The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey

Kevork N. Abazajian; Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy; Marcel A. Agüeros; Sahar S. Allam; Carlos Allende Prieto; Deokkeun An; Kurt S.J. Anderson; Scott F. Anderson; James Annis; Neta A. Bahcall; C. A.L. Bailer-Jones; J. C. Barentine; Bruce A. Bassett; Andrew C. Becker; Timothy C. Beers; Eric F. Bell; Vasily Belokurov; Andreas A. Berlind; Eileen F. Berman; Mariangela Bernardi; Steven J. Bickerton; Dmitry Bizyaev; John P. Blakeslee; Michael R. Blanton; John J. Bochanski; William N. Boroski; Howard J. Brewington; Jarle Brinchmann; J. Brinkmann; Robert J. Brunner; Tams Budavri; Larry N. Carey; Samuel Carliles; Michael A. Carr; Francisco J. Castander; David Cinabro; A. J. Connolly; Istvn Csabai; Carlos E. Cunha; Paul C. Czarapata; James R.A. Davenport; Ernst De Haas; Ben Dilday; Mamoru Doi; Daniel J. Eisenstein; Michael L. Evans; N. W. Evans; Xiaohui Fan; Scott D. Friedman; Joshua A. Frieman; Masataka Fukugita; Boris T. Gänsicke; Evalyn Gates; Bruce Gillespie; G. Gilmore; Belinda Gonzalez; Carlos F. Gonzalez; Eva K. Grebel; James E. Gunn; Zsuzsanna Györy; Patrick B. Hall; Paul Harding; Frederick H. Harris; Michael Harvanek; Suzanne L. Hawley; Jeffrey J.E. Hayes; Timothy M. Heckman; John S. Hendry; Gregory S. Hennessy; Robert B. Hindsley; J. Hoblitt; Craig J. Hogan; David W. Hogg; Jon A. Holtzman; Joseph B. Hyde; Shin Ichi Ichikawa; Takashi Ichikawa; Myungshin Im; Eljko Ivezić; Sebastian Jester; Linhua Jiang; Jennifer A. Johnson; Anders M. Jorgensen; Mario Jurić; Stephen M. Kent; R. Kessler; S. J. Kleinman; G. R. Knapp; Kohki Konishi; Richard G. Kron; Jurek Krzesinski; Nikolay Kuropatkin; Hubert Lampeitl; Svetlana Lebedeva; Myung Gyoon Lee; Young Sun Lee; R. French Leger; Sébastien Lépine; Nolan Li; Marcos Lima; Huan Lin; Daniel C. Long; Craig P. Loomis; Jon Loveday; Robert H. Lupton; Eugene Magnier; Olena Malanushenko; Viktor Malanushenko; Rachel Mandelbaum; Bruce Margon; John P. Marriner; David Martínez-Delgado; Takahiko Matsubara; Peregrine M. McGehee; Timothy A. McKay; Avery Meiksin; Heather L. Morrison; Fergal Mullally; Jeffrey A. Munn; Tara Murphy; Thomas Nash; Ada Nebot; Eric H. Neilsen; Heidi Jo Newberg; Peter R. Newman; Robert C. Nichol; Tom Nicinski; Maria Nieto-Santisteban; Atsuko Nitta; Sadanori Okamura; Daniel J. Oravetz; Jeremiah P. Ostriker; Russell Owen; Nikhil Padmanabhan; Kaike Pan; Changbom Park; George Pauls; John Peoples; Will J. Percival; Jeffrey R. Pier; Adrian C. Pope; Dimitri Pourbaix; Paul A. Price; Norbert Purger; Thomas Quinn; M. Jordan Raddick; Paola Re Fiorentin; Gordon T. Richards; Michael W. Richmond; Adam G. Riess; Hans Walter Rix; Constance M. Rockosi; Masao Sako; David J. Schlegel; Donald P. Schneider; Ralf Dieter Scholz; Matthias R. Schreiber; Axel D. Schwope; Uroš Seljak; Branimir Sesar; Erin Sheldon; Kazu Shimasaku; Valena C. Sibley; A. E. Simmons; Thirupathi Sivarani; J. Allyn Smith; Martin C. Smith; Vernesa Smolić; Stephanie A. Snedden; Albert Stebbins; Matthias Steinmetz; Chris Stoughton; Michael A. Strauss; Mark Subbarao; Yasushi Suto; Alexander S. Szalay; Istvn Szapudi; Paula Szkody; Masayuki Tanaka; Max Tegmark; Luis F.A. Teodoro; Aniruddha R. Thakar; Christy A. Tremonti; Douglas L. Tucker; Alan Uomoto; Daniel E. Vanden Berk; Jan Vandenberg; S. Vidrih; Michael S. Vogeley; Wolfgang Voges; Nicole P. Vogt; Yogesh Wadadekar; Shannon Watters; David H. Weinberg; Andrew A. West; Simon D.M. White; Brian C. Wilhite; Alainna C. Wonders; Brian Yanny; D. R. Yocum; Donald G. York; Idit Zehavi; Stefano Zibetti; Daniel B. Zucker

