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The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
K. Abazajian
This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDS…
Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties
Yue Shen, Michael A. Strauss, Nicholas P. Ross +12
Using a homogenous sample of 38,208 quasars with a sky coverage of drawn from the SDSS Data Release Five quasar catalog, we study the dependence of quasar cluste…
Five New High-Redshift Quasar Lenses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Min-Su Shin +7
We report the discovery of five gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). All five systems are selected as two-image lensed quasar candidates from a…
Improved optical mass tracer for galaxy clusters calibrated using weak lensing measurements
Reinabelle Reyes, Rachel Mandelbaum, Christopher M. Hirata +2
We develop an improved mass tracer for clusters of galaxies from optically observed parameters, and calibrate the mass relation using weak gravitational lensing measurements. We em…
Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: II. Weak lensing
Christopher M. Hirata, Shirley Ho, Nikhil Padmanabhan +2
We investigate the correlation of gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with several tracers of large-scale structure, including luminous red galaxies (LRG…
Correlation of CMB with large-scale structure: I. ISW Tomography and Cosmological Implications
Shirley Ho, Christopher M. Hirata, Nikhil Padmanabhan +2
We cross-correlate large scale structure (LSS) observations from a number of surveys with CMB anisotropies from WMAP to investigate the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect as a fun…
Do broad absorption line quasars live in different environments from ordinary quasars?
Yue Shen, Michael A. Strauss, Patrick B. Hall +3
We select a sample of traditionally defined broad absorption line quasars (BALQs) from the Fifth Data Release quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For a stat…
Cross-correlation Weak Lensing of SDSS Galaxy Clusters I: Measurements
Erin S. Sheldon, David E. Johnston, Ryan Scranton +12
This is the first in a series of papers on the weak lensing effect caused by clusters of galaxies in Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The photometrically selected cluster sample, known as…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. II. Statistical Lens Sample from the Third Data Release
Naohisa Inada, Masamune Oguri, Robert H. Becker +31
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420…
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005 and represents the completion…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release
Donald P. Schneider, Patrick B. Hall, Gordon T. Richards +41
We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previ…
Clustering of High Redshift () Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Yue Shen, Michael A. Strauss, Masamune Oguri +13
(Abridged) We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4,426 luminous optical quasars with redshift selected over 4041 deg…
Clustering Analyses of 300,000 Photometrically Classified Quasars--II. The Excess on Very Small Scales
Adam D. Myers, Robert J. Brunner, Gordon T. Richards +3
We study quasar clustering on small scales, modeling clustering amplitudes using halo-driven dark matter descriptions. From 91 pairs on scales <35 kpc/h, we detect only a slight ex…
Clustering Analyses of 300,000 Photometrically Classified Quasars--I. Luminosity and Redshift Evolution in Quasar Bias
Adam D. Myers, Robert J. Brunner, Robert C. Nichol +3
Using ~300,000 photometrically classified quasars, by far the largest quasar sample ever used for such analyses, we study the redshift and luminosity evolution of quasar clustering…
A New Survey for Giant Arcs
Joseph F. Hennawi, Michael D. Gladders, Masamune Oguri +11
We report on the first results of an imaging survey to detect strong gravitational lensing targeting the richest clusters selected from the photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sk…
The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +14
We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. T…
Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS
Will J. Percival, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel J. Eisenstein +12
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We joint…
Cosmological Constraints from the SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies
M Tegmark, D Eisenstein, M Strauss +64
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints…
The Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data
N. Padmanabhan, D. J. Schlegel, U. Seljak +17
We present the 3D real space clustering power spectrum of a sample of \~600,000 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) measured by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using photometric reds…
The Shape, Multiplicity, and Evolution of Superclusters in LambdaCDM Cosmology
James J. Wray, Neta A. Bahcall, Paul Bode +2
We determine the shape, multiplicity, size, and radial structure of superclusters in the LambdaCDM concordance cosmology from z = 0 to z = 2. Superclusters are defined as clusters…
The Effect of Large-Scale Structure on the SDSS Galaxy Three-Point Correlation Function
R. C. Nichol, R. K. Sheth, Y. Suto +21
We present measurements of the normalised redshift-space three-point correlation function (Q_z) of galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main galaxy sample. We have app…
The Small-Scale Environment of Quasars
Will Serber, Neta Bahcall, Brice Menard +1
Where do quasars reside? Are quasars located in environments similar to those of typical L* galaxies, and, if not, how do they differ? An answer to this question will help shed lig…
Percolation Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the SDSS Redshift Survey: Identification, Catalogs, and the Multiplicity Function
Andreas A. Berlind, Joshua A. Frieman, David H. Weinberg +17
We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friend…
A Survey of z>5.7 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Discovery of Seven Additional Quasars
Xiaohui Fan, Michael A. Strauss, Gordon T. Richards +27
We present the discovery of seven quasars at z>5.7, selected from ~2000 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The new quasars have redshifts z fr…