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most citedThe Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

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astro-ph.CO2013★ 246 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalog: tenth data release

Isabelle Pâris, Patrick Petitjean, Éric Aubourg +47

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 obj…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 183 cited

Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Large-scale Mean Metallicity Maps of the Milky Way

Michael R. Hayden, Jon A. Holtzman, Jo Bovy +27

We present Galactic mean metallicity maps derived from the first year of the SDSS-III APOGEE experiment. Mean abundances in different zones of Galactocentric radius (0 < R < 15 kpc…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 213 cited

Chemodynamics of the Milky Way. I. The first year of APOGEE data

F. Anders, C. Chiappini, B. X. Santiago +38

We investigate the chemo-kinematic properties of the Milky Way disc by exploring the first year of data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), an…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 62 cited

The Clustering of Galaxies in the SDSS-III DR10 Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: No Detectable Colour Dependence of Distance Scale or Growth Rate Measurements

Ashley J. Ross, Lado Samushia, Angela Burden +27

We study the clustering of galaxies, as a function of their colour, from Data Release Ten (DR10) of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. We select 122,967 galaxies…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 24 cited

Large-scale analysis of the SDSS-III DR8 photometric luminous galaxies angular correlation function

Fernando de Simoni, Flavia Sobreira, Aurelio Carnero +6

We analyse the large-scale angular correlation function (ACF) of the CMASS luminous galaxies (LGs), a photometric-redshift catalogue based on the Data Release 8 (DR8) of the Sloan…

astro-ph.GA2013★ 402 cited

Target Selection for the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)

G. Zasowski, Jennifer A. Johnson, P. M. Frinchaboy +43

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) is a high-resolution infrared spectroscopic survey spanning all Galactic environments (i.e., bulge, disk, and ha…