui Fan , Nur Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , Robert R. Gibson , Patrick B. Hall , Fred Hamann , Joseph F. Hennawi , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Zeljko Ivezic , Linhua Jiang , Amy E. Kimball , David Kirkby , Jessica A. Kirkpatrick , Khee-Gan Lee , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Britt Lundgren , Chelsea L. MacLeod , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Claudia Maraston , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Demitri Muna , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Daniel Oravetz , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Ismaël Perez-Fournon , Matthew M. Pieri , Gordon T. Richards , Emmanuel Rollinde , Erin S. Sheldon , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Anze Slosar , Alaina Shelden , Yue Shen , Audrey Simmons , Stephanie Snedden , Nao Suzuki , Jeremy Tinker , Matteo Viel , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Martin White , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: twelfth data release

We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the SDSS-III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III/BOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Isabelle Pâris , Patrick Petitjean , Nicholas P. Ross , Adam D. Myers , Éric Aubourg , Alina Streblyanska , Stephen Bailey , Éric Armengaud , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Christophe Yèche , Fred Hamann , Michael A. Strauss , Franco D. Albareti , Jo Bovy , Dmitry Bizyaev , W. Niel Brandt , Marcella Brusa , Johannes Buchner , Johan Comparat , Rupert A. C. Croft , Tom Dwelly , Xiaohui Fan , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , Antonis Georgakakis , Patrick B. Hall , Linhua Jian , Karen Kinemuchi , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Richard G. McMahon , Marie-Luise Menzel , Andrea Merloni , Kirpal Nandra , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Daniel Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Mara Salvato , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Audrey Simmons , Matteo Viel , David H. Weinberg , Liu Zhu

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Fourteenth Data Release

We present the Data Release 14 Quasar catalog (DR14Q) from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV). This catalog includes all SDSS-IV/eBOSS objects that were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-30 I. Pâris , P. Petitjean , E. Aubourg , A. D. Myers , A. Streblyanska , B. W. Lyke , S. F. Anderson , E. Armengaud , J. Bautista , M. R. Blanton , M. Blomqvist , J. Brinkmann , J. R. Brownstein , W. N. Brandt , E. Burtin , K. Dawson , S. de la Torre , A. Georgakakis , H. Gil-Marin , P. J. Green , P. B. Hall , J. -P. Kneib , S. M. LaMassa , J. -M. Le Goff , C. MacLeod , V. Mariappan , I. D. McGreer , A. Merloni , P. Noterdaeme , N. Palanque Delabrouille , W. J. Percival , A. J. Ross , G. Rossi , D. P. Schneider , H. -J. Seo , R. Tojeiro , B. A. Weaver , A. -M. Weijmans , C. Yèche , P. Zarrouk , G. -B. Zhao

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog III. Third Data Release

We present the third edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 46,420 objects in the SDSS Third Data Release that have luminosities larger than M_i = -22 (in a cosmology with H_0 = 70…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. P. Schneider , P. B. Hall , G. T. Richards , D. E. Vanden Berk , S. F. Anderson , X. Fan , S. Jester , C. Stoughton , M. A. Strauss , M. SubbaRao , W. Brandt , J. E. Gunn , B. Yanny , N. A. Bahcall , J. Barentine , M. R. Blanton , W. N. Boroski , H. J. Brewington , J. Brinkmann , R. Brunner , I. Csabai , M. Doi , D. J. Eisenstein , J. A. Frieman , M. Fukugita , J. Gray , M. Harvanek , T. M. Heckman , Željko Ivezić , S. Kent , S. Kleinman , G. R. Knapp , R. G. Kron , J. Krzesinski , D. C. Long , J. Loveday , R. H. Lupton , B. Margon , J. A. Munn , E. H. Neilsen , H. Jo Newberg , P. R. Newman , R. Nichol , A. Nitta , J. R. Pier , C. M. Rockosi , D. H. Saxe , D. J. Schlegel , S. A. Snedden , A. S. Szalay , A. R. Thakar , A. Uomoto , D. G. York

