Type II-P Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey and the Standardized Candle Method (2009)
D'Andrea, Chris B., Sako, Masao, Dilday, Benjamin, Frieman, Joshua A., Holtzman, Jon, Kessler, Richard, ...
We apply the Standardized Candle Method (SCM) for Type II Plateau supernovae (SNe II-P), which relates the velocity of the ejecta of a SN to its luminosity during the plateau, to 15 SNe II-P...
Syphers, David, Anderson, Scott F., Zheng, Wei, Haggard, Daryl, Meiksin, Avery, Schneider, Donald P., ...
Absorption along quasar sightlines remains among the most sensitive direct measures of HeII reionization in much of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Until recently, fewer than a half-dozen unobscured...
Kessler, Richard, Becker, Andrew, Cinabro, David, Vanderplas, Jake, Frieman, Joshua A., Marriner, John, ...
We present measurements of the Hubble diagram for 103 Type Ia supernovae (SNe) with redshifts 0.04 < z < 0.42, discovered during the first season (Fall 2005) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II: Photometry and Supernova Ia Light Curves from the 2005 data (2009)
Holtzman, Jon A., Marriner, John, Kessler, Richard, Sako, Masao, Dilday, Ben, Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We present ugriz light curves for 146 spectroscopically confirmed or spectroscopically probable Type Ia supernovae from the 2005 season of the SDSS-II Supernova survey. The light curves have been...
Binary Quasars at High Redshift I: 24 New Quasar Pairs at z ~ 3-4 (2009)
Hennawi, Joseph F., Myers, Adam D., Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Djorgovski, S. G., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
The clustering of quasars on small scales yields fundamental constraints on models of quasar evolution and the buildup of supermassive black holes. This paper describes the first systematic survey to...
Binary Quasars at High Redshift II: Sub-Mpc Clustering at z ~ 3-4 (2009)
Shen, Yue, Hennawi, Joseph F., Shankar, Francesco, Myers, Adam D., Strauss, Michael A., Djorgovski, S. G., ...
We present measurements of the small-scale (0.1
The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Large-Scale Clustering in the SDSS LRG Sample (2009)
Kazin, Eyal A., Blanton, Michael R., Scoccimarro, Roman, McBride, Cameron K., Berlind, Andreas A., Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We examine the correlation function \xi of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Luminous Red Galaxy sample (LRG) at large scales (60
The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7 (2009)
Freedman, Wendy L., Burns, Christopher R., Phillips, M. M., Wyatt, Pamela, Persson, S. E., Madore, Barry F., ...
The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is designed to measure the luminosity distance for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift, and to set observational constraints on the dark energy...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the QSO luminosity function at 0.4 (2009)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Strauss, Michael A., Myers, Adam D., ...
We present the QSO luminosity function of the completed 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey, based on QSOs photometrically selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging data and then observed...
Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample (2009)
Percival, Will J., Reid, Beth A., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Bahcall, Neta A., Budavari, Tamas, Frieman, Joshua A., ...
The spectroscopic Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 7 (DR7) galaxy sample represents the final set of galaxies observed using the original SDSS target selection criteria. We analyse the...
Reid, Beth A., Percival, Will J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Verde, Licia, Spergel, David N., Skibba, Ramin A., ...
We present the power spectrum of the reconstructed halo density field derived from a sample of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Seventh Data Release (DR7). The halo...
Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Bian, Fuyan, Annis, James, Chiu, Kuenley, Jester, Sebastian, ...
We present the discovery of six new quasars at z ~ 6 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along the...
The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes...
A Survey of z~6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe. II. Discovery of Six Quasars at z_{AB}>21 (2009)
Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Bian, Fuyan, Annis, James, Chiu, Kuenley, Jester, Sebastian, ...
We present the discovery of six new quasars at z~6 selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along the...
High-Redshift SDSS Quasars with Weak Emission Lines (2009)
Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Fan, Xiaohui, Brandt, W. N., Shemmer, Ohad, Strauss, Michael A., Anderson, Scott F., ...
We identify a sample of 74 high-redshift quasars (z>3) with weak emission lines from the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and present infrared, optical, and radio observations of a...
Eight-dimensional mid-infrared/optical Bayesian quasar selection (2009)
Richards, Gordon T., Deo, Rajesh P., Lacy, Mark, Myers, Adam D., Nichol, Robert C., Zakamska, Nadia L., ...
We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-infrared (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Sloan Digital Sky...
Clustering of Low-Redshift (z (2009)
Ross, Nicholas P., Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Connolly, Andrew J., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We present measurements of the quasar two-point correlation function, \xi_{Q}, over the redshift range z=0.3-2.2 based upon data from the SDSS. Using a homogeneous sample of 30,239 quasars with...
Lundgren, Britt F., Brunner, Robert J., York, Donald G., Ross, Ashley J., Quashnock, Jean M., Myers, Adam D., ...
We analyze the cross-correlation of 2,705 unambiguously intervening Mg II (2796,2803A) quasar absorption line systems with 1,495,604 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Fifth Data Release of the...
X-ray Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at High Redshift (2009)
Shemmer, Ohad, Brandt, W. N., Anderson, Scott F., Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...
We present Chandra observations of nine high-redshift quasars (z=2.7-5.9) discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with weak or undetectable high-ionization emission lines in their UV spectra...
X-Ray Insights Into the Physics of Mini-BAL Quasar Outflows (2009)
Gibson, Robert R., Brandt, W. N., Gallagher, S. C., Schneider, Donald P.
We examine the UV and X-ray properties of 256 radio-quiet SDSS quasars (QSOs) observed in X-rays with Chandra and/or XMM-Newton in order to study the relationship between QSOs with broad CIV...
Cataclysmic Variables from SDSS VII. The Seventh Year (2006) (2009)
Szkody, Paula, Anderson, Scott F., Hayden, Michael, Kronberg, Martin, McGurk, Rosalie, Riecken, Thomas, ...
Coordinates, magnitudes and spectra are presented for 39 cataclysmic variables found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra that were primarily obtained in 2006. Of these, 12 were CVs identified prior...
2006 SQ372: A Likely Long-Period Comet from the Inner Oort Cloud (2009)
Kaib, Nathan A., Becker, Andrew C., Jones, R. Lynne, Puckett, Andrew W., Bizyaev, Dmitry, Dilday, Benjamin, ...
We report the discovery of a minor planet (2006 SQ372) on an orbit with a perihelion of 24 AU and a semimajor axis of 796 AU. Dynamical simulations show that this is a transient orbit and is unstable...
The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2009)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, An, Deokkeun, ...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2009)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at probing in...
CCD observations of clusters of galaxies (2008)
A sample of 84 Abell clusters has been investigated to determine photometric and metric properties of brightest cluster galaxies as a function of cluster richness. The clusters are distributed fairly...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. This is a deep, 18
Quasar Clustering from SDSS DR5: Dependences on Physical Properties (2008)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Ross, Nicholas P., Hall, Patrick B., Lin, Yen-Ting, Richards, Gordon T., ...
Using a homogenous sample of 38,208 quasars with a sky coverage of $4000 {\rm deg^2}$ drawn from the SDSS Data Release Five quasar catalog, we study the dependence of quasar clustering on luminosity,...
Eight-Dimensional Mid-Infrared/Optical Bayesian Quasar Selection (2008)
Richards, Gordon T., Deo, Rajesh P., Lacy, Mark, Myers, Adam D., Nichol, Robert C., Zakamska, Nadia L., ...
We explore the multidimensional, multiwavelength selection of quasars from mid-IR (MIR) plus optical data, specifically from Spitzer-IRAC and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We apply modern...
A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5 (2008)
Gibson, Robert R., Jiang, Linhua, Brandt, W. N., Hall, Patrick B., Shen, Yue, Wu, Jianfeng, ...
We present a catalog of 5039 broad absorption line (BAL) quasars (QSOs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) QSO catalog that have absorption troughs covering a continuous...
Richards, Gordon T., Myers, Adam D., Gray, Alexander G., Riegel, Ryan N., Nichol, Robert C., Brunner, Robert J., ...
We present a catalog of 1,172,157 quasar candidates selected from the photometric imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The objects are all point sources to a limiting magnitude of...
Syphers, David, Anderson, Scott F., Zheng, Wei, Haggard, Daryl, Meiksin, Avery, Chiu, Kuenley, ...
Investigations of He II Ly-alpha (304 A rest) absorption toward a half-dozen quasars at z~3-4 have demonstrated the great potential of helium studies of the IGM, but the current critically small...
Five New High-Redshift Quasar Lenses from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Shin, Min-Su, Kayo, Issha, Strauss, Michael A., Morokuma, Tomoki, ...
We report the discovery of five gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). All five systems are selected as two-image lensed quasar candidates from a sample of...
Mass models and environment of the new quadruply lensed quasar SDSS J1330+1810 (2008)
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Blackburne, Jeffrey A., Shin, Min-Su, Kayo, Issha, Strauss, Michael A., ...
We present the discovery of a new quadruply lensed quasar. The lens system, SDSS J1330+1810 at z_s=1.393, was identified as a lens candidate from the spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky...
Gibson, Robert R., Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P.
We analyze archived Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observations of 536 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) quasars (QSOs) at 1.7
Luminosity Function Constraints on the Evolution of Massive Red Galaxies Since z~0.9 (2008)
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Fan, Xiaohui, Fukugita, Masataka, Jiang, Linhua, Maraston, Claudia, ...
We measure the evolution of the luminous red galaxy (LRG) luminosity function in the redshift range 0.1
The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity (2008)
Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...
Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F and G type main sequence stars (0.2
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Allende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
A Large Sample of BL Lacs from SDSS and FIRST (2008)
Plotkin, Richard M., Anderson, Scott F., Hall, Patrick B., Margon, Bruce, Voges, Wolfgang, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present a large sample of 501 radio-selected BL Lac candidates from the combination of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 optical spectroscopy and from the Faint Images of the...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton M., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Cannon, Russell, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) survey carefully...
Narrow associated QSO absorbers: clustering, outflows and the line-of-sight proximity effect (2008)
Wild, Vivienne, Kauffmann, Guinevere, White, Simon, York, Donald, Lehnert, Matthew, Heckman, Timothy, ...
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 3 (SDSS DR3) we investigate how narrow (
First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey (2008)
Zheng, Chen, Romani, Roger W., Sako, Masao, Marriner, John, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, ...
This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band light curves of...
HST Images of Twenty Nearby Luminous (2008)
John N. Bahcall, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider
Abstract. We present observations with the Hubble Space Telescope for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These observations show that...
A new survey for giant arcs (2008)
Hennawi, Joseph F., Gladders, Michael D., Oguri, Masamune, Dalal, Neal, Koester, Benjamin, Natarajan, Priyamvada, ...
We report on the first results of an imaging survey to detect strong gravitational lensing targeting the richest clusters selected from the photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary (2008)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, Choi, Changsu, Cinabro, David, DeJongh, Fritz, ...
First-year spectroscopy for the sloan digital sky survey - II. Supernova survey (2008)
Zheng, Chen, Romani, Roger W., Sako, Masao, Marriner, John, Bassett, Bruce, Becker, Andrew, ...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The sixth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Wild, Vivienne, Kauffmann, Guinevere, White, Simon, York, Donald, Lehnert, Matthew, Heckman, Timothy, ...
A large sample of BL Lac objects from the SDSS and FIRST (2008)
Plotkin, Richard M., Anderson, Scott F., Hall, Patrick B., Margon, Bruce, Voges, Wolfgang, Schneider, Donald P., ...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at...
