4 papers
A Catalog of Spectroscopically Identified White Dwarf Stars in the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
S. J. Kleinman, Hugh C. Harris, Daniel J. Eisenstein +23
We present the full spectroscopic white dwarf and hot subdwarf sample from the SDSS first data release, DR1. We find 2551 white dwarf stars of various types, 240 hot subdwarf stars…
The Broad-band Optical Properties of Galaxies with Redshifts 0.0 < z < 0.2
M. R. Blanton, D. W. Hogg, N. A. Bahcall +18
Using photometry and spectroscopy of 144,609 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we present bivariate distributions of pairs of seven galaxy properties: four optical colors…
Identification of A-colored Stars and Structure in the Halo of the Milky Way from SDSS Commissioning Data
B. Yanny, H. J. Newberg, S. Kent +21
A sample of 4208 objects with magnitude 15 < g* < 22 and colors of main sequence A stars has been selected from 370 square degrees of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning…
The Discovery of a Second Field Methane Brown Dwarf from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Commissioning Data
SDSS Collaboration, Zlatan I. Tsvetanov
We report the discovery of a second field methane brown dwarf from the commissioning data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The object, SDSS J134646.45-003150.4 (SDSS 1346-00…