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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★ 471 cited

SDSS Data Management and Photometric Quality Assessment

Z. Ivezic, R. H. Lupton, D. Schlegel +24

We summarize the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data acquisition and processing steps, and describe runQA, a pipeline designed for automated data quality assessment. In particular, we sh…

astro-ph2004★ 38 cited

A Catalog of Very Isolated Galaxies from the SDSS Data Release 1

Sahar S. Allam, Douglas L. Tucker, Brian C. Lee +1

We present a new catalog of isolated galaxies obtained through an automated systematic search. These 2980 isolated galaxies were found in approximately 2099 sq deg of sky in the Sl…

astro-ph2004★ 32 cited

The V1647 Ori (IRAS 05436-0007) Protostar and its Environment

Peregrine M. McGehee, J. Allyn Smith, Arne A. Henden +5

We present Sloan Digital Sky Survey and United States Naval Observatory observations of the V1647 Ori protostar and surrounding field near NGC 2068. V1647 Ori, the likely driving s…

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★ 82 cited

A Second Stellar Color Locus: a Bridge from White Dwarfs to M stars

V. Smolcic, Z. Ivezic, G. R. Knapp +14

We report the discovery of a locus of stars in the SDSS g-r vs. u-g color-color diagram that connects the colors of white dwarfs and M dwarfs. While its contrast with respect to th…