Hill, Gary J., Gebhardt, Karl, Komatsu, Eiichiro, Drory, Niv, MacQueen, Phillip J., Adams, Josh, ...
Thermal emission from warm dust in the most distant quasars (2008)
Wang, Ran, Carilli, Chris L., Wagg, Jeff, Bertoldi, Frank, Walter, Fabian, Menten, Karl M., ...
We report new continuum observations of 14 z~6 quasars at 250 GHz and 14 quasars at 1.4 GHz. We summarize all recent millimeter and radio observations of the sample of the 33 quasars known with...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Annis, James, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Chiu, Kuenley, ...
We present the discovery of five quasars at z ~ 6 selected from 260 deg2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along...
The milky way tomography with SDSS. II. Stellar metallicity (2008)
Ivezic, Zeljko, Sesar, Branimir, Juric, Mario, Bond, Nicholas, Dalcanton, Julianne, Rockosi, Constance M., ...
Using effective temperature and metallicity derived from SDSS spectra for ~60,000 F- and G-type main-sequence stars (0.2
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo (2008)
Bell, Eric F., Zucker, Daniel B., Belokurov, Vasily, Sharma, Sanjib, Johnston, Kathryn V., Bullock, James S., ...
We have used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 to explore the overall structure and substructure of the stellar halo of the Milky Way using ~4 million color-selected...
The sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Prieto, Carlos Alende, Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO survey : QSO clustering and the L-z degeneracy (2008)
Da Angela, Jose A., Shanks, Tom, Croom, Scott M., Weilbacher, Peter M., Brunner, Robert J., Couch, Warrick J., ...
We combine the quasi-stellar object (QSO) samples from the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey (2QZ) and the 2dF-Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy (LRG) and QSO Survey (2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO, hereafter...
Wake, David A., Sheth, Ravi K., Nichol, Robert C., Baugh, Carlton, Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Colless, Matthew, ...
We present an analysis of the small-to-intermediate scale clustering of samples of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey (2SLAQ)...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the spectroscopic QSO catalogue (2008)
Croom, Scott M., Richards, Gordon T., Shanks, Tom, Boyle, Brian J., Sharp, Robert G., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, ...
We present the final spectroscopic QSO catalogue from the 2dF-SDSS LRG (luminous red galaxy) and QSO (2SLAQ) survey. This is a deep, 18 < g < 21.85 (extinction corrected), sample aimed at...
Do broad absorption line quasars live in different environments from ordinary quasars? (2007)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Schneider, Donald P., York, Donald G., Bahcall, Neta A.
We select a sample of $\sim 4200$ traditionally defined broad absorption line quasars (BALQs) from the Fifth Data Release quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. For a statistically...
Quasar Broad Absorption Line Variability on Multi-Year Time Scales (2007)
Gibson, Robert R., Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P., Gallagher, S. C.
We use quantitative metrics to characterize the variation of CIV 1549 A broad absorption lines (BALs) over 3--6 (rest-frame) years in a sample of 13 quasars at 1.7
Large-Scale Anisotropic Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2007)
Okumura, Teppei, Matsubara, Takahiko, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Kayo, Issha, Hikage, Chiaki, Szalay, Alexander S., ...
We study the large-scale anisotropic two-point correlation function using 46,760 luminous red galaxies at redshifts 0.16 -- 0.47 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We measure the correlation function...
Galaxy Clustering Around Nearby Luminous Quasars (2007)
Karl Fisher John, John N. Bahcall, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider, Hubble Space Telescope
We examine the clustering of galaxies around a sample of 20 luminous low redshift (z ! 0:30) quasars observed with the Wide Field Camera-2 on the Hubble Space Telescope. The HST resolution makes...
Hubble Space Telescope Images Of A Sample Of Twenty Nearby Luminous Quasars (2007)
John Bahcall Sofia, Sofia Kirhakos, David H. Saxe, Donald P. Schneider
Observations with the Wide-Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are presented for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These...
HST Images of Twenty Nearby Luminous Quasars (2007)
John Bahcall Sofia, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider
. We present observations with the Hubble Space Telescope for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These observations show that luminous...
The Apparently Normal Galaxy Hosts For Two Luminous Quasars (2007)
John Bahcall Sofia, Sofia Kirhakos, Donald P. Schneider
HST images (with WFPC2) of PHL 909 (z = 0:171) and PG 0052+251 (z = 0:155) show that these luminous radio-quiet quasars each occur in an apparently normal host galaxy. The host galaxy of PHL 909 is...
A Study of Quasar Clustering at (2007)
From The Palomar, Andrew W. Stephens, Donald P. Schneider, Maarten Schmidt, James E. Gunn, David H. Weinberg
The quest for structure indicators at earlier and earlier times in the evolution of the universe has led to the search for objects with ever higher redshifts. The Palomar Transit Grism Survey has...
Xiaohui Fan, Michael Strauss, Donald P. Schneider, James E. Gunn, Robert H. Lupton, Brian Yanny, ...
We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of 15 high-redshift quasars (z ? 3:6) discovered from ¸ 140 deg 2 of five-color (u 0 g 0 r 0 i 0 z 0 ) imaging data taken by the Sloan Digital...
Johnston, Helen M., Sadler, Elaine M., Cannon, Russell, Croom, Scott M., Ross, Nicholas P., Schneider, Donald P.
We present an analysis of the optical spectra of a volume-limited sample of 375 radio galaxies at redshift 0.4
A new quadruply lensed quasar: SDSS J125107.57+293540.5 (2007)
Kayo, Issha, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Hall, Patrick B., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We report the discovery of a quadruply imaged quasar, SDSS J125107.57+293540.5, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Follow-up imaging reveals that the system consists of four blue pointlike...
Quasar Clustering at $25\kpch$ from a Complete Sample of Binaries (2007)
Myers, Adam D., Richards, Gordon T., Brunner, Robert J., Schneider, Donald P., Strand, Natalie E., Hall, Patrick B., ...
We present spectroscopy of binary quasar candidates selected from Data Release 4 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR4) using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE). We present 27 new sets of...
Biases in Virial Black Hole Masses: An SDSS Perspective (2007)
Shen, Yue, Greene, Jenny E., Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P.
We compile black hole (BH) masses for $\sim 60,000$ quasars in the redshift range $0.1 \lesssim z \lesssim 4.5$ included in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using virial...
A Survey of z~6 Quasars in the SDSS Deep Stripe: I. a Flux-Limited Sample at z_{AB} (2007)
Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Annis, James, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Chiu, Kuenley, ...
We present the discovery of five quasars at z~6 selected from 260 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) southern survey, a deep imaging survey obtained by repeatedly scanning a stripe along...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Strauss, Michael A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present cosmological results from the statistics of lensed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Lens Search. By taking proper account of the selection function, we compute the...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., Shin, Min-Su, Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We report the first results of our systematic search for strongly lensed quasars using the spectroscopically confirmed quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Among 46,420 quasars from the...
Discovery of Four Gravitationally Lensed Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Clocchiatti, Alejandro, Kayo, Issha, Shin, Min-Su, Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We present the discovery of four gravitationally lensed quasars selected from the spectroscopic quasar catalog of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We describe imaging and spectroscopic follow-up...
Improved Photometric Calibrations for Red Stars Observed with the SDSS Photometric Telescope (2007)
Davenport, James R. A., Bochanski, John J., Covey, Kevin R., Hawley, Suzanne L., West, Andrew A., Schneider, Donald P.
We present a new set of photometric transformations for red stars observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 0.5-m Photometric Telescope (PT) and the SDSS 2.5-m telescope at the Apache Point...
Covey, Kevin R., Ivezic, Zeljko, Schlegel, David J., Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Lupton, Robert H., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) are rich resources for studying stellar astrophysics and the structure and formation history of the Galaxy. As new surveys...
Exploring the Local Milky Way: M Dwarfs as Tracers of Galactic Populations (2007)
Bochanski, John J., Munn, Jeffrey A., Hawley, Suzanne L., West, Andrew A., Covey, Kevin R., Schneider, Donald P.
We have assembled a spectroscopic sample of low-mass dwarfs observed as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey along one Galactic sightline, designed to investigate the observable properties of the...
A New Quadruply Lensed Quasar: SDSSJ125107.57+293540.5 (2007)
Kayo, Issha, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Hall, Patrick B., Kochanek, Christopher S., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We report the discovery of a quadruply imaged quasar, SDSSJ125107.57+293540.5, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Follow-up imaging reveals that the system consists of four blue point-like...
The Overdensity in Virgo, Sagittarius Debris, and the Asymmetric Spheroid (2007)
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Cole, Nate, Beers, Timothy C., Fiorentin, Paola Re, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We investigate the relationship between several previously identified Galactic halo stellar structures in the direction of Virgo using imaging and spectroscopic observations of F turnoff stars and...
Yasuda, Naoki, Fukugita, Masataka, Schneider, Donald P.
Galactic extinction is tested using galaxy number counts at low Galactic latitude obtained from five band photometry of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The spatial variation of galaxy number counts for...
The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo (2007)
Bell, Eric F., Zucker, Daniel B., Belokurov, Vasily, Sharma, Sanjib, Johnston, Kathryn V., Bullock, James S., ...
We have used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 to explore the overall structure and substructure of the stellar halo of the Milky Way using about 4 million color-selected...
Ten Year Review of Queue Scheduling of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (2007)
Shetrone, Matthew, Cornell, Mark E., Fowler, James R., Gaffney, Niall, Laws, Benjamin, Mader, Jeff, ...
This paper presents a summary of the first 10 years of operating the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) in queue mode. The scheduling can be quite complex but has worked effectively for obtaining the most...
Clustering of high-redshift (z >= 2.9) quasars from the sloan digital sky survey (2007)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Hennawi, Joseph F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...
We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4426 luminous optical quasars with redshift 2:9 z 5:4 selected over 4041 deg2 from the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan...
Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Okamura, Sadanori, Yasuda, Naoki, Barentine, John C., Brinkmann, Jon, ...
We present a catalogue of morphologically classified bright galaxies in the north equatorial stripe (230 deg$^2$) derived from the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)....
Silvestri, Nicole M., Lemagie, Mara P., Hawley, Suzanne L., West, Andrew A., Schmidt, Gary D., Liebert, James, ...
We present the latest catalog of more than 1200 spectroscopically-selected close binary systems observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey through Data Release Five. We use the catalog to search for...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Anderson, Scott F., ...
We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...
Exploring the Variable Sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...
We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS Stripe 82, and contains 58 million photometric...
Simulations for Multi-Object Spectrograph Planet Surveys (2007)
Kane, Stephen R., Schneider, Donald P., Ge, Jian
Radial velocity surveys for extra-solar planets generally require substantial amounts of large telescope time in order to monitor a sufficient number of stars. Two of the aspects which can limit such...
Clustering of High Redshift ($z\ge 2.9$) Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Shen, Yue, Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Hennawi, Joseph F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., ...
(Abridged) We study the two-point correlation function of a uniformly selected sample of 4,426 luminous optical quasars with redshift $2.9 \le z\le 5.4$ selected over 4041 deg$^2$ from the Fifth Data...
Morokuma, Tomoki, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi, Kawano, Yozo, Tokita, Kouichi, ...
We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J133222.62+034739.9 (SDSS J1332+ 0347) with an image separation of ¼1:1400. This system consists of a source quasar at zs...
Two new gravitationally lensed double quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Kayo, Issha, Kochanek, Christopher S., ...
