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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.IM2019★ 323 cited

The Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) Spectrographs

J. C. Wilson, F. R. Hearty, M. F. Skrutskie +86

We describe the design and performance of the near-infrared (1.51--1.70 micron), fiber-fed, multi-object (300 fibers), high resolution (R = lambda/delta lambda ~ 22,500) spectrogra…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 499 cited

The Hyper Suprime-Cam Software Pipeline

James Bosch, Robert Armstrong, Steven Bickerton +32

In this paper, we describe the optical imaging data processing pipeline developed for the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) instrument. The HSC Pipeline builds on the prot…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 5 cited

The Astropy Problem

Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151

The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 98 cited

The LSST Data Management System

Mario Jurić, Jeffrey Kantor, K-T Lim +62

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a large-aperture, wide-field, ground-based survey system that will image the sky in six optical bands from 320 to 1050 nm, uniformly c…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1k cited

The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Christopher P. Ahn, Rachael Alexandroff, Carlos Allende Prieto +232

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This da…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.1k cited

The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto +61

We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Sur…