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Constance M. Rockosi
Researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz
Publications - 85
Citations - 30907
Constance M. Rockosi is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Cruz. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Milky Way. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 83 publications receiving 28800 citations. Previous affiliations of Constance M. Rockosi include University of Chicago.
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The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
James E. Gunn,Walter A. Siegmund,Edward J. Mannery,Russell Owen,Charles L. Hull,R. French Leger,Larry N. Carey,Gillian R. Knapp,Donald G. York,William N. Boroski,Stephen M. Kent,Robert H. Lupton,Constance M. Rockosi,Michael L. Evans,Patrick Waddell,John E. Anderson,James Annis,J. C. Barentine,Larry M. Bartoszek,Steven Bastian,Stephen B. Bracker,Howard Brewington,Charles I. Briegel,Jon Brinkmann,Yorke J. Brown,Michael A. Carr,Paul C. Czarapata,Craig C. Drennan,T. Dombeck,Glenn R. Federwitz,Bruce Gillespie,Carlos Gonzales,Sten Hansen,Michael Harvanek,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Wendell P. Jordan,E. Kinney,Mark A. Klaene,S. J. Kleinman,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Kresinski,Glenn Lee,Siriluk Limmongkol,Carl Lindenmeyer,Dan Long,Craig L. Loomis,Peregrine M. McGehee,Paul M. Mantsch,Eric H. Neilsen,R. Neswold,Peter R. Newman,Atsuko Nitta,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Peter Prieto,Angela Prosapio,Claudio H. Rivetta,Donald P. Schneider,Stephanie A. Snedden,Shu I. Wang +59 more
TL;DR: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDS) as discussed by the authors is a two-corrector Ritchey-Chretien design with a 2.5 m, f/2.25 m, a 1.08 m secondary, and one of a pair of interchangeable highly aspheric correctors near the focal plane, one for imaging and the other for spectroscopy.
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SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems
Daniel J. Eisenstein,David H. Weinberg,Eric Agol,Hiroaki Aihara,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,Howard Brewington,W. N. Brandt,Ben Breslauer,J. Brinkmann,Peter de Nully Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Dan Burger,Nicolás G. Busca,Heather Campbell,Phillip Cargile,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,Michael A. Carr,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Luiz N. da Costa,Katia Cunha,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,Edward M. Edmondson,J. Eiting,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Leticia D. Ferreira,Greg Fitzgerald,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Eric B. Ford,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Ana G. 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,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Jonay I. González Hernández,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,Guinevere Kauffmann,Eyal A. Kazin,D. Kirkby,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Gillian R. Knapp,Christopher S. Kochanek,Lars Koesterke,Juna A. Kollmeier,Richard G. Kron,Dustin Lang,James E. Lawler,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Brian L. Lee,Young Sun Lee,Jarron Leisenring,Yen-Ting Lin,Jian Liu,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas R. MacDonald,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Paul Maseman,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Patrick McDonald,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Olga Mena Requejo,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,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 Paris,Paulo S. Pellegrini,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Patrick Petitjean,Robert Pfaffenberger,Janine Pforr,Stefanie Phleps,Christophe Pichon,Matthew M. Pieri,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Beatriz H. F. Ramos,Celine Ryle,I. Neill Reid,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,George H. Rieke,Marcia J. Rieke,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,Helio 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 S. Sheldon,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,John D. Silverman,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Mike Skrutskie,Anze Slosar,Stephen A. Smee,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Mark H. Stockett,Todd Stollberg,Michael A. Strauss,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Mariana Vargas Magaña,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,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Bo Zhao +239 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as discussed by the authors 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.