We report the discoveries of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasars SDSS J074653.03+440351.3 and SDSS J140624.82+612640.9, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS J0746+4403,...
Anderson, Scott F., Margon, Bruce, Voges, Wolfgang, Plotkin, Richard M., Syphers, David, Haggard, Daryl, ...
The peculiar SN 2005hk: Do some type Ia supernovae explode as deflagrations? (2007)
Phillips, M. M., Li, Weidong, Frieman, Joshua A., Blinnikov, S. I., DePoy, Darren, Prieto, José L., ...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
The fifth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
Exploring the variable sky with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Sesar, Branimir, Ivezic, Zeljko, Lupton, Robert H., Juric, Mario, Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...
We quantify the variability of faint unresolved optical sources using a catalog based on multiple SDSS imaging observations. The catalog covers SDSS stripe 82, which lies along the celestial equator...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. IV. Fifth Data Release (2007)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., ...
We present the fourth edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog contains 77,429 objects; this is an increase of over 30,000 entries since the previous edition. The...
The overdensity in Virgo, Sagittarius Debris, and the asymmetric spheroid (2007)
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Cole, Nate, Beers, Timothy C., Re Fiorentin, Paola, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We investigate the relationship between several previously identified Galactic halo stellar structures in the direction of Virgo using imaging and spectroscopic observations of F turnoff stars and...
Ivezic, Zeljko, Allyn Smith, J., Miknaitis, Gajus, Lin, Huan, Tucker, Douglas, Lupton, Robert H., ...
We describe a standard star catalog constructed using multiple SDSS photometric observations (at least four per band, with a median of 10) in the ugriz system. The catalog includes 1.01 million...
MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
The peculiar SN 2005hk: Do some type ia supernovae explode as deflagrations? (2007)
Phillips, M. M., Li, Weidong, Frieman, Joshua A., Blinnikov, S. I., DePoy, Darren, Prietro, Jose L., ...
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The peculiar SN 2005hk: Do some type ia supernovae explode as deflagrations? (2007)
Phillips, M. M., Li, Weidong, Frieman, Joshua A., Blinnikov, S. I., DePoy, Darren, Prietro, Jose L., ...
Publicación ISI
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
MegaZ-LRG : a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian A., Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Christopher A., Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alistair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alastair C., ...
Abstract not available.
MegaZ-LRG: a photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS luminous red galaxies (2007)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell D., Croom, Scott M., Drinkwater, Michael J., ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
Ross, Nicholas P., Shanks, Tom, Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, Alastair C., ...
Abstract not available.
The fifth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2007)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through 2005 June and represents the completion of the SDSS-I...
Reverberation Mapping of High-Luminosity Quasars: First Results (2006)
Kaspi, Shai, Brandt, W. N., Maoz, Dan, Netzer, Hagai, Schneider, Donald P., Shemmer, Ohad
Reverberation mapping of nearby active galactic nuclei has led to estimates of broad-line-region (BLR) sizes and central-object masses for some 37 objects to date. However, successful reverberation...
SDSS J1029_2623: a gravitationally lensed quasar with an image separation of 22.5 inches (2006)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Morokuma, Tomoki, Doi, Mamoru, Yasuda, Naoki, Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a cluster-scale lensed quasar, SDSS J1029+2623, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The lens system exhibits two lensed images of a quasar at z p 2.197. The image...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
Ross, Nicholas P., Da Angela, J., Shanks, T., Wake, David A., Cannon, Russell D., Edge, A. C., ...
We present a clustering analysis of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) using nearly 9 000 objects from the final catalogue of the 2dF-SDSS LRG And QSO (2SLAQ) Survey. We measure the redshift-space...
Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Nichol, Robert C., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, Neta A.
Using ~300,000 photometrically classified quasars, by far the largest quasar sample ever used for such analyses, we study the redshift and luminosity evolution of quasar clustering on scales of ~50...
Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, Neta A.
We study quasar clustering on small scales, modeling clustering amplitudes using halo-driven dark matter descriptions. From 91 pairs on scales 2, than at z < 2, at the $2.0\sigma$ level. However, as...
Sadler, Elaine M., Cannon, Russell D., Mauch, Tom, Hancock, Paul J., Wake, David A., Ross, Nic, ...
We have combined optical data from the 2dF-SDSS Luminous Red Galaxy and QSO (2SLAQ) redshift survey with radio measurements from the 1.4 GHz VLA FIRST and NVSS surveys to identify a volume-limited...
The UV Properties of SDSS Selected Quasars (2006)
Trammell, George B., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Hall, Patrick B., Anderson, Scott F., ...
We present an analysis of the broadband UV/optical properties of z
The Radio-Loud Fraction of Quasars is a Strong Function of Redshift and Optical Luminosity (2006)
Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Ivezic, Zeljko, Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
Using a sample of optically-selected quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we have determined the radio-loud fraction (RLF) of quasars as a function of redshift and optical luminosity. The...
SDSS J1029+2623: A Gravitationally Lensed Quasar with an Image Separation of 22.5 Arcseconds (2006)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Morokuma, Tomoki, Doi, Mamoru, Yasuda, Naoki, Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a cluster-scale lensed quasar, SDSS J1029+2623, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The lens system exhibits two lensed images of a quasar at z_s=2.197. The image...
Two Additions to the New Class of Low Accretion-Rate Magnetic Binaries (2006)
Schmidt, Gary D., Szkody, Paula, Henden, Arne, Anderson, Scott F., Lamb, Don Q., Margon, Bruce, ...
Two new magnetic white dwarf accretion binaries with extremely low mass-transfer rates have been discovered in the course of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Measured magnetic fields are 42 MG and 57...
Lundgren, Britt F., Wilhite, Brian C., Brunner, Robert J., Hall, Patrick B., Schneider, Donald P., York, Donald G., ...
We present a time-variability analysis of 29 broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs) observed in two epochs by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). These spectra are selected from a larger sample of...
A New Survey for Giant Arcs (2006)
Hennawi, Joseph F., Gladders, Michael D., Oguri, Masamune, Dalal, Neal, Koester, Benjamin, Natarajan, Priyamvada, ...
We report on the first results of an imaging survey to detect strong gravitational lensing targeting the richest clusters selected from the photometric data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)...
Morokuma, Tomoki, Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi, Kawano, Yozo, Tokita, Kouichi, ...
We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J133222.62+034739.9 (SDSS J1332+0347) with an image separation of Delta_theta=1.14". This system consists of a source...
Two New Gravitationally Lensed Double Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Kayo, Issha, Kochanek, Christopher S., ...
We report the discoveries of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasars, SDSS J0746+4403 and SDSS J1406+6126, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). SDSS J0746+4403, which will be...
Anderson, Scott F., Margon, Bruce, Voges, Wolfgang, Plotkin, Richard M., Syphers, David, Haggard, Daryl, ...
We describe further results of a program aimed to yield ~10^4 fully characterized optical identifications of ROSAT X-ray sources. Our program employs X-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS),...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: The Star Formation Histories of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5,697 Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hdelta (4101A) and [OII] (3727A) lines. LRGs are luminous (L>3L*),...
Measuring the matter density using baryon oscillations in the SDSS (2006)
Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Weinberg, David H., Fukugita, Masataka, Pope, Adrian C., ...
We measure the cosmological matter density by observing the positions of baryon acoustic oscillations in the clustering of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We jointly analyse the main...
The shape of the SDSS DR5 galaxy power spectrum (2006)
Percival, Will J., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Frieman, Joshua A., Fukugita, Masataka, Loveday, Jon, ...
We present a Fourier analysis of the clustering of galaxies in the combined Main galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) sample. The aim of our...
Probing the Evolution of IR Properties of z~6 Quasars: Spitzer Observations (2006)
Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Hines, Dean C., Shi, Yong, Vestergaard, Marianne, Bertoldi, Frank, ...
We present Spitzer observations of thirteen z~6 quasars using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). All the quasars except SDSS J000552.34-000655.8...
MegaZ-LRG: A photometric redshift catalogue of one million SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Collister, Adrian, Lahav, Ofer, Blake, Chris, Cannon, Russell, Croom, Scott, Drinkwater, Michael, ...
We describe the construction of MegaZ-LRG, a photometric redshift catalogue of over one million luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the redshift range 0.4 < z < 0.7 with limiting magnitude i < 20. The...
A high redshift detection of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect (2006)
Giannantonio, Tommaso, Crittenden, Robert G., Nichol, Robert C., Scranton, Ryan, Richards, Gordon T., Myers, Adam D., ...
We present evidence of a large angle correlation between the cosmic microwave background measured by WMAP and a catalog of photometrically detected quasars from the SDSS. The observed cross...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Harris, Hugh C., Kleinmann, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, Silvestri, Nicole, ...
We present a catalog of 9316 spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4. We have selected the stars through photometric cuts and spectroscopic modeling,...
Hot DB White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Koester, Detlev, Kleinmann, S. J., Nitta, Atsuko, Smith, Paul S., ...
We present ugriz photometry and optical spectroscopy for 28 DB and DO white dwarfs with temperatures between 28,000K and 45,000K. About 10 of these are particularly well-observed; the remainder are...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Lens Search. I. Candidate Selection Algorithm (2006)
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., ...
We present an algorithm for selecting an uniform sample of gravitationally lensed quasar candidates from low-redshift (0.6
Ge, Jian, Van Eyken, Julian, Mahadevan, Suvrath, DeWitt, Curtis, Kane, Stephen R., Cohen, Roger, ...
We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD 102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new generation Doppler instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar...
Liu, Michael C., Leggett, S. K., Golimowski, David A., Chiu, Kuenley, Fan, Xiaohui, Geballe, T. R., ...
We have resolved the newly discovered T dwarf SDSS J1534+1615 into a 0.11'' binary using the Keck sodium laser guide star adaptive optics system. With an integrated-light spectral type of T3.5, this...
Quasars Probing Quasars I: Optically Thick Absorbers Near Luminous Quasars (2006)
Hennawi, Joseph F., Prochaska, Jason X., Burles, Scott, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schlegel, David J., ...
With close pairs of quasars at different redshifts, a background quasar sightline can be used to study a foreground quasar's environment in absorption. We search 149 moderate resolution background...
Zakamska, Nadia L., Strauss, Michael A., Krolik, Julian H., Ridgway, Susan E., Schmidt, Gary D., Smith, Paul S., ...
Type II quasars are luminous Active Galactic Nuclei whose centers are obscured by large amounts of gas and dust. In this paper we present 3-band HST images of nine type II quasars with redshifts 0.2...
Trump, Jonathan R., Hall, Patrick B., Reichard, Timothy A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present a total of 4784 unique broad absorption line quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Third Data Release. An automated algorithm was used to match a continuum to each quasar and to...
Chandra Observations of the Highest Redshift Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Shemmer, Ohad, Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M., ...
We present new Chandra observations of 21 z>4 quasars, including 11 sources at z>5. These observations double the number of X-ray detected quasars at z>5, allowing investigation of the X-ray spectral...
Hosts of Type II Quasars: an HST Study (2006)
Zakamska, Nadia L., Strauss, Michael A., Krolik, Julian H., Ridgway, Susan E., Schmidt, Gary D., Smith, Paul S., ...
Type II quasars are luminous Active Galactic Nuclei whose centers are obscured by large amounts of gas and dust. In this contribution we present 3-band HST images of nine type II quasars with...
Spectral Energy Distributions and Multiwavelength Selection of Type 1 Quasars (2006)
Richards, Gordon T., Lacy, Mark, Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Hall, Patrick B., Gallagher, S. C., Hines, Dean C., ...
