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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 astrometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey is described. For point sources brighter than r ~ 20 the astrometric accuracy is 45 milliarcseconds (mas) rms per coordinate when reduced against the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog,…
Astrophysics · Physics
2010-01-07
Jeffrey R. Pier , Jeffrey A. Munn , Robert B. Hindsley , G. S. Hennessy , Stephen M. Kent , Robert H. Lupton , Zeljko Ivezic
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, 48 L dwarfs) together with 41 that have been previously…
Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-15
S. L. Hawley , K. R. Covey , G. R. Knapp , D. A. Golimowski , X. Fan
This paper documents the seventeenth data release (DR17) from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys; the fifth and final release from the fourth phase (SDSS-IV). DR17 contains the complete release of the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2024-09-04
Abdurro'uf , Katherine Accetta , Conny Aerts , Victor Silva Aguirre , Romina Ahumada , Nikhil Ajgaonkar , N. Filiz Ak , Shadab Alam , Carlos Allende Prieto , Andres Almeida , Friedrich Anders , Scott F. Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Borja Anguiano , Erik Aquino-Ortiz , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernandez , Metin Ata , Marie Aubert , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Rodolfo H. Barba , Kat Barger , Jorge K. Barrera-Ballesteros , Rachael L. Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Chad F. Bender , Mariangela Bernardi , Matthew A. Bershady , Florian Beutler , Christian Moni Bidin , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael R. Blanton , Nicholas Fraser Boardman , Adam S. Bolton , Mederic Boquien , Jura Borissova , Jo Bovy , W. N. Brandt , Jordan Brown , Joel R. Brownstein , Marcella Brusa , Johannes Buchner , Kevin Bundy , Joseph N. Burchett , Martin Bureau , Adam Burgasser , Tuesday K. Cabang , Stephanie Campbell , Michele Cappellari , Joleen K. Carlberg , Fabio Carneiro Wanderley , Ricardo Carrera , Jennifer Cash , Yan-Ping Chen , Wei-Huai Chen , Brian Cherinka , Cristina Chiappini , Peter Doohyun Choi , S. Drew Chojnowski , Haeun Chung , Nicolas Clerc , Roger E. Cohen , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Luiz da Costa , Kevin Covey , Jeffrey D. Crane , Irene Cruz-Gonzalez , Connor Culhane , Katia Cunha , Y. Sophia Dai , Guillermo Damke , Jeremy Darling , James W. Davidson , Roger Davies , Kyle Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Mariana Cano-Diaz , Helena Dominguez Sanchez , John Donor , Chris Duckworth , Tom Dwelly , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Yvonne P. Elsworth , Eric Emsellem , Mike Eracleous , Stephanie Escoffier , Xiaohui Fan , Emily Farr , Shuai Feng , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane Feuillet , Andreas Filipp , Sean P Fillingham , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Sebastien Fromenteau , Lluis Galbany , Rafael A. Garcia , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Junqiang Ge , Doug Geisler , Joseph Gelfand , Tobias Geron , Benjamin J. Gibson , Julian Goddy , Diego Godoy-Rivera , Kathleen Grabowski , Paul J. Green , Michael Greener , Catherine J. Grier , Emily Griffith , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Massinissa Hadjara , Paul Harding , Sten Hasselquist , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , Jesus Hernandez , Lewis Hill , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Danny Horta , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Chin-Hao Hsu , Yun-Hsin Hsu , Daniel Huber , Marc Huertas-Company , Brian Hutchinson , Ho Seong Hwang , Hector J. Ibarra-Medel , Jacob Ider Chitham , Gabriele S. Ilha , Julie Imig , Will Jaekle , Tharindu Jayasinghe , Xihan Ji , Jennifer A. Johnson , Amy Jones , Henrik Jonsson , Ivan Katkov , Arman Khalatyan , Karen Kinemuchi , Shobhit Kisku , Johan H. Knapen , Jean-Paul