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THE SEVENTH DATA RELEASE OF THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

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Kevork N. Abazajian1, Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy2, Marcel A. Agüeros3,102, Sahar S. Allam2,4, Carlos Allende Prieto5, Deokkeun An6,7, Kurt S. J. Anderson8,9, Scott F. Anderson10, James Annis2, Neta A. Bahcall11, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones12, J. C. Barentine13, Bruce A. Bassett14,15, Andrew C. Becker10, Timothy C. Beers16, Eric F. Bell12, Vasily Belokurov17, Andreas A. Berlind18, Eileen F. Berman2, Mariangela Bernardi19, Steven J. Bickerton11, Dmitry Bizyaev8, John P. Blakeslee20, Michael R. Blanton21, John J. Bochanski10,22, William N. Boroski2, Howard J. Brewington8, Jarle Brinchmann23,24, J. Brinkmann8, Robert J. Brunner25, Tamás Budavári26, Larry N. Carey10, Samuel Carliles26, Michael A. Carr11, Francisco J. Castander27, David Cinabro28, A. J. Connolly10, István Csabai29, Carlos E. Cunha30, Paul C. Czarapata2, James R. A. Davenport31, Ernst de Haas32, Ben Dilday33,34,35, Mamoru Doi36,37, Daniel J. Eisenstein38, Michael L. Evans10, N. W. Evans17, Xiaohui Fan38, Scott D. Friedman39, Joshua A. Frieman2,34,40, Masataka Fukugita41, Boris T. Gänsicke42, Evalyn Gates34, Bruce Gillespie26, G. Gilmore17, Belinda Gonzalez2, Carlos F. Gonzalez2, Eva K. Grebel43, James E. Gunn11, Zsuzsanna Györy29, Patrick B. Hall44, Paul Harding45, Frederick H. Harris46, Michael Harvanek47, Suzanne L. Hawley10, Jeffrey J. E. Hayes48, Timothy M. Heckman26, John S. Hendry2, Gregory S. Hennessy49, Robert B. Hindsley50, J. Hoblitt51, Craig J. Hogan2, David W. Hogg21, Jon A. Holtzman9, Joseph B. Hyde19, Shin-ichi Ichikawa52, Takashi Ichikawa53, Myungshin Im54, Željko Ivezić10, Sebastian Jester12, Linhua Jiang38, Jennifer A. Johnson6, Anders M. Jorgensen55, Mario Jurić56, Stephen M. Kent2, R. Kessler34, S. J. Kleinman57, G. R. Knapp11, Kohki Konishi41,58, Richard G. Kron2,40, Jurek Krzesinski8,59, Nikolay Kuropatkin2, Hubert Lampeitl60, Svetlana Lebedeva2, Myung Gyoon Lee54, Young Sun Lee16, R. French Leger10, Sébastien Lépine61, Nolan Li26, Marcos Lima19,33,34, Huan Lin2, Daniel C. Long8, Craig P. Loomis11, Jon Loveday62, Robert H. Lupton11, Eugene Magnier51, Olena Malanushenko8, Viktor Malanushenko8, Rachel Mandelbaum56,103, Bruce Margon63, John P. Marriner2, David Martínez-Delgado64, Takahiko Matsubara65, Peregrine M. McGehee7, Timothy A. McKay30, Avery Meiksin66, Heather L. Morrison45, Fergal Mullally11, Jeffrey A. Munn46, Tara Murphy66,67, Thomas Nash2, Ada Nebot68, Eric H. Neilsen Jr2, Heidi Jo Newberg69, Peter R. Newman8,70, Robert C. Nichol60, Tom Nicinski2,71, Maria Nieto-Santisteban26, Atsuko Nitta57, Sadanori Okamura72, Daniel J. Oravetz8, Jeremiah P. Ostriker11, Russell Owen10, Nikhil Padmanabhan73,103, Kaike Pan8, Changbom Park74, George Pauls11, John Peoples Jr2, Will J. Percival60, Jeffrey R. Pier46, Adrian C. Pope51,75, Dimitri Pourbaix11,76, Paul A. Price51, Norbert Purger29, Thomas Quinn10, M. Jordan Raddick26, Paola Re Fiorentin12,77, Gordon T. Richards78, Michael W. Richmond79, Adam G. Riess26, Hans-Walter Rix12, Constance M. Rockosi80, Masao Sako19,81, David J. Schlegel73, Donald P. Schneider82, Ralf-Dieter Scholz68, Matthias R. Schreiber83, Axel D. Schwope68, Uroš Seljak73,84,85, Branimir Sesar10, Erin Sheldon21,86, Kazu Shimasaku72, Valena C. Sibley2, A. E. Simmons8, Thirupathi Sivarani16,87, J. Allyn Smith88, Martin C. Smith17, Vernesa Smolčić89, Stephanie A. Snedden8, Albert Stebbins2, Matthias Steinmetz68, Chris Stoughton2, Michael A. Strauss11, Mark SubbaRao40,90, Yasushi Suto58, Alexander S. Szalay26, István Szapudi51, Paula Szkody10, Masayuki Tanaka91, Max Tegmark92, Luis F. A. Teodoro93, Aniruddha R. Thakar26, Christy A. Tremonti12, Douglas L. Tucker2, Alan Uomoto94, Daniel E. Vanden Berk82,95, Jan Vandenberg26, S. Vidrih43, Michael S. Vogeley78, Wolfgang Voges96, Nicole P. Vogt9, Yogesh Wadadekar11,97, Shannon Watters8,98, David H. Weinberg6, Andrew A. West22, Simon D. M. White99, Brian C. Wilhite100, Alainna C. Wonders26, Brian Yanny2, D. R. Yocum2, Donald G. York40,101, Idit Zehavi45, Stefano Zibetti12 and Daniel B. Zucker17

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This paper describes the Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), marking the completion of the original goals of the SDSS and the end of the phase known as SDSS-II. It includes 11,663 deg2 of imaging data, with most of the ~2000 deg2 increment over the previous data release lying in regions of low Galactic latitude. The catalog contains five-band photometry for 357 million distinct objects. The survey also includes repeat photometry on a 120° long, 2fdg5 wide stripe along the celestial equator in the Southern Galactic Cap, with some regions covered by as many as 90 individual imaging runs. We include a co-addition of the best of these data, going roughly 2 mag fainter than the main survey over 250 deg2. The survey has completed spectroscopy over 9380 deg2; the spectroscopy is now complete over a large contiguous area of the Northern Galactic Cap, closing the gap that was present in previous data releases. There are over 1.6 million spectra in total, including 930,000 galaxies, 120,000 quasars, and 460,000 stars. The data release includes improved stellar photometry at low Galactic latitude. The astrometry has all been recalibrated with the second version of the USNO CCD Astrograph Catalog, reducing the rms statistical errors at the bright end to 45 milliarcseconds per coordinate. We further quantify a systematic error in bright galaxy photometry due to poor sky determination; this problem is less severe than previously reported for the majority of galaxies. Finally, we describe a series of improvements to the spectroscopic reductions, 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.


Keywords

atlases; catalogs; surveys


Dates

Issue 2 (2009 June)

Received 2008 December 2, accepted for publication 2009 March 19

Published 2009 May 18



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