We present an analysis of the mid-infrared (MIR) and optical properties of type 1 (broad-line) quasars detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The MIR color-redshift relation is characterized to...
The SDSS Quasar Survey: Quasar Luminosity Function from Data Release Three (2006)
Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform...
Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Warren, Michael S., Abazajian, Kevork, ...
We identify galaxy groups and clusters in volume-limited samples of the SDSS redshift survey, using a redshift-space friends-of-friends algorithm. We optimize the friends-of-friends linking lengths...
Average Extinction Curves and Relative Abundances for QSO Absorption Line Systems at 1 (2006)
York, Donald G., Khare, Pushpa, Berk, Daniel Vanden, Kulkarni, Varsha P., Crotts, Arlin P. S., Lauroesch, James T., ...
We have studied a sample of 809 Mg II absorption systems with 1.0 < z_abs < 1.86 in the spectra of SDSS QSOs, with the aim of understanding the nature and abundance of the dust and the chemical...
SDSS Pre-Burst Observations of Recent Gamma-Ray Burst Fields (2006)
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Brinkmann, J., ...
In this paper, we present Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry and spectroscopy in the fields of 24 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by Swift, including bursts localized by Swift, HETE-2, and...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The fourth data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
Chandra observations of six QSOs at z ~ 3 (2006)
Miyaji, Takamitsu, Hasinger, Günther, Lehmann, Ingo, Schneider, Donald P.
Cataclysmic variables from sloan digital sky survey - V. The fifth year (2004) (2006)
Szkody, Paula, Henden, Arne, Agüeros, Marcel, Anderson, Scott F., Bochanski, John J., Knapp, Gillian R., ...
Agüeros, Marcel A., Anderson, Scott F., Margon, Bruce, Posselt, Bettina, Haberl, Frank, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., ...
The X-ray properties of active galactic nuclei with double-peaked balmer lines (2006)
Strateva, Iskra V., Brandt, W. N., Eracleous, Michael, Schneider, Donald P., Chartas, George
Collinge, Matthew J., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Ivezić, Zeljko, Munn, Jeffrey A., Schlegel, David J., ...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
Spectral decomposition of broad-line AGNs and host galaxies (2006)
Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Shen, Jiajian, Yip, Ching-Wa, Schneider, Donald P., Connolly, Andrew J., Burton, Ross E., ...
Using an eigenspectrum decomposition technique, we separate the host galaxy from the broad-line active galactic nucleus (AGN) in a set of 4666 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), from...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar survey: Quasar luminosity function from data release 3 (2006)
Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We determine the number counts and z=0-5 luminosity function for a well-defined, homogeneous sample of quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We conservatively define the most uniform...
Spectral energy distributions and multiwavelength selection of type 1 quasars (2006)
Richards, Gordon T., Lacy, Mark, Storrie-Lombardi, Lisa J., Hall, Patrick B., Gallagher, S. C., Hines, Dean C., ...
We present an analysis of the mid-infrared (MIR) and optical properties of type 1 (broad-line) quasars detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The MIR color-redshift relation is characterized to...
Very small scale clustering and merger rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2006)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01 Mpc
Probing the evolution of infrared properties of z ~ 6 quasars: Spitzer observations (2006)
Jiang, Linhua, Fan, Xiaohui, Hines, Dean C., Shi, Yong, Vestergaard, Marianne, Bertoldi, Frank, ...
We present Spitzer observations of 13 z~6 quasars using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). All the quasars except SDSS J000552.34-000655.8 (SDSS...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
Jian Ge, Julian Van Eyken, Suvrath Mahadevan, Curtis Dewitt, Stephen R. Kane, Roger Cohen, ...
We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD 102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new-generation Doppler instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)
Cannon, Russell, Drinkwater, Michael, Edge, Alastair, Eisenstein, Daniel, Nichol, Robert, Outram, Phillip, ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15 000 candidate intermediate-redshift luminous red galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i = 19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2006)
Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
This paper describes the Fourth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), including all survey-quality data taken through 2004 June. The data release includes five-band photometric data...
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies (2006)
Tegmark, Max, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., Weinberg, David H., Blanton, Michael R., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We measure the large-scale real-space power spectrum P(k) using luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and use this measurement to sharpen constraints on cosmological...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO (2SLAQ) luminous red galaxy survey (2006)
Cannon, Russell, Drinkwater, Michael, Edge, Alastair, Eisenstein, Daniel, Nichol, Robert, Outram, Phillip, ...
We present a spectroscopic survey of almost 15 000 candidate intermediate-redshift luminous red galaxies (LRGs) brighter than i = 19.8, observed with 2dF on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. The...
The 2dF-SDSS LRG and QSO Survey: the star formation histories of luminous red galaxies (2006)
Roseboom, Isaac G., Pimbblet, Kevin A., Drinkwater, Michael J., Cannon, Russell D., De Propris, Roberto, Edge, Alastair C., ...
We present a detailed investigation into the recent star formation histories of 5697 luminous red galaxies (LRGs) based on the Hδa (4101 Å), and [O II] (3727 Å) lines and the D4000...
Wake, David A., Nichol, Robert C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Loveday, Jon, Edge, Alastair C., Cannon, Russell, ...
We present new measurements of the luminosity function (LF) of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the 2dF SDSS LRG and Quasar (2SLAQ) survey. We have carefully...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Gregg, Michael D., Schechter, Paul L., ...
We report the discoveries of two, two-image gravitationally lensed quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: SDSS J0806+2006 at z_s=1.540 and SDSS J1353+1138 at z_s=1.629 with image...
Very Small-Scale Clustering and Merger Rate of Luminous Red Galaxies (2005)
Masjedi, Morad, Hogg, David W., Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We present the small-scale (0.01
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Hennawi, Joseph F., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., ...
We present the discovery of seven quasars at z>5.7, selected from ~2000 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The new quasars have redshifts z from 5.79 to 6.13....
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Gunn, James E., Knapp, Gillian R., ...
We study the evolution of the ionization state of the IGM at the end of the reionization epoch using spectra of a sample of nineteen quasars at 5.7411}, and the average length of dark gaps with...
Agueros, Marcel A., Anderson, Scott F., Margon, Bruce, Posselt, Bettina, Haberl, Frank, Voges, Wolfgang, ...
Only seven radio-quiet isolated neutron stars (INSs) emitting thermal X rays are known, a sample that has yet to definitively address such fundamental issues as the equation of state of degenerate...
The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from SDSS Imaging Data (2005)
Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Williams, Kurtis A., Von Hippel, Ted, ...
A sample of white dwarfs is selected from SDSS DR3 imaging data using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from SDSS plus USNO-B combined data. Numerous SDSS and followup...
First Measurement of the Clustering Evolution of Photometrically-Classified Quasars (2005)
Myers, Adam D., Brunner, Robert J., Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present new measurements of the quasar autocorrelation from a sample of \~80,000 photometrically-classified quasars taken from SDSS DR1. We find a best-fit model of $\omega(\theta) =...
Cool, Richard J., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Johnston, David, Scranton, Ryan, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P., ...
Using a sample of nearly 20,000 massive early-type galaxies selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we study the color-magnitude relation for the most luminous (L > 2.2 L^{*}) field galaxies in...
Chandra Observations of Six QSOs at z $\approx$ 3 (2005)
Miyaji, Takamitsu, Hasinger, Guenther, Lehmann, Ingo, Schneider, Donald P.
We report the results of our Chandra observations of six QSOs at $z\sim 3$ from the Palomer Transit Grism Survey. Our primary goal is to investigate the possible systematic change of $\alpha_{ox}$...
Spectral Decomposition of Broad-Line AGNs and Host Galaxies (2005)
Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Shen, Jiajian, Yip, Ching-Wa, Schneider, Donald P., Connolly, Andrew J., Burton, Ross E., ...
Using an eigenspectrum decomposition technique, we separate the host galaxy from the broad line active galactic nucleus (AGN) in a set of 4666 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), from...
SDSSJ102111.02+491330.4: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2005)
Pindor, Bart, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, ...
We report follow-up observations of two gravitational lens candidates identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) dataset. We have confirmed that SDSS J102111.02+491330.4 is a previously...
A Snapshot Survey for Gravitational Lenses Among z>=4.0 Quasars: II. Constraints on the 4.0 (2005)
Richards, Gordon T., Haiman, Zoltan, Pindor, Bartosz, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
We report on i-band snapshot observations of 157 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasars at 4-4.63 obtained from the absence of lensing in four z>5.7 quasars. Such constraints are important for our...
Anderson, Scott F., Haggard, Daryl, Homer, Lee, Joshi, Nikhil R., Margon, Bruce, Silvestri, Nicole M., ...
AM CVn systems are a rare (about a dozen previously known) class of cataclysmic variables, arguably encompassing the shortest orbital periods (down to about 10 minutes) of any known binaries. Both...
SDSS J0246-0825: A New Gravitationally Lensed Quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Inada, Naohisa, Burles, Scott, Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Schechter, Paul L., Eisenstein, Daniel J., ...
We report the discovery of a new two-image gravitationally lensed quasar, SDSS J024634.11-082536.2 (SDSS J0246-0825). This object was selected as a lensed quasar candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky...
Sensitive observations at 1.4 and 250 GHz of z > 5 QSOs (2005)
Petric, A. O., Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Fan, Xiaohui, Cox, P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
We present 1.4 and 5 GHz observations taken with the Very Large Array (VLA), and observations at 250 GHz obtained with the Max-Planck millimeter bolometer (MAMBO) at the IRAM 30~m telescope, of ten...
Characteristic QSO Accretion Disk Temperatures from Spectroscopic Continuum Variability (2005)
Pereyra, Nicolas A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Turnshek, David A., Hillier, D. John, Wilhite, Brian C., Kron, Richard G., ...
Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar spectra taken at multiple epochs, we find that the composite flux density differences in the rest frame wavelength range 1300-6000 AA can be fit by a...
The SDSS View of the Palomar-Green Bright Quasar Survey (2005)
Jester, Sebastian, Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Green, Richard F., Schmidt, Maarten, Hall, Patrick B., ...
We investigate the extent to which the Palomar-Green (PG) Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) is complete and representative of the general quasar population by comparing with imaging and spectroscopy from...
Magnetic White Dwarfs from the SDSS II. The Second and Third Data Releases (2005)
Vanlandingham, Karen M., Schmidt, Gary D., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Harris, Hugh C., Anderson, Scott F., Hall, Pat B., ...
Fifty-two magnetic white dwarfs have been identified in spectroscopic observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) obtained between mid-2002 and the end of 2004, including Data Releases 2...
Hennawi, Joseph F., Strauss, Michael A., Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Richards, Gordon T., Pindor, Bartosz, ...
We present a sample of 218 new quasar pairs with proper transverse separations R_prop < 1 Mpc/h over the redshift range 0.5 < z < 3.0, discovered from an extensive follow up campaign to find...
Detection of Cosmic Magnification with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Scranton, Ryan, Menard, Brice, Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Myers, Adam D., Jain, Bhuvnesh, ...
We present an 8 sigma detection of cosmic magnification measured by the variation of quasar density due to gravitational lensing by foreground large scale structure. To make this measurement we used...
Spectral Variability of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I: Wavelength Dependence (2005)
Wilhite, Brian C., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Kron, Richard G., Schneider, Donald P., Pereyra, Nicholas, Brunner, Robert J., ...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) repeat spectroscopic observations have resulted in multiple-epoch spectroscopy for roughly 2500 quasars observed more than 50 days apart. From this sample, we identify...
