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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

10.4k citations · 15.7k across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

astro-ph.IM2012★ 1.1k cited

The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Stephen Smee, James E. Gunn, Alan Uomoto +61

We present the design and performance of the multi-object fiber spectrographs for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and their upgrade for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Sur…

astro-ph2001★ 168 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog I. Early Data Release

Donald P. Schneider, Gordon T. Richards, Xiaohui Fan +9

We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS publi…

astro-ph2001★ 1.9k cited

Composite Quasar Spectra From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

SDSS Collaboration, Daniel E. Vanden Berk

We have created a variety of composite quasar spectra using a homogeneous data set of over 2200 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The quasar sample spans a redshift…

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★ 232 cited

Colors of 2625 Quasars at 0<z<5 Measured in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System

Gordon T. Richards, Xiaohui Fan, Donald P. Schneider +3

We present an empirical investigation of the colors of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric system. The sample studied includes 2625 quasars with SDSS photome…

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…