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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★ 92 cited

A 1200-micron MAMBO survey of the GOODS-N field: a significant population of submillimetre drop-out galaxies

T. R. Greve, A. Pope, D. Scott +4

We present a 1200-micron image of the Great Observatories Origin Deep Survey North (GOODS-N) field, obtained with the Max Planck Millimeter Bolometer array (MAMBO) on the IRAM 30-m…

astro-ph2008★ 65 cited

The SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) - VIII. The Nature of Faint Submm Galaxies in SHADES, SWIRE and SXDF Surveys

D. L. Clements, M. Vaccari, T. Babbedge +46

We present the optical-to-submm spectral energy distributions for 33 radio & mid-IR identified submillimetre galaxies discovered via the SHADES 850 micron SCUBA imaging in the Suba…

astro-ph2008★ 96 cited

The SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES) - VII. Optical/IR photometry and stellar masses of sub-millimeter galaxies

Simon Dye, S. A. Eales, I. Aretxaga +21

We present estimates of the photometric redshifts, stellar masses and star formation histories of sources in the SCUBA HAlf Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES). This paper describ…

astro-ph2007★ 70 cited

Shrinkage Estimation of the Power Spectrum Covariance Matrix

Adrian C. Pope, István Szapudi

We seek to improve estimates of the power spectrum covariance matrix from a limited number of simulations by employing a novel statistical technique known as shrinkage estimation.…

astro-ph2007★ 744 cited

The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy

This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005 and represents the completion…

astro-ph2007★ 4 cited

The SCUBA-2 "All-Sky" Survey

M. A. Thompson, S. Serjeant, T. Jenness +45

The sub-millimetre wavelength regime is perhaps the most poorly explored over large areas of the sky, despite the considerable effort that has been expended in making deep maps ove…

astro-ph2007★ 810 cited

Measuring the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation scale using the SDSS and 2dFGRS

Will J. Percival, Shaun Cole, Daniel J. Eisenstein +4

We introduce a method to constrain general cosmological models using Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) distance measurements from galaxy samples covering different redshift ranges,…

astro-ph2006★ 280 cited

The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum

Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +14

We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. T…

astro-ph2006★ 153 cited

Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS

Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +12

We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We joint…

astro-ph2006★ 1.4k cited

Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies

M Tegmark, D Eisenstein, M Strauss +64

We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints…

astro-ph2006★ 1 cited

The GOODS-North Radio Galaxies: On the Origin of the Radio Emission

G. Morrison, M. Dickinson, F. Owen +7

We report on a preliminary study concerning the origin of radio emission within radio galaxies at L(1.4GHz)>1E24 W/Hz in the GOODS-N field. In the local universe, Condon et al. (20…

astro-ph2006★ 94 cited

The Effect of Large-Scale Structure on the SDSS Galaxy Three-Point Correlation Function

R. C. Nichol, R. K. Sheth, Y. Suto +21

We present measurements of the normalised redshift-space three-point correlation function (Q_z) of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main galaxy sample. We have app…

astro-ph2006★ 877 cited

The SDSS Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Three

Gordon T. Richards, Michael A. Strauss, Xiaohui Fan +19

We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define th…

astro-ph2006★ 83 cited

Interferometric 890 micron Images of High Redshift Submillimeter Galaxies

D. Iono, A. B. Peck, A. Pope +12

We present high resolution 890 micron images of two 20 mJy submillimeter galaxies, SMMJ123711+622212 and MIPS~J142824.0+352619, obtained using the Submillimeter Array (SMA). Using…

astro-ph2005★ 1.1k cited

The Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

J. K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.

This paper describes the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through June 2004. The data release includes five-band…

astro-ph2005★ 4.6k cited

Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies

D. J. Eisenstein, I. Zehavi, D. W. Hogg +45

We present the large-scale correlation function measured from a spectroscopic sample of 46,748 luminous red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The survey region covers 0.7…

astro-ph2004★ 752 cited

The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian et al.

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through June 2003, includes imaging data in five bands ov…

astro-ph2004★ 55 cited

The HDF-North SCUBA Super-map II: Multi-wavelength properties

C. Borys, D. Scott, S. C. Chapman +3

We present radio, optical and X-ray detected counterparts to the sub-mm sources found using SCUBA in the Hubble Deep Field North region (GOODS-N). A new counterpart identification…

astro-ph2004★ 61 cited

The Clustering of AGN in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

David A. Wake, Christopher J. Miller, Tiziana Di Matteo +6

We present the two--point correlation function (2PCF) of narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected within the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using a sa…

astro-ph2004★ 1.2k cited

The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian et al.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 square degrees of five-band (u g r i z) imaging d…

astro-ph2004★ 244 cited

Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts

Adrian C. Pope, Takahiko Matsubara, Alexander S. Szalay +23

We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to the analysis of the 3D power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Di…

astro-ph2004★ 18 cited

Eigenmode Analysis of Galaxy Distributions in Redshift Space

Takahiko Matsubara, Alexander S. Szalay, Adrian C. Pope

Eigenmode analysis is one of the most promising methods of analyzing large data sets in ongoing and near-future galaxy surveys. In such analyses, a fast evaluation of the correlati…

astro-ph2003★ 1.8k cited

The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

M Tegmark, M Blanton, M Strauss +32

We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using a sample of 205,443 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, covering 2417 square degrees with mean redshift z~0.…