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Aniruddha R. Thakar
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University
Publications - 106
Citations - 50803
Aniruddha R. Thakar is an academic researcher from Johns Hopkins University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Quasar. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 104 publications receiving 47522 citations. Previous affiliations of Aniruddha R. Thakar include Ohio State University.
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The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Kevork N. Abazajian,Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,Carlos Allende Prieto,Deokkeun An,Deokkeun An,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,J. C. Barentine,Bruce A. Bassett,Andrew C. Becker,Timothy C. Beers,Eric F. Bell,Vasily Belokurov,Andreas A. Berlind,E. Berman,Mariangela Bernardi,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,John P. Blakeslee,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,Howard Brewington,Jarle Brinchmann,Jarle Brinchmann,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tams Budavri,Larry N. Carey,Samuel Carliles,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,D. Cinabro,Andrew J. Connolly,I. Csabai,Carlos E. Cunha,Paul C. Czarapata,James R. A. Davenport,Ernst De Haas,B. Dilday,B. Dilday,Mamoru Doi,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Nick Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Boris T. Gänsicke,Evalyn Gates,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Belinda Gonzalez,Carlos F. Gonzalez,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Zsuzsanna Gyory,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,Joshua Hoblitt,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,J. B. Hyde,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,Myungshin Im,Eljko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,Linhua Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Stephen M. Kent,Richard Kessler,S. J. Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Kohki Konishi,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,Hubert Lampeitl,Svetlana Lebedeva,Myung Gyoon Lee,Young Sun Lee,R. French Leger,Sébastien Lépine,Nolan Li,Marcos Lima,Marcos Lima,Huan Lin,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,E. A. Magnier,Olena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Bruce Margon,John Marriner,David Martínez-Delgado,Takahiko Matsubara,P. M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Jeffrey A. Munn,Tara Murphy,Tara Murphy,Thomas Nash,Ada Nebot,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Peter R. Newman,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Sadanori Okamura,Daniel Oravetz,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Kaike Pan,Changbom Park,George Pauls,John Peoples,Will J. Percival,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Dimitri Pourbaix,Dimitri Pourbaix,Paul A. Price,Norbert Purger,Thomas R. Quinn,M. Jordan Raddick,Paola Re Fiorentin,Paola Re Fiorentin,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Adam G. Riess,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Masao Sako,Masao Sako,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,R. D. Scholz,Matthias R. Schreiber,Axel Schwope,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Branimir Sesar,Erin Sheldon,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Valena C. Sibley,A. Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,J. Allyn Smith,Martin C. Smith,Vernesa Smolić,Stephanie A. Snedden,Albert Stebbins,Matthias Steinmetz,Chris Stoughton,Michael A. Strauss,Mark SubbaRao,Mark SubbaRao,Yasushi Suto,Alexander S. Szalay,Istvn Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Masayuki Tanaka,Max Tegmark,Luis Teodoro,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,A. Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,S. Vidrih,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Yogesh Wadadekar,Yogesh Wadadekar,Shannon Watters,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,B. C. Wilhite,Alainna C. Wonders,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Stefano Zibetti,Daniel B. Zucker +223 more
TL;DR: A series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions are described, 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.
