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The First Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Kevork Abazajian1, Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy1, Marcel A. Agüeros2, Sahar S. Allam1, Scott F. Anderson2, James Annis1, Neta A. Bahcall3, Ivan K. Baldry4, Steven Bastian1, Andreas Berlind5, Mariangela Bernardi6, Michael R. Blanton7, Norman Blythe8, John J. Bochanski, Jr.2, William N. Boroski1, Howard Brewington8, John W. Briggs5, J. Brinkmann8, Robert J. Brunner9, Tamás Budavári4, Larry N. Carey2, Michael A. Carr3, Francisco J. Castander10, Kuenley Chiu4, Matthew J. Collinge3, A. J. Connolly11, Kevin R. Covey2, István Csabai4,12, Julianne J. Dalcanton2, Scott Dodelson1,5, Mamoru Doi13, Feng Dong3, Daniel J. Eisenstein14, Michael L. Evans2, Xiaohui Fan14, Paul D. Feldman4, Douglas P. Finkbeiner3, Scott D. Friedman15, Joshua A. Frieman1,5, Masataka Fukugita16, Roy R. Gal4, Bruce Gillespie8, Karl Glazebrook4, Carlos F. Gonzalez1, Jim Gray17, Eva K. Grebel18, Lauren Grodnicki5, James E. Gunn3, Vijay K. Gurbani1,19, Patrick B. Hall3,20, Lei Hao3, Daniel Harbeck18, Frederick H. Harris21, Hugh C. Harris21, Michael Harvanek8, Suzanne L. Hawley2, Timothy M. Heckman4, J. F. Helmboldt22, John S. Hendry1, Gregory S. Hennessy23, Robert B. Hindsley24, David W. Hogg7, Donald J. Holmgren1, Jon A. Holtzman22, Lee Homer2, Lam Hui1, Shin-ichi Ichikawa25, Takashi Ichikawa26, John P. Inkmann1, Željko Ivezić3, Sebastian Jester1, David E. Johnston5, Beatrice Jordan8, Wendell P. Jordan8, Anders M. Jorgensen27, Mario Jurić3, Guinevere Kauffmann28, Stephen M. Kent1, S. J. Kleinman8, G. R. Knapp3, Alexei Y. Kniazev18, Richard G. Kron1,5, Jurek Krzesiński8,29, Peter Z. Kunszt4,30, Nickolai Kuropatkin1, Donald Q. Lamb5,31, Hubert Lampeitl1, Bryan E. Laubscher27, Brian C. Lee32, R. French Leger1, Nolan Li4, Adam Lidz1, Huan Lin1, Yeong-Shang Loh3, Daniel C. Long8, Jon Loveday33, Robert H. Lupton3, Tanu Malik4, Bruce Margon15, Peregrine M. McGehee22,27, Timothy A. McKay34, Avery Meiksin35, Gajus A. Miknaitis2, Bhasker K. Moorthy22, Jeffrey A. Munn21, Tara Murphy35, Reiko Nakajima36, Vijay K. Narayanan3, Thomas Nash1, Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.1, Heidi Jo Newberg37, Peter R. Newman8, Robert C. Nichol6, Tom Nicinski1,38, Maria Nieto-Santisteban4, Atsuko Nitta8, Michael Odenkirchen18, Sadanori Okamura39, Jeremiah P. Ostriker3, Russell Owen2, Nikhil Padmanabhan40, John Peoples1, Jeffrey R. Pier21, Bartosz Pindor3, Adrian C. Pope4, Thomas R. Quinn2, R. R. Rafikov41, Sean N. Raymond2, Gordon T. Richards3, Michael W. Richmond42, Hans-Walter Rix18, Constance M. Rockosi2, Joop Schaye41, David J. Schlegel3, Donald P. Schneider43, Joshua Schroeder3, Ryan Scranton11, Maki Sekiguchi16, Uroš Seljak3, Gary Sergey1, Branimir Sesar44, Erin Sheldon5, Kazu Shimasaku39, Walter A. Siegmund45, Nicole M. Silvestri2, Allan J. Sinisgalli3, Edwin Sirko3, J. Allyn Smith27,46, Vernesa Smolčić44, Stephanie A. Snedden8, Albert Stebbins1, Charles Steinhardt3, Gregory Stinson2, Chris Stoughton1, Iskra V. Strateva3, Michael A. Strauss3, Mark SubbaRao5, Alexander S. Szalay4, István Szapudi45, Paula Szkody2, Lidia Tasca28, Max Tegmark36, Aniruddha R. Thakar4, Christy Tremonti4,14, Douglas L. Tucker1, Alan Uomoto4, Daniel E. Vanden Berk1,11, Jan Vandenberg4, Michael S. Vogeley47, Wolfgang Voges48, Nicole P. Vogt22, Lucianne M. Walkowicz2, David H. Weinberg49, Andrew A. West2, Simon D. M. White28, Brian C. Wilhite5, Beth Willman2, Yongzhong Xu36, Brian Yanny1, Jean Yarger8, Naoki Yasuda25, Ching-Wa Yip11, D. R. Yocum1, Donald G. York5,31, Nadia L. Zakamska3, Idit Zehavi5, Wei Zheng4, Stefano Zibetti28 and Daniel B. Zucker18

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars and calibrating blank sky patches selected over 1360 deg2 of this area, and tables of measured parameters from these data. The imaging data go to a depth of r ≈ 22.6 and are photometrically and astrometrically calibrated to 2% rms and 100 mas rms per coordinate, respectively. The spectra cover the range 3800–9200 Å, with a resolution of 1800–2100. This paper describes the characteristics of the data with emphasis on improvements since the release of commissioning data (the SDSS Early Data Release) and serves as a pointer to extensive published and on-line documentation of the survey.


Keywords

atlases; catalogs; surveys


Dates

Issue 4 (2003 October)

Received 2003 May 27, accepted for publication 2003 July 2



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