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1. Host Galaxy Spectra and Consequences for SN Typing From The SDSS SN Survey

Author: Olmstead, Matthew D., Brown, Peter J., Sako, Masao, Bassett, Bruce, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Brewington, Howard, Campbell, Heather, D'Andrea, Chris B., Dawson, Kyle S., Ebelke, Garrett L., Frieman, Joshua A., Galbany, Lluís, Garnavich, Peter, Gupta, Ravi R., Hlozek, Renee, Jha, Saurabh W., Kunz, Martin, Lampeitl, Hubert, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Marriner, John, Miquel, Ramon, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Schneider, Donald P., Simmons, Audrey E., Smith, Mathew, Snedden, Stephanie A., Olmstead, Matthew D., Brown, Peter J., Sako, Masao, Bassett, Bruce, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Brewington, Howard, Campbell, Heather, D'Andrea, Chris B., Dawson, Kyle S., Ebelke, Garrett L., Frieman, Joshua A., Galbany, Lluís, Garnavich, Peter, Gupta, Ravi R., Hlozek, Renee, Jha, Saurabh W., Kunz, Martin, Lampeitl, Hubert, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Marriner, John, Miquel, Ramon, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Schneider, Donald P., Simmons, Audrey E., Smith, Mathew, and Snedden, Stephanie A.
Abstract: We present the spectroscopy from 5254 galaxies that hosted supernovae (SNe) or other transient events in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II). Obtained during SDSS-I, SDSS-II, and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), this sample represents the largest systematic, unbiased, magnitude limited spectroscopic survey of supernova (SN) host galaxies. Using the host galaxy redshifts, we test the impact of photometric SN classification based on SDSS imaging data with and without using spectroscopic redshifts of the host galaxies. Following our suggested scheme, there are a total of 1166 photometrically classified SNe Ia when using a flat redshift prior and 1126 SNe Ia when the host spectroscopic redshift is assumed. For 1024 (87.8%) candidates classified as likely SNe Ia without redshift information, we find that the classification is unchanged when adding the host galaxy redshift. Using photometry from SDSS imaging data and the host galaxy spectra, we also report host galaxy properties for use in future nalysis of SN astrophysics. Finally, we investigate the differences in the interpretation of the light curve properties with and without knowledge of the redshift. When using the SALT2 light curve fitter, we find a 21% increase in the number of fits that converge when using the spectroscopic redshift. Without host galaxy redshifts, we find that SALT2 light curve fits are systematically biased towards lower photometric redshift estimates and redder colors in the limit of low signal-to-noise data. The general improvements in performance of the light curve fitter and the increased diversity of the host galaxy sample highlights the importance of host galaxy spectroscopy for current photometric SN surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey and future surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope., Comment: 27 pages, 22 figures, 10 tables
Published: 2013
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2. The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Author: Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, and Zhu, Guangtun
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. The APOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R~22,500 300-fiber spectrograph covering 1.514--1.696 microns. The APOGEE survey is studying the chemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giant star candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10 includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed three or more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra (radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities) are also included.DR10 also roughly doubles the number of BOSS spectra over those included in the ninth data release. DR10 includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra, comprising 927,844 galaxy spectra; 182,009 quasar spectra; and 159,327 stellar spectra, selected over 6373.2 square degrees., Comment: 15 figures; 1 table. Accepted to ApJS. DR10 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr10 v3 fixed 3 diacritic markings in the arXiv HTML listing of the author names
Published: 2013
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3. Host Galaxy Spectra and Consequences for SN Typing From The SDSS SN Survey

