activity
19972023
most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

10.4k citations · 30.2k across the 46 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators
Showing 2005 · astro-phShow all

10 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph2005★ 43 cited

SDSS J0806+2006 and SDSS J1353+1138: Two New Gravitationally Lensed Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Robert H. Becker +18

We report the discoveries of two, two-image gravitationally lensed quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J0806+2006 at z_s=1.540 and SDSS J1353+1138 at z_s=1.629…

astro-ph2005★ 463 cited

A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars

Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss, Gordon T. Richards +27

We present the discovery of seven quasars at z>5.7, selected from ~2000 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The new quasars have redshifts z fr…

astro-ph2005★ 1.3k cited

The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution

Mario Juric, Zeljko Ivezic, Alyson Brooks +23

Abridged: We estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and map their 3D number density distribution in 100 < D < 20 kpc range over 6,500…

astro-ph2005★ 35 cited

SDSSJ102111.02+491330.4: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar

Bart Pindor, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Michael D. Gregg +24

We report follow-up observations of two gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) dataset. We have confirmed that SDSS J102111.02+491330.4 is…

astro-ph2005★ 26 cited

Candidate spectroscopic binaries in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

D. Pourbaix, G. R. Knapp, P. Szkody +11

We have examined the radial velocity data for stars spectroscopically observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) more than once to investigate the incidence of spectroscopic b…

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…