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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.IM2015★ 274 cited

SDSS-IV/MaNGA: Spectrophotometric Calibration Technique

Renbin Yan, Christy Tremonti, Matthew A. Bershady +19

Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA), one of three core programs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV (SDSS-IV), is an integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) surve…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 30 cited

Data Reduction with the MIKE Spectrometer

Rebecca A. Bernstein, Scott M. Burles, J. Xavier Prochaska

This manuscript describes the design, usage, and data-reduction pipeline developed for the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) spectrometer used with the Magellan telescope at…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 1.1k cited

The Dark Energy Camera

B. Flaugher, H. T. Diehl, K. Honscheid +115

The Dark Energy Camera is a new imager with a 2.2-degree diameter field of view mounted at the prime focus of the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter telescope on Cerro Tololo near La Serena,…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 74 cited

Demonstration of a Near-IR Laser Comb for Precision Radial Velocity Measurements in Astronomy

X. Yi, K. Vahala, S. Diddams +14

We describe a successful effort to produce a laser comb around 1.55 m in the astronomical H band using a method based on a line-referenced, electro-optical-modulation frequency…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 2.5k cited

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

Shadab Alam, Franco D. Albareti, Carlos Allende Prieto +271

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fib…