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Edward M. Edmondson
Researcher at Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
Publications - 23
Citations - 10140
Edward M. Edmondson is an academic researcher from Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth. The author has contributed to research in topics: Galaxy & Bulge. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 23 publications receiving 9526 citations. Previous affiliations of Edward M. Edmondson include University of Portsmouth & University of Oxford.
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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.
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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 Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III
Hiroaki Aihara,Carlos Allende Prieto,Deokkeun An,Scott F. Anderson,Éric Aubourg,Eduardo Balbinot,Timothy C. Beers,Andreas A. Berlind,Steven J. Bickerton,Dmitry Bizyaev,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,Adam S. Bolton,Jo Bovy,W. N. Brandt,J. Brinkmann,Peter J. Brown,Joel R. Brownstein,Nicolás G. Busca,Heather Campbell,Michael A. Carr,Yanmei Chen,Cristina Chiappini,Johan Comparat,Natalia Connolly,Marina Cortês,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Luiz N. da Costa,James R. A. Davenport,Kyle S. Dawson,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Stephanie Escoffier,M. Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Jian Ge,Bruce Gillespie,Gerry Gilmore,Jonay I. González Hernández,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,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Naohisa Inada,Inese I. Ivans,Linhua Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,Cathy Jordan,Wendell P. Jordan,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,Hubert Lampeitl,Dustin Lang,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Young Sun Lee,Yen-Ting Lin,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Britt Lundgren,Robert H. Lupton,Zhibo Ma,Nicholas R. MacDonald,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Martin Makler,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Peregrine M. McGehee,Ian D. McGreer,Brice Ménard,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Heather L. Morrison,Fergal Mullally,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Hitoshi Murayama,Adam D. Myers,Tracy Naugle,Angelo Fausti Neto,Duy Cuong Nguyen,Robert C. Nichol,Robert W. O'Connell,Ricardo L. C. Ogando,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,Parul Pandey,Isabelle Pâris,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,Céline Reylé,James Rich,Gordon T. Richards,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,Conor Sayres,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Erin S. Sheldon,Yiping Shu,Jennifer Simmerer,Audrey Simmons,Thirupathi Sivarani,Stephanie A. Snedden,Jennifer Sobeck,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Alexander S. Szalay,Masayuki Tanaka,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Jeremy L. Tinker,Benjamin M. Tofflemire,Rita Tojeiro,Christy Tremonti,Jan Vandenberg,M. Vargas Magaña,Licia Verde,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Ji Wang,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,Brian Yanny,Naoki Yasuda,Christophe Yèche,Idit Zehavi +179 more
TL;DR: The first data release of SDSS-III (and the eighth counting from the beginning of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is described in this paper, which includes five-band imaging of roughly 5200 deg^2 in the Southern Galactic Cap.
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The Tenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment
Christopher P. Ahn,Rachael Alexandroff,Carlos Allende Prieto,Friedrich Anders,Scott F. Anderson,Timothy Anderton,Brett H. Andrews,Éric Aubourg,Stephen Bailey,Fabienne A. Bastien,Julian E. Bautista,Timothy C. Beers,A. Beifiori,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,Arnaud Borde,Jo Bovy,Alaina C. Shelden Bradley,W. N. Brandt,Dorothée Brauer,J. Brinkmann,Joel R. Brownstein,Nicolás G. Busca,William Carithers,Joleen K. Carlberg,A. Carnero,Michael A. Carr,Cristina Chiappini,S. Drew Chojnowski,Chia-Hsun Chuang,Johan Comparat,Justin R. Crepp,Stefano Cristiani,Rupert A. C. Croft,Antonio J. Cuesta,Katia Cunha,Luiz N. da Costa,Kyle S. Dawson,Nathan De Lee,Janice D. R. Dean,Timothée Delubac,Rohit Deshpande,Saurav Dhital,Anne Ealet,Garrett Ebelke,Edward M. Edmondson,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Courtney R. Epstein,Stephanie Escoffier,Massimiliano Esposito,Michael L. Evans,Damian Fabbian,Xiaohui Fan,Ginevra Favole,Bruno Femenía Castellá,Emma Fernández Alvar,Diane Feuillet,Nurten Filiz Ak,Hayley Finley,Scott W. Fleming,Andreu Font-Ribera,Peter M. Frinchaboy,Jessica Galbraith-Frew,D. A. García-Hernández,Ana G. Pérez,Jian Ge,Ricardo Génova-Santos,Bruce Gillespie,Léo Girardi,Jonay I. González Hernández,J. Richard Gott,James E. Gunn,Hong Guo,Samuel Halverson,Paul Harding,David W. Harris,Sten Hasselquist,Suzanne L. Hawley,Michael R. Hayden,Frederick R. Hearty,Artemio Herrero Davó,Shirley Ho,David W. Hogg,Jon A. Holtzman,K. Honscheid,Joseph Huehnerhoff,Inese I. Ivans,Kelly M. Jackson,Peng Jiang,Jennifer A. Johnson,D. Kirkby,Karen Kinemuchi,Mark A. Klaene,Jean-Paul Kneib,Lars Koesterke,Ting-Wen Lan,Dustin Lang,Jean-Marc Le Goff,Khee-Gan Lee,Young Sun Lee,Dan Long,Craig Loomis,Sara Lucatello,Robert H. Lupton,Bo Ma,Claude E. Mack,Suvrath Mahadevan,Marcio A. G. Maia,Steven R. Majewski,Elena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Arturo Manchado,Marc Manera,Claudia Maraston,Daniel Margala,Sarah L. Martell,Karen L. Masters,Cameron K. McBride,Ian D. McGreer,Richard G. McMahon,Brice Ménard,Sz. Meszaros,Jordi Miralda-Escudé,Hironao Miyatake,Antonio D. Montero-Dorta,Francesco Montesano,Surhud More,Heather L. Morrison,Demitri Muna,Jeffrey A. Munn,Adam D. Myers,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,Matthew D. Olmstead,Daniel Oravetz,Russell Owen,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille,Kaike Pan,John K. Parejko,Isabelle Pâris,Joshua Pepper,Will J. Percival,Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols,H. D. Perottoni,Patrick Petitjean,Matthew M. Pieri,Marc H. Pinsonneault,Francisco Prada,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,M. Jordan Raddick,Mubdi Rahman,Rafael Rebolo,Beth Reid,Jonathan C. Richards,Rogério Riffel,Annie C. Robin,H. J. Rocha-Pinto,Constance M. Rockosi,Natalie A. Roe,Ashley J. Ross,Nicholas P. Ross,Graziano Rossi,Arpita Roy,Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin,Cristiano G. Sabiu,Ariel G. Sánchez,Basilio X. Santiago,Conor Sayres,Ricardo P. Schiavon,David J. Schlegel,Katharine J. Schlesinger,Sarah J. Schmidt,Donald P. Schneider,Mathias Schultheis,Kris Sellgren,Hee-Jong Seo,Yue Shen,Matthew Shetrone,Yiping Shu,Audrey Simmons,M. F. Skrutskie,Anže Slosar,Verne V. Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Jennifer Sobeck,Flavia Sobreira,Keivan G. Stassun,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Alina Streblyanska,Nao Suzuki,Molly E. C. Swanson,Ryan Terrien,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Daniel Thomas,Benjamin A. Thompson,Jeremy L. Tinker,Rita Tojeiro,Nicholas W. Troup,Jan Vandenberg,Mariana Vargas Magaña,Matteo Viel,Nicole P. Vogt,David A. Wake,Benjamin A. Weaver,David H. Weinberg,Benjamin J. Weiner,Martin White,Simon D. M. White,John C. Wilson,John P. Wisniewski,W. M. Wood-Vasey,Christophe Yèche,Donald G. York,Olga Zamora,Gail Zasowski,Idit Zehavi,Zheng Zheng,Guangtun Zhu +234 more
TL;DR: SDSS-III as discussed by the authors contains the first spectroscopic data from the Apache Point Observatory Galaxy Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), along with spectra from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) taken through 2012 July.