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Sixteenth Data Release

We present the final Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV (SDSS-IV) quasar catalog from Data Release 16 of the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). This catalog comprises the largest selection of spectroscopically confirmed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-31 Brad W. Lyke , Alexandra N. Higley , J. N. McLane , Danielle P. Schurhammer , Adam D. Myers , Ashley J. Ross , Kyle Dawson , Solène Chabanier , Paul Martini , Nicolás G. Busca , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Mara Salvato , Alina Streblyanska , Pauline Zarrouk , Etienne Burtin , Scott F. Anderson , Julian Bautista , Dmitry Bizyaev , W. N. Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Johan Comparat , Paul Green , Axel de la Macorra , Andrea Muñoz Gutiérrez , Jiamin Hou , Jeffrey A. Newman , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Isabelle Pâris , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , James Rich , Graziano Rossi , Donald P. Schneider , Alexander Smith , M. Vivek , Benjamin Alan Weaver

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release

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 quasars, represents the conclusion of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Donald P. Schneider , Gordon T. Richards , Patrick B. Hall , Michael A. Strauss , Scott F. Anderson , Todd A. Boroson , Nicholas P. Ross , Yue Shen , W. N. Brandt , Xiaohui Fan , Naohisa Inada , Sebastian Jester , G. R. Knapp , Coleman M. Krawczyk , Anirudda R. Thakar , Daniel E. Vanden Berk , Wolfgang Voges , Brian Yanny , Donald G. York , Neta A. Bahcall , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael R. Blanton , Howard Brewington , J. Brinkmann , Daniel Eisenstein , Joshua A. Frieman , Masataka Fukugita , Jim Gray , James E. Gunn , Pascale Hibon , Zeljko Ivezic , Stephen M. Kent , Richard G. Kron , Myung Gyoon Lee , Robert H. Lupton , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Dan Oravetz , K. Pan , Jeffrey R. Pier , Ted N. Price , David H. Saxe , David J. Schlegel , Audry Simmons , Stephanie A. Snedden , Mark U. SubbaRao , Alexander S. Szalay , David H. Weinberg

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog II. First Data Release

We present the second edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of 16713 objects in the SDSS First Data Release (DR1) that have luminosities larger than M_i=-22 (H_0=70 km/s, Omega_M=0.3,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Donald P. Schneider , Xiaohui Fan , Patrick B. Hall , Sebastian Jester , Gordon T. Richards , Chris Stoughton , Michael A. Strauss , Mark SubbaRao , Daniel E. Vanden Berk , Scott F. Anderson , W. N. Brandt , James E. Gunn , Jim Gray , Jonathan R. Trump , Wolfgang Voges , Brian Yanny

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog I. Early Data Release

We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that have at least one emission line with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Donald P. Schneider , Gordon T. Richards , Xiaohui Fan , Patrick B. Hall , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel E. Vanden Berk , James E. Gunn , Heidi Jo Newberg , Timothy A. Reichard , C. Stoughton , Wolfgang Voges , Brian Yanny

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release

We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The catalog consists of the objects in the SDSS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Donald P. Schneider , Patrick B. Hall , Gordon T. Richards , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel E. Vanden Berk , Scott F. Anderson , W. N. Brandt , Xiaohui Fan , Sebastian Jester , Jim Gray , James E. Gunn , Mark U. SubbaRao , Anirudda R. Thakar , Chris Stoughton , Alexander S. Szalay , Brian Yanny , Donald G. York , Neta A. Bahcall , J. Barentine , Michael R. Blanton , Howard Brewington , J. Brinkmann , Robert J. Brunner , Francisco J. Castander , Istvan Csabai , Joshua A. Frieman , Masataka Fukugita , Michael Harvanek , David W. Hogg , Zeljko Ivezic , Stephen M. Kent , S. J. Kleinman , G. R. Knapp , Richard G. Kron , Jurek Krzesinski , Daniel C. Long , Robert H. Lupton , Atsuko Nitta , Jeffrey R. Pier , David H. Saxe , Yue Shen , Stephanie A. Snedden , David H. Weinberg , Jian Wu

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data VI. Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectrograph Observations

We present results on over 100 high-redshift quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using automated selection algorithms applied to SDSS imaging data and with spectroscopic confirmation obtained during routine spectroscopic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Scott F. Anderson , Xiaohui Fan , Gordon T. Richards , Donald P. Schneider , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel E. Vanden Berk , James E. Gunn