Kneib , Juna A. Kollmeier , Miranda Kong , Marina Kounkel , Kathryn Kreckel , Dhanesh Krishnarao , Ivan Lacerna , Richard R. Lane , Rachel Langgin , Ramon Lavender , David R. Law , Daniel Lazarz , Henry W. Leung , Ho-Hin Leung , Hannah M. Lewis , Cheng Li , Ran Li , Jianhui Lian , Fu-Heng Liang , Lihwai Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Sicheng Lin , Chris Lintott , Dan Long , Penelope Longa-Pena , Carlos Lopez-Coba , Shengdong Lu , Britt F. Lundgren , Yuanze Luo , J. Ted Mackereth , Axel de la Macorra , Suvrath Mahadevan , Steven R. Majewski , Arturo Manchado , Travis Mandeville , Claudia Maraston , Berta Margalef-Bentabol , Thomas Masseron , Karen L. Masters , Savita Mathur , Richard M. McDermid , Myles Mckay , Andrea Merloni , Michael Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Andrea Miglio , Francesco Di Mille , Dante Minniti , Rebecca Minsley , Antonela Monachesi , Jeongin Moon , Benoit Mosser , John Mulchaey , Demitri Muna , Ricardo R. Munoz , Adam D. Myers , Natalie Myers , Seshadri Nadathur , Preethi Nair , Kirpal Nandra , Justus Neumann , Jeffrey A. Newman , David L. Nidever , Farnik Nikakhtar , Christian Nitschelm , Julia E. 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Schaefer , Ricardo Schiavon , David J Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Axel Schwope , Aldo Serenelli , Javier Serna , Zhengyi Shao , Griffin Shapiro , Anubhav Sharma , Yue Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Yiping Shu , Joshua D. Simon , M. F. Skrutskie , Rebecca Smethurst , Verne Smith , Jennifer Sobeck , Taylor Spoo , Dani Sprague , David V. Stark , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Dennis Stello , Alexander Stone-Martinez , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Guy S. Stringfellow , Amelia Stutz , Yung-Chau Su , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Michael S. Talbot , Jamie Tayar , Eduardo Telles , Johanna Teske , Ani Thakar , Christopher Theissen , Daniel Thomas , Andrew Tkachenko , Rita Tojeiro , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Nicholas W. Troup , Jonathan R. 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We present an algorithm to photometrically calibrate wide field optical imaging surveys, that simultaneously solves for the calibration parameters and relative stellar fluxes using overlapping observations. The algorithm decouples the…
Astrophysics · Physics
2008-11-26
N. Padmanabhan , D. J. Schlegel , D. P. Finkbeiner , J. C. Barentine , M. R. Blanton , H. J. Brewington , J. E. Gunn , M. Harvanek , D. W. Hogg , Z. Ivezic , D. Johnston , S. M. Kent , S. J. Kleinman , G. R. Knapp , J. Krzesinski , D. Long , E. H. Neilsen , A. Nitta , C. Loomis , R. H. Lupton , S. Roweis , S. A. Snedden , M. A. Strauss , D. L. Tucker
The GSC-II is an all-sky database of objects derived from the uncompressed DSS that the STScI has created from the Palomar and UK Schmidt survey plates and made available to the community. Like its predecessor (GSC-I), the GSC-II was…
Astrophysics · Physics
2009-11-13
B. M. Lasker , M. G. Lattanzi , B. J. McLean , B. Bucciarelli , R. Drimmel , J. Garcia , G. Greene , F. Guglielmetti , C. Hanley , G. Hawkins , V. G. Laidler , C. Loomis , M. Meakes , R. Mignani , R. Morbidelli , J. Morrison , R. Pannunzio , A. Rosenberg , M. Sarasso , R. L. Smart , A. Spagna , C. R. Sturch , A. Volpicelli , R. L. White , D. Wolfe , A. Zacchei
Aims. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) offers a unique possibility of not only detecting Colour Induced Displacement (CID) double stars but also confirming these detections. Methods. Successive cuts are applied to the SDSS DR12 database…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2016-06-22
D. Pourbaix , G. R. Knapp , J. E. Gunn , R. H. Lupton , Z. Ivezic , C. Siopis , M. Rigaux , A. Rubbens
Statistical weak lensing by large-scale structure -- cosmic shear -- is a promising cosmological tool, which has motivated the design of several large upcoming surveys. Here, we present a measurement of cosmic shear using coadded Sloan…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2011-12-15