The Color Selection of Quasars from Redshifts 5 to 10: Cloning and Discovery (2005)
Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, Schneider, Donald P., Glazebrook, Karl, Iye, Masanori, Kashikawa, Nobunari, ...
We present simulations of quasar colors, magnitudes, and numbers at redshifts 54.7 quasars increases by a factor of 3X by extending 0.7 i-magnitudes deeper than the SDSS spectroscopic survey limit of...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...
We report the discovery of a fifth image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004+4112. A faint point source located 0.2'' from the center of the brightest galaxy in the lensing...
Zibetti, Stefano, White, Simon D. M., Schneider, Donald P., Brinkmann, Jon
We analyse the spatial distribution and colour of the intracluster light (ICL) in 683 clusters of galaxies between z=0.2 and 0.3, selected from approx 1500 deg^2 of the SDSS-DR1. Surface photometry...
An Empirical Calibration of the Completeness of the SDSS Quasar Survey (2005)
Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Brunner, Robert, ...
Spectra of nearly 20000 point-like objects to a Galactic reddening corrected magnitude of i=19.1 have been obtained to test the completeness of the SDSS quasar survey. The spatially-unresolved...
Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: II. Emission-Line Luminosity Function (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., ...
The emission line luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is measured from about 3000 AGN included in the main galaxy sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey within a redshift range of $0
Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: I. Sample Selection (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
We have compiled a large sample of low-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified via their emission line characteristics from the spectroscopic data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Since...
Zakamska, Nadia L., Schmidt, Gary D., Smith, Paul S., Strauss, Michael A., Krolik, Julian H., Hall, Patrick B., ...
The third data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Active galactic nuclei in the sloan digital sky survey. I. Sample selection (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
Active galactic nuclei in the sloan digital sky survey. II. Emission-line luminosity function (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Fan, Xiaohui, Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., ...
Optically identified BL lacertae objects from the sloan digital sky survey (2005)
Collinge, Matthew J., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Ivezić, Zeljko, Munn, Jeffrey A., Schlegel, David J., ...
The sloan digital sky survey quasar catalog - III. Third data release (2005)
Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Anderson, Scott F., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
The C4 clustering algorithm: clusters of galaxies in the sloan digital sky survey (2005)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Reichart, Daniel, Wechsler, Risa H., Evrard, August E., Annis, James, ...
Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I. Sample Selection (2005)
Hao, Lei, Strauss, Michael A., Tremonti, Christy A., Schlegel, David J., Heckman, Timothy M., Kauffmann, Guinevere, ...
Strateva, Iskra V., Strauss, Michael A., Hao, Lei, Schlegel, David J., Hall, Pat B., Gunn, James E., ...
The C4 clustering algorithm: Clusters of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Miller, Christopher J., Nichol, Robert C., Reichart, Daniel, Wechsler, Risa H., Evrard, August E., Annis, James, ...
We present the C4 Cluster Catalog, a new sample of 748 clusters of galaxies identified in the spectroscopic sample of the Second Data Release (DR2) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The C4...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Johnston, David E., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We report the discovery of two doubly imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789, and with image separations of 2.86" and 2.90",...
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...
We report on the discovery of a fifth lensed image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004 + 4112. A faint point source located 0.''2 from the center of the brightest galaxy in the...
The color selection of quasars from redshifts 5 to 10: cloning and discovery (2005)
Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei Yan, Schneider, Donald P., Glazebrook, Karl, Iye, Masanori, Kashikawa, Nobunari, ...
We present simulations of quasar colors, magnitudes, and numbers at redshifts 5 < z < 10 based on our discovery of 10 new high-redshift quasars and the cloning of lower redshift Sloan Digital...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
The color selection of quasars from redshifts 5 to 10: cloning and discovery (2005)
Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei Yan, Schneider, Donald P., Glazebrook, Karl, Iye, Masanori, Kashikawa, Nobunari, ...
We present simulations of quasar colors, magnitudes, and numbers at redshifts 5 < z < 10 based on our discovery of 10 new high-redshift quasars and the cloning of lower redshift Sloan Digital...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
The color selection of quasars from redshifts 5 to 10: cloning and discovery (2005)
Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei Yan, Schneider, Donald P., Glazebrook, Karl, Iye, Masanori, Kashikawa, Nobunari, ...
We present simulations of quasar colors, magnitudes, and numbers at redshifts 5 < z < 10 based on our discovery of 10 new high-redshift quasars and the cloning of lower redshift Sloan Digital...
The third data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
This paper describes the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This release, containing data taken up through 2003 June, includes imaging data in five bands over 5282 deg²,...
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Zehavi, Idit, Hogg, David W., Scoccimarro, Roman, Blanton, Michael R., Nichol, Robert C., ...
Abstract not available.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey u-band galaxy survey: luminosity functions and evolution (2005)
Baldry, Ivan K., Glazebrook, Karl, Budavari, Tamas, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Annis, James, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
We construct and analyse a u-band selected galaxy sample from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Southern Survey, which covers 275 deg 2. The sample includes 43 223 galaxies with spectroscopic...
Optically identified BL Lacertae objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Collinge, Matthew J., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Ivezic, Zeljko, Munn, Jeffrey A., Schlegel, David J., ...
We present a sample of 386 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) candidates identified from 2860 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic database. The candidates are primarily selected to have...
The Intermediate-Scale Clustering of Luminous Red Galaxies (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Nichol, Robert C., Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Brinkmann, Jon, ...
We report the intermediate-scale (0.3 to 40 Mpc/h) clustering of 35,000 luminous early-type galaxies at redshifts 0.16 to 0.44 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We present the redshift-space...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Johnston, David E., Frieman, Joshua A., ...
We report the discovery of two doubly-imaged quasars, SDSS J100128.61+502756.9 and SDSS J120629.65+433217.6, at redshifts of 1.838 and 1.789 and with image separations of 2.86'' and 2.90'',...
Cosmic homogeneity demonstrated with luminous red galaxies (2004)
Hogg, David W., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Blanton, Michael R., Bahcall, Neta A., Brinkmann, J., Gunn, James E., ...
We test the homogeneity of the Universe at $z\sim 0.3$ with the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) spectroscopic sample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. First, the mean number $N(R)$ of LRGs within completely...
A New Milky Way Companion: Unusual Globular Cluster or Extreme Dwarf Satellite? (2004)
Willman, Beth, Blanton, Michael R., West, Andrew A., Dalcanton, Julianne J., Hogg, David W., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We report the discovery of SDSSJ1049+5103, an overdensity of resolved blue stars at (\alpha_{2000}, \delta_{2000}) = (162.343, 51.051). This object appears to be an old, metal-poor stellar system at...
Correlating the CMB with Luminous Red Galaxies : The Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect (2004)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Hirata, Christopher M., Seljak, Uros, Schlegel, David, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Schneider, Donald P.
We present a 2.5 sigma detection of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect and discuss the constraints it places on cosmological parameters. We cross-correlate microwave temperature maps from the...
NYU-VAGC: a galaxy catalog based on new public surveys (2004)
Blanton, Michael R., Schlegel, David J., Strauss, Michael A., Brinkmann, J., Finkbeiner, Douglas, Fukugita, Masataka, ...
Here we present the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC), a catalog of local galaxies (mostly below a redshift of about 0.3) based on a set of publicly-released surveys...
Weinstein, Michael A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Younger, Joshua D., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., ...
We present an empirical algorithm for obtaining photometric redshifts of quasars using 5-band Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometry. Our algorithm generates an empirical model of the quasar...
Efficient Photometric Selection of Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: 100,000 z (2004)
Richards, Gordon T., Nichol, Robert C., Gray, Alexander G., Brunner, Robert J., Lupton, Robert H., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present a catalog of 100,563 unresolved, UV-excess (UVX) quasar candidates to g=21 from 2099 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release One (DR1) imaging data. Existing spectra of...
Abazajian, Kevork, Zheng, Zheng, Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Frieman, Joshua A., Berlind, Andreas A., ...
We use the projected correlation function w_p(r_p) of a volume-limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) main galaxy redshift catalogue to measure the halo occupation distribution...
Calibrating Photometric Redshifts of Luminous Red Galaxies (2004)
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Budavari, Tamas, Schlegel, David J., Bridges, Terry, Brinkmann, Jonathan, Cannon, Russell, ...
We discuss the construction of a photometric redshift catalogue of Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), emphasizing the principal steps necessary for constructing...
Cataclysmic Variables from SDSS III. The Third Year (2004)
Szkody, Paula, Henden, Arne, Fraser, Oliver, Silvestri, Nicole, Bochanski, John, Wolfe, Michael A., ...
This paper continues the series that identifies new cataclysmic variables found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We present 36 cataclysmic variables and one possible symbiotic star from Sloan spectra...
The Clustering of AGN in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Wake, David A., Miller, Christopher J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Nichol, Robert C., Pope, Adrian, Szalay, Alexander S., ...
We present the two--point correlation function (2PCF) of narrow-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected within the First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Using a sample of 13605 AGN...
Dust Reddening in SDSS Quasars (2004)
Hopkins, Philip F., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Cooper, Ariana S., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We explore the form of extragalactic reddening toward quasars using a sample of 9566 quasars with redshifts 0 0.2, where the extinction is relative to quasars with modal colors. Reddening is...
A Quasar Without Broad Lyman-alpha Emission (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Snedden, Stephanie A., Niederste-Ostholt, Martin, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Strauss, Michael A., York, Donald G., ...
The z=3.02 quasar SDSS J095253.83+011421.9 exhibits broad metal-line emission (CIV FWHM=9000 km/s), but broad Ly-alpha emission is not present. Instead, only a narrow Ly-alpha line is observed...
Fan, Xiaohui, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Donley, Jennifer L., ...
We present the discovery of five new quasars at z>5.7, selected from the multicolor imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Three of them, at redshifts 5.93, 6.07, and 6.22, were...
The Lyman-alpha Forest Power Spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
McDonald, Patrick, Seljak, Uros, Burles, Scott, Schlegel, David J., Weinberg, David H., Shih, David, ...
We measure the power spectrum, P_F(k,z), of the transmitted flux in the Ly-alpha forest using 3035 high redshift quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This sample is almost two orders of...
Detections of the 2175 \AA Dust Feature at 1.4z 1.5 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Wang, Junfeng, Hall, Patrick B., Ge, Jian, Li, Aigen, Schneider, Donald P.
The strongest spectroscopic dust extinction feature in the Milky Way, the broad absorption bump at 2175 \AA, is generally believed to be caused by aromatic carbonaceous materials -- very likely a...
A Lyman-alpha-only AGN from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Hoversten, Erik A., Tremonti, Christy A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a z=2.4917 radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a luminous, variable, low-polarization UV continuum, H I two-photon emission, and a moderately...
Microlensing of the Broad Emission Line Region in the Quadruple Lens SDSS J1004+4112 (2004)
Richards, Gordon T., Keeton, Charles R., Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Hall, Patrick B., Turner, Edwin L., ...
We present seven epochs of spectroscopy on the quadruply imaged quasar SDSS J1004+4112, spanning observed-frame time delays from 1 to 322 days. The spectra reveal differences in the emission lines...
Kleinman, S. J., Harris, Hugh C., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Liebert, James, Nitta, Atsuko, Krzesiński, Jurek, ...
We present the full spectroscopic white dwarf and hot subdwarf sample from the SDSS first data release, DR1. We find 2551 white dwarf stars of various types, 240 hot subdwarf stars, and an additional...
