The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

N. Abazajian, Kevork; Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer; A. Agüeros, Marcel; Allam, S.; J. Anderson Kurt, S.; F. Anderson, Scott; Annis, James; A. Bahcall, Neta; K. Baldry, I.; Bastian, Steven; A. Berlind, Andreas; Bernardi, Mariangela; R. Blanton, Michael; J. Bochanski, John; N. Boroski, William; W. Briggs, John; Brinkmann, J.; J. Brunner, Robert; Budavári, Tamás; Carey, Larry; Carliles, Samuel; J. Castander, F.; J. Connolly, Andrew; Csabai, István; Doi, Mamoru; Dong, Feng; J. Eisenstein, Daniel; L. Evans, Michael; Fan, Xiaohui; P. Finkbeiner, Douglas; D. Friedman, S.; A. Frieman, Joshua; Fukugita, M.; R. Gal, R.; Gillespie, Bruce; Glazebrook, Karl; Gray, Jim; K. Grebel, E.; E. Gunn, James; K. Gurbani, Vijay; B. Hall, Patrick; Hamabe, Masaru; H. Harris, Frederick; C. Harris, Hugh; Harvanek, Michael; M. Heckman, Timothy; S. Hendry, John; S. Hennessy, G.; B. Hindsley, Robert; J. Hogan, Craig; W. Hogg, David; Holmgren, D.; Ichikawa, Shin-ichi; Ichikawa, Takashi; Ivezić, Željko; Jester, Sebastian; E. Johnston, David; M. Jorgensen, A.; Kent, S.; J. Kleinman, S.; R. Knapp, G.; Y. Kniazev, A.; G. Kron, Richard; Krzesiński, J.; Kunszt, Peter; Kuropatkin, Nickolai; Q. Lamb, Donald; Lampeitl, Hubert; Lee, Brian; French Leger, R.; Li, Nolan; Lin, H.; S. Loh, Y.; C. Long, Daniel; Loveday, J.; H. Lupton, Robert; Malik, Tanu; Margon, B.; Matsubara, Takahiko; McGehee, P.; A. McKay, Timothy; Meiksin, Avery; A. Munn, Jeffrey; Nakajima, Reiko; Nash, Thomas; H. Neilsen, Eric; Jo Newberg, Heidi; R. Newman, Peter; C. Nichol, R.; Nicinski, Tom; A. Nieto‐Santisteban, M.; Nitta, A.; Okamura, Sadanori; O’Mullane, William; P. Ostriker, Jeremiah; Owen, Russell; Padmanabhan, Nikhil; Peoples, J.; R. Pier, Jeffrey; Pope, Adrian; Quinn, Thomas; T. Richards, Gordon; Richmond, M.; Rix, Hans-Walter; M. Rockosi, Constance; J. Schlegel, David; P. Schneider, Donald; Scranton, Ryan; Sekiguchi, M.; Seljak, Uroš; Sergey, G.; Sesar, Branimir; Sheldon, E.; Shimasaku, K.; A. Siegmund, Walter; M. Silvestri, Nicole; A. Smith, J.; Smolčić, V.; A. Snedden, Stephanie; Stebbins, Albert; Stoughton, Chris; A. Strauss, Michael; SubbaRao, Mark; S. Szalay, Alexander; Szapudi, István; Szkody, Paula; Szokoly, G.; Tegmark, Max; F. A. Teodoro, L.; R. Thakar, Aniruddha; Tremonti, Christy; L. Tucker, D.; Uomoto, Alan; E. vanden Berk, D.; Vandenberg, Jan; S. Vogeley, Michael; Voges, W.; P. Vogt, Nicole; M. Walkowicz, Lucianne; Wang, Shu-i; H. Weinberg, David; A. West, Andrew; D. M. White, Simon; C. Wilhite, Brian; Xu, Yongzhong; Yanny, B.; Yasuda, Naoki; W. Yip, C.; R. Yocum, D.; G. York, Donald; Zehavi, Idit; Zibetti, S.; B. Zucker, D.

doi:10.1086/421365

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The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Published in The Astronomical Journal • Jul 1, 2004

Authors:

Kevork N. Abazajian

Jennifer Adelman-McCarthy

Marcel A. Agüeros

Abstract

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg² of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for over 88 million unique objects, 367,360 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars, and calibrating blank sky ...

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Sky

Photometry (optics)

Quasar

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