Eric M. Huff , Tim Eifler , Christopher M. Hirata , Rachel Mandelbaum , David Schlegel , Uros Seljak
We present a detailed characterization of the 849 broad-line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project. Our quasar sample covers a redshift range of 0.1<z<4.5 and is flux-limited to i_PSF<21.7 without…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2019-04-24
Yue Shen , Patrick B. Hall , Keith Horne , Guangtun Zhu , Ian McGreer , Torben Simm , Jonathan R. Trump , Karen Kinemuchi , W. N. Brandt , Paul J. Green , C. J. Grier , Hengxiao Guo , Luis C. Ho , Yasaman Homayouni , Linhua Jiang , Jennifer I-Hsiu Li , Eric Morganson , Patrick Petitjean , Gordon T. Richards , Donald P. Schneider , D. A. Starkey , Shu Wang , Ken Chambers , Nick Kaiser , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki , Eugene Magnier , Christopher Waters
Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years of operation (July 2014-July 2017). This is the third data…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2019-02-13
D. S. Aguado , Romina Ahumada , Andres Almeida , Scott F. Anderson , Brett H. Andrews , Borja Anguiano , Erik Aquino Ortiz , Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca , Maria Argudo-Fernandez , Marie Aubert , Vladimir Avila-Reese , Carles Badenes , Sandro Barboza Rembold , Kat Barger , Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros , Dominic Bates , Julian Bautista , Rachael L. Beaton , Timothy C. Beers , Francesco Belfiore , Mariangela Bernardi , Matthew Bershady , Florian Beutler , Jonathan Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Guillermo A. Blanc , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Mederic Boquien , Jura Borissova , Jo Bovy , William Nielsen Brandt , Jonathan Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Kevin Bundy , Adam Burgasser , Nell Byler , Mariana Cano Diaz , Michele Cappellari , Ricardo Carrera , Bernardo Cervantes Sodi , Yanping Chen , Brian Cherinka , Peter Doohyun Choi , Haeun Chung , Damien Coffey , Julia M. Comerford , Johan Comparat , Kevin Covey , Gabriele da Silva Ilha , Luiz da Costa , Yu Sophia Dai , Guillermo Damke , Jeremy Darling , Roger Davies , Kyle Dawson , Victoria de Sainte Agathe , Alice Deconto Machado , Agnese Del Moro , Nathan De Lee , Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic , Helena Dominguez Sanchez , John Donor , Niv Drory , Helion du Mas des Bourboux , Chris Duckworth , Tom Dwelly , Garrett Ebelke , Eric Emsellem , Stephanie Escoffier , Jose G. Fernandez-Trincado , Diane Feuillet , Johanna-Laina Fischer , Scott W. Fleming , Amelia Fraser-McKelvie , Gordon Freischlad , Peter M. Frinchaboy , Hai Fu , Lluis Galbany , Rafael Garcia-Dias , D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , Luis Alberto Garma Oehmichen , Marcio Antonio Geimba Maia , Hector Gil-Marin , Kathleen Grabowski , Meng Gu , Hong Guo , Jaewon Ha , Emily Harrington , Sten Hasselquist , Christian R. Hayes , Fred Hearty , Hector Hernandez Toledo , Harry Hicks , David W. Hogg , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Jon A. Holtzman , Bau-Ching Hsieh , Jason A. S. Hunt , Ho Seong Hwang , Hector J. Ibarra-Medel , Camilo Eduardo Jimenez Angel , Jennifer Johnson , Amy Jones , Henrik Jonsson , Karen Kinemuchi , Juna Kollmeier , Coleman Krawczyk , Kathryn Kreckel , Sandor Kruk , Ivan Lacerna , Ting-Wen Lan , Richard R. Lane , David R. Law , Young-Bae Lee , Cheng Li , Jianhui Lian , Lihwai Lin , Yen-Ting Lin , Chris Lintott , Dan Long , Penelope Longa-Pena , J. Ted Mackereth , Axel de la Macorra , Steven R. Majewski , Olena Malanushenko , Arturo Manchado , Claudia Maraston , Vivek Mariappan , Mariarosa Marinelli , Rui Marques-Chaves , Thomas Masseron , Karen L. Masters , Richard M. McDermid , Nicolas Medina Pena , Sofia Meneses-Goytia , Andrea Merloni , Michael Merrifield , Szabolcs Meszaros , Dante Minniti , Rebecca Minsley , Demitri Muna , Adam D. Myers , Preethi Nair , Janaina Correa do Nascimento , Jeffrey A. Newman , Christian Nitschelm , Matthew D Olmstead , Audrey Oravetz , Daniel Oravetz , Rene A. Ortega Minakata , Zach Pace , Nelson Padilla , Pedro A. Palicio , Kaike Pan , Hsi-An Pan , Taniya Parikh , James Parker , Sebastien Peirani , Samantha Penny , Will J. Percival , Ismael Perez-Fournon , Thomas Peterken , Marc Pinsonneault , Abhishek Prakash , Jordan Raddick , Anand Raichoor , Rogemar A. Riffel , Rogerio Riffel , Hans-Walter Rix , Annie C. Robin , Alexandre Roman-Lopes , Benjamin Rose , Ashley J. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Kate Rowlands , Kate H. R. Rubin , Sebastian F. Sanchez , Jose R. Sanchez-Gallego , Conor Sayres , Adam Schaefer , Ricardo P. Schiavon , Jaderson S. Schimoia , Edward Schlafly , David Schlegel , Donald Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Hee-Jong Seo , Shoaib J. Shamsi , Zhengyi Shao , Shiyin Shen , Shravan Shetty , Gregory Simonian , Rebecca Smethurst , Jennifer Sobeck , Barbara J. Souter , Ashley Spindler , David V. Stark , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann , Guy S. Stringfellow , Genaro Suarez , Jing Sun , Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp , Michael S. Talbot , Jamie Tayar , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Patricia Tissera , Rita Tojeiro , Nicholas W. Troup , Eduardo Unda-Sanzana , Octavio Valenzuela , Mariana Vargas-Maga na , Jose Antonio Vazquez Mata , David Wake , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Anne-Marie Weijmans , Kyle B. Westfall , Vivienne Wild , John Wilson , Emily Woods , Renbin Yan , Meng Yang , Olga Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Kai Zhang , Zheng Zheng , Zheng Zheng , Guangtun Zhu , Joel C. Zinn , Hu Zou
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-16
Christopher P. Ahn , Rachael Alexandroff , Carlos Allende Prieto , Friedrich Anders , Scott F. Anderson , Timothy Anderton , Brett H. Andrews , Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Fabienne A. Bastien , Julian E. Bautista , Timothy C. Beers , Alessandra Beifiori , Chad F. Bender , Andreas A. Berlind , Florian Beutler , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Jonathan C. Bird , Dmitry Bizyaev , Cullen H. Blake , Michael R. Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , John J. Bochanski , Adam S. Bolton , Arnaud Borde , Jo Bovy , Alaina Shelden Bradley , W. N. Brandt , Dorothée Brauer , J. Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Nicolás G. Busca , William Carithers , Joleen K. Carlberg , Aurelio R. Carnero , Michael A. Carr , Cristina Chiappini , S. Drew Chojnowski , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Justin R. Crepp , Stefano Cristiani , Rupert A. C. Croft , Antonio J. Cuesta , Katia Cunha , Luiz N. da Costa , Kyle S. Dawson , Nathan De Lee , Janice D. R. Dean , Timothée Delubac , Rohit Deshpande , Saurav Dhital , Anne Ealet , Garrett L. Ebelke , Edward M. Edmondson , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Courtney R. Epstein , Stephanie Escoffier , Massimiliano Esposito , Michael L. Evans , D. Fabbian , Xiaohui Fan , Ginevra Favole , Bruno Femenía Castellá , Emma Fernández Alvar , Diane Feuillet , Nurten Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Scott W. Fleming , Andreu Font-Ribera , Peter M. Frinchaboy , J. G. Galbraith-Frew , D. A. García-Hernández , Ana E. García Pérez , Jian Ge , R. Génova-Santos , Bruce A. Gillespie , Léo Girardi , Jonay I. González Hernández , J. Richard Gott , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Samuel Halverson , Paul Harding , David W. Harris , Sten Hasselquist , Suzanne L. Hawley , Michael Hayden , Frederick R. Hearty , Artemio Herrero Davó , Shirley Ho , David W. Hogg , Jon A. Holtzman , Klaus Honscheid , Joseph Huehnerhoff , Inese I. Ivans , Kelly M. Jackson , Peng Jiang , Jennifer A. Johnson , David Kirkby , K. Kinemuchi , Mark A. Klaene , Jean-Paul Kneib , Lars Koesterke , Ting-Wen Lan , Dustin Lang , Jean-Marc Le Goff , Khee-Gan Lee , Young Sun Lee , Daniel C. Long , Craig P. Loomis , Sara Lucatello , Robert H. Lupton , Bo Ma , Claude E. Mack , Suvrath Mahadevan , Marcio A. G. Maia , Steven R. Majewski , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , A. Manchado , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Sarah L. Martell , Karen L. Masters , Cameron K. McBride , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Brice Ménard , Sz. Mészáros , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Hironao Miyatake , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Francesco Montesano , Surhud More , Heather L. Morrison , Demitri Muna , Jeffrey A. Munn , Adam D. Myers , Duy Cuong Nguyen , Robert C. Nichol , David L. Nidever , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Julia E. O'Connell , Robert W. O'Connell , Ross O'Connell , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel J. Oravetz , Russell Owen , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , John K. Parejko , Isabelle Pâris , Joshua Pepper , Will J. Percival , Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols , Hélio Dotto Perottoni , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , M. H. Pinsonneault , Francisco Prada , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , M. Jordan Raddick , Mubdi Rahman , Rafael Rebolo , Beth A. Reid , Jonathan C. Richards , Rogério Riffel , Annie C. Robin , H. J. Rocha-Pinto , Constance M. Rockosi , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Arpita Roy , J. A. Rubiño-Martin , Cristiano G. Sabiu , Ariel G. Sánchez , Basílio Santiago , Conor Sayres , Ricardo P. Schiavon , David J. Schlegel , Katharine J. Schlesinger , Sarah J. Schmidt , Donald P. Schneider , Mathias Schultheis , Kris Sellgren , Hee-Jong Seo , Yue Shen , Matthew Shetrone , Yiping Shu , Audrey E. Simmons , M. F. Skrutskie , Anže Slosar , Verne V. Smith , Stephanie A. Snedden , Jennifer S. Sobeck , Flavia Sobreira , Keivan G. Stassun , Matthias Steinmetz , Michael A. Strauss , Alina Streblyanska , Nao Suzuki , Molly E. C. Swanson , Ryan C. Terrien , Aniruddha R. Thakar , Daniel Thomas , Benjamin A. Thompson , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Nicholas W. Troup , Jan Vandenberg , Mariana Vargas Magaña , Matteo Viel , Nicole P. Vogt , David A. Wake , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , Benjamin J. Weiner , Martin White , Simon D. M. White , John C. Wilson , John P. Wisniewski , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Donald G. York , O. Zamora , Gail Zasowski , Idit Zehavi , Zheng Zheng , Guangtun Zhu
We describe DPOSS, a new digital survey of the northern sky, based on the POSS-II photographic sky atlas. The survey covers the entire sky north of delta = -3 deg in 3 bands, calibrated to the Gunn $gri$ system, reaching to equivalent…
Astrophysics · Physics
2007-05-23
S. G. Djorgovski , R. R. Gal , S. C. Odewahn , R. R. de Carvalho , R. Brunner , G. Longo , R. Scaramella
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has surveyed 14,555 square degrees of the sky, and delivered over a trillion pixels of imaging data. We present the large-scale clustering of 1.6 million quasars between z = 0.5 and z = 2.5 that have been…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2015-05-27
Shirley Ho , Nishant Agarwal , Adam D. Myers , Richard Lyons , Ashley Disbrow , Hee-Jong Seo , Ashley Ross , Christopher Hirata , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Ross O'Connell , Eric Huff , David Schlegel , Anže Slosar , David Weinberg , Michael Strauss , Nicholas P. Ross , Donald P. Schneider , Neta Bahcall , J. Brinkmann , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Christophe Yèche
We perform two-dimensional, Point-Spread-Function-convolved, bulge+disk decompositions in the $g$ and $r$ bandpasses on a sample of 1,123,718 galaxies from the Legacy area of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Seven. Four different…
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics
2015-05-28
Luc Simard , J. Trevor Mendel , David R. Patton , Sara L. Ellison , Alan W. McConnachie
