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Observations and Theoretical Implications of the Large Separation Lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112
M. Oguri, N. Inada, C. R. Keeton +25
We study the recently discovered gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, the first quasar lensed by a cluster of galaxies. It consists of four images with a maximum separation of 14.62…
A Catalog of Compact Groups of Galaxies in the SDSS Commissioning Data
B. C. Lee, S. S. Allam, D. L. Tucker +20
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional…
Search for Galaxy Clustering around a Quasar Pair at z=4.25 found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Masataka Fukugita, Osamu Nakamura, Donald P. Schneider +2
We present an investigation of the environment (\approx 600 kpc radius) of a pair of luminous z=4.25 quasars, SDSS J1439-0034 A,B, separated by 33''. An analysis of high-quality Su…
Spatial Variations of Galaxy Number Counts in the SDSS I.: Extinction, Large-Scale Structure and Photometric Homogeneity
Masataka Fukugita, Naoki Yasuda, Jon Brinkmann +5
We study the spatial variation of galaxy number counts using five band photometric images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The spatial variation of this sample of 46 million gala…
The H alpha Luminosity Function of Morphologically Classified Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Osamu Nakamura, Masataka Fukugita, Jon Brinkmann +1
We present a study of the H line emission from a sample of 1482 optically-selected, morphologically-classified bright galaxies (median redshift of 0.05) derived from the Sloan D…
A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with Quadruple Images Separated by 14.62 Arcseconds
N. Inada, M. Oguri, B. Pindor +29
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures pre…
SDSS J115517.35+634622.0: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar
Bart Pindor, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Naohisa Inada +12
We report the discovery of SDSSJ115517.35+634622.0, a previously unknown gravitationally lensed quasar. The lens system exhibits two images of a quasar, with an image se…
Constraints on Quasar Continuum, BELR, and BALR Physics from SDSS Composite Spectra
Gordon T. Richards, Patrick B. Hall, Timothy A. Reichard +3
We review recent results on quasars from the SDSS as they relate to our understanding of the UV/optical continuum, the broad emission line region, and the broad absorption line reg…
Blue horizontal branch stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. Kinematics of the Galactic halo
Edwin Sirko, Jeremy Goodman, Gillian R. Knapp +6
We carry out a maximum-likelihood kinematic analysis of a sample of 1170 blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey presented in Sirko et al. (2003) (Pape…
Blue horizontal branch stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample selection and structure in the Galactic halo
Edwin Sirko, Jeremy Goodman, Gillian R. Knapp +6
We isolate samples of 733 bright (g < 18) and 437 faint (g > 18) high-Galactic latitude blue horizontal branch stars with photometry and spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Surve…
Detection of Intergalactic HeII Absorption at Redshift 3.5
W. Zheng, K. Chiu, S. F. Anderson +5
The large number of quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has allowed searches for elusive, clear lines of sight towards HeII Ly-alpha absorption, a sensitive probe of the…
SDSS J1335+0118: A New Two-Image Gravitational Lens
Masamune Oguri, Naohisa Inada, Francisco J. Castander +13
We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1335+0118. The object was selected as a lens candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The imaging a…
The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS
M Tegmark, M Blanton, M Strauss +32
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using a sample of 205,443 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, covering 2417 square degrees with mean redshift z~0.…
Counts of Low-redshift SDSS Quasar Candidates
Z. Ivezic, R. H. Lupton, D. E. Johnston +10
We analyze the counts of low-redshift quasar candidates selected using nine-epoch SDSS imaging data. The co-added catalogs are more than 1 mag deeper than single-epoch SDSS data, a…
The Ensemble Photometric Variability of ~25000 Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
D. E. Vanden Berk, B. C. Wilhite, R. G. Kron +11
Using a sample of over 25000 spectroscopically confirmed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we show how quasar variability in the rest frame optical/UV regime depends upon…
Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP
M. Tegmark, M. Strauss, M. Blanton +34
We measure cosmological parameters using the three-dimensional power spectrum P(k) from over 200,000 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) in combination with WMAP and ot…
Multiepoch Sky Surveys and the Lifetime of Quasars
Paul Martini, Donald P. Schneider
We present a new method to measure the episodic lifetime of quasars with current and future large-scale sky surveys. Future photometric observations of large samples of confirmed q…
Candidate Type II Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Selection and Optical Properties of a Sample at 0.3<Z<0.83
Nadia L. Zakamska, Michael A. Strauss, Julian H. Krolik +12
Type II quasars are the long-sought luminous analogs of type II (narrow emission line) Seyfert galaxies, suggested by unification models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and postula…
A Snapshot Survey for Gravitational Lenses Among z>=4.0 Quasars: I. The z>5.7 Sample
Gordon T. Richards, Michael A. Strauss, Bartosz Pindor +7
Over the last few years, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has discovered several hundred quasars with redshift between 4.0 and 6.4. Including the effects of magnification bias,…
Sagittarius Tidal Debris 90 kpc from the Galactic Center
Heidi Jo Newberg, Brian Yanny, Eva K. Grebel +9
A new overdensity of A-colored stars in distant parts of the Milky Way's stellar halo, at a dereddened SDSS magnitude of g_0 = 20.3, is presented. Identification of associated vari…
Continuum and Emission-Line Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars
Timothy A. Reichard, Gordon T. Richards, Patrick B. Hall +6
We investigate the continuum and emission-line properties of 224 broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs) with 0.9<z<4.4 drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Early Data Re…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog II. First Data Release
Donald P. Schneider, Xiaohui Fan, Patrick B. Hall +13
We present the second edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of 16713 objects in the SDSS First Data Release (DR1) that have luminositi…
The near-IR properties and continuum shapes of high redshift quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Laura Pentericci, Hans W. Rix, Francisco Prada +7
We present J-H-K' photometry for a sample of 45 high redshift quasars found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sample was originally selected on the basis of optical colors and s…
SDSS J0903+5028: A New Gravitational Lens
David E. Johnston, Gordon T. Richards, Joshua A. Frieman +22
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J090334.92+502819.2. This object was targeted for SDSS spectroscopy as a Lumi…