Journal article
The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, v 172(2), pp 634-644
23 Jul 2007
Abstract
Astrophys.J.Suppl.172:634-644,2007 This paper describes the Fifth Data Release (DR5) of the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey (SDSS). DR5 includes all survey quality data taken through June 2005 and
represents the completion of the SDSS-I project (whose successor, SDSS-II will
continue through mid-2008). It includes five-band photometric data for 217
million objects selected over 8000 square degrees, and 1,048,960 spectra of
galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 5713 square degrees of that imaging
data. These numbers represent a roughly 20% increment over those of the Fourth
Data Release; all the data from previous data releases are included in the
present release. In addition to "standard" SDSS observations, DR5 includes
repeat scans of the southern equatorial stripe, imaging scans across M31 and
the core of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the first spectroscopic data
from SEGUE, a survey to explore the kinematics and chemical evolution of the
Galaxy. The catalog database incorporates several new features, including
photometric redshifts of galaxies, tables of matched objects in overlap regions
of the imaging survey, and tools that allow precise computations of survey
geometry for statistical investigations.
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Details
- Title
- The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
- Creators
- Jennifer K Adelman-McCarthy - Fermilabfor the SDSS CollaborationGordon T Richards - Physics
- Publication Details
- The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, v 172(2), pp 634-644
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000249588000005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-35348865433
- Other Identifier
- 991019168135504721
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