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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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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…

astro-ph2005★ 24 cited

Solar Site Survey for the Advanced Technology Solar Telecope. I. Analysis of the Seeing Data

H. Socas-Navarro, J. Beckers, P. Brandt +17

The site survey for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope concluded recently after more than two years of data gathering and analysis. Six locations, including lake, island and c…

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★ 383 cited

The Linear Theory Power Spectrum from the Lyman-alpha Forest in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

P. McDonald, U. Seljak, R. Cen +12

We analyze the SDSS Ly-alpha forest P_F(k,z) measurement to determine the linear theory power spectrum. Our analysis is based on fully hydrodynamic simulations, extended using hydr…

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-ph2001★ 168 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog I. Early Data Release

Donald P. Schneider, Gordon T. Richards, Xiaohui Fan +9

We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS publi…