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The fourth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-IV) began observations in July 2014. It pursues three core programs: APOGEE-2, MaNGA, and eBOSS. In addition, eBOSS contains two major subprograms: TDSS and SPIDERS. This paper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 SDSS Collaboration , Franco D. Albareti , Carlos Allende Prieto , Andres Almeida , Friedrich Anders , Scott Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernandez , Eric Armengaud , Eric Aubourg , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Stephen Bailey , Beatriz Barbuy , Kat Barger , Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros , Curtis Bartosz , Sarbani Basu , Dominic Bates , Giuseppina Battaglia , Falk Baumgarten , Julien Baur , Julian Bautista , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Matthew Bershady , Sara Bertran de Lis , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , J. Borissova , Jo Bovy , William Nielsen Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Etienne Burtin , Nicolas G. Busca , Hugo Orlando Camacho Chavez , M. Cano Diaz , Michele Cappellari , Ricardo Carrera , Yanping Chen , Brian Cherinka , Edmond Cheung , Cristina Chiappini , Drew Chojnowski , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Haeun Chung , Rafael Fernando Cirolini , Nicolas Clerc , Roger E. Cohen , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Marie-Claude Cousinou , Kevin Covey , Jeffrey D. Crane , Rupert Croft , Katia Cunha , Luiz da Costa , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Jeremy Darling , James W. Davidson , Kyle Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Axel de la Macorra , Sylvain de la Torre , Alice Deconto Machado , Timothee Delubac , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , John Donor , Juan Jose Downes , Niv Drory , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Cheng Du , Tom Dwelly , Garrett Ebelke , Arthur Eigenbrot , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Yvonne P. Elsworth , Eric Emsellem , Michael Eracleous , Stephanie Escoffier , Michael L. Evans , Jesus Falcon-Barroso , Xiaohui Fan , Ginevra Favole , Emma Fernandez-Alvar , J. G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane Feuillet , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Gordon Freischlad , Peter Frinchaboy , Hai Fu , Yang Gao , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Ana E. Garcia Perez , Rafael A. Garcia , R. Garcia-Dias , Patrick Gaulme , Junqiang Ge , Douglas Geisler , Hector Gil Marin , Bruce Gillespie , Leo Girardi , Daniel Goddard , Yilen Gomez Maqueo Chew , Violeta Gonzalez-Perez , Kathleen Grabowski , Paul Green , Catherine J. Grier , Thomas Grier , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Alex Hagen , Matt Hall , Paul Harding , R. E. Harley , Sten Hasselquist , Suzanne Hawley , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , Saskia Hekker , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon A. Holtzman , Parker H. Holzer , Jian Hu , Daniel Huber , Timothy Alan Hutchinson , Ho Seong Hwang , Hector J. Ibarra-Medel , Inese I. Ivans , KeShawn Ivory , Kurt Jaehnig , Trey W. Jensen , Jennifer A. Johnson , Amy Jones , Eric Jullo , T. Kallinger , Karen Kinemuchi , David Kirkby , Mark Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Juna A. Kollmeier , Ivan Lacerna , Richard R. Lane , Dustin Lang , Pierre Laurent , David R. Law , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Alexie Leauthaud , Cheng Li , Ran Li , Chen Li , Niu Li , Fu-Heng Liang , Yu Liang , Marcos Lima , Lihwai Lin , Lin Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Dan Long , Sara Lucatello , Nicholas MacDonald , Chelsea L. MacLeod , J. Ted Mackereth , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio Antonio-Geimba Maia , Roberto Maiolino , Steven R. Majewski , Olena Malanushenko , Nicolas Dullius Mallmann , Arturo Manchado , Claudia Maraston , Rui Marques-Chaves , Inma Martinez Valpuesta , Karen L. Masters , Savita Mathur , Ian D. McGreer , Andrea Merloni , Michael R. Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Andres Meza , Andrea Miglio , Ivan Minchev , Karan Molaverdikhani , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Benoit Mosser , Demitri Muna , Adam Myers , Preethi Nair , Kirpal Nandra , Melissa Ness , Jeffrey A. Newman , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Christian Nitschelm , Julia O'Connell , Audrey Oravetz , Nelson Padilla , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John Parejko , Isabelle Paris , John A. Peacock , Sebastien Peirani , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Jeffrey W. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew Pieri , Marc H. Pinsonneault , Alice Pisani , Francisco Prada , Abhishek Prakash , Natalie Price-Jones , M. Jordan Raddick , Mubdi Rahman , Anand Raichoor , Sandro Barboza Rembold , A. M. Reyna , James Rich , Hannah Richstein , Jethro Ridl , Rogerio Riffel , Rogemar A. Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Constance M. Rockosi , Sergio Rodriguez-Torres , Thaise S. Rodrigues , Natalie Roe , A. Roman Lopes , Carlos Roman-Zuniga , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , John Ruan , Rossana Ruggeri , Jessie C. Runnoe , Salvador Salazar-Albornoz , Mara Salvato , Ariel G. Sanchez , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego , Basilio Xavier Santiago , Ricardo Schiavon , Jaderson S. Schimoia , Eddie Schlafly , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Ralph Schoenrich , Mathias Schultheis , Axel Schwope , Hee-Jong Seo , Aldo Serenelli , Branimir Sesar , Zhengyi Shao , Matthew Shetrone , Michael Shull , Victor Silva Aguirre , M. F. Skrutskie , Anže Slosar , Michael Smith , Verne V. Smith , Jennifer Sobeck , Garrett Somers , Diogo Souto , David V. Stark , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Dennis Stello , Thaisa Storchi Bergmann , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Guy S. Stringfellow , Genaro Suarez , Jing Sun , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Baitian Tang , Charling Tao , Jamie Tayar , Mita Tembe , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Christy Tremonti , Nicholas Troup , Jonathan R. Trump , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , O. Valenzuela , Remco van den Bosch , Mariana Vargas-Magana , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Sandro Villanova , M. Vivek , Nicole Vogt , David Wake , Rene Walterbos , Yuting Wang , Enci Wang , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , David H. Weinberg , Kyle B. Westfall , David G. Whelan , Eric Wilcots , Vivienne Wild , Rob A. Williams , John Wilson , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Dominika Wylezalek , Ting Xiao , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Jason E. Ybarra , Christophe Yeche , Fang-Ting Yuan , Nadia Zakamska , Olga Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Cheng Zhao , Gong-Bo Zhao , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Zheng , Zhi-Min Zhou , Guangtun Zhu , Joel C. Zinn , Hu Zou

