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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph2007★ 19 cited

Wide-field Survey around Local Group Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Leo II: Spatial Distribution of Stellar Content

Yutaka Komiyama, Mamoru Doi, Hisanori Furusawa +12

We carried out a wide-field V, I imaging survey of the Local Group dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo II using the Subaru Prime Focus Camera on the 8.2-m Subaru Telescope. The survey cove…

astro-ph2005★ 58 cited

Morphological Classification of Galaxies using Photometric Parameters: the Concentration index versus the Coarseness parameter

Chisato Yamauchi, Shin-ichi Ichikawa, Mamoru Doi +7

We devise improved photometric parameters for the morphological classification of galaxies using a bright sample from the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In add…

astro-ph2004★ 44 cited

Discovery of a Large Scale Clumpy Structure around the Lynx Supercluster at z~1.27

Fumiaki Nakata, Tadayuki Kodama, Kazuhiro Shimasaku +12

We report the discovery of a probable large scale structure composed of many galaxy clumps around the known twin clusters at z=1.26 and z=1.27 in the Lynx region. Our analysis is b…

astro-ph2004★ 752 cited

The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian et al.

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through June 2003, includes imaging data in five bands ov…

astro-ph2004★ 156 cited

Current Performance and On-Going Improvements of the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope

Masanori Iye, Hiroshi Karoji, Hiroyasu Ando +2

An overview of the current status of the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope constructed and operated at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan is presented. The b…

astro-ph2004★ 1.2k cited

The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian et al.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 square degrees of five-band (u g r i z) imaging d…