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The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey : Six Strongly Lensed Galaxies at z=0.4-1.4
Jeffrey M. Kubo, Sahar S. Allam, James Annis +5
We present new results of our program to systematically search for strongly lensed galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) imaging data. In this study six strong lens syste…
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…
Lessons Learned from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Operations
S. J. Kleinman, J. E. Gunn, B. Boroski +12
Astronomy is changing. Large projects, large collaborations, and large budgets are becoming the norm. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is one example of this new astronomy, and…
Discovery of A Very Bright, Strongly-Lensed z=2 Galaxy in the SDSS DR5
Huan Lin, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Sahar S. Allam +8
We report on the discovery of a very bright z = 2.00 star-forming galaxy that is strongly lensed by a foreground z=0.422 luminous red galaxy (LRG). This system was found in a syste…
The Dark Energy Survey Data Management System
Joseph J. Mohr, Wayne Barkhouse, Cristina Beldica +17
The Dark Energy Survey collaboration will study cosmic acceleration with a 5000 deg2 griZY survey in the southern sky over 525 nights from 2011-2016. The DES data management (DESDM…
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005 and represents the completion…
Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Branimir Sesar, Zeljko Ivezic, Robert H. Lupton +29
We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS Stripe 82, and contains 58 mill…
SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82: the Dawn of Industrial 1% Optical Photometry
Zeljko Ivezic, J. Allyn Smith, Gajus Miknaitis +2
We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of ten) in the system. The catalog inclu…
An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data
N. Padmanabhan, D. J. Schlegel, D. P. Finkbeiner +21
We present an algorithm to photometrically calibrate wide field optical imaging surveys, that simultaneously solves for the calibration parameters and relative stellar fluxes using…
A Systematic Search for High Surface Brightness Giant Arcs in a Sloan Digital Sky Survey Cluster Sample
J. Estrada, J. Annis, H. T. Diehl +8
We present the results of a search for gravitationally-lensed giant arcs conducted on a sample of 825 SDSS galaxy clusters. Both a visual inspection of the images and an automated…
A Survey of Open Clusters in the u'g'r'i'z' Filter System: III. Results for the Cluster NGC 188
Bartosz Fornal, Douglas L. Tucker, J. Allyn Smith +3
We continue our series of papers describing the results of a photometric survey of open star clusters, primarily in the southern hemisphere, taken in the u'g'r'i'z' filter system.…
Photometric Calibration of the DES
Douglas L. Tucker, James T. Annis, Huan Lin +15
The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a 5000 sq deg griz imaging survey to be conducted using a proposed 3 sq deg (2.2deg-diameter) wide-field mosaic camera on the CTIO Blanco 4m telesco…
Superclusters of galaxies in the 2dF redshift survey. III. The properties of galaxies in superclusters
M. Einasto, J. Einasto, E. Tago +7
We use catalogues of superclusters of galaxies from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey to study the properties of galaxies in superclusters. We compare the properties of galaxies in hi…
Improved to Transformation Equations for Main Sequence Stars
Christopher T. Rodgers, Ron Canterna, J. Allyn Smith +2
We report improved transformation equations between the and photometric systems. Although the details of the transformations depend on luminosity class, we…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline
D. L. Tucker, S. Kent, M. W. Richmond +31
The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval…
Cyber-infrastructure to Support Science and Data Management for the Dark Energy Survey
C. Ngeow, J. J. Mohr, T. Alam +9
The Dark Energy Survey (DES; operations 2009-2015) will address the nature of dark energy using four independent and complementary techniques: (1) a galaxy cluster survey over 4000…
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
M Tegmark, D Eisenstein, M Strauss +64
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints…
Superclusters of galaxies from the 2dF redshift survey. II. Comparison with simulations
J. Einasto, M. Einasto, E. Saar +10
We investigate properties of superclusters of galaxies found on the basis of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey, and compare them with properties of superclusters from the Millennium S…
Superclusters of galaxies from the 2dF redshift survey. I. The catalogue
J. Einasto, M. Einasto, E. Tago +10
We use the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey data to compile catalogues of superclusters for the Northern and Southern regions of the 2dFGRS, altogether 543 superclusters at redshifts 0.0…
Percolation Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the SDSS Redshift Survey: Identification, Catalogs, and the Multiplicity Function
Andreas A. Berlind, Joshua A. Frieman, David H. Weinberg +17
We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friend…
The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
J. K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.
This paper describes the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through June 2004. The data release includes five-band…
The SDSS View of the Palomar-Green Bright Quasar Survey
Sebastian Jester, Donald P. Schneider, Gordon T. Richards +12
We investigate the extent to which the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) is complete and representative of the general quasar population by comparing with imaging and s…
The Fall 2004 SDSS Supernova Survey
Masao Sako, Roger Romani, Josh Frieman +38
In preparation for the Supernova Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II, a proposed 3-year extension to the SDSS, we have conducted an early engineering and science run d…
Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
D. J. Eisenstein, I. Zehavi, D. W. Hogg +45
We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.7…