THE EIGHTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY: FIRST DATA FROM SDSS-III
H. Aihara(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe), Carlos Allende Prieto(Universidad de La Laguna), Deokkeun An(Ewha Womans University), Scott F. Anderson(University of Washington), É. Aubourg(Université Paris Cité), E. Balbinot(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Timothy C. Beers(Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics), Andreas A. Berlind(Vanderbilt University), Steven J. Bickerton(Princeton University), Dmitry Bizyaev(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Michael R. Blanton(New York University), John J. Bochanski(Pennsylvania State University), A. Bolton(University of Utah), Jo Bovy(New York University), W. N. Brandt(Pennsylvania State University), J. Brinkmann(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), P. J. Brown(University of Utah), Joel R. Brownstein(University of Utah), Nicolás G. Busca(Université Paris Cité), H. Campbell(University of Portsmouth), Michael A. Carr(Princeton University), Yanmei Chen(University of Wisconsin–Madison), C. Chiappini(Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam), Johan Comparat(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), N. Connolly(Hamilton College), Marina Cortês(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Rupert A. C. Croft(Carnegie Mellon University), Antonio J. Cuesta(Yale University), Luiz N. da Costa(Valongo Observatory), James R. A. Davenport(University of Washington), Kyle Dawson(University of Utah), Saurav Dhital(Vanderbilt University), Anne Ealet(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Garrett Ebelke(New Mexico State University), Edward M. Edmondson(University of Portsmouth), Daniel J. Eisenstein(Harvard College Observatory), S. Escoffier(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), M. Esposito(Universidad de La Laguna), Michael L. Evans(University of Washington), Xiaohui Fan, Bruno Femenía Castellá(Universidad de La Laguna), Andreu Font-Ribera(Institute of Space Sciences), Peter M. Frinchaboy(Texas Christian University), Jian Ge(University of Florida), Bruce Gillespie(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), G. Gilmore(University of Cambridge), J. I. Gónzalez Hernández(Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), J. Richard Gott(Princeton University), Andrew Gould(The Ohio State University), E. K. Grebel(Heidelberg University), James E. Gunn(Princeton University), J.–Ch. Hamilton(Université Paris Cité), Paul Harding(Case Western Reserve University), D. E. Harris(University of Utah), Suzanne L. Hawley(University of Washington), Frederick R. Hearty(University of Virginia), Shirley Ho(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), David W. Hogg(New York University), Jon A. Holtzman(New Mexico State University), Klaus Honscheid(The Ohio State University), Naohisa Inada(The University of Tokyo), Inese I. Ivans(University of Utah), Linhua Jiang, Jennifer A. Johnson(The Ohio State University), C. Jordan(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Wendell P. Jordan(New Mexico State University), Eyal Kazin(New York University), D. Kirkby(University of California, Irvine), Mark A. Klaene(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), G. R. Knapp(Princeton University), Jean‐Paul Kneib(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), C. S. Kochanek(The Ohio State University), Lars Koesterke, Juna A. Kollmeier(Carnegie Observatories), Richard G. Kron(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Hubert Lampeitl(University of Portsmouth), Dustin Lang(Princeton University), Jean-Marc Le Goff(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), Young Sun Lee(Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics), Yen‐Ting Lin(Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica), Daniel C. Long(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Craig Loomis(Princeton University), S. Lucatello(Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova), Britt Lundgren(Yale University), Robert H. Lupton(Princeton University), Zhibo Ma(Case Western Reserve University), Nicholas MacDonald(University of Washington), Suvrath Mahadevan(Pennsylvania State University), M. A. G. Maia(Valongo Observatory), Martin Makler(Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas), Elena Malanushenko(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Viktor Malanushenko(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Rachel Mandelbaum(Princeton University), Claudia Maraston(University of Portsmouth), Daniel Margala(University of California, Irvine), Karen L. Masters(University of Portsmouth), Cameron K. McBride(Vanderbilt University), P. McGehee(California Institute of Technology), Ian D. McGreer, Brice Ménard(Johns Hopkins University), Jordi Miralda‐Escudé(Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats), Heather Morrison(Case Western Reserve University), Susan E. Mullally(Ames Research Center), Demitri Muna(New York University), Jeffrey A. Munn(United States Naval Observatory), Hitoshi Murayama(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe), Adam D. Myers(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Tracy Naugle(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Angelo Fausti Neto(Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Duy