Downes, Ronald A., Margon, Bruce, Anderson, Scott F., Harris, Hugh C., Knapp, G. R., Schroeder, Josh, ...
A search of more than 3,000 square degrees of high latitude sky by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has yielded 251 faint high-latitude carbon stars (FHLCs), the large majority previously uncataloged. We...
Cosmological Parameters from Eigenmode Analysis of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Galaxy Redshifts (2004)
Pope, Adrian C., Matsubara, Takahiko, Szalay, Alexander S., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gray, Jim, ...
We present estimates of cosmological parameters from the application of the Karhunen-Loeve transform to the analysis of the 3D power spectrum of density fluctuations using Sloan Digital Sky Survey...
Fan, Xiaohui, Hennawi, Joseph F., Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Donley, Jennifer L., ...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Dust reddening in Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars (2004)
Hopkins, Philip F., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., Cooper, Ariana S., Schneider, Donald P., ...
Cataclysmic variables from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. III. The third year (2004)
Szkody, Paula, Henden, Arne, Fraser, Oliver, Silvestri, Nicole, Bochanski, John, Wolfe, Michael A., ...
Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
The clustering of active galactic nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Wake, David A., Miller, Christopher J., Di Matteo, Tiziana, Nichol, Robert C., Pope, Adrian, Szalay, Alexander S., ...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
On departures from a power law in the galaxy correlation function (2004)
Zehavi, Idit, Weinberg, David H., Zheng, Zheng, Berlind, Andreas A., Frieman, Joshua A., Scoccimarro, Román, ...
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital sky survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Keeton, Charles R., Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Gregg, Michael D., ...
We study the recently discovered gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, the first quasar lensed by a cluster of galaxies. It consists of four images with a maximum separation of 14.62". The system was...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the SDSS commissioning data (2004)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Johnston, David E., Scranton, Ryan, ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies-relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter-offer an exceptional laboratory for the study...
Finkbeiner, Douglas P., Padmanabhan, Nikhil, Schlegel, David J., Carr, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Rockosi, Constance M., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) mosaic camera and telescope have obtained five-band optical-wavelength imaging near the Galactic plane outside of the nominal survey boundaries. These additional...
Wide absorption line quasars in the sloan digital sky survey / (2004)
Trump, Jonathan R., Schneider, Donald P., Schreyer Honors College.
Thesis supervisor: Donald P. Schneider.
A Ly alpha-only active galactic nucleus from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Hoversten, E. A., Tremonti, Christy A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a z = 2.4917 radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a luminous, variable, low-polarization UV continuum, H I two-photon emission, and a moderately...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
L ' and M ' photometry of ultracool dwarfs (2004)
Golimowski, David A., Leggett, Sandy K., Marley, Mark S., Fan, Xiaohui, Geballe, Thomas R., Knapp, Gillian R., ...
We have compiled L′ (3.4-4.1 μm) and M′ (4.6-4.8 μm) photometry of 63 single and binary M, L, and T dwarfs obtained at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope using the Mauna...
Knapp, Gillian R., Leggett, Sandy K., Fan, Xiaohui, Marley, Mark S., Geballe, Thomas R., Golimowski, David A., ...
We present new JHK photometry on the MKO-NIR system and JHK spectroscopy for a large sample of L and T dwarfs. Photometry has been obtained for 71 dwarfs, and spectroscopy for 56. The sample...
A Ly alpha-only active galactic nucleus from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Hall, Patrick B., Hoversten, E. A., Tremonti, Christy A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has discovered a z = 2.4917 radio-loud active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a luminous, variable, low-polarization UV continuum, H I two-photon emission, and a moderately...
The second data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Kurt S. J., Anderson, Scott F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg(2) of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for...
L ' and M ' photometry of ultracool dwarfs (2004)
Golimowski, David A., Leggett, Sandy K., Marley, Mark S., Fan, Xiaohui, Geballe, Thomas R., Knapp, Gillian R., ...
We have compiled L′ (3.4-4.1 μm) and M′ (4.6-4.8 μm) photometry of 63 single and binary M, L, and T dwarfs obtained at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope using the Mauna...
Knapp, Gillian R., Leggett, Sandy K., Fan, Xiaohui, Marley, Mark S., Geballe, Thomas R., Golimowski, David A., ...
We present new JHK photometry on the MKO-NIR system and JHK spectroscopy for a large sample of L and T dwarfs. Photometry has been obtained for 71 dwarfs, and spectroscopy for 56. The sample...
Nakamura, Osamu, Fukugita, Masataka, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P.
We present a study of the H$\alpha$ line emission from a sample of 1482 optically-selected, morphologically-classified bright galaxies (median redshift of 0.05) derived from the Sloan Digital Sky...
Fukugita, Masataka, Yasuda, Naoki, Brinkmann, Jon, Gunn, James E., Ivezic, Zeljko, Knapp, Gillian R., ...
We study the spatial variation of galaxy number counts using five band photometric images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The spatial variation of this sample of 46 million galaxies collected from...
Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Schneider, Donald P., Doi, Mamoru, Kashikawa, Nobunari
We present an investigation of the environment (\approx 600 kpc radius) of a pair of luminous z=4.25 quasars, SDSS J1439-0034 A,B, separated by 33''. An analysis of high-quality Subaru spectra of the...
SDSS J115517.35+634622.0: A Newly Discovered Gravitationally Lensed Quasar (2003)
Pindor, Bart, Eisenstein, Daniel J., Inada, Naohisa, Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Brinkmann, Jon, ...
We report the discovery of SDSSJ115517.35+634622.0, a previously unknown gravitationally lensed quasar. The lens system exhibits two images of a $z = 2.89$ quasar, with an image separation of...
Constraints on Quasar Continuum, BELR, and BALR Physics from SDSS Composite Spectra (2003)
Richards, Gordon T., Hall, Patrick B., Reichard, Timothy A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A.
We review recent results on quasars from the SDSS as they relate to our understanding of the UV/optical continuum, the broad emission line region, and the broad absorption line region. The ensemble...
A catalog of compact groups of galaxies in the RSDSS commissioning data (2003)
Lee, Brian C., Allam, Sahar S., Tucker, Douglas L., Annis, James, Blanton, Michael R., Johnston, David E., ...
Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies -- relatively poor groups of galaxies in which the typical separations between members is of the order of a galaxy diameter -- offer an exceptional laboratory for the...
Sirko, Edwin, Goodman, Jeremy, Knapp, Gillian R., Brinkmann, Jon, Ivezic, Zeljko, Knerr, Edwin J., ...
We isolate samples of 733 bright (g < 18) and 437 faint (g > 18) high-Galactic latitude blue horizontal branch stars with photometry and spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)....
Sirko, Edwin, Goodman, Jeremy, Knapp, Gillian R., Brinkmann, Jon, Ivezic, Zeljko, Knerr, Edwin J., ...
We carry out a maximum-likelihood kinematic analysis of a sample of 1170 blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey presented in Sirko et al. (2003) (Paper I). Monte Carlo...
SDSS J1335+0118: A New Two-Image Gravitational Lens (2003)
Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Castander, Francisco J., Gregg, Michael D., Becker, Robert H., Ichikawa, Shin-Ichi, ...
We report the discovery of the two-image gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1335+0118. The object was selected as a lens candidate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The imaging and spectroscopic...
Multiepoch Sky Surveys and the Lifetime of Quasars (2003)
Martini, Paul, Schneider, Donald P.
We present a new method to measure the episodic lifetime of quasars with current and future large-scale sky surveys. Future photometric observations of large samples of confirmed quasars can provide...
A Snapshot Survey for Gravitational Lenses Among z>=4.0 Quasars: I. The z>5.7 Sample (2003)
Richards, Gordon T., Strauss, Michael A., Pindor, Bartosz, Haiman, Zoltan, Fan, Xiaohui, Eisenstein, Daniel, ...
Over the last few years, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has discovered several hundred quasars with redshift between 4.0 and 6.4. Including the effects of magnification bias, one expects a...
Sagittarius Tidal Debris 90 kpc from the Galactic Center (2003)
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Grebel, Eva K., Hennessy, Greg, Ivezic, Zeljko, Martinez-Delgado, David, ...
A new overdensity of A-colored stars in distant parts of the Milky Way's stellar halo, at a dereddened SDSS magnitude of g_0 = 20.3, is presented. Identification of associated variable RR Lyrae...
Continuum and Emission-Line Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars (2003)
Reichard, Timothy A., Richards, Gordon T., Hall, Patrick B., Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Fan, Xiaohui, ...
We investigate the continuum and emission-line properties of 224 broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs) with 0.9
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog II. First Data Release (2003)
Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Jester, Sebastian, Richards, Gordon T., Stoughton, Chris, ...
We present the second edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of 16713 objects in the SDSS First Data Release (DR1) that have luminosities larger than...
Pentericci, Laura, Rix, Hans W., Prada, Francisco, Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., ...
We present J-H-K' photometry for a sample of 45 high redshift quasars found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sample was originally selected on the basis of optical colors and spans a redshift...
SDSS J0903+5028: A New Gravitational Lens (2003)
Johnston, David E., Richards, Gordon T., Frieman, Joshua A., Keeton, Charles R., Strauss, Michael A., Becker, Robert H., ...
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J090334.92+502819.2. This object was targeted for SDSS spectroscopy as a Luminous Red Galaxy...
The Richness-Dependent Cluster Correlation Function: Early SDSS Data (2003)
Bahcall, Neta A., Dong, Feng, Hao, Lei, Bode, Paul, Annis, Jim, Gunn, James E., ...
The cluster correlation function and its richness dependence are determined from 1108 clusters of galaxies -- the largest sample of clusters studied so far -- found in 379 deg^2 of Sloan Digital Sky...
Red and Reddened Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Richards, Gordon T., Hall, Patrick B., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Weinstein, Michael A., ...
We investigate the continuum and emission line properties of 4576 SDSS quasars as a function of their optical/UV SEDs. The optical/UV color distribution of our sample is roughly Gaussian, but with a...
Anderson, Scott F., Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trümper, Joachim, Agüeros, Marcel A., Boller, Thomas, ...
Many open questions in X-ray astronomy are limited by the relatively small number of objects in uniform optically-identified samples, especially when rare subclasses are considered, or subsets...
Inada, Naohisa, Becker, Robert H., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francisco J., Eisenstein, Daniel, Hall, Patrick B., ...
We report the discovery of a new gravitationally lensed quasar from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, SDSS J092455.87+021924.9 (SDSS J0924+0219). This object was selected from among known SDSS quasars by...
Sensitive observations at 1.4 and 250 GHz of z > 5 QSOs (2003)
Petric, A. O., Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Fan, Xiaohui, Cox, P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
We present 1.4 and 5 GHz observations taken with the Very Large Array (VLA), and observations at 250 GHz obtained with the Max-Planck millimeter bolometer (MAMBO) at the IRAM 30~m telescope, of ten...
SDSS Catalog of Stars in the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (2003)
Rave, Heather A., Zhao, Chongshan, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Schneider, Donald P., Brinkmann, J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has scanned the entire region containing the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy to 23rd magnitude in g*. We present a catalog of stars found in a 453 square arcminute,...
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Becker, Robert H., White, Richard L., Haiman, Zoltan, ...
We present the discovery of three new quasars at z>6 in 1300 deg^2 of SDSS imaging data, J114816.64+525150.3 (z=6.43), J104845.05+463718.3 (z=6.23) and J163033.90+401209.6 (z=6.05). The first two...
