THE EIGHTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST DATA FROM SDSS-III

被引:1214
作者
Aihara, Hiroaki [2 ]
Allende Prieto, Carlos [3 ,4 ]
An, Deokkeun [5 ]
Anderson, Scott F. [6 ]
Aubourg, Eric [7 ,8 ]
Balbinot, Eduardo [9 ,10 ]
Beers, Timothy C. [11 ,12 ]
Berlind, Andreas A. [13 ]
Bickerton, Steven J. [1 ]
Bizyaev, Dmitry [14 ]
Blanton, Michael R. [15 ]
Bochanski, John J. [16 ]
Bolton, Adam S. [17 ]
Bovy, Jo [15 ]
Brandt, W. N. [16 ,18 ]
Brinkmann, J. [14 ]
Brown, Peter J. [17 ]
Brownstein, Joel R. [17 ]
Busca, Nicolas G.
Campbell, Heather [19 ]
Carr, Michael A. [1 ]
Chen, Yanmei [20 ]
Chiappini, Cristina [10 ,21 ,22 ]
Comparat, Johan [23 ]
Connolly, Natalia [24 ]
Cortes, Marina [25 ]
Croft, Rupert A. C. [26 ]
Cuesta, Antonio J. [27 ]
da Costa, Luiz N. [10 ,28 ]
Davenport, James R. A. [6 ]
Dawson, Kyle [17 ]
Dhital, Saurav [13 ]
Ealet, Anne [29 ]
Ebelke, Garrett L. [14 ,30 ]
Edmondson, Edward M. [19 ]
Eisenstein, Daniel J. [31 ,32 ]
Escoffier, Stephanie [29 ]
Esposito, Massimiliano [3 ,4 ]
Evans, Michael L. [6 ]
Fan, Xiaohui [31 ]
Femenia Castella, Bruno [3 ,4 ]
Font-Ribera, Andreu [33 ]
Frinchaboy, Peter M. [34 ]
Ge, Jian [35 ]
Gillespie, Bruce A. [14 ]
Gilmore, G. [36 ]
Gonzalez Hernandez, Jonay I. [3 ]
Gott, J. Richard [1 ]
Gould, Andrew [37 ]
Grebel, Eva K. [38 ]
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[2] Univ Tokyo, Inst Phys & Math Universe, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778583, Japan
[3] Inst Astrofis Canarias, E-38205 Tenerife, Spain
[4] Univ La Laguna, Dept Astrofis, E-38206 Tenerife, Spain
[5] Ewha Womans Univ, Dept Sci Educ, Seoul 120750, South Korea
[6] Univ Washington, Dept Astron, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[7] Univ Paris Diderot, Astroparticule & Cosmol APC, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[8] CEA, Ctr Saclay, Irfu SPP, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[9] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Inst Fis, BR-91501970 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
[10] Lab Interinst E Astron LIneA, BR-20921400 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[11] Michigan State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[12] Michigan State Univ, Joint Inst Nucl Astrophys, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[13] Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
[14] Apache Point Observ, Sunspot, NM 88349 USA
[15] NYU, Ctr Cosmol & Particle Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA
[16] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Davey Lab 525, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[17] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[18] Penn State Univ, Inst Gravitat & Cosmos, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[19] Univ Portsmouth, Inst Cosmol & Gravitat, Portsmouth PO1 3FX, Hants, England
[20] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Astron, Madison, WI 53703 USA
[21] Astrophys Inst Potsdam, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
[22] Ist Nazl Astrofis, I-34143 Trieste, Italy
[23] Univ Aix Marseille 1, CNRS, Lab Astrophys Marseille, F-13388 Marseille 13, France
[24] Hamilton Coll, Dept Phys, Clinton, NY 13323 USA
[25] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[26] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Bruce & Astrid McWilliams Ctr Cosmol, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
[27] Yale Univ, Yale Ctr Astron & Astrophys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[28] Observ Nacl, BR-20921400 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[29] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IN2P3, Ctr Phys Particules Marseille, Marseille, France
[30] New Mexico State Univ, Dept Astron, Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA
[31] Univ Arizona, Steward Observ, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
[32] Harvard Coll Observ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[33] CSIC, IEEC, Inst Ciencies Espai, E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
[34] Texas Christian Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Ft Worth, TX 76129 USA
[35] Univ Florida, Dept Astron, Bryant Space Sci Ctr, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[36] Univ Cambridge, Inst Astron, Cambridge CB3 0HA, England
[37] Ohio State Univ, Dept Astron, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[38] Univ Heidelberg, Zentrum Astron, Astron Rechen Inst, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
[39] Case Western Reserve Univ, Dept Astron, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA
[40] Univ Virginia, Dept Astron, Charlottesville, VA 22904 USA
[41] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[42] Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Sci, Res Ctr Early Universe, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[43] Univ Calif Irvine, Dept Phys & Astron, Irvine, CA 92697 USA
[44] Univ Texas Austin, Texas Adv Comp Ctr, Austin, TX 78758 USA
[45] Observ Carnegie Inst Washington, Pasadena, CA 91101 USA
[46] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[47] Univ Chicago, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[48] Acad Sinica, Inst Astron & Astrophys, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
[49] INAF, Osservatorio Astrono Padova, I-35122 Padua, Italy
[50] Penn State Univ, Ctr Exoplanets & Habitable Worlds, Davey Lab 525, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
atlases; catalogs; surveys; SPECTROSCOPIC TARGET SELECTION; STAR-FORMING GALAXIES; 7TH DATA RELEASE; OPEN CLUSTERS; WHITE-DWARFS; USNO-B; SEGUE; RESOLUTION; TELESCOPE; CATALOG;
D O I
10.1088/0067-0049/193/2/29
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
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 Ly alpha forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around similar to 8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg(2) in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg(2), or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and 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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