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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★ 4 cited

Proper motions with Subaru I. Methods and a first sample in the Subaru Deep Field

Michael W. Richmond, Tomoki Morokuma, Mamoru Doi +4

We search for stars with proper motions in a set of twenty deep Subaru images, covering about 0.28 square degrees to a depth of i ~ 25, taken over a span of six years. In this pape…

astro-ph2008★ 63 cited

First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

Chen Zheng, Roger W. Romani, Masao Sako +77

This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band…

astro-ph2008★ 31 cited

Two More Candidate AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) Binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

S. F. Anderson, A. C. Becker, D. Haggard +18

AM CVn systems are a select group of ultracompact binaries with the shortest orbital periods of any known binary subclass; mass-transfer is likely from a low-mass (partially-)degen…

astro-ph2008★ 128 cited

A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

Benjamin Dilday, R. Kessler, J. A. Frieman +50

We present a measurement of the rate of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first of three seasons of data from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. For this measurement, we include 17 S…

astro-ph2007★ 31 cited

The Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS) - V. Optically Faint Variable Object Survey

Tomoki Morokuma, Mamoru Doi, Naoki Yasuda +19

We present our survey for optically faint variable objects using multi-epoch (8-10 epochs over 2-4 years) -band imaging data obtained with Subaru Suprime-Cam over 0.918 deg…