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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

10.4k citations · 12.5k across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

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★ 103 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data VI. Sloan Digital Sky Survey Spectrograph Observations

Scott F. Anderson, Xiaohui Fan, Gordon T. Richards +4

We present results on over 100 high-redshift quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using automated selection algorithms applied to SDSS imaging data and with spectr…

astro-ph2000★ 51 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data V. Hobby-Eberly Telescope Observations

Donald P. Schneider, Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss +5

We report the discovery of 27 quasars with redshifts between 3.58 and 4.49. The objects were identified as high-redshift candidates based on their colors in Sloan Digital Sky Surve…

astro-ph2000★ 402 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data IV: Luminosity Function from the Fall Equatorial Stripe Sampl

X. Fan, M. A. Strauss, D. P. Schneider +7

This is the fourth paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the SDSS. during its commissioning pha…

astro-ph2000★ 126 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data III: A Color Selected Sample at i^*<20 in the Fall Equatorial Stripe

X. Fan, M. A. Strauss, G. T. Richards +7

This is the third paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the SDSS during its commis…

astro-ph2000★ 10.4k cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

D. G. York

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and non- luminous matter in the Universe: a photometric…

astro-ph1999★ 62 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data II: The Spring Equatorial Stripe

SDSS Collaboration, Xiaohui Fan

This is the second paper in a series aimed at finding high-redshift quasars from five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken along the Celestial Equator by the Sloan Digital Sky Sur…

astro-ph1999★ 159 cited

High-Redshift Quasars Found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data

SDSS Collaboration, X. Fan

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of 15 high-redshift quasars (z > 3.6) discovered from ~140 deg^2 of five-color (u'g'r'i'z') imaging data taken by the Sloan Di…