Author: Olmstead, Matthew D., Brown, Peter J., Sako, Masao, Bassett, Bruce, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Brewington, Howard, Campbell, Heather, D'Andrea, Chris B., Dawson, Kyle S., Ebelke, Garrett L., Frieman, Joshua A., Galbany, Lluís, Garnavich, Peter, Gupta, Ravi R., Hlozek, Renee, Jha, Saurabh W., Kunz, Martin, Lampeitl, Hubert, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Marriner, John, Miquel, Ramon, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Schneider, Donald P., Simmons, Audrey E., Smith, Mathew, Snedden, Stephanie A., Olmstead, Matthew D., Brown, Peter J., Sako, Masao, Bassett, Bruce, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Brewington, Howard, Campbell, Heather, D'Andrea, Chris B., Dawson, Kyle S., Ebelke, Garrett L., Frieman, Joshua A., Galbany, Lluís, Garnavich, Peter, Gupta, Ravi R., Hlozek, Renee, Jha, Saurabh W., Kunz, Martin, Lampeitl, Hubert, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Marriner, John, Miquel, Ramon, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Schneider, Donald P., Simmons, Audrey E., Smith, Mathew, and Snedden, Stephanie A.
Abstract: We present the spectroscopy from 5254 galaxies that hosted supernovae (SNe) or other transient events in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II). Obtained during SDSS-I, SDSS-II, and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), this sample represents the largest systematic, unbiased, magnitude limited spectroscopic survey of supernova (SN) host galaxies. Using the host galaxy redshifts, we test the impact of photometric SN classification based on SDSS imaging data with and without using spectroscopic redshifts of the host galaxies. Following our suggested scheme, there are a total of 1166 photometrically classified SNe Ia when using a flat redshift prior and 1126 SNe Ia when the host spectroscopic redshift is assumed. For 1024 (87.8%) candidates classified as likely SNe Ia without redshift information, we find that the classification is unchanged when adding the host galaxy redshift. Using photometry from SDSS imaging data and the host galaxy spectra, we also report host galaxy properties for use in future nalysis of SN astrophysics. Finally, we investigate the differences in the interpretation of the light curve properties with and without knowledge of the redshift. When using the SALT2 light curve fitter, we find a 21% increase in the number of fits that converge when using the spectroscopic redshift. Without host galaxy redshifts, we find that SALT2 light curve fits are systematically biased towards lower photometric redshift estimates and redder colors in the limit of low signal-to-noise data. The general improvements in performance of the light curve fitter and the increased diversity of the host galaxy sample highlights the importance of host galaxy spectroscopy for current photometric SN surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey and future surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope., Comment: 27 pages, 22 figures, 10 tables
Published: 2013
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4. The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Author: Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anders, Friedrich, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Bastien, Fabienne A., Bautista, Julian E., Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Bender, Chad F., Berlind, Andreas A., Beutler, Florian, Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bird, Jonathan C., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Bradley, Alaina Shelden, Brandt, W. N., Brauer, Dorothée, Brinkmann, J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolás G., Carithers, William, Carlberg, Joleen K., Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Chiappini, Cristina, Chojnowski, S. Drew, Chuang, Chia-Hsun, Comparat, Johan, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Dawson, Kyle S., De Lee, Nathan, Dean, Janice D. R., Delubac, Timothée, Deshpande, Rohit, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Epstein, Courtney R., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fabbian, D., Fan, Xiaohui, Favole, Ginevra, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Feuillet, Diane, Ak, Nurten Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Galbraith-Frew, J. G., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, Ana E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott III, J. Richard, Gunn, James E., Guo, Hong, Halverson, Samuel, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hasselquist, Sten, Hawley, Suzanne L., Hayden, Michael, Hearty, Frederick R., Davó, Artemio Herrero, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, Joseph, Ivans, Inese I., Jackson, Kelly M., Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kirkby, David, Kinemuchi, K., Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Koesterke, Lars, Lan, Ting-Wen, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Mack III, Claude E., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Mészáros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Miyatake, Hironao, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, More, Surhud, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Myers, Adam D., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Nuza, Sebastián E., O'Connell, Julia E., O'Connell, Robert W., O'Connell, Ross, Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Ràfols, Ignasi, Perottoni, Hélio Dotto, Petitjean, Patrick, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, M. H., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rahman, Mubdi, Rebolo, Rafael, Reid, Beth A., Richards, Jonathan C., Riffel, Rogério, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, H. J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossi, Graziano, Roy, Arpita, Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Sabiu, Cristiano G., Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo P., Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schultheis, Mathias, Sellgren, Kris, Seo, Hee-Jong, Shen, Yue, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Simmons, Audrey E., Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Sobreira, Flavia, Stassun, Keivan G., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Streblyanska, Alina, Suzuki, Nao, Swanson, Molly E. C., Terrien, Ryan C., Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Troup, Nicholas W., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, Mariana Vargas, Viel, Matteo, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, and Zhu, Guangtun
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has been in operation since 2000 April. This paper presents the tenth public data release (DR10) from its current incarnation, SDSS-III. This data release includes the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July. The APOGEE instrument is a near-infrared R~22,500 300-fiber spectrograph covering 1.514--1.696 microns. The APOGEE survey is studying the chemical abundances and radial velocities of roughly 100,000 red giant star candidates in the bulge, bar, disk, and halo of the Milky Way. DR10 includes 178,397 spectra of 57,454 stars, each typically observed three or more times, from APOGEE. Derived quantities from these spectra (radial velocities, effective temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities) are also included.DR10 also roughly doubles the number of BOSS spectra over those included in the ninth data release. DR10 includes a total of 1,507,954 BOSS spectra, comprising 927,844 galaxy spectra; 182,009 quasar spectra; and 159,327 stellar spectra, selected over 6373.2 square degrees., Comment: 15 figures; 1 table. Accepted to ApJS. DR10 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr10 v3 fixed 3 diacritic markings in the arXiv HTML listing of the author names
Published: 2013
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5. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low redshift sample

Author: Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Bosch, Frank van den, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Bosch, Frank van den, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, and Zheng, Zheng
Abstract: We report on the small scale (0.5
Published: 2012
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6. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Author: Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, and Zinn, Joel C.
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z=0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z=2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T_eff<5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H]>-0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SDSS-III Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration-2 (SEGUE-2). The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in December 2014., Comment: 9 figures; 2 tables. Submitted to ApJS. DR9 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9
Published: 2012
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7. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low redshift sample

Author: Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Bosch, Frank van den, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., Bosch, Frank van den, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, and Zheng, Zheng
Abstract: We report on the small scale (0.5
Published: 2012
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8. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

Author: Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, Zinn, Joel C., Collaboration, SDSS-III, Ahn, Christopher P., Alexandroff, Rachael, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Anderton, Timothy, Andrews, Brett H., Bailey, Éric Aubourg Stephen, Barnes, Rory, Bautista, Julian, Beers, Timothy C., Beifiori, Alessandra, Berlind, Andreas A., Bhardwaj, Vaishali, Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blake, Cullen H., Blanton, Michael R., Blomqvist, Michael, Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Borde, Arnaud, Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Bundy, Kevin, Busca, N. G., Carithers, William, Carnero, Aurelio R., Carr, Michael A., Casetti-Dinescu, Dana I., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Crepp, Justin R., Cristiani, Stefano, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle S., de Putter, Roland, De Lee, Nathan, Delubac, Timothée, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, S., Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Alvar, Emma Fernández, Ferreira, Leticia D., Ak, N. Filiz, Finley, Hayley, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., García-Hernández, D. A., Pérez, A. E. García, Ge, Jian, Génova-Santos, R., Gillespie, Bruce A., Girardi, Léo, Hernández, Jonay I. González, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Haggard, Daryl, Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Huehnerhoff, J., Ivans, Inese I., Ivezić, Zeljko, Jacobson, Heather R., Jiang, Linhua, Johansson, Jonas, Johnson, Jennifer A., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kirkby, David, Kirkpatrick, Jessica A., Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, Gillian R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Leauthaud, Alexie, Lee, Khee-Gan, Lee, Young Sun, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Manchado, A., Mandelbaum, Rachel, Manera, Marc, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Martell, Sarah L., McBride, Cameron K., McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Ménard, Brice, Meszaros, Sz., Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Montero-Dorta, Antonio D., Montesano, Francesco, Morrison, Heather L., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Neto, A. F., Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., Noterdaeme, Pasquier, Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Owen, Russell, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Parejko, John K., Parihar, Prachi, Pâris, Isabelle, Pattarakijwanich, Petchara, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Pérez-Fournon, Ismael, Pérez-Ráfols, Ignasi, Petitjean, Patrick, Pforr, Janine, Pieri, Matthew M., Pinsonneault, Marc H., de Mello, G. F. Porto, Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Rebolo, Rafael, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rubiño-Martin, J. A., Samushia, Lado, Almeida, J. Sanchez, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basílio, Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Schwope, Axel D., Scóccola, C. G., Seljak, Uros, Sheldon, Erin, Shen, Yue, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin A., Slosar, A., Sobreira, Flavia, Sobeck, Jennifer S., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Swanson, Molly E. C., Tal, Tomer, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Thompson, Benjamin A., Tinker, Jeremy L., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Viel, Matteo, Vikas, Shailendra K., Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., Weiner, Benjamin J., West, Andrew A., White, Martin, Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Yanny, Brian, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Zamora, O., Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Gong-Bo, Zheng, Zheng, Zhu, Guangtun, and Zinn, Joel C.
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presents the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS). This ninth data release (DR9) of the SDSS project includes 535,995 new galaxy spectra (median z=0.52), 102,100 new quasar spectra (median z=2.32), and 90,897 new stellar spectra, along with the data presented in previous data releases. These spectra were obtained with the new BOSS spectrograph and were taken between 2009 December and 2011 July. In addition, the stellar parameters pipeline, which determines radial velocities, surface temperatures, surface gravities, and metallicities of stars, has been updated and refined with improvements in temperature estimates for stars with T_eff<5000 K and in metallicity estimates for stars with [Fe/H]>-0.5. DR9 includes new stellar parameters for all stars presented in DR8, including stars from SDSS-I and II, as well as those observed as part of the SDSS-III Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration-2 (SEGUE-2). The astrometry error introduced in the DR8 imaging catalogs has been corrected in the DR9 data products. The next data release for SDSS-III will be in Summer 2013, which will present the first data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) along with another year of data from BOSS, followed by the final SDSS-III data release in December 2014., Comment: 9 figures; 2 tables. Submitted to ApJS. DR9 is available at http://www.sdss3.org/dr9
Published: 2012
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9. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