Reichard, Timothy A., Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Hall, Patrick B., Tolea, Alin, Krolik, Julian H., ...
We present a catalog of 224 broad absorption line quasars (BALQSOs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's Early Data Release Quasar Catalog, including a relatively complete and homogeneous subsample of...
A Low Latitude Halo Stream around the Milky Way (2003)
Yanny, Brian, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Grebel, Eva K., Kent, Steve, Odenkirchen, Michael, Rockosi, Connie M., ...
We present evidence for a ring of stars in the plane of the Milky Way, extending at least from l = 180 deg to l = 227 deg with turnoff magnitude $g \sim 19.5$; the ring could encircle the Galaxy. We...
Sensitive observations at 1.4 and 250 GHz of z > 5 QSOs (2003)
Petric, A. O., Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Fan, Xiaohui, Cox, P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
We present 1.4 and 5 GHz observations taken with the Very Large Array (VLA), and observations at 250 GHz obtained with the Max-Planck millimeter bolometer (MAMBO) at the IRAM 30~m telescope, of ten...
Sensitive observations at 1.4 and 250 GHz of z > 5 QSOs (2003)
Petric, A. O., Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Fan, Xiaohui, Cox, P., Strauss, Michael A., ...
We present 1.4 and 5 GHz observations taken with the Very Large Array (VLA), and observations at 250 GHz obtained with the Max-Planck millimeter bolometer (MAMBO) at the IRAM 30~m telescope, of ten...
Selection of Metal-poor Giant Stars Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric System (2003)
Helmi, Amina, Ivezic, Zeljko, Prada, Francisco, Pentericci, Laura, Rockosi, Constance M., Schneider, Donald P., ...
Szkody, Paula, Anderson, Scott F., Schmidt, Gary, Hall, Patrick B., Margon, Bruce, Miceli, Antonino, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
Double-peaked low-ionization emission lines in active galactic nuclei (2003)
Strateva, Iskra V., Strauss, Michael A., Hao, Lei, Schlegel, David J., Hall, Pat B., Gunn, James E., ...
Anderson, Scott F., Voges, Wolfgang, Margon, Bruce, Trümper, Joachim, Agüeros, Marcel A., Boller, Thomas, ...
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork, Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agüeros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62arcseconds (2003)
Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, ...
Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures (that is, clusters of...
Sagittarius tidal debris 90 kiloparsecs from the galactic center (2003)
Newberg, Heidi Jo, Yanny, Brian, Grebel, Eva K., Hennessy, Greg, Ivezic, Z., Martinez-Delgado, David, ...
A new overdensity of A-colored stars in distant parts of the Milky Way's stellar halo, at a dereddened Sloan Digital Sky Survey magnitude of g0=20.3, is presented. Identification of associated...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the cosmic spectrum and star formation history (2003)
Glazebrook, Karl, Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, Jon, Connolly, Andrew J., Csabai, Istvan, ...
We present a determination of the "cosmic optical spectrum" of the universe, i.e., the ensemble emission from galaxies, as determined from the red-selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey main galaxy...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
AN IMPROVED PROPER-MOTION CATALOG COMBINING USNO-B AND THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY (2003)
Jeffrey A. Munn, David G. Monet, Stephen E. Levine, Blaise Canzian, Jeffrey R. Pier, Hugh C. Harris, ...
An improved proper-motion catalog is presented, combining the USNO-B and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) catalogs in the area of sky covered by SDSS Data Release 1 (DR1; 2099 deg 2). USNO-B positions...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the cosmic spectrum and star formation history (2003)
Glazebrook, Karl, Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, Jon, Connolly, Andrew J., Csabai, Istvan, ...
We present a determination of the "cosmic optical spectrum" of the universe, i.e., the ensemble emission from galaxies, as determined from the red-selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey main galaxy...
The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)
Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Cosmic Spectrum and Star-Formation History (2002)
Glazebrook, Karl, Baldry, Ivan K., Blanton, Michael R., Brinkmann, Jon, Connolly, Andrew, Csabai, Istvan, ...
We present a determination of the `Cosmic Optical Spectrum' of the Universe, i.e. the ensemble emission from galaxies, as determined from the red-selected Sloan Digital Sky Survey main galaxy sample...
Luminosity Function of Morphologically Classified Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)
Nakamura, Osamu, Fukugita, Masataka, Yasuda, Naoki, Loveday, Jon, Brinkmann, Jon, Schneider, Donald P., ...
The morphological dependence of the luminosity function is studied using a sample containing approximately 1500 bright galaxies classified into Hubble types by visual inspections for a homogeneous...
The overdensities of galaxy environments as a function of luminosity and color (2002)
Hogg, David W., Blanton, Michael R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Gunn, James E., Schlegel, David J., Zehavi, Idit, ...
We study the mean environments of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as a function of rest-frame luminosity and color. Overdensities in galaxy number are estimated in $8 h^{-1} \mathrm{Mpc}$...
Average spectra of massive galaxies in the SDSS (2002)
Eisenstein, Daniel J., Hogg, David W., Fukugita, Masataka, Nakamura, Osamu, Bernardi, Mariangela, Finkbeiner, Douglas P., ...
We combine Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectra of 22,000 luminous, red, bulge-dominated galaxies to get high S/N average spectra in the rest-frame optical and ultraviolet (2600A to 7000A). The average...
Reverberation Mapping of High-Redshift, High-Luminosity Quasars (2002)
Kaspi, Shai, Netzer, Hagai, Maoz, Dan, Shemmer, Ohad, Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P.
We present preliminary results from a reverberation mapping program to measure the Broad Line Region size in high-redshift, high-luminosity quasars. The observations are carried out at the...
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z=0.1 (2002)
Blanton, Michael R., Hogg, David W., Brinkmann, J., Connolly, Andrew J., Csabai, Istvan, Bahcall, Neta A., ...
Using a catalog of 147,986 galaxy redshifts and fluxes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) we measure the galaxy luminosity density at z=0.1 in five optical bandpasses corresponding to the SDSS...
Willman, Beth, Dalcanton, Julianne, Ivezic, Zeljko, Schneider, Donald P., York, Donald G.
In this paper, we limit the stellar content of 13 high-velocity clouds (HVCs; including 1 compact HVC) using the detection limits of a new survey for resolved Milky Way satellite galaxies in the...
The Redshift of a Lensing Galaxy in PMN J0134-0931 (2002)
Hall, Patrick B., Richards, Gordon T., York, Donald G., Keeton, Charles R., Bowen, David V., Schneider, Donald P., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) automatically targeted as a quasar candidate the recently discovered, gravitationally lensed, extremely reddened z=2.2 quasar PMN J0134-0931. The SDSS spectrum...
Margon, Bruce, Anderson, Scott F., Harris, Hugh C., Strauss, Michael A., Knapp, G. R., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
We report the discovery of 39 Faint High Latitude Carbon Stars (FHLCs) from Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning data. The objects, each selected photometrically and verified spectroscopically,...
The Cluster Mass Function from Early SDSS Data: Cosmological Implications (2002)
Bahcall, Neta A., Dong, Feng, Bode, Paul, Kim, Rita, Annis, James, McKay, Timothy A., ...
The mass function of clusters of galaxies is determined from 400 deg^2 of early commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; ~300 clusters in the redshift range z = 0.1 - 0.2 are used....
Broad Emission Line Shifts in Quasars: An Orientation Measure for Radio-Quiet Quasars? (2002)
Richards, Gordon T., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Reichard, Timothy A., Hall, Patrick B., Schneider, Donald P., SubbaRao, Mark, ...
Using a sample of 3814 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we confirm that high-ionization, broad, emission lines such as CIV are significantly blueshifted with respect to low-ionization,...
Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Quasar Sample (2002)
Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Newberg, Heidi Jo, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Schneider, Donald P., ...
We describe the algorithm for selecting quasar candidates for optical spectroscopy in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Quasar candidates are selected via their non-stellar colors in "ugriz" broad-band...
Exploratory Chandra observations of the three highest redshift quasars known (2002)
Brandt, William N., Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We report on exploratory Chandra observations of the three highest redshift quasars known (z = 5.82, 5.99, and 6.28), all found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. These data, combined with a previous...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog. I. Early data release (2002)
Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...
We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects ( 3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chirs, Lupton, Rpbert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francsico J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...
Ivezic, Zeljko, Menou, Kristen, Knapp, Gillian R., Strauss, Michael A., Lupton, Robert H., Vanden Berk, Daniel E., ...
We discuss the optical and radio properties of similar to30,000 FIRST (radio, 20 cm, sensitive to 1 mJy) sources positionally associated within 1."5 with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) (optical,...
VLT Optical and Near-Infrared Observations of the z = 6.28 Quasar SDSS J1030+0524 (2002)
Pentericci, Laura, Fan, Xiaohui, Rix, Hans-Walter, Strauss, Michael A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Richards, Gordon T., ...
Unusual Broad Absorption Line Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2002)
Hall, Patrick B., Anderson, Scott F., Strauss, Michael A., York, Donald G., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)
Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog I. Early Data Release (2001)
Schneider, Donald P., Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Hall, Patrick B., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present the first edition of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Quasar Catalog. The catalog consists of the 3814 objects (3000 discovered by the SDSS) in the initial SDSS public data release that...
Schneider, Donald P., Knapp, Gillian R., Hawley, Suzanne L., Covey, Kevin R., Fan, Xiaohui, Ramsey, Lawrence W., ...
Low dispersion optical spectra have been obtained with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope of 22 very red objects found in early imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The objects are assigned...
Evidence for Reionization at z ~ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in a z=6.28 Quasar (2001)
Becker, Robert H., Fan, Xiaohui, White, Richard L., Strauss, Michael A., Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., ...
We present moderate resolution Keck spectroscopy of quasars at z=5.82, 5.99 and 6.28, discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). We find that the Ly Alpha absorption in the spectra of these...
Fan, Xiaohui, Narayanan, Vijay K., Lupton, Robert H., Strauss, Michael A., Knapp, Gillian R., Becker, Robert H., ...
We present the results from a survey of i-dropout objects selected from ~1550 deg^2 of multicolor imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, to search for luminous quasars at z>5.8. Objects with...
Photometric Redshifts of Quasars (2001)
Richards, Gordon T., Weinstein, Michael A., Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden
We demonstrate that the design of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) filter system and the quality of the SDSS imaging data are sufficient for determining accurate and precise photometric redshifts...
A 250 GHz Survey of High Redshift QSOs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2001)
Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Rupen, M., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Menten, K. M., ...
We present observations at 250 GHz (1.2 mm), 43 GHz, and 1.4 GHz of a sample of 41 QSOs at z > 3.7 found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We detect 16 sources with a 250 GHz flux density greater than...
Anderson, Scott F., Fan, Xiaohui, Richards, Gordon T., Schneider, Donald P., Strauss, Michael A., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, ...
We present results on over 100 high-redshift quasars found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), using automated selection algorithms applied to SDSS imaging data and with spectroscopic...
Broad Absorption Line Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with VLA-FIRST Radio Detections (2001)
Menou, Kristen, Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Ivezic, Zeljko, Kim, Rita S. J., Knapp, Gillian R., Richards, Gordon T., ...
We present 13 Broad Absorption Line (BAL) quasars, including 12 new objects, which were identified in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and matched within 2'' to sources in the FIRST radio survey...
Colors of 2625 Quasars at 0 (2000)
Richards, Gordon T., Fan, Xiaohui, Schneider, Donald P., Berk, Daniel E. Vanden, Strauss, Michael A., York, Donald G.
We present an empirical investigation of the colors of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric system. The sample studied includes 2625 quasars with SDSS photometry. The quasars...
Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Richards, Gordon T., Hill, Gary J., ...
We report the discovery of 27 quasars with redshifts between 3.58 and 4.49. The objects were identified as high-redshift candidates based on their colors in Sloan Digital Sky Survey commissioning...
Discovery of a Close Pair of z = 4.25 Quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2000)
Schneider, Donald P., Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Gunn, James E., Richards, Gordon T., Knapp, G. R., ...
We report the discovery of a pair of z = 4.25 quasars with a separation of 33 arcseconds. The brighter of the two objects was identified as a high-redshift quasar candidate from Sloan Digital Sky...
Churchill, Christopher W., Mellon, Richard R., Charlton, Jane C., Jannuzi, Buell T., Kirhakos, Sofia, Steidel, Charles C., ...
[Abridged] We examine a sample of 45 Mg II absorption-selected systems over the redshift range 0.4 to 1.4. Mg II and Fe II absorption profiles were observed at a resolution of ~6 km/s with...
Churchill, Christopher W., Mellon, Richard R., Charlton, Jane C., Jannuzi, Buell T., Kirhakos, Sofia, Steidel, Charles C., ...
We present extensive metal-line absorption properties for 45 absorption systems that were selected by their Mg II absorption at redshifts between 0.4 and 1.4. For each system the properties of...
Dust Emission from High Redshift QSOs (2000)
Carilli, C. L., Bertoldi, F., Menten, K. M., Rupen, M. P., Kreysa, E., Fan, Xiaohui, ...
We present detections of emission at 250 GHz (1.2 mm) from two high redshift QSOs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey sample using the bolometer array at the IRAM 30m telescope. The sources are SDSSp...
The X-ray Properties of z>4 Quasars (2000)
Kaspi, Shai, Brandt, W. N., Schneider, Donald P.
We report on a search for X-ray emission from quasars with redshifts greater than four using the ROSAT public database. Our search has doubled the number of z>4 quasars detected in X-rays from 6 to...
An Unusual Mini-BAL Quasar at z=4.59 (1999)
Churchill, Christopher W., Schneider, Donald P., Schmidt, Maarten, Gunn, James E.
The z=4.591 quasar PC 1415+3408 exhibits very strong associated metal-line absorption from the N V (1238,1242), Si IV (1393,1402), and C IV (1548,1550) doublets spanning the velocity interval -1700 <...
The host galaxies of three radio-loud quasars: 3C 48, 3C 345, and B2 1425+267 (1999)
Kirhakos, Sofia, Bahcall, John N., Schneider, Donald P., Kristian, Jerome
Observations with the Wide-Field/Planetary Camera-2 of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are presented for three radio-loud quasars: 3C 48 (z=0.367), B2 1425+267 (z=0.366), and 3C 345 (z=0.594). All...
Spectroscopy of Quasar Candidates from SDSS Commissioning Data (1998)
Fan, Xiaohui, Strauss, Michael A., Annis, James, Gunn, James E., Hennessy, Gregory S., Ivezic, Zeljko, ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has obtained images in five broad-band colors for several hundred square degrees. We present color-color diagrams for stellar objects, and demonstrate that quasars are...
Optically Identified BL Lacertae Objects From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (1998)
Collinge, Matthew J., Strauss, Michael A., Hall, Patrick B., Ivezic, Zeljko, Munn, Jeffrey A., Schlegel, David J., ...
We present a sample of 386 BL Lacertae candidates identified from 2860 deg(exp 2) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic database. The candidates are primarily selected to have...
The White Dwarf Luminosity Function from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data (1998)
Harris, Hugh C., Munn, Jeffrey A., Kilic, Mukremin, Liebert, James, Kleinman, S. J., Metcalfe, T. S., ...
A sample of white dwarfs is selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 3 using their reduced proper motions, based on improved proper motions from combined SDSS and USNO-B data....
Cataclysmic Variables from Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. The Fifth Year (2004) (1998)
Szkody, Paula, Henden, Arne, Knapp, Gillian R., Schmidt, Gary D., Watson, Todd K., Winget, Don, ...
This paper identifies the cataclysmic variables that appear in spectra obtained in 2004 as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Spectra of 41 objects, including seven systems that were previously...
Surface Brightness of Starbursts at Low and High Redshifts (1998)
Weedman, Daniel W., Wolovitz, Jeffrey B., Bershady, Matthew A., Schneider, Donald P.
Observations in the rest frame ultraviolet from various space missions are used to define the nearby starburst regions having the highest surface brightness on scales of several hundred pc. The...
Weymann, Ray J., Jannuzi, Buell T., Lu, Limin, Bahcall, John N., Bergeron, Jacqueline, Boksenberg, Alec, ...
We present an analysis of the evolution of the Ly alpha absorption lines in the redshift interval 0.0 to \sim 1.5 based upon a sample of 987 lines identified in the spectra of 63 QSOs obtained with...
Guhathakurta, Puragra, Webster, Zodiac T., Yanny, Brian, Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, John N.
We present F555W (V), F439W (B), and F336W (U) photometry of 9507 stars in the central 2' of the dense, post core collapse cluster M30 (NGC 7099) derived from HST WFPC2 images. These data are used to...
Jannuzi, Buell T., Bahcall, John N., Bergeron, Jacqueline, Boksenberg, Alec, Hartig, George F., Kirhakos, Sofia, ...
We present a catalogue of absorption lines obtained from the analysis of the ultra-violet spectra of 66 quasars. The data were acquired with the Faint Object Spectrograph of the HST as part of the...
Sofia Kirhakos, N. Bahcall, Donald P. Schneider, Jerome Kristian
Observations with the Wide-Field/Planetary Camera-2 of the Hubble Space T elescope are presented for three radio-loud quasars: 3C 48 (z \ 0.367), B2 1425]267 (z \ 0.366), and 3C 345 (z \ 0.594). All...
A Study of Quasar Clustering at z>2.7 from the Palomar Transit Grism Survey (1997)
Stephens, Andrew W., Schneider, Donald P., Schmidt, Maarten, Gunn, James E., Weinberg, David H.
The quest for structure indicators at earlier and earlier times in the evolution of the universe has led to the search for objects with ever higher redshifts. The Palomar Transit Grism Survey has...
Hubble Space Telescope Images of a Sample of Twenty Nearby Luminous Quasars (1996)
Bahcall, John N., Kirhakos, Sofia, Saxe, David H., Schneider, Donald P.
Observations with the Wide-Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope are presented for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These...
Cohen, Randi L., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Yanny, Brian, Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, John N.
To probe the nature of stellar evolution in dense environments, we study the dense core of the globular cluster Messier 13 using pre-refurbishment Planetary Camera-I images obtained with the Hubble...
An Atlas of Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Images of Nearby Galaxies (1996)
Maoz, Dan, Filippenko, Alexei V., Ho, Luis C., Macchetto, F. Duccio, Rix, Hans-Walter, Schneider, Donald P.
We present an atlas of UV ($\sim 2300$ \AA) images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera, of the central $22''\times 22''$ of 110 galaxies. The observed galaxies are an...
Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Images of Five Circumnuclear Star-Forming Rings (1996)
Maoz, Dan, Barth, Aaron J., Sternberg, Amiel, Filippenko, Alexei V., Ho, Luis C., Macchetto, F. Duccio, ...
We present UV (2300 Ang) images, obtained with the HST Faint Object Camera, of the central 20'' of five galaxies containing circumnuclear star-forming rings. The five galaxies are from a well-defined...
Galaxy Clustering Around Nearby Luminous Quasars (1996)
Fisher, Karl B., Bahcall, John N., Kirhakos, Sofia, Schneider, Donald P.
We examine the clustering of galaxies around a sample of 20 luminous low redshift (z
John N. Bahcall, Sofia Kirhakos, H. Saxe, Donald P. Schneider
Observations with the Wide-Field Camera of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) are presented for a representative sample of 20 intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts smaller than 0.30. These...
Guhathakurta, Puragra, Yanny, Brian, Schneider, Donald P., Bahcall, John N.
We describe images of the center of the dense globular cluster M15 (NGC 7078) obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Data taken in the F336W, F439W, and...
The Apparently Normal Galaxy Hosts for Two Luminous Quasars (1995)
Bahcall, John N., Kirhakos, Sofia, Schneider, Donald P.
HST images (with WFPC2) of PHL~909\ ($z = 0.171$) and PG~0052$+$251\ ($z = 0.155$) show that these luminous radio-quiet quasars each occur in an apparently normal host galaxy. The host galaxy of...
The HST Quasar Absorption Line Key Project VII. Absorption Systems at $z_{\rm abs} \leq 1.3$ (1995)
Bahcall, John N., Bergeron, Jacqueline, Boksenberg, Alec, Hartig, George F., Jannuzi, Buell T., Kirhakos, Sofia, ...
We present evidence that clumps of \lya lines are physically associated with about half of the extensive metal-line systems (absorption systems with four or more observed metal-line species) found in...
Bahcall, John N., Kirhakos, Sofia, Schneider, Donald P.
HST observations of eight intrinsically luminous quasars with redshifts between $0.16$ and~$0.29$ are presented. Seven companion galaxies brighter than $M_V = -16.5$ lie within a projected distance...
HST Images of Nearby Luminous Quasars (1994)
Bahcall, John N., Kirhakos, Sofia, Schneider, Donald P.
Strong upper limits are placed on the visual-band brightnesses of galactic hosts for four luminous, radio-quiet quasars with redshifts between $0.16$ and~$0.24$ that were studied with the HST's Wide...
Detection of Compact Ultraviolet Nuclear Emission in LINER Galaxies (1994)
Maoz, Dan, Filippenko, Alexei V., Ho, Luis C., Rix, Hans-Walter, Bahcall, John N., Schneider, Donald P., ...
Low-ionization nuclear emission-line regions (LINERs), which exist in a large fraction of galaxies, may be the least luminous manifestation of quasar activity. The nature of LINERs has, however,...
Laor, Ari, Bahcall, John N., Jannuzi, Buell T., Schneider, Donald P., Green, IAS; Richard F., Hartig, NOAO; George F., ...
We analyze the ultraviolet (UV) emission line and continuum properties of five low-redshift active galactic nuclei (four luminous quasars: PKS~0405$-$123, H1821+643, PG~0953+414, and 3C273, and one...
Properties of High-Redshift Lyman Alpha Clouds I. Statistical Analysis of the SSG Quasars (1993)
Press, William H., Rybicki, George B., Schneider, Donald P.
Techniques for the statistical analysis of the \Lya\ forest in high redshift quasars are developed, and applied to the low resolution (25 \AA) spectra of 29 of the 33 quasars in the...
CCD observations of clusters of galaxies (1982)
A sample of 84 Abell clusters has been investigated to determine photometric and metric properties of brightest cluster galaxies as a function of cluster richness. The clusters are distributed fairly...
CCD observations of clusters of galaxies /--by Donald P. Schneider. (1982)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--California Institute of Technology, 1982.
A Medical Classification System for Ambulatory-care Manpower Planning
Schneider, Donald P., Kilpatrick, Kerry E.
The Trilevel Classification System described adapts the useful features of existing classification systems for convenient use in health manpower analysis. A computer program links the Kaiser...
A Medical Classification System for Ambulatory-care Manpower Planning
Schneider, Donald P., Kilpatrick, Kerry E.
The Trilevel Classification System described adapts the useful features of existing classification systems for convenient use in health manpower analysis. A computer program links the Kaiser...