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The eleventh and twelfth data releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: final data from SDSS-III
Shadab Alam,Franco D. Albareti,Carlos Allende Prieto,Carlos Allende Prieto,Friedrich Anders,Scott F. Anderson,Timothy Anderton,Brett H. Andrews,Brett H. Andrews,Eric Armengaud,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Sarbani Basu,Julian E. Bautista,Rachael L. Beaton,Rachael L. Beaton,Timothy C. Beers,Chad F. Bender,Andreas A. Berlind,Florian Beutler,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Jonathan C. Bird,Dmitry Bizyaev,Dmitry Bizyaev,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,John J. Bochanski,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Jo Bovy,A. Shelden Bradley,W. N. Brandt,Dorothée Brauer,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Angela Burden,Etienne Burtin,Nicolás G. Busca,Zheng Cai,Diego Capozzi,A. C. Rosell,Michael A. Carr,Ricardo Carrera,Ricardo Carrera,K. C. Chambers,William J. Chaplin,William J. Chaplin,Yen-Chi Chen,Cristina Chiappini,S. Drew Chojnowski,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Nicolas Clerc,Johan Comparat,Kevin R. Covey,Kevin R. Covey,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Antonio J. Cuesta,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,Nicola Da Rio,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Timothée Delubac,Rohit Deshpande,Saurav Dhital,Letícia Dutra-Ferreira,Letícia Dutra-Ferreira,Tom Dwelly,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Tristan Ellsworth,Yvonne Elsworth,Yvonne Elsworth,Courtney R. Epstein,Michael Eracleous,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Emma Fernández-Alvar,Emma Fernández-Alvar,Diane Feuillet,Nurten Filiz Ak,Nurten Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Alexis Finoguenov,K. M. Flaherty,Scott W. Fleming,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Jonathan B. Foster,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Jessica Galbraith-Frew,Rafael A. García,D. A. García-Hernández,D. A. García-Hernández,Ana E. García Pérez,Ana E. García Pérez,Ana E. García Pérez,Patrick Gaulme,Jian Ge,Ricardo Genova-Santos,Ricardo Genova-Santos,Antonis Georgakakis,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Daniel Goddard,Satya Gontcho A Gontcho,Jonay I. González Hernández,Jonay I. González Hernández,Eva K. Grebel,Paul J. Green,Jan Niklas Grieb,Nolan Grieves,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Paul Harding,Sten Hasselquist,Suzanne L. Hawley,Michael R. Hayden,Fred Hearty,Saskia Hekker,Saskia Hekker,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Kelly Holley-Bockelmann,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Daniel Huber,Daniel Huber,Daniel Huber,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Karen Kinemuchi,Karen Kinemuchi,D. Kirkby,Francisco S. Kitaura,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean-Paul Kneib,X. Koenig,Charles R. Lam,Ting-Wen Lan,Dustin Lang,Pierre Laurent,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Alexie Leauthaud,Khee-Gan Lee,Young Sun Lee,Timothy C. Licquia,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Dan Long,Martin Lopez-Corredoira,Martin Lopez-Corredoira,Diego Lorenzo-Oliveira,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Claude E. Mack,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Elena Malanushenko,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Arturo Manchado,Arturo Manchado,Marc Manera,Marc Manera,Qingqing Mao,Claudia Maraston,Robert C. Marchwinski,Daniel Margala,Sarah L. Martell,Marie Martig,Karen L. Masters,Savita Mathur,Cameron K. McBride,P. M. McGehee,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,M. L. Menzel,Andrea Merloni,Szabolcs Mészáros,Adam A. Miller,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Hironao Miyatake,Hironao Miyatake,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Surhud More,Eric Morganson,Xan Morice-Atkinson,Heather L. Morrison,Benoit Mosser,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,Kirpal Nandra,Jeffrey A. Newman,Mark C. Neyrinck,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Sebastián E. Nuza,Julia E. O'Connell,Robert W. O'Connell,R. W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Matthew D. Olmstead,Audrey Oravetz,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel Oravetz,Keisuke Osumi,Russell Owen,D. Padgett,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Changbom Park,Petchara Pattarakijwanich,Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez,Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez,Joshua Pepper,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ignasi Pe´rez-Ra`fols,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Francisco Prada,Francisco Prada,Abhishek Prakash,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,Pavlos Protopapas,M. Jordan Raddick,Mubdi Rahman,Beth Reid,Beth Reid,James Rich,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,Constance M. Rockosi,T. S. Rodrigues,T. S. Rodrigues,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,Sergio Rodríguez-Torres,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,John J. Ruan,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Eli S. Rykoff,Salvador Salazar-Albornoz,Mara Salvato,Lado Samushia,Lado Samushia,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Mathias Schultheis,Axel Schwope,Claudia G. Scóccola,Claudia G. Scóccola,Caroline Scott,Kris Sellgren,Hee-Jong Seo,Aldo Serenelli,Neville Shane,Yue Shen,Yue Shen,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,V. Silva Aguirre,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Verne V. Smith,Flavia Sobreira,Diogo Souto,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Matthias Steinmetz,Dennis Stello,Dennis Stello,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Jonathan C. Tan,Jamie Tayar,Ryan Terrien,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Daniel Thomas,Neil Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Nicholas W. Troup,Mariana Vargas-Magaña,Jose Alberto Vazquez,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Martin White,Martin White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Ye`che,Donald G. York,Nadia L. Zakamska,Olga Zamora,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Xu Zhou,Zhimin Zhou,Hu Zou,Guangtun Zhu +363 more
TL;DR: The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrogram, and a novel optical interferometer.