Author: collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Ly alpha forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg^2 in the Southern Galactic Cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg^2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Evolution (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameters pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high metallicity stars., Comment: Astrophysical Journal Supplements, in press (minor updates from submitted version)
Published: 2011
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10. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Author: Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Bo, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, and Zhao, Bo
Abstract: Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS DR8 (which occurred in Jan 2011). This paper presents an overview of the four SDSS-III surveys. BOSS will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lya forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the BAO feature of large scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z<0.7 and at z~2.5. SEGUE-2, which is now completed, measured medium-resolution (R=1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE will obtain high-resolution (R~30,000), high signal-to-noise (S/N>100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51-1.70 micron) spectra of 10^5 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for ~15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. MARVELS will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m/s, ~24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. (Abridged), Comment: Revised to version published in The Astronomical Journal
Published: 2011
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11. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

Author: collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, collaboration, SDSS-III, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femení a, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in August 2008, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Ly alpha forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg^2 in the Southern Galactic Cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg^2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Evolution (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameters pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high metallicity stars., Comment: Astrophysical Journal Supplements, in press (minor updates from submitted version)
Published: 2011
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12. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

Author: Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Bo, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Eric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brewington, Howard J., Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., da Costa, Luiz N., Cunha, Katia, Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, de Mello, Gustavo F. Porto, de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castella, Bruno Femenia, Ferreira, Leticia Dutra, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., Perez, Ana Elia Garcia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Leo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hernandez, Jonay I. Gonzalez, Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Knapp, G. R., Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Goff, Jean-Marc Le, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Requejo, Olga Mena, Menard, Brice, Miralda-Escude, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Paris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Ryle, Celine, Reid, I. Neill, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sanchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anze, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Magana, Mariana Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, and Zhao, Bo
Abstract: Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS DR8 (which occurred in Jan 2011). This paper presents an overview of the four SDSS-III surveys. BOSS will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lya forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the BAO feature of large scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z<0.7 and at z~2.5. SEGUE-2, which is now completed, measured medium-resolution (R=1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE will obtain high-resolution (R~30,000), high signal-to-noise (S/N>100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51-1.70 micron) spectra of 10^5 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for ~15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. MARVELS will monitor radial velocities of more than 8000 FGK stars with the sensitivity and cadence (10-40 m/s, ~24 visits per star) needed to detect giant planets with periods up to two years, providing an unprecedented data set for understanding the formation and dynamical evolution of giant planet systems. (Abridged), Comment: Revised to version published in The Astronomical Journal
Published: 2011
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13. Hard X-rays and Fluorescent Iron Emission from the Embedded Infrared Cluster in NGC 2071

