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most citedThe Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

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astro-ph.GA2016★ 28 cited

Kiloparsec Mass/Light Offsets in the Galaxy Pair-Ly Emitter Lens System SDSS\,J10110143

Yiping Shu, Adam S. Bolton, Leonidas A. Moustakas +5

We report the discovery of significant mass/light offsets in the strong gravitational lensing system SDSS\,J10110143. We use the high-resolution \textsl{Hubble Space Telescope}…

astro-ph.IM2015★ 30 cited

Data Reduction with the MIKE Spectrometer

Rebecca A. Bernstein, Scott M. Burles, J. Xavier Prochaska

This manuscript describes the design, usage, and data-reduction pipeline developed for the Magellan Inamori Kyocera Echelle (MIKE) spectrometer used with the Magellan telescope at…

astro-ph.CO2015★ 53 cited

The Keck+Magellan Survey for Lyman Limit Absorption III: Sample Definition and Column Density Measurements

J. Xavier Prochaska, John M. O'Meara, Michele Fumagalli +2

We present an absorption-line survey of optically thick gas clouds -- Lyman Limit Systems (LLSs) -- observed at high dispersion with spectrometers on the Keck and Magellan telescop…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 182 cited

The PRIsm MUlti-object Survey (PRIMUS). II. Data Reduction and Redshift Fitting

Richard J. Cool, John Moustakas, Michael R. Blanton +10

The PRIsm MUti-object Survey (PRIMUS) is a spectroscopic galaxy redshift survey to z~1 completed with a low-dispersion prism and slitmasks allowing for simultaneous observations of…

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-ph.CO2012★ 666 cited

Spectral Classification and Redshift Measurement for the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Adam S. Bolton, David J. Schlegel, Eric Aubourg +29

(abridged) We describe the automated spectral classification, redshift determination, and parameter measurement pipeline in use for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOS…