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David L. Nidever
Researcher at Montana State University
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Citations - 43911
David L. Nidever is an academic researcher from Montana State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stars & Milky Way. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 270 publications receiving 38442 citations. Previous affiliations of David L. Nidever include Steward Health Care System & University of Virginia.
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Binary Companions of Evolved Stars in APOGEE DR14: Search Method and Catalog of ∼5000 Companions
Adrian M. Price-Whelan,David W. Hogg,Hans-Walter Rix,Nathan De Lee,Nathan De Lee,Steven R. Majewski,David L. Nidever,Nicholas Troup,José G. Fernández-Trincado,D. A. García-Hernández,D. A. García-Hernández,Penélope Longa-Peña,Christian Nitschelm,Jennifer Sobeck,Olga Zamora,Olga Zamora +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Monte Carlo sampler (The Joker) is used to perform a search for companions to 96,231 red-giant stars observed in the APOGEE survey (DR14) with $ ≥ 3$ spectroscopic epochs.
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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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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.
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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,F. Anders,Scott F. Anderson,Brett H. Andrews,Eric Armengaud,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Julian E. Bautista,Rachael L. Beaton,Timothy C. Beers,Chad F. Bender,Andreas A. Berlind,Florian Beutler,Vaishali Bhardwaj,Jonathan C. Bird,Dmitry Bizyaev,Cullen H. Blake,Michael R. Blanton,Michael Blomqvist,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,Ricardo Carrera,Yen-Chi Chen,Cristina Chiappini,S. Drew Chojnowski,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Nicolas Clerc,Johan Comparat,Kevin R. Covey,Rupert A. C. Croft,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,Letícia Dutra-Ferreira,Tom Dwelly,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,Massimiliano Esposito,Xiaohui Fan,Emma Fernández-Alvar,Diane Feuillet,Nurten Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Alexis Finoguenov,Kevin Flaherty,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Jonathan B. Foster,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Jessica Galbraith-Frew,D. A. García-Hernández,Ana G. Pérez,Patrick Gaulme,Jian Ge,Ricardo Génova-Santos,Luan Ghezzi,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Daniel Goddard,Satya Gontcho A Gontcho,Jonay I. González Hernández,Eva K. Grebel,Jan Niklas Grieb,Nolan Grieves,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Paul Harding,Sten Hasselquist,Suzanne L. Hawley,Michael R. Hayden,Fred R. Hearty,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Kelly Holley-Bockelmann,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Linhua Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Karen Kinemuchi,D. Kirkby,Francisco S. Kitaura,Mark A. Klaene,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,Martin Lopez-Corredoira,Diego Lorenzo-Oliveira,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Arturo Manchado,Marc Manera,Qingqing Mao,Claudia Maraston,Robert C. Marchwinski,Daniel Margala,Sarah L. Martell,Marie Martig,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Peregrine M. McGehee,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,M. L. Menzel,Andrea Merloni,Szabolcs Mészáros,Adam A. Miller,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Hironao Miyatake,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Surhud More,Xan Morice-Atkinson,Heather L. Morrison,Demitri Muna,Adam D. Myers,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,Audrey Oravetz,Daniel Oravetz,Keisuke Osumi,Russell Owen,Deborah Padgett,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Martin Paegert,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Changbom Park,Isabelle Pâris,Petchara Pattarakijwanich,Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ismael Perez-Fournon,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,Gustavo F. Porto de Mello,Francisco Prada,Abhishek Prakash,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Mubdi Rahman,Beth Reid,James Rich,Hans-Walter Rix,Annie C. Robin,Constance M. Rockosi,Thaíse S. Rodrigues,Sergio Rodríguez-Rottes,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,John J. Ruan,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Eli S. Rykoff,Salvador Salazar-Albornoz,Mara Salvato,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,Kris Sellgren,Hee-Jong Seo,Neville Shane,Yue Shen,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,Thirupathi Sivarani,M. F. Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Verne V. Smith,Flavia Sobreira,Keivan G. Stassun,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Molly E. C. Swanson,Jonathan C. Tan,Jamie Tayar,Ryan Terrien,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Nicholas W. Troup,Mariana Vargas-Magaña,Jose Alberto Vazquez,Licia Verde,Matteo Viel,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Martin White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Nadia L. Zakamska,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Gong-Bo Zhao,Zheng Zheng,Xu Zhou,Zhimin Zhou,Guangtun Zhu,Hu Zou +273 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 as discussed by the authors.
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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.