We apply the sky brightness modelling technique introduced and developed by Roy Garstang to high-resolution DMSP-OLS satellite measurements of upward artificial light flux and to GTOPO30 digital elevation data in order to predict the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pierantonio Cinzano , Cristopher D. Elvidge

We present the results of a novel new search of the first data-release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR1) for the spectra of supernovae. The use of large spectroscopic galaxy surveys offers the prospect of obtaining improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Darren S. Madgwick , Paul Hewett , Daniel Mortlock , Lifan Wang

We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this measurement we used 3800 square degrees of photometric…

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…

Opening up a new window of millimeter-wave observations that span frequency bands in the range of 30 to 500 GHz, survey half the sky, and are both an order of magnitude deeper (about 0.5 uK-arcmin) and of higher-resolution (about 10…

The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval Observatory (USNO), Flagstaff Station, Arizona (which was…

A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. This paper describes how the sample was selected, presents examples…

The Stellar Abundances and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES) of the northern sky is a specifically-designed multi-band photometric survey aiming to provide reliable stellar parameters with accuracy comparable to those from low-resolution…

We present a spectroscopic catalog of 70,841 visually inspected M dwarfs from the seventh data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For each spectrum, we provide measurements of the spectral type, a number of molecular bandheads,…

The ASAS-SN Low Surface Brightness Survey utilizes the $\sim7$ years of g-band CCD data from ASAS-SN (The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae) to create stacked images of the entire sky. It is significantly deeper than previous…

We summarize the detection rates at wavelengths other than optical for \~99,000 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 1 ``main'' spectroscopic sample. The analysis is based on positional cross-correlation with…

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…

The Australian National University's SkyMapper telescope is amongst the first of a new generation of dedicated wide-field survey telescopes. Featuring a 5.7 square deg field-of-view Cassegrain imager and 268 Mega-pixel CCD array, its…

In this, the first in a series of three papers concerning the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (SSS), we give an introduction and user guide to the survey programme. We briefly describe other wide-field surveys and compare with our own. We give…

We present a detailed observational strategy for finding Near Earth Objects (NEOs) with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) telescope. We investigate strategies in normal, unbinned mode as well as binning the CCDs 2x2 or 3x3, which affects…

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained 450 square degrees of photometric scan data, in five bands (u',g',r',i',z'), which we use to identify clusters of galaxies. We illustrate how we do star-galaxy separation, and present a simple and…