doi:10.1088/0067-0049/182/2/543

The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey

Kevork N. Abazajian, Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy, Marcel A. Agüeros, Sahar S. Allam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Deokkeun An, Kurt S.J. Anderson, Scott F. Anderson, James Annis, Neta A. Bahcall, C. A.L. Bailer-Jones, J. C. Barentine, Bruce A. Bassett, Andrew C. Becker, Timothy C. Beers, Eric F. Bell, Vasily Belokurov, Andreas A. Berlind, Eileen F. Berman, Mariangela BernardiSteven J. Bickerton, Dmitry Bizyaev, John P. Blakeslee, Michael R. Blanton, John J. Bochanski, William N. Boroski, Howard J. Brewington, Jarle Brinchmann, J. Brinkmann, Robert J. Brunner, Tams Budavri, Larry N. Carey, Samuel Carliles, Michael A. Carr, Francisco J. Castander, David Cinabro, A. J. Connolly, Istvn Csabai, Carlos E. Cunha, Paul C. Czarapata, James R.A. Davenport, Ernst De Haas, Ben Dilday, Mamoru Doi, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Michael L. Evans, N. W. Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Scott D. Friedman, Joshua A. Frieman, Masataka Fukugita, Boris T. Gänsicke, Evalyn Gates, Bruce Gillespie, G. Gilmore, Belinda Gonzalez, Carlos F. Gonzalez, Eva K. Grebel, James E. Gunn, Zsuzsanna Györy, Patrick B. Hall, Paul Harding, Frederick H. Harris, Michael Harvanek, Suzanne L. Hawley, Jeffrey J.E. Hayes, Timothy M. Heckman, John S. Hendry, Gregory S. Hennessy, Robert B. Hindsley, J. Hoblitt, Craig J. Hogan, David W. Hogg, Jon A. Holtzman, Joseph B. Hyde, Shin Ichi Ichikawa, Takashi Ichikawa, Myungshin Im, Eljko Ivezić, Sebastian Jester, Linhua Jiang, Jennifer A. Johnson, Anders M. Jorgensen, Mario Jurić, Stephen M. Kent, R. Kessler, S. J. Kleinman, G. R. Knapp, Kohki Konishi, Richard G. Kron, Jurek Krzesinski, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Hubert Lampeitl, Svetlana Lebedeva, Myung Gyoon Lee, Young Sun Lee, R. French Leger, Sébastien Lépine, Nolan Li, Marcos Lima, Huan Lin, Daniel C. Long, Craig P. Loomis, Jon Loveday, Robert H. Lupton, Eugene Magnier, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Rachel Mandelbaum, Bruce Margon, John P. Marriner, David Martínez-Delgado, Takahiko Matsubara, Peregrine M. McGehee, Timothy A. McKay, Avery Meiksin, Heather L. Morrison, Fergal Mullally, Jeffrey A. Munn, Tara Murphy, Thomas Nash, Ada Nebot, Eric H. Neilsen, Heidi Jo Newberg, Peter R. Newman, Robert C. Nichol, Tom Nicinski, Maria Nieto-Santisteban, Atsuko Nitta, Sadanori Okamura, Daniel J. Oravetz, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Russell Owen, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Kaike Pan, Changbom Park, George Pauls, John Peoples, Will J. Percival, Jeffrey R. Pier, Adrian C. Pope, Dimitri Pourbaix, Paul A. Price, Norbert Purger, Thomas Quinn, M. Jordan Raddick, Paola Re Fiorentin, Gordon T. Richards, Michael W. Richmond, Adam G. Riess, Hans Walter Rix, Constance M. Rockosi, Masao Sako, David J. Schlegel, Donald P. Schneider, Ralf Dieter Scholz, Matthias R. Schreiber, Axel D. Schwope, Uroš Seljak, Branimir Sesar, Erin Sheldon, Kazu Shimasaku, Valena C. Sibley, A. E. Simmons, Thirupathi Sivarani, J. Allyn Smith, Martin C. Smith, Vernesa Smolić, Stephanie A. Snedden, Albert Stebbins, Matthias Steinmetz, Chris Stoughton, Michael A. Strauss, Mark Subbarao, Yasushi Suto, Alexander S. Szalay, Istvn Szapudi, Paula Szkody, Masayuki Tanaka, Max Tegmark, Luis F.A. Teodoro, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Christy A. Tremonti, Douglas L. Tucker, Alan Uomoto, Daniel E. Vanden Berk, Jan Vandenberg, S. Vidrih, Michael S. Vogeley, Wolfgang Voges, Nicole P. Vogt, Yogesh Wadadekar, Shannon Watters, David H. Weinberg, Andrew A. West, Simon D.M. White, Brian C. Wilhite, Alainna C. Wonders, Brian Yanny, D. R. Yocum, Donald G. York, Idit Zehavi, Stefano Zibetti, Daniel B. Zucker

