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The Ghost of Sagittarius and Lumps in the Halo of the Milky Way
Heidi Jo Newberg, Brian Yanny, Constance M. Rockosi +16
We identify new structures in the halo of the Milky Way Galaxy from positions, colors and magnitudes of five million stars detected in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Most of these s…
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…
SDSS J124602.54+011318.8: A Highly Luminous Optical Transient at z=0.385
D. E. Vanden Berk, B. C. Lee, B. C. Wilhite +13
We report the discovery of a highly luminous optical transient (OT), SDSS J124602.54+011318.8, associated with a galaxy at a redshift of 0.385. In this paper we consider the possib…
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…
Early-type galaxies in the SDSS
M. Bernardi, R. K. Sheth, J. Annis +28
A sample of nearly 9000 early-type galaxies, in the redshift range 0.01<z<0.3, was selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey using morphological and spectral criteria. The sample…
Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology
Donald Q. Lamb, Daniel E. Reichart
We show that, if the long GRBs are produced by the collapse of massive stars, GRBs and their afterglows may provide a powerful probe of cosmology and the early universe.
Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology
Donald Q. Lamb, Daniel E. Reichart
We show that, if the long GRBs are produced by the collapse of massive stars, GRBs and their afterglows may provide a powerful probe of cosmology and the early universe.
The Role of Dust in GRB Afterglows
Donald Q. Lamb
We show that the clumpy structure of star-forming regions can naturally explain the fact that 50-70% of GRB afterglows are optical``dark.'' We also show that dust echos from the GR…
Determining the Gamma-Ray Burst Rate as a Function of Redshift
Nevin Weinberg, Carlo Graziani, Donald Q. Lamb +1
We exploit the 14 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts z and the 7 GRBs for which there are constraints on z to determine the GRB rate R_{GRB}(z), using a method based on B…
KL Estimation of the Power Spectrum Parameters from the Angular Distribution of Galaxies in Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Alexander S. Szalay, Bhuvnesh Jain +25
We present measurements of parameters of the 3-dimensional power spectrum of galaxy clustering from 222 square degrees of early imaging data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The pr…
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…
Color Separation of Galaxy Types in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data
Iskra Strateva, Zeljko Ivezic, Gillian R. Knapp +2
We study the optical colors of 147,920 galaxies brighter than g* = 21, observed in five bands by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) over ~100 sq. deg. of high Galactic latitude sk…
The Angular Power Spectrum of Galaxies from Early SDSS Data
SDSS Collaboration, Max Tegmark, Scott Dodelson +21
We compute the angular power spectrum C_l from 1.5 million galaxies in early SDSS data on large angular scales, l<600. The data set covers about 160 square degrees, with a characte…
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…
Photometric Redshifts of Quasars
Gordon T. Richards, Michael A. Weinstein, Donald P. Schneider +3
We demonstrate that the design of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) filter system and the quality of the SDSS imaging data are sufficient for determining accurate and precise pho…
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…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Multicolor Observations of GRB010222
Brian C. Lee, Douglas L. Tucker, Daniel E. Vanden Berk +25
The discovery of an optical counterpart to GRB010222 (detected by BeppoSAX; Piro 2001) was announced 4.4 hrs after the burst by Henden (2001a). The Sloan Digital Sky Survey's 0.5m…
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…
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…
A New Very Cool White Dwarf Discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
H. C. Harris, B. M. S. Hansen, J. Liebert +33
Early data taken during commissioning of the SDSS have resulted in the discovery of a very cool white dwarf. It appears to have stronger collision induced absorption from molecular…