most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

10.4k citations

Showing astro-phShow all

217 papers · 1 filter

astro-ph2008★ 52 cited

The Young, Massive, Star Cluster Sandage-96 After the Explosion of SN 2004dj in NGC 2403

J. Vinko, K. Sarneczky, Z. Balog +12

The bright Type II-plateau supernova (SN) 2004dj occurred within the young, massive stellar cluster Sandage-96 in a spiral arm of NGC 2403. New multi-wavelength observations obtain…

astro-ph2008★ 90 cited

HATNet Field G205: Follow-Up Observations of 28 Transiting-Planet candidates and Confirmation of the Planet HAT-P-8b

David W. Latham, Gáspár Á. Bakos, Guillermo Torres +16

We report the identification of 32 transiting-planet candidates in HATNet field G205. We describe the procedures that we have used to follow up these candidates with spectroscopic…

astro-ph2008★ 60 cited

A Map of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Signal from Luminous Red Galaxies

Benjamin R. Granett, Mark C. Neyrinck, István Szapudi

We construct a map of the time derivative of the gravitational potential traced by SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies. The potential decays on large scales due to cosmic acceleration, leav…

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★ 90 cited

A strong optical flare before the rising afterglow of GRB 080129

J. Greiner, T. Krühler, S. McBreen +11

We report on GROND observations of a 40 sec duration (rest-frame) optical flare from GRB 080129 at redshift 4.349. The rise- and decay time follow a power law with indices +12 and…

astro-ph2008★ 65 cited

Identifying Decaying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from their Variable Electromagnetic Emission

Zoltán Haiman, Bence Kocsis, Kristen Menou +2

Supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) with masses in the range 10^4-10^7 M_sun/(1+z), produced in galaxy mergers, are thought to complete their coalescence due to the emission…