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

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 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 III Collaboration , Christopher P. Ahn , Rachael Alexandroff , Carlos Allende Prieto , Scott F. Anderson , Timothy Anderton , Brett H. Andrews , Éric Aubourg Stephen Bailey , Rory Barnes , Julian Bautista , Timothy C. Beers , Alessandra Beifiori , Andreas A. Berlind , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Arnaud Borde , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , J. Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , N. G. Busca , William Carithers , Aurelio R. Carnero , Michael A. Carr , Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Yanmei Chen , Cristina Chiappini , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Justin R. Crepp , Stefano Cristiani , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Luiz N. da Costa , James R. A. Davenport , Kyle S. Dawson , Roland de Putter , Nathan De Lee , Timothée Delubac , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , S. Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Michael L. Evans , Xiaohui Fan , Bruno Femení a Castellá , Emma Fernández Alvar , Leticia D. Ferreira , N. Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Peter M. Frinchaboy , D. A. García-Hernández , A. E. García Pérez , Jian Ge , R. Génova-Santos , Bruce A. Gillespie , Léo Girardi , Jonay I. González Hernández , Eva K. Grebel , James E. Gunn , Daryl Haggard , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , David W. Harris , Suzanne L. Hawley , Frederick R. Hearty , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , J. Huehnerhoff , Inese I. Ivans , Zeljko Ivezić , Heather R. Jacobson , Linhua Jiang , Jonas Johansson , Jennifer A. Johnson , Guinevere Kauffmann , David Kirkby , Jessica A. Kirkpatrick , Mark A. Klaene , Gillian R. Knapp , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Alexie Leauthaud , Khee-Gan Lee , Young Sun Lee , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Bo Ma , Zhibo Ma , Nicholas MacDonald , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Steven R. Majewski , Martin Makler , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , A. Manchado , Rachel Mandelbaum , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Sarah L. Martell , Cameron K. McBride , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Brice Ménard , Sz. Meszaros , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francesco Montesano , Heather L. Morrison , Demitri Muna , Jeffrey A. Munn , Hitoshi Murayama , Adam D. Myers , A. F. Neto , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel J. Oravetz , Russell Owen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Prachi Parihar , Isabelle Pâris , Petchara Pattarakijwanich , Joshua Pepper , Will J. Percival , Ismael Pérez-Fournon , Ignasi Pérez-Ráfols , Patrick Petitjean , Janine Pforr , Matthew M. Pieri , Marc H. Pinsonneault , G. F. Porto de Mello , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Rafael Rebolo , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , Annie C. Robin , Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , Lado Samushia , J. Sanchez Almeida , Ariel G. Sánchez , Basílio Santiago , Conor Sayres , David J. Schlegel , Katharine J. Schlesinger , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Axel D. Schwope , C. G. Scóccola , Uros Seljak , Erin Sheldon , Yue Shen , Yiping Shu , Jennifer Simmerer , Audrey E. Simmons , Ramin A. Skibba , A. Slosar , Flavia Sobreira , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Keivan G. Stassun , Oliver Steele , Matthias Steinmetz , Michael A. Strauss , Molly E. C. Swanson , Tomer Tal , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Benjamin A. Thompson , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , M. Vargas Magaña , Licia Verde , Matteo Viel , Shailendra K. Vikas , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Ji Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Andrew A. West , Martin White , John C. Wilson , John P. Wisniewski , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Brian Yanny , Christophe Yèche , Donald G. York , O. Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Guangtun Zhu , Joel C. Zinn

A Catalog of Quasar Properties from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16

We present a catalog of continuum and emission line properties for 750,414 broad-line quasars included in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 16 quasar catalog (DR16Q), measured from optical spectroscopy. These quasars cover broad…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Qiaoya Wu , Yue Shen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical Lens Sample from the Third Data Release

We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the SDSS Data Release 3 (~4188 deg^2), we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Naohisa Inada , Masamune Oguri , Robert H. Becker , Min-Su Shin , Gordon T. Richards , Joseph F. Hennawi , Richard L. White , Bartosz Pindor , Michael A. Strauss , Christopher S. Kochanek , David E. Johnston , Michael D. Gregg , Issha Kayo , Daniel Eisenstein , Patrick B. Hall , Francisco J. Castander , Alejandro Clocchiatti , Scott F. Anderson , Donald P. Schneider , Donald G. York , Robert Lupton , Kuenley Chiu , Yozo Kawano , Ryan Scranton , Joshua A. Frieman , Charles R. Keeton , Tomoki Morokuma , Hans-Walter Rix , Edwin L. Turner , Scott Burles , Robert J. Brunner , Erin Scott Sheldon , Neta A. Bahcall , Masataka Fukugita

Photometric Catalogue of Quasars and Other Point Sources in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

