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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

10.4k citations · 13.1k across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph2004★ 156 cited

Current Performance and On-Going Improvements of the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope

Masanori Iye, Hiroshi Karoji, Hiroyasu Ando +2

An overview of the current status of the 8.2 m Subaru Telescope constructed and operated at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan is presented. The b…

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…

astro-ph1998★ 1.7k cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera

J. Gunn, M. Carr, C. Rockosi +1

We have constructed a large format mosaic CCD camera for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The camera consists of two arrays, a photometric array which uses 30 2048 x 2048 SITe/Tektron…