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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-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…

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★ 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-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…