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most citedThe Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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astro-ph.IM2014

Maximizing LSST's Scientific Return: Ensuring Participation from Smaller Institutions

Charles T. Liu, Beth Willman, Joshua Pepper +21

The remarkable scientific return and legacy of LSST, in the era that it will define, will not only be realized in the breakthrough science that will be achieved with catalog data.…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 119 cited

BOSS Ultracool Dwarfs I: Colors and Magnetic Activity of M and L dwarfs

Sarah J. Schmidt, Suzanne L. Hawley, Andrew A. West +4

We present the colors and activity of ultracool (M7-L8) dwarfs from the Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We combine previous samples of SDSS M and L dwarf…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 151 cited

The Factory and The Beehive II. Activity and Rotation in Praesepe and the Hyades

S. T. Douglas, M. A. Agüeros, K. R. Covey +9

Open clusters are collections of stars with a single, well-determined age, and can be used to investigate the connections between angular-momentum evolution and magnetic activity o…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 15 cited

Near-infrared Detection of WD 0806-661 B with the Hubble Space Telescope

K. L. Luhman, C. V. Morley, A. J. Burgasser T. L. Esplin +1

WD 0806-661 B is one of the coldest known brown dwarfs (T=300-345 K) based on previous mid-infrared photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope. In addition, it is a benchmark for…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 34 cited

A New Sample of Cool Subdwarfs from SDSS: Properties and Kinematics

Antonia Savcheva, Andrew A. West, John J. Bochanski

We present a new sample of M subdwarfs compiled from the 7th data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With 3517 new subdwarfs, this new sample significantly increases the numb…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 24 cited

The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way

John J. Bochanski, Beth Willman, Nelson Caldwell +4

We report on the discovery of the most distant Milky Way (MW) stars known to date: ULAS J001535.72015549.6 and ULAS J074417.48253233.0. These stars were selected as M giant c…