The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

By J. Adelman-McCarthy, M. Agüeros, Sahar Allam, Kurt S. J. Anderson, S. Anderson, J. Annes, N. Bahcall, Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones, I. Baldry, John C. Barentine and 144 more. 2007

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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 allow precise computations of survey geometry for statistical investigations.

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PHOTOMETRIC RESPONSE FUNCTIONS OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY IMAGER (2010, methodology): “We also study the actual data, which are published in SDSS catalogs (Abazajian et al. 2003, 2004, 2005; Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2006, 2007, 2008) after processing and calibrations by the photometric pipelines with the aid of the monitor telescope pipeline (Stoughton et al. 2002; Tucker et al. 2006).”
A halo model of galaxy colours and clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2008, methodology): “We use two volumelimited large-scale structure samples built from the NYU Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (Blanton et al. 2005b) from SDSS DR4plus, which is a subset of SDSS Data Release 5 (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007).”
THE INVISIBLES: A DETECTION ALGORITHM TO TRACE THE FAINTEST MILKY WAY SATELLITES (2008, methodology): “Keller et al. (2007) states an average seeing at Siding Spring of ∼ 1.5 arcsec as derived from observing logs of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT), on par with the median 1.4 arcsec seeing of the SDSS site (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007).”
The Dark Energy Survey Image Processing Pipeline (2018, methodology): “The S fields overlap with SDSS stripe 82 (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007, Abazajian et al. 2009).”
CHEMICAL CARTOGRAPHY WITH APOGEE: LARGE-SCALE MEAN METALLICITY MAPS OF THE MILKY WAY DISK (2013, background): “The slope of the vertical gradient has been measured to be −0.22 dex kpc−1 (Ak et al. 2007) for |z| < 3 kpc in a sample of high-latitude G dwarfs from DR5 (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007) of the SDSS, −0.22 dex kpc−1 in a sample of horizontal-branch stars (Chen et al. 2011) from DR8 (Aihara et al. 201”
CONSTRAINING THE AGE–ACTIVITY RELATION FOR COOL STARS: THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY DATA RELEASE 5 LOW-MASS STAR SPECTROSCOPIC SAMPLE (2007, background): “In addition to the photometric data, the SDSS has obtained spectra for over 50,000 M dwarfs and the numbers continue to increase as SDSS-II (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007b) pushes to lower Galactic latitudes.”
CATALOG OF ULTRA-DIFFUSE GALAXIES IN THE COMA CLUSTERS FROM SUBARU IMAGING DATA (2016, background): “In the plot, the possible incompleteness of SDSS spectroscopy (∼10%; Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007)8 is not corrected.”
The stellar halo of the Galaxy (2008, background): “The SDSS has now imaged 8000 deg2 of the sky yielding a truly panoramic view of the Galaxy (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007).”
Stellar SEDs from 0.3 to 2.5 μm: Tracing the Stellar Locus and Searching for Color Outliers in the SDSS and 2MASS (2007, background): “The latest public Data Release (DR5) includes photometry for 2.1 × 108 unique objects over ∼ 8000 deg2 of sky (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007).”
Light and motion in SDSS Stripe 82: The catalogues (2008, background): “One of the primary goals of the SDSS is the study of the variable sky (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007) of which our knowledg is still very incomplete (Paczyński 2000).”
SPECTRA AND HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE LIGHT CURVES OF SIX TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE AT 0.511 < z < 1.12 AND THE UNION2 COMPILATION (2010, methodology): “Neither Tonry et al. (2003) nor Lupton (2005) present fits for I − iSDSS vs rSDSS − iSDSS.”
The clustering of intermediate-redshift quasars as measured by the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (2012, result): “When comparing to previous work, we do not plot the last 4 points quoted in Table 2 of the SDSS Data Releas5 (DR5 Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007) quasar clustering analysis of Ross et al. (2009).”
PRE-REIONIZATION FOSSILS, ULTRA-FAINT DWARFS, AND THE MISSING GALACTIC SATELLITE PROBLEM (2008, methodology): “The new Milky Way satellites were discovered using SDSS Data Release 4 and 5 (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2006, 2007).”
A SURVEY OF z ∼ 6 QUASARS IN THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY DEEP STRIPE. I. A FLUX-LIMITED SAMPLE AT zAB < 21 (2007, methodology): “In addition to the main survey, SDSS also conducts a deep survey by repeatedly imaging a 300 deg2 area on the Celestial Equator in the south Galactic cap in the Fall (hereafter referred to as the SDSS deep survey; Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007a).”
SPACE DENSITY OF OPTICALLY SELECTED TYPE 2 QUASARS (2008, methodology): “Measurement of [O iii]5007 Luminosities We measure [O iii]5007 line luminosities from spectra calibrated with the most recent spectrophotometric calibration algorithm (Adelman-McCarthy et al. 2007; also see the beginning of Section 2.3).”