The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey (CGS) is a long-term program to investigate the photometric and spectroscopic properties of a statistically complete sample of 605 bright (B_T < 12.9 mag), southern (Dec. < 0) galaxies using the facilities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Luis C. Ho , Zhao-Yu Li , Aaron J. Barth , Marc S. Seigar , Chien Y. Peng

Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniel J. Eisenstein , David H. Weinberg , Eric Agol , Hiroaki Aihara , Carlos Allende Prieto , Scott F. Anderson , James A. Arns , Eric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Eduardo Balbinot , Robert Barkhouser , Timothy C. Beers , Andreas A. Berlind , Steven J. Bickerton , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael R. Blanton , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Casey T. Bosman , Jo Bovy , Howard J. Brewington , W. N. Brandt , Ben Breslauer , J. Brinkmann , Peter J. Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Dan Burger , Nicolas G. Busca , Heather Campbell , Phillip A. Cargile , William C. Carithers , Joleen K. Carlberg , Michael A. Carr , Yanmei Chen , Cristina Chiappini , Johan Comparat , Natalia Connolly , Marina Cortes , Rupert A. C. Croft , Luiz N. da Costa , Katia Cunha , James R. A. Davenport , Kyle Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Gustavo F. Porto de Mello , Fernando de Simoni , Janice Dean , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Jacob M. Eiting , Stephanie Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Michael L. Evans , Xiaohui Fan , Bruno Femenia Castella , Leticia Dutra Ferreira , Greg Fitzgerald , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Eric B. Ford , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Ana Elia Garcia Perez , B. Scott Gaudi , Jian Ge , Luan Ghezzi , Bruce A. Gillespie , G. Gilmore , Leo Girardi , J. Richard Gott , Andrew Gould , Eva K. Grebel , James E. Gunn , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Paul Harding , David W. Harris , Suzanne L. Hawley , Frederick R. Hearty , Jonay I. Gonzalez Hernandez , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , Naohisa Inada , Inese I. Ivans , Linhua Jiang , Peng Jiang , Jennifer A. Johnson , Cathy Jordan , Wendell P. Jordan , Guinevere Kauffmann , Eyal Kazin , David Kirkby , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , G. R. Knapp , C. S. Kochanek , Lars Koesterke , Juna A. Kollmeier , Richard G. Kron , Dustin Lang , James E. Lawler , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Brian L. Lee , Young Sun Lee , Jarron M. Leisenring , Yen-Ting Lin , Jian Liu , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Sara Lucatello , Britt Lundgren , Robert H. Lupton , Bo Ma , Zhibo Ma , Nicholas MacDonald , Claude Mack , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Steven R. Majewski , Martin Makler , Rachel Mandelbaum , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Paul Maseman , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Patrick McDonald , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Olga Mena Requejo , Brice Menard , Jordi Miralda-Escude , Heather L. Morrison , Fergal Mullally , Demitri Muna , Hitoshi Murayama , Adam D. Myers , Tracy Naugle , Angelo Fausti Neto , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Robert W. O'Connell , Ricardo L. C. Ogando , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel J. Oravetz , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Martin Paegert , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Parul Pandey , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Paris , Paulo Pellegrini , Joshua Pepper , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Robert Pfaffenberger , Janine Pforr , Stefanie Phleps , Christophe Pichon , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Beatriz H. F. Ramos , Celine Ryle , I. Neill Reid , James Rich , Gordon T. Richards , George H. Rieke , Marcia J. Rieke , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Emmanuel Rollinde , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Bruno Rossetto , Ariel G. Sanchez , Basilio Santiago , Conor Sayres , Ricardo Schiavon , David J. Schlegel , Katharine J. Schlesinger , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Kris Sellgren , Alaina Shelden , Erin Sheldon , Matthew Shetrone , Yiping Shu , John D. Silverman , Jennifer Simmerer , Audrey E. Simmons , Thirupathi Sivarani , M. F. Skrutskie , Anze Slosar , Stephen Smee , Verne V. Smith , Stephanie A. Snedden , Keivan G. Stassun , Oliver Steele , Matthias Steinmetz , Mark H. Stockett , Todd Stollberg , Michael A. Strauss , Masayuki Tanaka , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Benjamin M. Tofflemire , Rita Tojeiro , Christy A. Tremonti , Mariana Vargas Magana , Licia Verde , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Xiaoke Wan , Ji Wang , Benjamin A. Weaver , Martin White , Simon D. M. White , John C. Wilson , John P. Wisniewski , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Brian Yanny , Naoki Yasuda , Christophe Yeche , Donald G. York , Erick Young , Gail Zasowski , Idit Zehavi , Bo Zhao