Journal article
The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey : First Data from SDSS-III
The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, v 193(2)
2011
Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Lyα forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around ~8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg2 in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameter pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high-metallicity stars.
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- Title
- The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey : First Data from SDSS-III
- Creators
- H. Aihara - Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the UniverseC. Allende PrietoD. An - Ewha Womans UniversityS. F. AndersonÉ. Aubourg - Délégation Paris 7E. Balbinot - Federal University of Rio Grande do SulT. C. BeersA. A. BerlindS. J. BickertonD. Bizyaev - Apache CorporationM. R. BlantonJ.J. Bochanski - Pennsylvania State UniversityA. S. BoltonJ. Bovy - New York UniversityW. N. BrandtJ. Brinkmann - Apache CorporationP. J. BrownJ. R. BrownsteinN.G. Busca - Délégation Paris 7Y. Chen - University of Wisconsin–MadisonC. ChiappiniJ. Comparat - University of ProvenceM. Cortes - Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryR.A. C. CroftA. J. CuestaL. N. Da CostaJ. R. A. DavenportK. Dawson - University of UtahS. Dhital - Vanderbilt UniversityA. Ealet - Aix-Marseille UniversityG. L. EbelkeE.M. Edmondson - University of PortsmouthD.J. Eisenstein - Harvard UniversityS. Escoffier - Aix-Marseille UniversityM. Esposito - Spanish National Research CouncilM. L. EvansX. Fan - Steward Health Care SystemB. Femenía CastelláA. Font-Ribera - Institut de Ciències de l'EspaiP. M. FrinchaboyJ. Ge - University of FloridaB. A. GillespieG. Gilmore - University of CambridgeJ. I. González HernándezJ. R GottA. Gould - The Ohio State UniversityE. K. GrebelJ. E. GunnJ.-C. Hamilton - Délégation Paris 7P. Harding - Case Western Reserve UniversityD.W. HarrisS. L. HawleyF. R. HeartyS. Ho - Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryD. W. HoggJ. A. HoltzmanK. Honscheid - The Ohio State UniversityN. Inada - University of TokyoI. I. IvansLiang JiangJ. A. JohnsonC. Jordan - Apache CorporationW. P. JordanE. A. KazinD. Kirkby - University of California, IrvineM.A. Klaene - Apache CorporationG. R. KnappJ.-P. Kneib - University of ProvenceC. S. KochanekL. Koesterke - The University of Texas at AustinJ. A. KollmeierR. G. KronH. Lampeitl - University of PortsmouthD. Lang - Princeton UniversityJ.-M. Le Goff - Département de Physique des Particules (ex SPP)Y. Sun LeeY.-T. Lin - Academia SinicaD. C. LongC. P. LoomisS. Lucatello - National Institute for AstrophysicsB. Lundgren - Yale UniversityR. H. LuptonZ. Ma - Case Western Reserve UniversityN. Macdonald - University of WashingtonS. Mahadevan - Pennsylvania State UniversityM. A. G. MaiaM. MaklerE. Malanushenko - Apache CorporationV. Malanushenko - Apache CorporationR. Mandelbaum - Princeton UniversityC. Maraston - University of PortsmouthD. Margala - University of California, IrvineK. L. MastersC. K. McbrideP. M. McgeheeI. D. McgreerB. Ménard - Johns Hopkins UniversityJ. Miralda-Escudé - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis AvançatsH. L. MorrisonGordon T Richards - Physics
- Publication Details
- The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, v 193(2)
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000289059200007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79955702204
- Other Identifier
- 991019168771904721
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