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Abstract

This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11,663deg² of imaging data, with most of the 2000deg² increment over the previous data release lying in regions of low Galactic latitude. The catalog contains five-band photometry for 357million distinct objects. The survey also includes repeat photometry on a 120° long, 25 wide stripe along the celestial equator in the Southern Galactic Cap, with some regions covered by as many as 90individual imaging runs. We include a co-addition of the best of these data, going roughly 2mag fainter than the main survey over 250deg². The survey has completed spectroscopy over 9380deg²; the spectroscopy is now complete over a large contiguous area of the Northern Galactic Cap, closing the gap that was present in previous data releases. There are over 1.6million spectra in total, including 930,000galaxies, 120,000quasars, and 460,000stars. The data release includes improved stellar photometry at low Galactic latitude. The astrometry has all been recalibrated with the second version of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog, reducing the rms statistical errors at the bright end to 45milliarcseconds per coordinate. We further quantify a systematic error in bright galaxy photometry due to poor sky determination; this problem is less severe than previously reported for the majority of galaxies. Finally, we describe a series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions, including better flat fielding and improved wavelength calibration at the blue end, better processing of objects with extremely strong narrow emission lines, and an improved determination of stellar metallicities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	543-558
Number of pages	16
Journal	Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series
Volume	182
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/182/2/543
State	Published - 2009

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

Keywords

Atlases
Catalogs
Surveys

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Abazajian, K. N., Adelman-Mccarthy, J. K., Agüeros, M. A., Allam, S. S., Allende Prieto, C., An, D., Anderson, K. S. J., Anderson, S. F., Annis, J., Bahcall, N. A., Bailer-Jones, C. A. L., Barentine, J. C., Bassett, B. A., Becker, A. C., Beers, T. C., Bell, E. F., Belokurov, V., Berlind, A. A., Berman, E. F., ... Zucker, D. B. (2009). The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey. Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, 182(2), 543-558. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/182/2/543

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AU - Sako, Masao

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AU - Schreiber, Matthias R.

AU - Schwope, Axel D.

AU - Seljak, Uroš

AU - Sesar, Branimir

AU - Sheldon, Erin

AU - Shimasaku, Kazu

AU - Sibley, Valena C.

AU - Simmons, A. E.

AU - Sivarani, Thirupathi

AU - Smith, J. Allyn

AU - Smith, Martin C.

