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astro-ph2008★ 5.4k cited

The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDS…

astro-ph2008★ 63 cited

Magnetically-Regulated Fragmentation Induced by Nonlinear Flows and Ambipolar Diffusion

Shantanu Basu, Glenn E. Ciolek, Wolf Dapp +1

We present a parameter study of simulations of fragmentation regulated by gravity, magnetic fields, ambipolar diffusion, and nonlinear flows. The thin-sheet approximation is employ…

astro-ph2008★ 40 cited

Nonlinear Evolution of Gravitational Fragmentation Regulated by Magnetic Fields and Ambipolar Diffusion

Shantanu Basu, Glenn E. Ciolek, James Wurster

We present results from an extensive set of simulations of gravitational fragmentation in the presence of magnetic fields and ambipolar diffusion. The average fragmentation spacing…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

Maximum Likelihood Fitting of Tidal Streams With Application to the Sagittarius Dwarf Tidal Tails

Nathan Cole, Heidi Jo Newberg, Malik Magdon-Ismail +10

We present a maximum likelihood method for determining the spatial properties of tidal debris and of the Galactic spheroid. With this method we characterize Sagittarius debris usin…

astro-ph2008★ 1.6k cited

Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets

M. Kowalski, D. Rubin, G. Aldering +67

We present a new compilation of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), a new dataset of low-redshift nearby-Hubble-flow SNe and new analysis procedures to work with these heterogeneous compi…

astro-ph2008★ 573 cited

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity

Zeljko Ivezic, Branimir Sesar, Mario Juric +50

Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F and G type main sequence stars (0.2<g-r<0.6), we develop polynomial models for estimating these…