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The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey
Christopher P. Ahn,Rachael Alexandroff,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,Timothy Anderton,Brett H. Andrews,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Eduardo Balbinot,Rory Barnes,Julian E. Bautista,Timothy C. Beers,Alessandra Beifiori,Andreas A. Berlind,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,John J. Bochanski,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,Nicolás G. Busca,William Carithers,A. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu,Yanmei Chen,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Justin R. Crepp,Stefano Cristiani,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Roland de Putter,Roland de Putter,Nathan De Lee,Timothée Delubac,Saurav Dhital,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Emma Fernández Alvar,Leticia D. Ferreira,N. Filiz Ak,N. Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Scott W. Fleming,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,D. A. García-Hernández,A. E. García Pérez,Jian Ge,Ricardo Genova-Santos,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Daryl Haggard,Jean Christophe Hamilton,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Joe Huehnerhoff,Inese I. Ivans,Željko Ivezić,Željko Ivezić,Heather R. Jacobson,Linhua Jiang,Jonas Johansson,Jonas Johansson,Jennifer A. Johnson,Guinevere Kauffmann,D. Kirkby,Jessica A. Kirkpatrick,Jessica A. Kirkpatrick,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean Marc Le Goff,Alexie Leauthaud,Khee Gan Lee,Young Sun Lee,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,Arturo Manchado,Rachel Mandelbaum,Rachel Mandelbaum,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,S. L. Martell,S. L. Martell,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,Brice Ménard,Sz. Mészáros,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Heather L. Morrison,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Sebastián E. Nuza,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Prachi Parihar,Isabelle Pâris,Isabelle Pâris,Petchara Pattarakijwanich,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,Patrick Petitjean,Janine Pforr,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,G. F. Porto de Mello,Francisco Prada,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Rafael Rebolo,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Lado Samushia,Lado Samushia,J. Sánchez Almeida,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Mathias Schultheis,Axel Schwope,Claudia G. Scóccola,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Erin Sheldon,Yue Shen,Yiping Shu,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Ramin A. Skibba,Mike Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Flavia Sobreira,Jennifer Sobeck,Keivan G. Stassun,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Tomer Tal,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,S. Vikas,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Andrew A. West,Martin White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu,Joel C. Zinn +259 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) dataset.
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The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
Christopher P. Ahn,Rachael Alexandroff,Carlos Allende Prieto,Scott F. Anderson,Timothy Anderton,Brett H. Andrews,Éric Aubourg Stephen Bailey,Rory Barnes,Julian E. Bautista,Timothy C. Beers,A. Beifiori,Andreas A. Berlind,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Kevin Bundy,Nicolás G. Busca,William Carithers,A. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Justin R. Crepp,Stefano Cristiani,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Roland de Putter,Nathan De Lee,Timothée Delubac,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,Massimiliano Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Emma Fernández Alvar,Leticia D. Ferreira,N. Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,D. A. García-Hernández,A. E. García Pérez,Jian Ge,Ricardo Génova-Santos,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Jonay I. González Hernández,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Daryl Haggard,Jean-Christophe Hamilton,David W. Harris,Suzanne L. Hawley,Frederick R. Hearty,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Inese I. Ivans,Zeljko Ivezic,Heather R. Jacobson,Linhua Jiang,Jonas Johansson,Jennifer A. Johnson,Guinevere Kauffmann,D. Kirkby,Jessica A. Kirkpatrick,Mark A. Klaene,Gillian R. Knapp,Jean-Paul Kneib,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Alexie Leauthaud,Khee-Gan Lee,Young Sun Lee,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas R. MacDonald,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Arturo Manchado,Rachel Mandelbaum,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Sarah L. Martell,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,Sz. Mészáros,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Heather L. Morrison,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,David L. Nidever,Pasquier Noterdaeme,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Prachi Parihar,Isabelle Pâris,Petchara Pattarakijwanich,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,Patrick Petitjean,Janine Pforr,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,G. F. Porto de Mello,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Rafael Rebolo,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,Annie C. Robin,Helio J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Lado Samushia,J. Sánchez Almeida,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Axel Schwope,Claudia G. Scóccola,Uroš Seljak,Erin S. Sheldon,Yue Shen,Yiping Shu,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Ramin A. Skibba,Anže Slosar,Flavia Sobreira,Jennifer Sobeck,Keivan G. Stassun,Oliver Steele,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Molly E. C. Swanson,Tomer Tal,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,S. Vikas,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Andrew A. West,Martin White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Brian Yanny,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu,Joel C. Zinn +225 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) presented the first spectroscopic data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), along with the data presented in previous data releases.
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The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: I. Stellar Number Density Distribution
Mario Juric,Zeljko Ivezic,Alyson Brooks,Robert H. Lupton,David J. Schlegel,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nicholas A. Bond,Branimir Sesar,Constance M. Rockosi,Gillian R. Knapp,James E. Gunn,Takahiro Sumi,Donald P. Schneider,J. C. Barentine,Howard Brewington,J. Brinkmann,Masataka Fukugita,Michael Harvanek,S. J. Kleinman,Jurek Krzesinski,Dan Long,Eric H. Neilsen,Atsuko Nitta,Stephanie A. Snedden,Donald G. York +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the distances to ~48 million stars detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and map their 3D number density distribution in 100 1000deg^2 of sky towards the constellation of Virgo, at distances of ~6-20 kpc.