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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.2k cited

The Fourth US Naval Observatory CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC4)

Norbert Zacharias, Charlie Finch, Terry Girard +4

The fourth United States Naval Observatory (USNO) CCD Astrograph Catalog, UCAC4 was released in August 2012 (double-sided DVD and CDS data center Vizier catalog I/322). It is the f…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.5k cited

The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

III Collaboration, Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff +224

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 8 cited

Correlated and zonal errors of global astrometric missions: a spherical harmonic solution

V. V. Makarov, B. N. Dorland, R. A. Gaume +4

We propose a computer-efficient and accurate method of estimation of spatially correlated errors in astrometric positions, parallaxes and proper motions obtained by space and groun…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 66 cited

The search for habitable worlds: 1. The viability of a starshade mission

Margaret C. Turnbull, Tiffany Glassman, Aki Roberge +6

As part of NASA's mission to explore habitable planets orbiting nearby stars, this paper explores the detection and characterization capabilities of a 4-m space telescope plus 50-m…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 6 cited

Inter-Pixel Crosstalk in Teledyne Imaging Sensors (TIS) H4RG-10 Detectors

R. P. Dudik, M. Jordan, B. N. Dorland +7

CMOS-hybrid arrays have recently surfaced as competitive optical detectors for use in ground- and space-based astronomy. One source of error in these detectors that does not appear…