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most citedSpectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

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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

Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Branimir Sesar, Zeljko Ivezic, Robert H. Lupton +29

We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS Stripe 82, and contains 58 mill…

astro-ph2006★ 339 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Monitor Telescope Pipeline

D. L. Tucker, S. Kent, M. W. Richmond +31

The photometric calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is a multi-step process which involves data from three different telescopes: the 1.0-m telescope at the US Naval…

astro-ph2003★ 972 cited

The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The SDSS collaboration, Kevork Abazajian

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 square degrees of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,2…

astro-ph2002★ 1.9k cited

Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

Michael A. Strauss, David H. Weinberg, Robert H. Lupton +1

We describe the algorithm that selects the main sample of galaxies for spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from the photometric data obtained by the imaging survey. Galaxy…

astro-ph2001★ 103 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data VI. Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectrograph Observations

Scott F. Anderson, Xiaohui Fan, Gordon T. Richards +4

We present results on over 100 high-redshift quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using automated selection algorithms applied to SDSS imaging data and with spectr…