Cuong Nguyen(University of Florida), Robert C. Nichol(University of Portsmouth), R. W. O’Connell(University of Virginia), R. L. C. Ogando(Valongo Observatory), Matthew D. Olmstead(University of Utah), Daniel Oravetz(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Nikhil Padmanabhan(Yale University), N. Palanque‐Delabrouille(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), Kaike Pan(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Parul Pandey(University of Utah), Isabelle Pâris(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Will J. Percival(University of Portsmouth), Patrick Petitjean(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Robert Pfaffenberger(New Mexico State University), J. Pforr(University of Portsmouth), S. Phleps(Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), Christophe Pichon(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Matthew M. Pieri(Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics), Francisco Prada(Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), Adrian M. Price-Whelan(New York University), M. Jordan Raddick(Johns Hopkins University), Beatriz Ramos(Valongo Observatory), C. Reylé(Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers Terre Homme Environnement Temps Astronomie), James Rich(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), Gordon T. Richards(Drexel University), Hans‐Walter Rix(Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), A. C. Robin(Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers Terre Homme Environnement Temps Astronomie), H. J. Rocha–Pinto(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Constance M. Rockosi(University of California, Santa Cruz), Natalie A. Roe(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Emmanuel Rollinde(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Ashley J. Ross(University of Portsmouth), Nicholas P. Ross(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Bruno M. Rossetto(Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Ariel G. Sánchez(Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), Conor Sayres(University of Washington), David J. Schlegel(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Katharine J. Schlesinger(The Ohio State University), Sarah J. Schmidt(University of Washington), Donald P. Schneider(Pennsylvania State University), E. S. Sheldon(Brookhaven National Laboratory), Yiping Shu(University of Utah), Jennifer Simmerer(University of Utah), Audrey Simmons(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), T. Sivarani(Indian Institute of Astrophysics), Stephanie A. Snedden(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center), Jennifer Sobeck(University of Chicago), Matthias Steinmetz(Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam), Michael A. Strauss(Princeton University), Alexander S. Szalay(Johns Hopkins University), Masayuki Tanaka(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe), Aniruddha R. Thakar(Johns Hopkins University), D. Thomas(University of Portsmouth), Jeremy L. Tinker(New York University), Benjamin M. Tofflemire(University of Washington), Rita Tojeiro(University of Portsmouth), Christy Tremonti(University of Wisconsin–Madison), Jan Vandenberg(Johns Hopkins University), M. Vargas-Magaña(Université Paris Cité), Licia Verde(Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats), Nicole P. Vogt(New Mexico State University), David A. Wake(Yale University), Ji Wang(University of Florida), Benjamin Alan Weaver(New York University), David H. Weinberg(The Ohio State University), Martin White(University of California, Berkeley), Simon D. M. White(Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics), B. Yanny(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Naoki Yasuda(Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe), Christophe Yèche(Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), Idit Zehavi(Case Western Reserve University)
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Abstract
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) started a new phase in 2008 August, with new instrumentation and new surveys focused on Galactic structure and chemical evolution, measurements of the baryon oscillation feature in the clustering of galaxies and the quasar Lyα forest, and a radial velocity search for planets around 8000 stars. This paper describes the first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the SDSS). The release includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg2 in the southern Galactic cap, bringing the total footprint of the SDSS imaging to 14,555 deg2, or over a third of the Celestial Sphere. All the imaging data have been reprocessed with an improved sky-subtraction algorithm and a final, self-consistent photometric recalibration and flat-field determination. This release also includes all data from the second phase of the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE-2), consisting of spectroscopy of approximately 118,000 stars at both high and low Galactic latitudes. All the more than half a million stellar spectra obtained with the SDSS spectrograph have been reprocessed through an improved stellar parameter pipeline, which has better determination of metallicity for high-metallicity stars.
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