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most citedSpectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

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astro-ph.HE2016★ 500 cited

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Recently Discovered Milky Way Satellites with Fermi-LAT

The Fermi-LAT, DES Collaborations, A. Albert +70

We search for excess gamma-ray emission coincident with the positions of confirmed and candidate Milky Way satellite galaxies using 6 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telesc…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 576 cited

Eight New Milky Way Companions Discovered in First-Year Dark Energy Survey Data

The DES Collaboration, K. Bechtol, A. Drlica-Wagner +91

We report the discovery of eight new Milky Way companions in ~1,800 deg^2 of optical imaging data collected during the first year of the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Each system is id…

astro-ph.CO2010★ 972 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release

Donald P. Schneider, Gordon T. Richards, Patrick B. Hall +45

We present the fifth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog, which is based upon the SDSS Seventh Data Release. The catalog, which contains 105,783 spectrosc…

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-ph2006★ 877 cited

The SDSS Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Three

Gordon T. Richards, Michael A. Strauss, Xiaohui Fan +19

We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define th…

astro-ph2005★ 671 cited

The SDSS View of the Palomar-Green Bright Quasar Survey

Sebastian Jester, Donald P. Schneider, Gordon T. Richards +12

We investigate the extent to which the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) is complete and representative of the general quasar population by comparing with imaging and s…