Author: Skinner, Stephen L., Simmons, Audrey E., Audard, Marc, Guedel, Manuel, Skinner, Stephen L., Simmons, Audrey E., Audard, Marc, and Guedel, Manuel
Abstract: We present first results of XMM-Newton X-ray observations of the infrared cluster lying near the NGC 2071 reflection nebula in the Orion B region. This cluster is of interest because it is one of the closest regions known to harbor embedded high-mass stars. We report the discovery of hard X-ray emission from the dense central NGC 2071-IR subgroup which contains at least three high-mass young stellar objects (NGC 2071 IRS-1, IRS-2, and IRS-3). A prominent X-ray source is detected within 1 arcsecond of the infrared source IRS-1, which is thought to drive a powerful bipolar molecular outflow. The X-ray spectrum of this source is quite unusual compared to the optically thin plasma spectra normally observed in young stellar objects (YSOs). The spectrum is characterized by a hard broad-band continuum plus an exceptionally broad emission line at approximately 6.4 keV from neutral or near-neutral iron. The fluorescent Fe line likely originates in cold material near the embedded star (i.e. a disk or envelope) that is irradiated by the hard heavily-absorbed X-ray source., Comment: To appear in ApJ (8 pages, 7 figures)
Published: 2006
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14. Hard X-rays and Fluorescent Iron Emission from the Embedded Infrared Cluster in NGC 2071

Author: Skinner, Stephen L., Simmons, Audrey E., Audard, Marc, Guedel, Manuel, Skinner, Stephen L., Simmons, Audrey E., Audard, Marc, and Guedel, Manuel
Abstract: We present first results of XMM-Newton X-ray observations of the infrared cluster lying near the NGC 2071 reflection nebula in the Orion B region. This cluster is of interest because it is one of the closest regions known to harbor embedded high-mass stars. We report the discovery of hard X-ray emission from the dense central NGC 2071-IR subgroup which contains at least three high-mass young stellar objects (NGC 2071 IRS-1, IRS-2, and IRS-3). A prominent X-ray source is detected within 1 arcsecond of the infrared source IRS-1, which is thought to drive a powerful bipolar molecular outflow. The X-ray spectrum of this source is quite unusual compared to the optically thin plasma spectra normally observed in young stellar objects (YSOs). The spectrum is characterized by a hard broad-band continuum plus an exceptionally broad emission line at approximately 6.4 keV from neutral or near-neutral iron. The fluorescent Fe line likely originates in cold material near the embedded star (i.e. a disk or envelope) that is irradiated by the hard heavily-absorbed X-ray source., Comment: To appear in ApJ (8 pages, 7 figures)
Published: 2006
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15. The eighth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first data from SDSS-III

Author: Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., González Hernández, Jonay I., Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Fausti Neto, Angelo, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Vargas Magaña, M., Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., González Hernández, Jonay I., Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Fausti Neto, Angelo, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O'Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Vargas Magaña, M., Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Lyα forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg2 in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameter pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high-metallicity stars.

