The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

By K. Abazajian, J. Adelman-McCarthy, Marcel A. Ageros, S. Allam, S. Anderson, James Annis, N. Bahcall, I. Baldry, S. Bastian, A. Berlind and 179 more. 2003

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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 galaxies, quasars, stars and calibrating blank sky patches selected over 1360 deg2 of this area, and tables of measured parameters from these data. The imaging data go to a depth of r ≈ 22.6 and are photometrically and astrometrically calibrated to 2% rms and 100 mas rms per coordinate, respectively. The spectra cover the range 3800–9200 Å, with a resolution of 1800–2100. This paper describes the characteristics of the data with emphasis on improvements since the release of commissioning data (the SDSS Early Data Release) and serves as a pointer to extensive published and on-line documentation of the survey.

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A Catalog of Spectroscopically Confirmed White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 (2006, background): “The SDSS (York et al. 2000; Stoughton et al. 2002; Abazajian et al. 2003, 2004; Finkbeiner et al. 2004; Abazajian et al. 2005; Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2006) is surveying 104 deg2 of highlatitude sky in five bandpasses: u, g, r, i, and z (Fukugita et al. 1996; Gunn et al. 1998, 2006).”
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Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA): ugriz galaxy luminosity functions (2011, background): “Blanton et al. (2003b) analysed a sample of 147,986 galaxies, roughly equivalent to SDSS Data Release 1 (DR1, Abazajian et al. 2003).”
Cosmic Homogeneity Demonstrated with Luminous Red Galaxies (2004, background): “The SDSS (York et al. 2000; Stoughton et al. 2002; Abazajian et al. 2003, 2004) is conducting an imaging survey of 104 deg2 in five bandpasses: u, g, r, i, and z (Fukugita et al. 1996; Gunn et al. 1998).”
The Lyα Forest Power Spectrum from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2004, methodology): “The data sample used in this paper was compiled in Summer 2002 and is a combination of data releases one (Abazajian et al. 2003) and two (Abazajian et al. 2004).”
Double-peaked Low-Ionization Emission Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (2003, methodology): “For more details concerning the SDSS photometry and spectroscopy and the various measurement techniques and quantities, we refer the reader to the Early Data Release publication by Stoughton et al. (2002) and the Data Release One publication by Abazajian et al. (2003).”
What Aspects of Galaxy Environment Matter? (2006, methodology): “The SDSS is taking ugriz CCD imaging of 104 deg2 of the Northern Galactic sky, and, from that imaging, selecting 106 targets for spectroscopy, most of them galaxies with r < 17.77 mag (e.g., Gunn et al. 1998; York et al. 2000; Abazajian et al. 2003).”
On the Spectral Evolution of Cool, Helium-Atmosphere White Dwarfs: Detailed Spectroscopic and Photometric Analysis of DZ Stars (2007, result): “We then present a similar analysis of a much larger sample of DZ stars discovered in the SDSS (Gunn et al. 1998, 2006; Pier et al. 2003; Tucker et al. 2006; Stoughton et al. 2002; Abazajian et al. 2003; AdelmanMcCarthy et al. 2006).”
Theoretical isochrones in several photometric systems. II. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey ugriz system (2004, background): “An Early Data Release (EDR) of SDSS commissioning data occurred in July 2001 (Stoughton et al. 2002), and Data Release 1 (DR1) took place in May 2003 (DR1; Abazajian et al. 2003).”
Preliminary Parallaxes of 40 L and T Dwarfs from the US Naval Observatory Infrared Astrometry Program (2004, background): “It was not, however, until deep, large–scale optical surveys (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey [SDSS]1; York et al. 2000; Abazajian et al. 2003) and near–infrared surveys (the Two Micron All Sky Survey [2MASS2; Skrutskie et al. 1997] and the Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky [DENIS3;…”
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Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model (2017, background): “…of stars and gas embedded in halos of dark matter (Ostriker & Peebles 1973; White & Rees 1978; Mo, Mao & White 1998), and their distribution throughout space traces a cosmic web defined by filaments, nodes, sheets, and voids of matter (Colless 1999; Abazajian et al. 2003; Massey et al. 2007).”
THE DEEP2 GALAXY REDSHIFT SURVEY: DESIGN, OBSERVATIONS, DATA REDUCTION, AND REDSHIFTS (2012, methodology): “We have learned from experience that it is impossible to choose amongst them automatically, unlike in highsignal-to-noise measurements using data with accurate flux calibrations (e.g., SDSS; cf. Abazajian et al. 2003).”
Northern Sky Variability Survey: Public Data Release (2004, positive): “…catalogs from digitized POSS plates (Djorgovski et al. 2001) and multicolor surveys like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; Stoughton et al. 2002; Abazajian et al. 2003) and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS; Skrutskie et al. 1997) when applied to rare objects such as high-z quasars and…”