AU - Smolić, Vernesa

AU - Snedden, Stephanie A.

AU - Stebbins, Albert

AU - Steinmetz, Matthias

AU - Stoughton, Chris

AU - Strauss, Michael A.

AU - Subbarao, Mark

AU - Suto, Yasushi

AU - Szalay, Alexander S.

AU - Szapudi, Istvn

AU - Szkody, Paula

AU - Tanaka, Masayuki

AU - Tegmark, Max

AU - Teodoro, Luis F.A.

AU - Thakar, Aniruddha R.

AU - Tremonti, Christy A.

AU - Tucker, Douglas L.

AU - Uomoto, Alan

AU - Vanden Berk, Daniel E.

AU - Vandenberg, Jan

AU - Vidrih, S.

AU - Vogeley, Michael S.

AU - Voges, Wolfgang

AU - Vogt, Nicole P.

AU - Wadadekar, Yogesh

AU - Watters, Shannon

AU - Weinberg, David H.

AU - West, Andrew A.

AU - White, Simon D.M.

AU - Wilhite, Brian C.

AU - Wonders, Alainna C.

AU - Yanny, Brian

AU - Yocum, D. R.

AU - York, Donald G.

AU - Zehavi, Idit

AU - Zibetti, Stefano

AU - Zucker, Daniel B.

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11,663deg2 of imaging data, with most of the 2000deg2 increment over the previous data release lying in regions of low Galactic latitude. The catalog contains five-band photometry for 357million distinct objects. The survey also includes repeat photometry on a 120° long, 25 wide stripe along the celestial equator in the Southern Galactic Cap, with some regions covered by as many as 90individual imaging runs. We include a co-addition of the best of these data, going roughly 2mag fainter than the main survey over 250deg2. The survey has completed spectroscopy over 9380deg2; the spectroscopy is now complete over a large contiguous area of the Northern Galactic Cap, closing the gap that was present in previous data releases. There are over 1.6million spectra in total, including 930,000galaxies, 120,000quasars, and 460,000stars. The data release includes improved stellar photometry at low Galactic latitude. The astrometry has all been recalibrated with the second version of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog, reducing the rms statistical errors at the bright end to 45milliarcseconds per coordinate. We further quantify a systematic error in bright galaxy photometry due to poor sky determination; this problem is less severe than previously reported for the majority of galaxies. Finally, we describe a series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions, including better flat fielding and improved wavelength calibration at the blue end, better processing of objects with extremely strong narrow emission lines, and an improved determination of stellar metallicities.

AB - This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11,663deg2 of imaging data, with most of the 2000deg2 increment over the previous data release lying in regions of low Galactic latitude. The catalog contains five-band photometry for 357million distinct objects. The survey also includes repeat photometry on a 120° long, 25 wide stripe along the celestial equator in the Southern Galactic Cap, with some regions covered by as many as 90individual imaging runs. We include a co-addition of the best of these data, going roughly 2mag fainter than the main survey over 250deg2. The survey has completed spectroscopy over 9380deg2; the spectroscopy is now complete over a large contiguous area of the Northern Galactic Cap, closing the gap that was present in previous data releases. There are over 1.6million spectra in total, including 930,000galaxies, 120,000quasars, and 460,000stars. The data release includes improved stellar photometry at low Galactic latitude. The astrometry has all been recalibrated with the second version of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog, reducing the rms statistical errors at the bright end to 45milliarcseconds per coordinate. We further quantify a systematic error in bright galaxy photometry due to poor sky determination; this problem is less severe than previously reported for the majority of galaxies. Finally, we describe a series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions, including better flat fielding and improved wavelength calibration at the blue end, better processing of objects with extremely strong narrow emission lines, and an improved determination of stellar metallicities.

KW - Atlases

KW - Catalogs

KW - Surveys

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U2 - 10.1088/0067-0049/182/2/543

DO - 10.1088/0067-0049/182/2/543

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:67649661953

SN - 0067-0049

VL - 182

SP - 543

EP - 558

JO - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

JF - Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

IS - 2

ER -

The seventh data release of the sloan digital sky survey

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