A new proper motion catalog is presented, combining the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with second epoch observations in the r band within a portion of the SDSS imaging footprint. The new observations were obtained with the 90prime camera…
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-23
Jeffrey A. Munn , Hugh C. Harris , Ted von Hippel , Mukremin Kilic , James W. Liebert , Kurtis A. Williams , Steven DeGenarro , Elizabeth Jeffery , Trudy M. Tilleman
This paper presents the second data release (DR2) of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS). BASS is an imaging survey of about 5400 deg$^2$ in $g$ and $r$ bands using the 2.3 m Bok telescope. DR2 includes the observations as of July 2017…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2018-08-29
Hu Zou , Tianmeng Zhang , Zhimin Zhou , Xiyan Peng , Jundan Nie , Xu Zhou , Xiaohui Fan , Linhua Jiang , Ian McGreer , Arjun Dey , Dongwei Fan , Joseph R. Findlay , Jinhua Gao , Yizhou Gu , Yucheng Guo , Boliang He , Junjie Jin , Xu Kong , Dustin Lang , Fengjie Lei , Michael Lesser , Feng Li , Jun Ma , Xiaolei Meng , Moe Maxwell , Adam D. Myers , Liming Rui , David Schlegel , Fengwu Sun , Jiali Wang , Qirong Yuan
We present the topology of a volume-limited sample of 11,884 galaxies, selected from an apparent-magnitude limited sample of over 100,000 galaxies observed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The data currently cover three main…
Astrophysics · Physics
2019-08-14
Fiona Hoyle , Michael S. Vogeley , J. Richard Gott , Michael Blanton , Max Tegmark , David H. Weinberg , Jon Brinkmann , Neta A. Bahcall , Donald G. York
The Early Data Release from the Sloan Digital Sky survey provides one of the largest multicolor photometric catalogs currently available to the astronomical community. In this paper we present the first application of photometric redshifts…
Astrophysics · Physics
2008-11-26
Istvan Csabai , Tamas Budavari , Andrew J. Connolly , Alexander S. Szalay , Zsuzsanna Gyory , Narciso Benitez , Jim Annis , Jon Brinkmann , Daniel Eisenstein , Masataka Fukugita , Jim Gunn , Stephen Kent , Robert Lupton , Robert C. Nichol , Chris Stoughton
We release the next installment of the Stripe 82 X-ray survey point-source catalog, which currently covers 31.3 deg$^2$ of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82 Legacy field. In total, 6181 unique X-ray sources are significantly…
Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics
2016-02-17
Stephanie M. LaMassa , C. Megan Urry , Nico Cappelluti , Hans Boehringer , Andrea Comastri , Eilat Glikman , Gordon Richards , Tonima Ananna , Marcella Brusa , Carie Cardamone , Gayoung Chon , Francesca Civano , Duncan Farrah , Marat Gilfanov , Paul Green , S. Komossa , Paulina Lira , Martin Makler , Stefano Marchesi , Robert Pecoraro , Piero Ranalli , Mara Salvato , Kevin Schawinski , Daniel Stern , Ezequiel Treister , Marco Viero
We present the Data Release 10 Quasar (DR10Q) 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
2015-06-17
Isabelle Pâris , Patrick Petitjean , Éric Aubourg , Nicholas P. Ross , Adam D. Myers , Alina Streblyanska , Stephen Bailey , Patrick B. Hall , Michael A. Strauss , Scott F. Anderson , Dmitry Bizyaev , Arnaud Borde , Jon Brinkmann , Jo Bovy , William N. Brandt , Howard Brewington , Joel R. Brownstein , Benjamin A. Cook , Garrett Ebelke , Xiaohui Fan , Nurten Filiz Ak , Hayley Finley , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , Fred Hamann , Shirley Ho , Linhua Jiang , Karen Kinemuchi , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Moses Marchante , Ian D. McGreer , Richard G. McMahon , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Demitri Muna , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Daniel Oravetz , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Ismaël Perez-Fournon , Matthew Pieri , Rogério Riffel , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Audrey Simmons , Matteo Viel , Benjamin A. Weaver , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Donald G. York