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astro-ph2004★ 91 cited

Optically identified BL Lacertae objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Matthew J. Collinge, Michael A. Strauss, Patrick B. Hall +12

We present a sample of 386 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) candidates identified from 2860 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic database. The candidates are primarily se…

astro-ph2004

The White Dwarf Luminosity Function: The Shape of Things to Come

T. von Hippel, M. Kilic, J. Munn +10

We describe a new survey for cool white dwarfs that supplements Sloan Digital Sky Survey photometry with USNO proper motions and follow-up spectroscopy. To date we have discovered…

astro-ph2004★ 191 cited

A comprehensive model for the Monoceros tidal stream

J. Penarrubia, D. Martinez-Delgado, H. W. Rix +7

We have compiled an extensive dataset on potential parts of the Monoceros tidal stream and performed an exhaustive survey of dwarf galaxy semi-analytic orbits in order to constrain…

astro-ph2004★ 752 cited

The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

K. Abazajian et al.

This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through June 2003, includes imaging data in five bands ov…

astro-ph2004★ 471 cited

SDSS Data Management and Photometric Quality Assessment

Z. Ivezic, R. H. Lupton, D. Schlegel +24

We summarize the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data acquisition and processing steps, and describe runQA, a pipeline designed for automated data quality assessment. In particular, we sh…

astro-ph2004★ 1.2k cited

NYU-VAGC: a galaxy catalog based on new public surveys

Michael R. Blanton, David J. Schlegel, Michael A. Strauss +12

Here we present the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC), a catalog of local galaxies (mostly below a redshift of about 0.3) based on a set of publicly-release…