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Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release
Chris Stoughton,Robert H. Lupton,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,Michael R. Blanton,Scott Burles,Scott Burles,Francisco J. Castander,Francisco J. Castander,Francisco J. Castander,Andrew J. Connolly,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Gregory S. Hennessy,Robert B. Hindsley,Zeljko Ivezic,S. Kent,S. Kent,Peter Z. Kunszt,Brian C. Lee,Avery Meiksin,Jeffrey A. Munn,Heidi Jo Newberg,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,T. Nicinski,Jeffrey R. Pier,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,David J. Schlegel,J. Allyn Smith,J. Allyn Smith,Michael A. Strauss,Mark SubbaRao,Alexander S. Szalay,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Douglas L. Tucker,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Brian Yanny,Jennifer Adelman,John E. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Jon Arne Bakken,Matthias Bartelmann,Steven Bastian,Amanda E. Bauer,Amanda E. Bauer,E. Berman,Hans Böhringer,William N. Boroski,Stephen B. Bracker,Charlie Briegel,John W. Briggs,Jon Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Larry N. Carey,Michael A. Carr,Bing Chen,Damian J. Christian,Patrick L. Colestock,James H. Crocker,István Csabai,István Csabai,Paul C. Czarapata,Julianne J. Dalcanton,Arthur F. Davidsen,John Eric Davis,Walter Dehnen,Scott Dodelson,Mamoru Doi,T. Dombeck,Megan Donahue,Nancy Ellman,Brian R. Elms,Brian R. Elms,Michael L. Evans,L. Eyer,Xiaohui Fan,Glenn R. Federwitz,Scott D. Friedman,Masataka Fukugita,Roy R. Gal,Bruce Gillespie,Karl Glazebrook,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,Bruce Greenawalt,Gretchen Greene,James E. Gunn,Ernst De Haas,Zoltan Haiman,M. Haldeman,Patrick B. Hall,Patrick B. Hall,Masaru Hamabe,Brad M. S. Hansen,Frederick H. Harris,Hugh C. Harris,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,Amina Helmi,A. A. Henden,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,Donald J. Holmgren,Jon A. Holtzman,Chih-Hao Huang,Charles L. Hull,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Takashi Ichikawa,David Johnston,Guinevere Kauffmann,Rita S. J. Kim,Rita S. J. Kim,Tim Kimball,E. Kinney,Mark A. Klaene,S. J. Kleinman,Anatoly Klypin,Gillian R. Knapp,John Korienek,Julian H. Krolik,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,D. Q. Lamb,R. French Leger,Siriluk Limmongkol,Carl Lindenmeyer,Dan Long,Craig L. Loomis,Jon Loveday,Bryan Mackinnon,Bryan Mackinnon,Edward J. Mannery,Paul M. Mantsch,Bruce Margon,Bruce Margon,Peregrine M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Brian McLean,Kristen Menou,Aronne Merelli,Houjun Mo,David G. Monet,Osamu Nakamura,Vijay K. Narayanan,Thomas Nash,Eric H. Neilsen,Peter R. Newman,Atsuko Nitta,Michael Odenkirchen,Norio Okada,Sadanori Okamura,Jeremiah P. Ostriker,Russell Owen,George Pauls,John Peoples,R. S. Peterson,Don Petravick,Adrian Pope,Adrian Pope,Ruth Pordes,Marc Postman,Angela Prosapio,Thomas R. Quinn,R. Rechenmacher,Claudio H. Rivetta,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Robert Rosner,K. Ruthmansdorfer,Dale Sandford,Donald P. Schneider,Ryan Scranton,Maki Sekiguchi,G. Sergey,Ravi K. Sheth,K. Shimasaku,Stephen A. Smee,Stephen A. Smee,Stephanie A. Snedden,Albert Stebbins,Christopher W. Stubbs,István Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Gyula P. Szokoly,S. Tabachnik,Zlatan Tsvetanov,Alan Uomoto,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Patrick Waddell,Rene A. M. Walterbos,Shu I. Wang,Masaru Watanabe,David H. Weinberg,Richard L. White,Simon D. M. White,Brian C. Wilhite,Brian C. Wilhite,D. Wolfe,Naoki Yasuda,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Wei Zheng +212 more
TL;DR: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈106 galaxies, 100,000 quasars, 30,000 stars, and 30, 000 serendipity targets as discussed by the authors.
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Stellar masses and star formation histories for 105 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Guinevere Kauffmann,Timothy M. Heckman,Simon D. M. White,Stephane Charlot,Stephane Charlot,Christy Tremonti,Jarle Brinchmann,Gustavo Bruzual,Eric W. Peng,Mark Seibert,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,Jon Brinkmann,Francisco J. Castander,István Csabai,István Csabai,Masataka Fukugita,Zeljko Ivezic,Jeffrey A. Munn,Robert C. Nichol,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Aniruddha R. Thakar,David H. Weinberg,Donald G. York +23 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Monte Carlo realizations of different star formation histories, including starbursts of varying strength and a range of metallicities, to constrain the mean stellar ages of galaxies and the fractional stellar mass formed in bursts over the past few Gyr.
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Sdss-iii: massive spectroscopic surveys of the distant universe, the milky way, and extra-solar planetary systems
Daniel J. Eisenstein,Daniel J. Eisenstein,David H. Weinberg,Eric Agol,Hiroaki Aihara,Carlos Allende Prieto,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,James A. Arns,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Robert H. Barkhouser,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Casey T. Bosman,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,Ben Breslauer,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Dan Burger,Nicolás G. Busca,H. Campbell,Phillip Cargile,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,Michael A. Carr,Liang Chang,Liang Chang,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Fernando de Simoni,Janice D. R. Dean,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,J. Eiting,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Leticia D. Ferreira,Greg Fitzgerald,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Eric B. Ford,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Ana E. García Pérez,B. Scott Gaudi,Jian Ge,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Léo Girardi,J. Richard Gott,Andrew Gould,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,J. C. Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Joseph F. Hennawi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Peng Jiang,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Hubert Lampeitl,Dustin Lang,James E. Lawler,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Brian Lee,Young Sun Lee,Jarron Leisenring,Yen-Ting Lin,Yen-Ting Lin,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Paul Maseman,Paul Maseman,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena Requejo,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Paulo S. Pellegrini,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,I. Neill Reid,Céline Reylé,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Emmanuel Rollinde,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Bruno M. Rossetto,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Kris Sellgren,Alaina Shelden,Erin Sheldon,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,John D. Silverman,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Mark H. Stockett,Todd Stollberg,Michael A. Strauss,Alexander S. Szalay,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Xiaoke Wan,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. Michael Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Erick T. Young,Erick T. Young,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Bo Zhao +263 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as mentioned in this paper is a program of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological parameters, the history and structure of the Milky Way, and the population of giant planets around other stars.