We present a catalogue of about 6 million unresolved photometric detections in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release classifying them into stars, galaxies and quasars. We use a machine learning classifier trained on a subset of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sheelu Abraham , Ninan Sajeeth Philip , Ajit Kembhavi , Yogesh G Wadadekar , Rita Sinha

Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. ~1,000,000 Quasars from Data Release Six

We present a catalog of 1,172,157 quasar candidates selected from the photometric imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The objects are all point sources to a limiting magnitude of i=21.3 from 8417 sq. deg. of imaging from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Gordon T. Richards , Adam D. Myers , Alexander G. Gray , Ryan N. Riegel , Robert C. Nichol , Robert J. Brunner , Alexander S. Szalay , Donald P. Schneider , Scott F. Anderson

The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale Structure Catalogs for Cosmological Analysis

We present large-scale structure catalogs from the completed extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS). Derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) -IV Data Release 16 (DR16), these catalogs provide the data samples,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-01 Ashley J. Ross , Julian Bautista , Rita Tojeiro , Shadab Alam , Stephen Bailey , Etienne Burtin , Johan Comparat , Kyle S. Dawson , Arnaud de Mattia , Hélion du Mas des Bourboux , Héctor Gil-Marín , Jiamin Hou , Hui Kong , Brad W. Lyke , Faizan G. Mohammad , John Moustakas , Eva-Maria Mueller , Adam D. Myers , Will J. Percival , Anand Raichoor , Mehdi Rezaie , Hee-Jong Seo , Alex Smith , Jeremy L. Tinker , Pauline Zarrouk , Cheng Zhao , Gong-Bo Zhao , Dmitry Bizyaev , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Aurelio Carnero Rosell , Solène Chabanier , Peter D. Choi , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Irene Cruz-Gonzalez , Axel de la Macorra , Sylvain de la Torre , Stephanie Escoffier , Sebastien Fromenteau , Alexandra Higley , Eric Jullo , Jean-Paul Kneib , Jacob N. McLane , Andrea Muñoz-Gutiérrez , Richard Neveux , Jeffrey A. Newman , Christian Nitschelm , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Romain Paviot , Anthony R. Pullen , Graziano Rossi , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Donald P. Schneider , Mariana Vargas Magaña , M. Vivek , Yucheng Zhang

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. V. Final Catalog from the Seventh Data Release

We present the final statistical sample of lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search (SQLS). The well-defined statistical lens sample consists of 26 lensed quasars brighter than i=19.1 and in the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Naohisa Inada , Masamune Oguri , Min-Su Shin , Issha Kayo , Michael A. Strauss , Tomoki Morokuma , Cristian E. Rusu , Masataka Fukugita , Christopher S. Kochanek , Gordon T. Richards , Donald P. Schneider , Donald G. York , Neta A. Bahcall , Joshua A. Frieman , Patrick B. Hall , Richard L. White

Discovery of Eight z ~ 6 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Overlap Regions

We present the discovery of eight quasars at z~6 identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) overlap regions. Individual SDSS imaging runs have some overlap with each other, leading to repeat observations over an area spanning >4000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Linhua Jiang , Ian D. McGreer , Xiaohui Fan , Fuyan Bian , Zheng Cai , Benjamin Clement , Ran Wang , Zhou Fan

A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III: Discovery of Five Additional Quasars

We present the discovery of five new quasars at z>5.7, selected from the multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Three of them, at redshifts 5.93, 6.07, and 6.22, were selected from ~1700 deg^2 of new SDSS Main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiaohui Fan , Joseph F. Hennawi , Gordon T. Richards , Michael A. Strauss , Donald P. Schneider , Jennifer L. Donley , Jason E. Young , James Annis , Huan Lin , Hubert Lampeitl , Robert H. Lupton , James E. Gunn , Gillan R. Knapp , W. N. Brandt

Spectral Classification and Redshift Measurement for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

(abridged) We describe the automated spectral classification, redshift determination, and parameter measurement pipeline in use for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) as of Data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adam S. Bolton , David J. Schlegel , Eric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Joel R. Brownstein , Scott Burles , Yan-Mei Chen , Kyle Dawson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , James E. Gunn , G. R. Knapp , Craig P. Loomis , Robert H. Lupton , Claudia Maraston , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Matthew D. Olmstead , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Isabelle Paris , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Constance M. Rockosi , Nicholas P. Ross , Donald P. Schneider , Yiping Shu , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel Thomas , Christy A. Tremonti , David A. Wake , Benjamin A. Weaver , W. Michael Wood-Vasey