斯隆数字巡天第八次数据发布：来自 SDSS-III 的首批数据
天体物理仪器与方法
2015-05-27 v2
摘要
斯隆数字巡天（SDSS）于 2008 年 8 月开启了一个新阶段，配备了新的仪器，并开展了专注于银河系结构与化学演化、星系成团与类星体莱曼阿尔法森林中重子声学振荡特征测量，以及针对约 8000 颗恒星的视向速度行星搜寻的新巡天。本文介绍了 SDSS-III 的首次数据发布（也是自 SDSS 开始以来的第八次发布）。此次发布包含了银河南冠区约 5200 deg^2 的五波段成像数据，使 SDSS 成像的总覆盖区域达到 14,555 deg^2，即超过天球的三分之一。所有成像数据均使用改进的天空减光算法以及最终自洽的测光重新定标与平场确定进行了重新处理。此次发布还包括了银河系理解与演化斯隆扩展计划第二阶段（SEGUE-2）的所有数据，包含对银纬高纬度与低纬度约 118,000 颗恒星的光谱观测。所有使用 SDSS 摄谱仪获得的超过 50 万条恒星光谱均已通过改进的恒星参数流水线进行了重新处理，该流水线对高金属丰度恒星的金属度具有更好的确定能力。
引用
@article{arxiv.1101.1559,
title = {The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III},
author = {III collaboration and Hiroaki Aihara and Carlos Allende Prieto and Deokkeun An and Scott F. Anderson and Éric Aubourg and Eduardo Balbinot and Timothy C. Beers and Andreas A. Berlind and Steven J. Bickerton and Dmitry Bizyaev and Michael R. Blanton and John J. Bochanski and Adam S. Bolton and Jo Bovy and W. N. Brandt and J. Brinkmann and Peter J. Brown and Joel R. Brownstein and Nicolas G. Busca and Heather Campbell and Michael A. Carr and Yanmei Chen and Cristina Chiappini and Johan Comparat and Natalia Connolly and Marina Cortes and Rupert A. C. Croft and Antonio J. Cuesta and Luiz N. da Costa and James R. A. Davenport and Kyle Dawson and Saurav Dhital and Anne Ealet and Garrett L. Ebelke and Edward M. Edmondson and Daniel J. Eisenstein and Stephanie Escoffier and Massimiliano Esposito and Michael L. Evans and Xiaohui Fan and Bruno Femení a Castellá and Andreu Font-Ribera and Peter M. Frinchaboy and Jian Ge and Bruce A. Gillespie and G. Gilmore and Jonay I. González Hernández and J. Richard Gott and Andrew Gould and Eva K. Grebel and James E. Gunn and Jean-Christophe Hamilton and Paul Harding and David W. Harris and Suzanne L. Hawley and Frederick R. Hearty and Shirley Ho and David W. Hogg and Jon A. Holtzman and Klaus Honscheid and Naohisa Inada and Inese I. Ivans and Linhua Jiang and Jennifer A. Johnson and Cathy Jordan and Wendell P. Jordan and Eyal A. Kazin and David Kirkby and Mark A. Klaene and G. R. Knapp and Jean-Paul Kneib and C. S. Kochanek and Lars Koesterke and Juna A. Kollmeier and Richard G. Kron and Hubert Lampeitl and Dustin Lang and Jean-Marc Le Goff and Young Sun Lee and Yen-Ting Lin and Daniel C. Long and Craig P. Loomis and Sara Lucatello and Britt Lundgren and Robert H. Lupton and Zhibo Ma and Nicholas MacDonald and Suvrath Mahadevan and Marcio A. G. Maia and Martin Makler and Elena Malanushenko and Viktor Malanushenko and Rachel Mandelbaum and Claudia Maraston and Daniel Margala and Karen L. Masters and Cameron K. McBride and Peregrine M. McGehee and Ian D. McGreer and Brice Ménard and Jordi Miralda-Escudé and Heather L. Morrison and F. Mullally and Demitri Muna and Jeffrey A. Munn and Hitoshi Murayama and Adam D. Myers and Tracy Naugle and Angelo Fausti Neto and Duy Cuong Nguyen and Robert C. Nichol and Robert W. O'Connell and Ricardo L. C. Ogando and Matthew D. Olmstead and Daniel J. Oravetz and Nikhil Padmanabhan and Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille and Kaike Pan and Parul Pandey and Isabelle Pâris and Will J. Percival and Patrick Petitjean and Robert Pfaffenberger and Janine Pforr and Stefanie Phleps and Christophe Pichon and Matthew M. Pieri and Francisco Prada and Adrian M. Price-Whelan and M. Jordan Raddick and Beatriz H. F. Ramos and Céline Reylé and James Rich and Gordon T. Richards and Hans-Walter Rix and Annie C. Robin and Helio J. Rocha-Pinto and Constance M. Rockosi and Natalie A. Roe and Emmanuel Rollinde and Ashley J. Ross and Nicholas P. Ross and Bruno M. Rossetto and Ariel G. Sánchez and Conor Sayres and David J. Schlegel and Katharine J. Schlesinger and Sarah J. Schmidt and Donald P. Schneider and Erin Sheldon and Yiping Shu and Jennifer Simmerer and Audrey E. Simmons and Thirupathi Sivarani and Stephanie A. Snedden and Jennifer S. Sobeck and Matthias Steinmetz and Michael A. Strauss and Alexander S. Szalay and Masayuki Tanaka and Aniruddha R. Thakar and Daniel Thomas and Jeremy L. Tinker and Benjamin M. Tofflemire and Rita Tojeiro and Christy A. Tremonti and Jan Vandenberg and M. Vargas Magaña and Licia Verde and Nicole P. Vogt and David A. Wake and Ji Wang and Benjamin A. Weaver and David H. Weinberg and Martin White and Simon D. M. White and Brian Yanny and Naoki Yasuda and Christophe Yeche and Idit Zehavi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.1559},
year = {2015}
}
备注
Astrophysical Journal Supplements, in press (minor updates from submitted version)