16. SDSS-III: massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the Milky Way, and extra-solar planetary systems

Author: Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brewington, Howard J., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chang, Liang, Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, Porto de Mello, Gustavo F., de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Dutra Ferreira, Leticia, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., García Pérez, Ana Elia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Léo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hennawi, Joseph F., González Hernández, Jonay I., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Mena Requejo, Olga, Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reid, I. Neill, Reyle, Celine, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vargas Magaña, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, Zhao, Bo, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Agol, Eric, Aihara, Hiroaki, Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Scott F., Arns, James A., Aubourg, Éric, Bailey, Stephen, Balbinot, Eduardo, Barkhouser, Robert, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bosman, Casey T., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Breslauer, Ben, Brewington, Howard J., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Burger, Dan, Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Cargile, Phillip A., Carithers, William C., Carlberg, Joleen K., Carr, Michael A., Chang, Liang, Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cunha, Katia, da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, De Lee, Nathan, Porto de Mello, Gustavo F., de Simoni, Fernando, Dean, Janice, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eiting, Jacob M., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Femenía Castellá, Bruno, Dutra Ferreira, Leticia, Fitzgerald, Greg, Fleming, Scott W., Font-Ribera, Andreu, Ford, Eric B., Frinchaboy, Peter M., García Pérez, Ana Elia, Gaudi, B. Scott, Ge, Jian, Ghezzi, Luan, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Girardi, Léo, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Hennawi, Joseph F., González Hernández, Jonay I., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Jiang, Peng, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kauffmann, Guinevere, Kazin, Eyal, Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Lawler, James E., Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Brian L., Lee, Young Sun, Leisenring, Jarron M., Lin, Yen-Ting, Liu, Jian, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Bo, Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mack, Claude, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Majewski, Steven R., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Maseman, Paul, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McDonald, Patrick, McGreer, Ian D., McMahon, Richard G., Mena Requejo, Olga, Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, Fergal, Muna, Demitri, Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., Nidever, David L., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Paegert, Martin, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Parejko, John K., Pâris, Isabelle, Pellegrini, Paulo, Pepper, Joshua, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Raddick, M. Jordan, Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reid, I. Neill, Reyle, Celine, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rieke, George H., Rieke, Marcia J., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno, Sánchez, Ariel G., Santiago, Basilio, Sayres, Conor, Schiavon, Ricardo, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sellgren, Kris, Shelden, Alaina, Sheldon, Erin, Shetrone, Matthew, Shu, Yiping, Silverman, John D., Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Skrutskie, M. F., Slosar, Anže, Smee, Stephen, Smith, Verne V., Snedden, Stephanie A., Stassun, Keivan G., Steele, Oliver, Steinmetz, Matthias, Stockett, Mark H., Stollberg, Todd, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vargas Magaña, Mariana, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David A., Wan, Xiaoke, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Wilson, John C., Wisniewski, John P., Wood-Vasey, W. Michael, Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yèche, Christophe, York, Donald G., Young, Erick, Zasowski, Gail, Zehavi, Idit, and Zhao, Bo
Abstract: Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars. In keeping with SDSS tradition, SDSS-III will provide regular public releases of all its data, beginning with SDSS Data Release 8 (DR8), which was made public in 2011 January and includes SDSS-I and SDSS-II images and spectra reprocessed with the latest pipelines and calibrations produced for the SDSS-III investigations. This paper presents an overview of the four surveys that comprise SDSS-III. The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey will measure redshifts of 1.5 million massive galaxies and Lyα forest spectra of 150,000 quasars, using the baryon acoustic oscillation feature of large-scale structure to obtain percent-level determinations of the distance scale and Hubble expansion rate at z < 0.7 and at z ≈ 2.5. SEGUE-2, an already completed SDSS-III survey that is the continuation of the SDSS-II Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE), measured medium-resolution (R = λ/Δλ ≈ 1800) optical spectra of 118,000 stars in a variety of target categories, probing chemical evolution, stellar kinematics and substructure, and the mass profile of the dark matter halo from the solar neighborhood to distances of 100 kpc. APOGEE, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, will obtain high-resolution (R ≈ 30,000), high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ≥ 100 per resolution element), H-band (1.51μm < λ < 1.70μm) spectra of 105 evolved, late-type stars, measuring separate abundances for ~15 elements per star and creating the first high-precision spectroscopic survey of all Galactic stellar populations (bulge, bar, disks, halo) with a uniform set of stellar tracers and spectral diagnostics. The Multi-object APO Radial Velocity Exoplanet La

17. Erratum: “The eighth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first data from SDSS-III” (2011, ApJS, 193, 29)

