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The fifth data release of the sloan digital sky survey
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| Title: | The fifth data release of the sloan digital sky survey |
| Authors: | Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K.
Agueros, Marcel A.
Allam, Sahar S.
Anderson, Kurt S. J.
et al. |
| Keywords: | Atlases
Catalogs
Surveys |
| Issue Date: | Oct-2007 |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Citation: | Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 172(2): pp. 634-644. |
| Abstract: | 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 project (whose successor, SDSS-II,
will continue through mid-2008). It includes five-band photometric data for 217 million objects selected over 8000 deg2
and 1,048,960 spectra of galaxies, quasars, and stars selected from 5713 deg2 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 allowprecise computations of survey geometry for statistical investigations. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1860/2594 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty Research and Publications (Physics)
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