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astro-ph2008★ 42 cited

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…

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★ 1 cited

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…

astro-ph2008★ 57 cited

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…

astro-ph2008★ 28 cited

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…