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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

10.4k citations · 23.6k across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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41 papers

astro-ph2003★ 28 cited

The near-IR properties and continuum shapes of high redshift quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Laura Pentericci, Hans W. Rix, Francisco Prada +7

We present J-H-K' photometry for a sample of 45 high redshift quasars found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sample was originally selected on the basis of optical colors and s…

astro-ph2003★ 972 cited

The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The SDSS collaboration, Kevork Abazajian

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 square degrees of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,2…

astro-ph2003★ 776 cited

A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II: Discovery of Three Additional Quasars at z>6

Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss, Donald P. Schneider +14

We present the discovery of three new quasars at z>6 in 1300 deg^2 of SDSS imaging data, J114816.64+525150.3 (z=6.43), J104845.05+463718.3 (z=6.23) and J163033.90+401209.6 (z=6.05)…

astro-ph2002★ 50 cited

Two Rare Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables with Extreme Cyclotron Features Identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Paula Szkody, Scott F. Anderson, Gary Schmidt +6

Two newly identified magnetic cataclysmic variables discovered in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), SDSSJ155331.12+551614.5 and SDSSJ132411.57+032050.5, have spectra showing hig…

astro-ph2002★ 1.9k cited

Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

Michael A. Strauss, David H. Weinberg, Robert H. Lupton +1

We describe the algorithm that selects the main sample of galaxies for spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from the photometric data obtained by the imaging survey. Galaxy…

astro-ph2002★ 433 cited

Characterization of M,L and T dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

S. L. Hawley, K. R. Covey, G. R. Knapp +2

An extensive sample of M, L and T dwarfs identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been compiled. The sample of 718 dwarfs includes 677 new objects (629 M dwarfs, 48 L…