Authors
Jennifer K Adelman-McCarthy, Marcel A Agüeros, Sahar S Allam, Carlos Allende Prieto, Kurt SJ Anderson, Scott F Anderson, James Annis, Neta A Bahcall, CAL Bailer-Jones, Ivan K Baldry, JC Barentine, Bruce A Bassett, Andrew C Becker, Timothy C Beers, Eric F Bell, Andreas A Berlind, Mariangela Bernardi, Michael R Blanton, John J Bochanski, William N Boroski, Jarle Brinchmann, J Brinkmann, Robert J Brunner, Tamás Budavári, Samuel Carliles, Michael A Carr, Francisco J Castander, David Cinabro, Richard J Cool, Kevin R Covey, István Csabai, Carlos E Cunha, James RA Davenport, Ben Dilday, Mamoru Doi, Daniel J Eisenstein, Michael L Evans, Xiaohui Fan, Douglas P Finkbeiner, Scott D Friedman, Joshua A Frieman, Masataka Fukugita, Boris T Gänsicke, Evalyn Gates, Bruce Gillespie, Karl Glazebrook, Jim Gray, Eva K Grebel, James E Gunn, Vijay K Gurbani, Patrick B Hall, Paul Harding, Michael Harvanek, Suzanne L Hawley, Jeffrey Hayes, Timothy M Heckman, John S Hendry, Robert B Hindsley, Christopher M Hirata, Craig J Hogan, David W Hogg, Joseph B Hyde, Shin-ichi Ichikawa, Željko Ivezić, Sebastian Jester, Jennifer A Johnson, Anders M Jorgensen, Mario Jurić, Stephen M Kent, R Kessler, SJ Kleinman, GR Knapp, Richard G Kron, Jurek Krzesinski, Nikolay Kuropatkin, Donald Q Lamb, Hubert Lampeitl, Svetlana Lebedeva, Young Sun Lee, R French Leger, Sébastien Lépine, Marcos Lima, Huan Lin, Daniel C Long, Craig P Loomis, Jon Loveday, Robert H Lupton, Olena Malanushenko, Viktor Malanushenko, Rachel Mandelbaum, Bruce Margon, John P Marriner, David Martínez-Delgado, Takahiko Matsubara, Peregrine M McGehee, Timothy A McKay, Avery Meiksin, Heather L Morrison, Jeffrey A Munn, Reiko Nakajima, Eric H Neilsen Jr, Heidi Jo Newberg, Robert C Nichol, Tom Nicinski, Maria Nieto-Santisteban, Atsuko Nitta, Sadanori Okamura, Russell Owen, Hiroaki Oyaizu, Nikhil Padmanabhan, Kaike Pan, Changbom Park, John Peoples Jr, Jeffrey R Pier, Adrian C Pope, Norbert Purger, M Jordan Raddick, Paola Re Fiorentin, Gordon T Richards, Michael W Richmond, Adam G Riess, Hans-Walter Rix, Constance M Rockosi, Masao Sako, David J Schlegel, Donald P Schneider, Matthias R Schreiber, Axel D Schwope, Uroš Seljak, Branimir Sesar, Erin Sheldon, Kazu Shimasaku, Thirupathi Sivarani, J Allyn Smith, Stephanie A Snedden, Matthias Steinmetz, Michael A Strauss, Mark SubbaRao, Yasushi Suto, Alexander S Szalay, István Szapudi, Paula Szkody, Max Tegmark, Aniruddha R Thakar, Christy A Tremonti, Douglas L Tucker, Alan Uomoto, Daniel E Vanden Berk, Jan Vandenberg, S Vidrih
Publication date
2008/4/1
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Volume
175
Issue
2
Pages
297
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Description
This paper describes the Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. With this data release, the imaging of the northern Galactic cap is now complete. The survey contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg 2, including scans over a large range of Galactic latitudes and longitudes. The survey also includes 1.27 million spectra of stars, galaxies, quasars, and blank sky (for sky subtraction) selected over 7425 deg 2. This release includes much more stellar spectroscopy than was available in previous data releases and also includes detailed estimates of stellar temperatures, gravities, and metallicities. The results of improved photometric calibration are now available, with uncertainties of roughly 1% in g, r, i, and z, and 2% in u, substantially better than the uncertainties in previous data releases. The spectra in this data release have improved wavelength and flux calibration …
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