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most citedThe Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V

282 citations · 422 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

The Twentieth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First All-Sky BOSS Spectra, eROSITA-SDSS-V Mapper Coordinated Observations, and a Preview of the Local Volume Mapper

SDSS Collaboration, Mojgan Aghakhanloo, David Aguilar +273

This paper presents the twentieth data release (DR20) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the third data release of its fifth generation (SDSS-V). SDSS-V is a panoptic spectroscopy…

gr-qc2026

GWTC-5.0: An Introduction to Version 5.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1822

The Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a collection of short-duration (transient) gravitational-wave signals identified by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration in gravita…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. III. Tests of the Remnants

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1779

This is the third paper of the set recording the results of the suite of tests of general relativity (GR) performed on the signals from the fourth Gravitational-Wave Transient Cata…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. I. Overview and General Tests

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1781

The worldwide LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors continues to increase in sensitivity, thus increasing the quantity and quality of the detected GW signal…

gr-qc2026★ 1 cited

GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. II. Parameterized Tests

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1785

In this second of three papers on tests of general relativity (GR) applied to the compact binary coalescence signals in the 4th Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-4.0), we…

astro-ph.GA2025

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Light Echoes of the Coronal Line Region in a Luminous Quasar

Theodore B. Smith, Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump +19

We present a reverberation mapping analysis of the coronal line [Ne V]3427 emitting region of the quasar COS168 (SDSS J095910.30+020732.2). [Ne V]3427 is known as one of the…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Consequences of Rubin Observatory Time-Domain Survey Design and Host-Galaxy Contamination on the Identification of Binary Supermassive Black Holes

Megan C. Davis, Jonathan R. Trump, Maria Charisi +4

Binary supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are consequences of galaxy mergers and dominate the low-frequency gravitational wave background. Finding binary SMBHs in existing time-domai…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 8 cited

The Nineteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Mojgan Aghakhanloo +210

Mapping the local and distant Universe is key to our understanding of it. For decades, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has made a concerted effort to map millions of celestial…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V: Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy

Juna A. Kollmeier, Hans-Walter Rix, Conny Aerts +217

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) is pioneering panoptic spectroscopy: it is the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. SDSS-V is mapping the s…

astro-ph.IM2025

robostrategy: Field and Target Assignment Optimization in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Michael R. Blanton, Joleen K. Carlberg, Tom Dwelly +12

We present an algorithmic method for efficiently planning a long-term, large-scale multi-object spectroscopy program. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) Focal Plane System per…

astro-ph.GA2024

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: A Kinematically Variable Broad-Line Region and Consequences for Masses of Luminous Quasars

Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump, Keith Horne +27

We present a velocity-resolved reverberation mapping analysis of the hypervariable quasar RM160 (SDSS J141041.25+531849.0) at z = 0.359 with 153 spectroscopic epochs of data repres…

astro-ph.GA2024

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Multi-Line Dynamical Modeling of a Highly Variable Active Galactic Nucleus with Decade-long Light Curves

Zachary Stone, Yue Shen, Scott F. Anderson +15

We present dynamical modeling of the broad-line region (BLR) for the highly variable AGN SDSS J141041.25+531849.0 () using photometric and spectroscopic monitoring data…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 50 cited

Exploring Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V: First Year Results

Grisha Zeltyn, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Eracleous +32

"Changing-look" active galactic nuclei (CL-AGNs) challenge our basic ideas about the physics of accretion flows and circumnuclear gas around supermassive black holes. Using first-y…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Reliable Identification of Binary Supermassive Black Holes from Rubin Observatory Time-Domain Monitoring

Megan C. Davis, Kaylee E. Grace, Jonathan R. Trump +7

Periodic signatures in time-domain observations of quasars have been used to search for binary supermassive black holes. These searches, across existing time-domain surveys, have p…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Investigation of Continuum Lag Dependence on Broad-Line Contamination and Quasar Properties

Hugh W. Sharp, Y. Homayouni, Jonathan R. Trump +16

This work studies the relationship between accretion-disk size and quasar properties, using a sample of 95 quasars from the SDSS-RM project with measured lags between the and $…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 5 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Key Results

Yue Shen, Catherine J. Grier, Keith Horne +44

We present the final data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping (SDSS-RM) project, a precursor to the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping program. This…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

The SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping Project: Unusual Broad-Line Variability in a Luminous Quasar

Logan B. Fries, Jonathan R. Trump, Megan C. Davis +30

We present a high-cadence multi-epoch analysis of dramatic variability of three broad emission lines (MgII, H, and H) in the spectra of the luminous quasar ((5100Å) = $…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 282 cited

The Eighteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Targeting and First Spectra from SDSS-V

Andrés Almeida, Scott F. Anderson, Maria Argudo-Fernández +151

The eighteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS) is the first one for SDSS-V, the fifth generation of the survey. SDSS-V comprises three primary scientific progr…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 42 cited

A Transient "Changing-look'' Active Galactic Nucleus Resolved on Month Timescales from First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey V Data

Grisha Zeltyn, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Michael Eracleous +32

We report the discovery of a new ``changing-look'' active galactic nucleus (CLAGN) event, in the quasar SDSS J162829.17+432948.5 at z=0.2603, identified through repeat spectroscopy…