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The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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Kevork Abazajian1, Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy2, Marcel A. Agüeros3, Sahar S. Allam4, Kurt S. J. Anderson4,5, Scott F. Anderson3, James Annis2, Neta A. Bahcall6, Ivan K. Baldry7, Steven Bastian2, Andreas Berlind8,9,10, Mariangela Bernardi11, Michael R. Blanton10, John J. Bochanski, Jr.3, William N. Boroski2, John W. Briggs8, J. Brinkmann5, Robert J. Brunner12, Tamás Budavári7, Larry N. Carey3, Samuel Carliles7, Francisco J. Castander13, A. J. Connolly14, István Csabai7,15, Mamoru Doi16, Feng Dong6, Daniel J. Eisenstein17, Michael L. Evans3, Xiaohui Fan17, Douglas P. Finkbeiner6, Scott D. Friedman18, Joshua A. Frieman2,8,9, Masataka Fukugita19, Roy R. Gal7, Bruce Gillespie5, Karl Glazebrook7, Jim Gray20, Eva K. Grebel21, James E. Gunn6, Vijay K. Gurbani2,22, Patrick B. Hall6, Masaru Hamabe23, Frederick H. Harris24, Hugh C. Harris24, Michael Harvanek5, Timothy M. Heckman7, John S. Hendry2, Gregory S. Hennessy25, Robert B. Hindsley26, Craig J. Hogan3, David W. Hogg10, Donald J. Holmgren2, Shin-ichi Ichikawa27, Takashi Ichikawa28, Željko Ivezić6, Sebastian Jester2, David E. Johnston6,8,9, Anders M. Jorgensen29, Stephen M. Kent2, S. J. Kleinman5, G. R. Knapp6, Alexei Yu. Kniazev21, Richard G. Kron2,8, Jurek Krzesiński5,30, Peter Z. Kunszt7,31, Nickolai Kuropatkin2, Donald Q. Lamb8,32, Hubert Lampeitl2, Brian C. Lee33, R. French Leger2, Nolan Li7, Huan Lin2, Yeong-Shang Loh6,34, Daniel C. Long5, Jon Loveday35, Robert H. Lupton6, Tanu Malik7, Bruce Margon18, Takahiko Matsubara36, Peregrine M. McGehee4,37, Timothy A. McKay38, Avery Meiksin39, Jeffrey A. Munn24, Reiko Nakajima40, Thomas Nash2, Eric H. Neilsen, Jr.2, Heidi Jo Newberg41, Peter R. Newman5, Robert C. Nichol11, Tom Nicinski2,42, Maria Nieto-Santisteban7, Atsuko Nitta5, Sadanori Okamura43, William O'Mullane7, Jeremiah P. Ostriker6, Russell Owen3, Nikhil Padmanabhan44, John Peoples2, Jeffrey R. Pier24, Adrian C. Pope7, Thomas R. Quinn3, Gordon T. Richards6, Michael W. Richmond45, Hans-Walter Rix21, Constance M. Rockosi3, David J. Schlegel6, Donald P. Schneider46, Ryan Scranton14, Maki Sekiguchi47, Uros Seljak6, Gary Sergey2, Branimir Sesar48, Erin Sheldon8,9, Kazu Shimasaku43, Walter A. Siegmund49, Nicole M. Silvestri3, J. Allyn Smith29,50, Vernesa Smolčić48, Stephanie A. Snedden5, Albert Stebbins2, Chris Stoughton2, Michael A. Strauss6, Mark SubbaRao8,51, Alexander S. Szalay7, István Szapudi49, Paula Szkody3, Gyula P. Szokoly52, Max Tegmark40, Lus Teodoro1, Aniruddha R. Thakar7, Christy Tremonti17, Douglas L. Tucker2, Alan Uomoto7,53, Daniel E. Vanden Berk14, Jan Vandenberg7, Michael S. Vogeley54, Wolfgang Voges52, Nicole P. Vogt4, Lucianne M. Walkowicz3, Shu-i Wang8, David H. Weinberg55, Andrew A. West3, Simon D. M. White56, Brian C. Wilhite8, Yongzhong Xu1, Brian Yanny2, Naoki Yasuda19, Ching-Wa Yip14, D. R. Yocum2, Donald G. York8,32, Idit Zehavi17, Stefano Zibetti56 and Daniel B. Zucker21

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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its Second Data Release. This data release consists of 3324 deg2 of five-band (ugriz) imaging data with photometry for over 88 million unique objects, 367,360 spectra of galaxies, quasars, stars, and calibrating blank sky patches selected over 2627 deg2 of this area, and tables of measured parameters from these data. The imaging data reach a depth of r ≈ 22.2 (95% completeness limit for point sources) and are photometrically and astrometrically calibrated to 2% rms and 100 mas rms per coordinate, respectively. The imaging data have all been processed through a new version of the SDSS imaging pipeline, in which the most important improvement since the last data release is fixing an error in the model fits to each object. The result is that model magnitudes are now a good proxy for point-spread function magnitudes for point sources, and Petrosian magnitudes for extended sources. The spectroscopy extends from 3800 to 9200 Å at a resolution of 2000. The spectroscopic software now repairs a systematic error in the radial velocities of certain types of stars and has substantially improved spectrophotometry. All data included in the SDSS Early Data Release and First Data Release are reprocessed with the improved pipelines and included in the Second Data Release. Further characteristics of the data are described, as are the data products themselves and the tools for accessing them.


Keywords

atlases; catalogs; surveys


Dates

Issue 1 (2004 July)

Received 2004 March 8, accepted for publication 2004 March 16



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