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A Merged Catalog of Clusters of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
Neta A. Bahcall, Timothy A. McKay, James Annis +13
We present a catalog of 799 clusters of galaxies in the redshift range z_est = 0.05 - 0.3 selected from ~400 deg^2 of early SDSS commissioning data along the celestial equator. The…
The Morphological Butcher-Oemler effect in the SDSS Cut&Enhance Galaxy Cluster Catalog
Tomotsugu Goto, Sadanori Okamura, Masafumi Yagi +14
We investigate the evolution of the fractions of late type cluster galaxies as a function of redshift, using one of the largest, most uniform cluster samples available. The sample…
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…
The Cluster Mass Function from Early SDSS Data: Cosmological Implications
Neta A. Bahcall, Feng Dong, Paul Bode +15
The mass function of clusters of galaxies is determined from 400 deg^2 of early commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; ~300 clusters in the redshift range z =…
Composite Luminosity Functions Based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey "Cut & Enhance" Galaxy Cluster Catalog
Tomotsugu Goto, Sadanori Okamura, Timothy A. Mckay +9
We present here results on the composite luminosity functions of galaxies in the clusters of galaxies selected from the SDSS Cut and Enhance cluster catalog (CE; Goto et al. 2001).…
Optical and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by the FIRST and SDSS Surveys
Z. Ivezic, K. Menou, M. Strauss +6
We discuss the optical and radio properties of 30,000 FIRST sources positionally associated with an SDSS source in 1230 deg of sky. The majority (83%) of the FIRST sources iden…
The Cut & Enhance method : selecting clusters of galaxies from the SDSS commissioning data
Tomotsugu Goto, Maki Sekiguchi, Robert C. Nichol +8
We describe an automated method, the Cut & Enhance method (CE) for detecting clusters of galaxies in multi-color optical imaging surveys. This method uses simple color cuts, combin…
Higher Order Moments of the Angular Distribution of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
István Szapudi, Joshua A. Frieman, Roman Scoccimarro +13
We present initial results for counts in cells statistics of the angular distribution of galaxies in early data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We analyze a rectangular s…
The Optical, Infrared and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by SDSS, 2MASS and FIRST Surveys
Z. Ivezic, R. H. Becker, M. Blanton +19
We positionally match sources observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cm (FIRST) sur…
The Angular Clustering of Galaxy Pairs
Leopoldo Infante, Michael A. Strauss, Neta A. Bahcall +13
We identify close pairs of galaxies from 278 deg^2 of Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning imaging data. The pairs are drawn from a sample of 330,041 galaxies with 18 < r^* < 20.…
The Alignment Effect of Brightest Cluster Galaxies in the SDSS
Rita S. J. Kim, Jim Annis, Michael A. Strauss +5
One of the most vital observational clues for unraveling the origin of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCG) is the observed alignment of the BCGs with their host cluster and its surrou…
Detecting Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey I : Monte Carlo Comparison of Cluster Detection Algorithms
Rita S. J. Kim, Jeremy V. Kepner, Marc Postman +15
We present a comparison of three cluster finding algorithms from imaging data using Monte Carlo simulations of clusters embedded in a 25 deg^2 region of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (S…
The Angular Correlation Function of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Andrew Connolly, Ryan Scranton +22
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the first multicolor photometric and spectroscopic surveys designed to measure the statistical properties of galaxies within the local Univer…
Analysis of Systematic Effects and Statistical Uncertainties in Angular Clustering of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Ryan Scranton, David Johnston +21
The angular distribution of galaxies encodes a wealth of information about large scale structure. Ultimately, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will record the angular positions…
Galaxy Number Counts from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data
Naoki Yasuda, Masataka Fukugita, Vijay K. Narayanan +10
We present bright galaxy number counts in five broad bands () from imaging data taken during the commissioning phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The…
Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with VLA-FIRST Radio Detections
Kristen Menou, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Zeljko Ivezic +12
We present 13 Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasars, including 12 new objects, which were identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and matched within 2'' to sources in the F…
SDSS-RASS: Next Generation of Cluster-Finding Algorithms
R. Nichol, C. Miller, A. Connolly +17
We outline here the next generation of cluster-finding algorithms. We show how advances in Computer Science and Statistics have helped develop robust, fast algorithms for finding c…
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…
Cluster Detection in Astronomical Databases: the Adaptive Matched Filter Algorithm and Implementation
Jeremy Kepner, Rita Kim
Clusters of galaxies are the most massive objects in the Universe and mapping their location is an important astronomical problem. This paper describes an algorithm (based on stati…
Finding Clusters of Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using Voronoi Tessellation
Rita S. J. Kim, Michael A. Strauss, Neta A. Bahcall +5
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained 450 square degrees of photometric scan data, in five bands (u',g',r',i',z'), which we use to identify clusters of galaxies. We illustrate…
Measuring High-Order Moments of the Galaxy Distribution from Counts in Cells -- The Edgeworth Approximation
Rita Seungjung Kim, Michael A. Strauss
To probe the weakly non-linear regime, past the point where simple linear theory is sufficient to describe the statistics of the density distribution, we measure the skewness (S_3)…