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most citedThe Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

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astro-ph.IM2012★ 33 cited

Production of Phase Screens for Simulation of Atmospheric Turbulence

Rachel Rampy, Don Gavel, Daren Dillon +1

The ability to simulate atmospheric turbulence in the lab is a crucial part of testing and developing astronomical adaptive optics technology. We report on the development of a tec…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.1k cited

The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto +61

We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Sur…

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★ 37 cited

An Algorithm for Preferential Selection of Spectroscopic Targets in LEGUE

Jeffrey L. Carlin, Sebastien Lepine, Heidi Jo Newberg +22

We describe a general target selection algorithm that is applicable to any survey in which the number of available candidates is much larger than the number of objects to be observ…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 46 cited

FIRST, a fibered aperture masking instrument. I. First on-sky test results

E. Huby, G. Perrin, F. Marchis +12

In this paper we present the first on-sky results with the fibered aperture masking instrument FIRST. Its principle relies on the combination of spatial filtering and aperture mask…