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most citedThe 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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astro-ph.CO2020★ 70 cited

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Measuring the Survey Transfer Function with Balrog

S. Everett, B. Yanny, N. Kuropatkin +97

We describe an updated calibration and diagnostic framework, Balrog, used to directly sample the selection and photometric biases of the Dark Energy Survey's (DES) Year 3 (Y3) data…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 497 cited

The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 1

T. M. C. Abbott, F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam +199

We describe the first public data release of the Dark Energy Survey, DES DR1, consisting of reduced single epoch images, coadded images, coadded source catalogs, and associated pro…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 1.2k cited

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1308

The detection of GW170817 in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves heralds the age of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. On 17 August 2017 the Advanced LIGO…

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-ph2001★ 630 cited

Galaxy Clustering in Early SDSS Redshift Data

SDSS Collaboration, Idit Zehavi, Michael R. Blanton +4

We present the first measurements of clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) galaxy redshift survey. Our sample consists of 29,300 galaxies with redshifts 5,700 km/s < cz…