Author: Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Jordan Raddick, M., Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, Zehavi, Idit, Aihara, Hiroaki, Prieto, Carlos Allende, An, Deokkeun, Anderson, Scott F., Aubourg, Éric, Balbinot, Eduardo, Beers, Timothy C., Berlind, Andreas A., Bickerton, Steven J., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael R., Bochanski, John J., Bolton, Adam S., Bovy, Jo, Brandt, W. N., Brinkmann, J., Brown, Peter J., Brownstein, Joel R., Busca, Nicolas G., Campbell, Heather, Carr, Michael A., Chen, Yanmei, Chiappini, Cristina, Comparat, Johan, Connolly, Natalia, Cortes, Marina, Croft, Rupert A. C., Cuesta, Antonio J., da Costa, Luiz N., Davenport, James R. A., Dawson, Kyle, Dhital, Saurav, Ealet, Anne, Ebelke, Garrett L., Edmondson, Edward M., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Escoffier, Stephanie, Esposito, Massimiliano, Evans, Michael L., Fan, Xiaohui, Castellá, Bruno Femenía, Font-Ribera, Andreu, Frinchaboy, Peter M., Ge, Jian, Gillespie, Bruce A., Gilmore, G., Hernández, Jonay I. González, Gott, J. Richard, Gould, Andrew, Grebel, Eva K., Gunn, James E., Hamilton, Jean-Christophe, Harding, Paul, Harris, David W., Hawley, Suzanne L., Hearty, Frederick R., Ho, Shirley, Hogg, David W., Holtzman, Jon A., Honscheid, Klaus, Inada, Naohisa, Ivans, Inese I., Jiang, Linhua, Johnson, Jennifer A., Jordan, Cathy, Jordan, Wendell P., Kazin, Eyal A., Kirkby, David, Klaene, Mark A., Knapp, G. R., Kneib, Jean-Paul, Kochanek, C. S., Koesterke, Lars, Kollmeier, Juna A., Kron, Richard G., Lampeitl, Hubert, Lang, Dustin, Le Goff, Jean-Marc, Lee, Young Sun, Lin, Yen-Ting, Long, Daniel C., Loomis, Craig P., Lucatello, Sara, Lundgren, Britt, Lupton, Robert H., Ma, Zhibo, MacDonald, Nicholas, Mahadevan, Suvrath, Maia, Marcio A. G., Makler, Martin, Malanushenko, Elena, Malanushenko, Viktor, Mandelbaum, Rachel, Maraston, Claudia, Margala, Daniel, Masters, Karen L., McBride, Cameron K., McGehee, Peregrine M., McGreer, Ian D., Ménard, Brice, Miralda-Escudé, Jordi, Morrison, Heather L., Mullally, F., Muna, Demitri, Munn, Jeffrey A., Murayama, Hitoshi, Myers, Adam D., Naugle, Tracy, Neto, Angelo Fausti, Nguyen, Duy Cuong, Nichol, Robert C., O’Connell, Robert W., Ogando, Ricardo L. C., Olmstead, Matthew D., Oravetz, Daniel J., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie, Pan, Kaike, Pandey, Parul, Pâris, Isabelle, Percival, Will J., Petitjean, Patrick, Pfaffenberger, Robert, Pforr, Janine, Phleps, Stefanie, Pichon, Christophe, Pieri, Matthew M., Prada, Francisco, Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Jordan Raddick, M., Ramos, Beatriz H. F., Reylé, Céline, Rich, James, Richards, Gordon T., Rix, Hans-Walter, Robin, Annie C., Rocha-Pinto, Helio J., Rockosi, Constance M., Roe, Natalie A., Rollinde, Emmanuel, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Rossetto, Bruno M., Sánchez, Ariel G., Sayres, Conor, Schlegel, David J., Schlesinger, Katharine J., Schmidt, Sarah J., Schneider, Donald P., Sheldon, Erin, Shu, Yiping, Simmerer, Jennifer, Simmons, Audrey E., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Snedden, Stephanie A., Sobeck, Jennifer S., Steinmetz, Matthias, Strauss, Michael A., Szalay, Alexander S., Tanaka, Masayuki, Thakar, Aniruddha R., Thomas, Daniel, Tinker, Jeremy L., Tofflemire, Benjamin M., Tojeiro, Rita, Tremonti, Christy A., Vandenberg, Jan, Magaña, M. Vargas, Verde, Licia, Vogt, Nicole P., Wake, David, Wang, Ji, Weaver, Benjamin A., Weinberg, David H., White, Martin, White, Simon D. M., Yanny, Brian, Yasuda, Naoki, Yeche, Christophe, and Zehavi, Idit
Abstract: Section 3.5 of Aihara et al. (2011) described various sources of systematic error in the astrometry of the imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In addition to these sources of error, there is an additional and more serious error, which introduces a large systematic shift in the astrometry over a large area around the north celestial pole. The region has irregular boundaries but in places extends as far south as declination δ ≈ 41◦. The sense of the shift is that the positions of all sources in the affected area are offset by roughly 250 mas in a northwest direction. We have updated the SDSS online documentation to reflect these errors, and to provide detailed quality information for each SDSS field.

18. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low-redshift sample

Author: Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., van den Bosch, Frank, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., van den Bosch, Frank, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, and Zheng, Zheng
Abstract: We report on the small-scale (0.5 < r < 40 h−1 Mpc) clustering of 78 895 massive (M* ~ 1011.3 M⊙) galaxies at 0.2 < z < 0.4 from the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), to be released as part of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 9 (DR9). We describe the sample selection, basic properties of the galaxies and caveats for working with the data. We calculate the real- and redshift-space two-point correlation functions of these galaxies, fit these measurements using halo occupation distribution (HOD) modelling within dark matter cosmological simulations, and estimate the errors using mock catalogues. These galaxies lie in massive haloes, with a mean halo mass of 5.2 × 1013 h−1 M⊙, a large-scale bias of ~2.0 and a satellite fraction of 12 ± 2 per cent. Thus, these galaxies occupy haloes with average masses in between those of the higher redshift BOSS CMASS sample and the original SDSS I/II luminous red galaxy sample.

19. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low-redshift sample

Author: Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., van den Bosch, Frank, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, Zheng, Zheng, Parejko, John K., Sunayama, Tomomi, Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Wake, David A., Berlind, Andreas A., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Blanton, Michael, Bolton, Adam S., van den Bosch, Frank, Brinkmann, Jon, Brownstein, Joel R., da Costa, Luiz Alberto Nicolaci, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Guo, Hong, Kazin, Eyal, Maia, Marcio, Malanushenko, Elena, Maraston, Claudia, McBride, Cameron K., Nichol, Robert C., Oravetz, Daniel J., Pan, Kaike, Percival, Will J., Prada, Francisco, Ross, Ashley J., Ross, Nicholas P., Schlegel, David J., Schneider, Don, Simmons, Audrey E., Skibba, Ramin, Tinker, Jeremy, Tojeiro, Rita, Weaver, Benjamin A., Wetzel, Andrew, White, Martin, Weinberg, David H., Thomas, Daniel, Zehavi, Idit, and Zheng, Zheng
Abstract: We report on the small-scale (0.5 < r < 40 h−1 Mpc) clustering of 78 895 massive (M* ~ 1011.3 M⊙) galaxies at 0.2 < z < 0.4 from the first two years of data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), to be released as part of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 9 (DR9). We describe the sample selection, basic properties of the galaxies and caveats for working with the data. We calculate the real- and redshift-space two-point correlation functions of these galaxies, fit these measurements using halo occupation distribution (HOD) modelling within dark matter cosmological simulations, and estimate the errors using mock catalogues. These galaxies lie in massive haloes, with a mean halo mass of 5.2 × 1013 h−1 M⊙, a large-scale bias of ~2.0 and a satellite fraction of 12 ± 2 per cent. Thus, these galaxies occupy haloes with average masses in between those of the higher redshift BOSS CMASS sample and the original SDSS I/II luminous red galaxy sample.
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1. Host Galaxy Spectra and Consequences for SN Typing From The SDSS SN Survey

2. The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

3. Host Galaxy Spectra and Consequences for SN Typing From The SDSS SN Survey

4. The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

5. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low redshift sample

6. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

7. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low redshift sample

8. The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

9. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

10. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

11. The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

12. SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

13. Hard X-rays and Fluorescent Iron Emission from the Embedded Infrared Cluster in NGC 2071

14. Hard X-rays and Fluorescent Iron Emission from the Embedded Infrared Cluster in NGC 2071

15. The eighth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first data from SDSS-III

16. SDSS-III: massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the Milky Way, and extra-solar planetary systems

17. Erratum: “The eighth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: first data from SDSS-III” (2011, ApJS, 193, 29)

18. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low-redshift sample

19. The clustering of galaxies in the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: the low-redshift sample

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