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most citedThe 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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astro-ph.CO2013★ 572 cited

Quasar-Lyman Forest Cross-Correlation from BOSS DR11 : Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

Andreu Font-Ribera, David Kirkby, Nicolas Busca +40

We measure the large-scale cross-correlation of quasars with the Lyman alpha forest absorption, using over 164,000 quasars from Data Release 11 of the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation S…

astro-ph2008★ 224 cited

Molecular Hydrogen in the FUSE Translucent Lines of Sight: The Full Sample

Brian L. Rachford, Theodore P. Snow, Joshua D. Destree +13

We report total abundances and related parameters for the full sample of the FUSE survey of molecular hydrogen in 38 translucent lines of sight. New results are presented for the "…

astro-ph2007★ 471 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary

Joshua A. Frieman, B. Bassett, A. Becker +98

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (…

astro-ph2006★ 2.4k cited

The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

James E. Gunn, Walter A. Siegmund, Edward J. Mannery et al

We describe the design, construction, and performance of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope located at Apache Point Observatory. The telescope is a modified two-corrector Ritch…

astro-ph2003★ 276 cited

Early-type galaxies in the SDSS. I. The sample

M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. Annis +7

A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01 < z < 0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. This pa…

astro-ph2001★ 11 cited

Galaxy Mass and Luminosity Scaling Laws Determined by Weak Gravitational Lensing

Timothy A. McKay, Erin Scott Sheldon, Judith Racusin +18

We present new measurements of scaling laws relating the luminosity of galaxies to the amplitude and shape of their dark matter halos. Early imaging and spectroscopic data from the…